Anthi Theofilidi

I have been working primarily as a dance and a teacher.  For the last two years I have had the need to choreograph. I have not 'trained' in choreography and the reason that I came to the lab is to discover, to travel  this new 'planet'...It is something that scares me, but I really want to do it. It is the next step for my evolution as a dance artist. Also, I had already done workshop with Ana and I trusted her.

Important to all this is that I 'feel' the current crisis 'in my skin'. I tried to search for another topic but it did not happen. From thinking crisis, an image came to my mind after the first sessions on 'touch'. The image is of a body assailed by external conditions, nonetheless the body continues to walk, to advance. From this image, the 'trip' will start...

And the questions starts .

Why , how , what is this body between others ?

I start moving blindly, closed eyes, between the people in the studio searching my space , where is the safe place for this body? . Blind listening to every noise . All alone. Close or far away . What if i dont have all my body state? What if i am walking with my body loose? What if i start from the point that this body has to find her place- space. What is this point ?

I start to need my breath . I follow my breath in a movement . I took the breath away and  replaced it when I was walking whith my body loose .  I need others . I need somebody that is not so close to my pictures, my images . To others, free from my emotions . Ok I find them . I start walking with them . So different now. Three people walking , blind , trying ... Three people so different .

Something hapenned then. I dint need to 'work' for this body . I dint need to.  Then something totally new . The word " between " was important . Between , between , the three are walking.

The audience has to be all over the space and the three will be between them .  I am able to put the fragments in an order now.

The day of share my little 'piece' has come .

During and after I realise that the most important element was the three performers walking 'blindly' between the audience, small stimulus from the audience shows us which space is free, open,  they help  us walk 'safely'.  Maybe that is what all the research was about, this relationship....I don't  know . I will try next time and i will see .

It was a strong journey for me and my mind was free .

The end is the beginning to my travel 

I' m somewhere there ... " in between " ...

need to redesign the beginning, the map will be diverse and might lead to darkness

Darkness is my light,  is where my space is getting wider and ... new...

Somewhere there ... " in between " ... I discover my truth, 

is where my authenticity lies

Is this the key to start again ? "