I’M TOO SAD TO

“I’m too sad to” is a multisensory, nocturnal landscape of resistance made of flesh, bones, sounds, voices, smells and objects. Three dancers and a musician seek ways to resist the kinetic inertia of grief by opening up a field of action that embraces fall, failure and darkness and celebrates imperfection, weakness and vulnerability. In a game of orientation, they choose the activation of the senses as a gateway to the world and the Other. Where the body sees its skin not as a boundary, but as a spreading surface, as a connective tissue that connects it to the universe. Rejecting the thought that the human body is a self-contained, closed entity, a body under negotiation, driven by questions, is welcomed. As Deborah Hay said: “My body in question is the dance.”.
As paradoxical as it sounds, “I’m too sad to” is a promise of light for a new start of the world, for a leap towards impossibility.

The performance is held under the auspices and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Aria Boubaki (choreographer)
Aria Boubaki is a dance artist who lives and works in Athens.
She studied dance at the State School of Orchestral Art and continued her education in the postgraduate choreographic research program Ex.e.r.ce at Ici-Ccn (Choreographic Center of Montpellier, France), as a scholarship holder of the Onassis Foundation.

Her works are characterized by their creative process and the concept of community in art. Exploring dancing bodies in different realities, he creates works of different structures and places (stage works, installations, site-specific projects, community projects, texts, videos, etc.). Fascinated by sound, language, objects and architecture, she collaborates with artists involved in visual art, music and dance. Fascinated by the body and kinetic identity, she often invites non-professional dancers to explore/re-define dancing, stage bodies and the need for physical-kinesthetic realism in dance works. He wishes to work with collectives, succumb to kinetic pleasure and awaken consciousness, while proposing tenderness as a means of revolution!

Parallel to her creative process is teaching in the form of regular workshops in modern dance technique, improvisation and choreography in educational institutions, dance studios and festivals. He has collaborated with the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the Onassis Foundation Shelter, the Pompidou Center, the State Theater of Northern Greece and the French Institute of Athens. Her latest projects have been financed by the Ministry of Culture and Sports. In 2020 she was a danceweb scholarship holder of the international festival IMPULSTANZ -Vienna (with the support of the Onassis Foundation), as well as one of the artists who was awarded the ARTWORKS prize of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Support Program.