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HipHop4Hope Athens Weekender
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HipHop4Hope invites you to experience authentic HipHop street dance culture. As a socio-cultural initiative empowering displaced youth through HipHop culture since 2020 – we are inviting for performances, a street dance battle and a screening of the HipHop4Hope project.

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Everyone is welcome to celebrate unity in diversity.

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Duration: 15:00 — 24:00

MIRROŘING
Iro Konti / ΜnIM Dance Co.

The  performance Mirrořing seeks to light up that moment when everything around us slows down and silence takes over – a moment where we can tune in to our deepest needs.

Two performers move in parallel paths through space and time. They shift from the public sphere and the arena of everyday life into their private sphere, where they allow their vulnerable sides – those they constantly try to hide – to flourish and be revealed . They swift between being exposed and be in their own private area, between the image they construct in order to survive and the real one they inevitably face looking in the mirror.

An ode for what is lost when the rhythms of daily life become relentless and unbearable, for the confrontation with social expectations and demands — for two people persistently seeking a new balance, even when everything around them feels so difficult.

Following the solo Modulus of Resilience, choreographer Iro Konti invites us to envision life beyond the chaos of the modern age.

Duration: 45 minutes, no intermission
Recommended age: 15+ years old

WE’LL MEET AGAIN
Gabriela Kokkini

In a space immersed in complete darkness, two beams of light carve paths through the void.
Our bodies are stripped of every external reference, leaving only movement, breath, and our need for orientation.

WE’LL MEET AGAIN  is a journey into togetherness as a singular act that emerges from the obscurity of today’s world.

Behind gestures that are both tender and abrupt, through fleeting encounters and vast distances, there remains an enduring longing to come together.

When the two beams of light finally meet, they create a shared space of understanding, where darkness is no longer perceived as absence but as a site of discovery: a living, ever-changing world in which vulnerability becomes light, and darkness the womb from which it is born.

Duration: 40 minutes (no intermission)

Love me
Andi Xhuma & Eva Georgitsopoulou

Trying to resist presenting (yet) another duet about the phenomenon of love—opting instead for either its glorification or its demystification—the following need for investigation arises: why does this entire intermediate zone of routine and “normality” in a relationship go unnoticed? Why do most people focus on the magic of the first encounter or the final disillusionment, without paying attention to what this shared rhythm actually is between two people who walk together for a period of their lives?

Therefore, rather than being a duet about the psychological fluctuations of those infatuated by love, “Love Me” attempts to approach this rhythmology of togetherness. Togetherness, as a shared rhythm and a shared stride, but not always shared paths. On the other hand, this might be exactly what is sought after: within the shared rhythm we create with the other person, the shared rhythm that we both manage to sustain, the focus shifts from ourselves to a third entity. The two bodies now define a space in which intimacy and letting go are not only physical actions but also psychological trials.

The proposed movement study on love is a choreographed condition in which the steps are always steps in dialogue with someone else—continuous spins, momentary coincidences and sudden stops, ball changes and shifts in direction on the and 8. Because “Love Me” also reminds us of that intermediate space of rehearsal before the performance, when two bodies labor to achieve something together. This touches upon something about love, or rather its rhythmology, but paradoxically, the audience always witnesses the “end of this relationship”; it catches us at the closing of the cycle, and thus always sees two bodies narrating their separation.

Love Me is produced under the auspices and with the financial support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

With the kind support of Flux Laboratory Athens.

Duration: 45 minutes (no intermission)

S_ words

The inclusive dance group Artogether presents its new performance, S_ words. Nearly two years after its last production (Tricky Little Games), the group returns with a dynamic new work that moves between movement, words, and sound.

The title of the piece plays on the words “words” and “swords.” In a time when spoken language is considered the primary vehicle of human communication, trusting that we can communicate through the body, through sound, through our gaze, becomes a battle—a small act of rebellion. In S_ words, we experiment with disrupting familiar tools of communication in order to invent our own shared language.

Movement, words, and sound emerge from the same collective body as elements of a single world. Words that carry meaning yet signify nothing, words that transform into sound, sound that becomes movement, movement that generates words—all intertwined in a dance that is created and dissolved at the same moment. A strange polyphony, a hidden language revealed through the movement of bodies, celebrating their diversity.

Accessibility

S_ words has been designed with elements of creative accessibility, integrating accessibility tools organically from the very beginning of the creative process. These elements may facilitate the experience for audience members with visual impairments. However, please note that the performance cannot be considered fully accessible for this audience.

The performance is accessible to Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing-impaired audiences.

The venue is wheelchair accessible. However, an accessible restroom is not available.

Duration: 40 minutes.