12th “Akropoditi DanceFest”
The 12th International Dance and Performing Arts Festival, Akropoditi DanceFest, under the name Age-fully-present, will take place this year from July 10 to 20, 2025, on the island of Syros! Our festival this year focuses on the active presence of the mature body in the performing arts.
Warning for Contemplation sections – Elenita Queiróz – Basis 56
Brazil –Switzerland
Warning for Contemplation Sections is a dance manifesto exploring resistance, exhaustion, rebellion, and the inexorable truths of bodily finiteness. Queiróz’s work investigates the interplay of struggle, wildness, collapse, mutual support, and the temporal nature of motion power. The piece confronts the societal demands placed on women, particularly the contradictions of motherhood and the cumulative wear of time, leading to both exhaustion and transformation. It advocates for resistance through stillness, contemplation, and raw expression, defying relentless expectations.
The choreography integrates concepts such as Portrait, Landscape, and Collapse, reflecting the fragility and resilience of aging forms. Performers transform into fleeting landscapes and fragmented portraits, evoking timeless yet finite encounters with the audience. Wildness surfaces as a dormant, untamed force, magnified by the vulnerabilities of aging flesh yet persisting with primal energy.
This work engages performers and viewers in a shared reckoning of connection, and motion’s ephemeral power. Collapse becomes not just rebellion but an acceptance of finiteness, a paradoxical liberation that embraces riot, stasis, and collective vulnerability as acts of profound courage. Through this epic, transformative performance, Queiróz critiques systemic inequalities, offering a vision of collective radicalism and vulnerability as acts of rebellion.
Credits
Concept, artistic direction, choreography, dance: Elenita Queiróz
Co-choreography, dance: Charlotte Mathiessen, Mara Natterer, Léa Thomen
Dramaturgical advice: Ted Stoffer
Music composition: Raoul Alain Nagel
Costumes: Laura Oertle and Marisa Stutznegger – Oema Kostüme
Light design: Patrik Rimann
Production management: Elenita Queiróz – Basis 56
Duration: 60 min.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/
Starts at: 21:00
Ticket prices: 12 & 10€
Buy your ticket from Ticketservices.gr or Apollon Theater Box office.
