B(L)ALLOON

Choreographers Iota Peklaris and Vasia Zorbalis explore the imprinting of time through the materiality of the body – organic and non-organic – in the direction of the multi-sensory accessible artistic work.

In a space overwhelmed by polymorphic balloon formations, the performers create kinetic and sonic dilutions and densities, mapping its dimensions. The performative dimension of the work brings to the surface a very interesting counterpoint: the balloons, like dancing butoh beings freeze time, making visible the air that occupies the shape of the space and fills the gaps between the bodies. They thus interrupt the uncontrollable alternation of past, present and future events necessary for the understanding of time, while contemporary sound-kinetic composition glorifies periodicity and synchronicity. In this fluid, performative hospitality space, an ever-moving human resonator acting in a condition of pre-established harmony echoes and tunes in a constant reminder of the unpredictable and ephemeral.

The choreographic research balances between the visual and the auditory, having a parallel address to sighted, non-sighted, hearing and non-hearing people. Delving into an interdisciplinary performative practice, body music, the kinetic performance explores the physicality of sound, which manages to vibrate both the ears and the eyes/gaze. The extra-verbal language of b(l)alun transforms the viewing into a universally experiential, collective experience, an artistic meeting-prompt, which is not limited to the standard tools of accessibility but discovers and cultivates innovative, alternative interpretive tools of inclusion.