Amorphy / Tzeni Argyriou - Anonyno

(c) Tzeni Argyriou

Anonymity and privacy convert into a paradoxical reality where natural presence, intimacy and contact are progressively being replaced by digital reality. Anonymo researches the course of the artistic practice originally being the starting line of human connection and social cohesion up to the present digital era. Tzeni Argyriou creates an intriguing, multi-media research performance, proposing an innovative movement language generated by the notions of somatic memory, human contact and team cohesion; Founded on the routes of initiation and participation rituals, Anonymo attempts to create a path that connects the digital with the somatic, in search of a present space. Quirky and multi-dimensional, interesting and amusing, Argyriou's choreographic work introduces the audience to an abstract world where dance takes human communication beyond music or words.

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Concept-Direction: Tzeni Argyriou
Artistic Direction: Amorphy


Dramaturgy: Miguel Angel Melgares
Artistic Collaboration: Vassilis Gerodimos
Original Music: Pepe Garcia Rodriguez
Lighting Design: Alekos Yannaros
Costume Design: Ioanna Tsami
Choreographer's Assistant: Danae Giannakopoulou

Performers: Alexis Fousekis, Hermes Malkotsis, Dimitra Mertzani, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Stavroula Siamou, Nancy Stamatopoulou, Dimitris Sotiriou
Executive Producer: Konstantinos Sakkas

Produced by: Onassis Cultural Centre-Athens | www.sgt.gr



Co-production: Kalamata International Dance Festival (Kalamata, GR) Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris, FR)




Supported by: Isadora & Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center




Production & Touring Management: Delta Pi | www.delta-pi.org

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Tzeni Argyriou, founding member of amorphy.org since 2003, has been generating her choreographic artwork for more than 10 years, with a focus on the integration of Performing Arts with other artistic genres. Graduate of the National School of Dance (KSOT) in Athens, she continued her training in New York on a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation.

Her previous projects include Untitled, a live performance/installation presented at Fast Forward Festival 2; X – apartments, a 2015 Onassis Cultural Centre production; Memorandum, a 2013 - 14 co-production of Théâtre des Bernardines, O Espaço do Tempo, tanzhaus nrw and Marseille-Provence; Memoria Obscura 2011-12 (V. Nikopoulos' archive); Pleas(e)nter (Kunstkapel Museum, Amsterdam 2011); and Dr. Maybe Darling (Benaki Museum 2010).

Between 2006-2007, she was the Artistic Director of the iMAP project funded by EU Culture 2000 in collaboration with the top media art organisations of Holland, Germany, Greece, and  Bulgaria which led to the creation of See You In Walhalla (Athens Festival, 2007).

Tzeni Argyriou's work has been presented among others at Virtual Museum – Amsterdam, Athens Festival, Benaki Museum and Camp (Athens), PACT Zollverein and Interactions Labor Media Lab (Germany), Lugar Comum (Portugal), Tri-Angle (France), and Fringe Festival (N.Y.C.).