ZOOGRAPHY

Animals close to humans, but also far away. Animals with frightening instincts, as well as naive, irrational animals, without awareness of death.

A cat and a fly of the same size, three hens like swans of a lesser god, a parrot and an octopus scurry on the ground, but also strange chimeras that set up a fantastic dance.

A way of seeing the world and a way of studying it, outside the bounds of scientific rigor. A different painting guided by the movements of animals, but also by how they have inspired many creators. Swan Lake, Simon Forti’s Zoo-mantras, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Leonardo Da Vinci’s zoology, Agaben’s philosophy of “openness” to the animal, are just a few examples.

A choreography of approaching animal life. Their movement in contact with the present and the infinite or the universe. From imitation to transformation, recognition will not be easy.

Stefania Mylona is a dance artist, choreographer and independent researcher of dance and performance. She has a PhD in Dancing Sculptures from the University of Surrey (2012) in which she studied visual dramaturgy in dance as well as a master’s degree in European dance theater from Laban (2005) which she completed as a scholarship holder of the I.K.Y. She has received the SDHS and Glynne Wickham awards from SCUUD and is a Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy. She has choreographed and taught dance in Athens and London. She is a member of the international Performance Philosophy network in collaboration with which she has twice organised the Performance Philosophy School of Athens (2014, E.D.O. and 2017, EMST). Her articles have been published in Performance Research Journal and Theater Topics, among others.