Io Anagnostaki


* ‘Logos in Cuts & Spirals‘ No1      
An Ongoing Work in Progress
Is Presented by Collaborative Ensemble :
Choreographic Synthesis  / Performance Device                          
Body-Movement-Voice / Performance Interpretation                
Sound-Music / Performance  Interpretation                                 
Cinematography /Performance  Interpretation                            
This  Performance-Version is for:
4 Dancers Performers   -  1 Musician Performer   - 1 Cinematographer Performer

An Open -Mutable Score   for  Intermedia Performances

To Be Interpreted  and Performed  By Artists with Different Art Mediums   

The  Event Itself is Open -Mutable as the Performers Keep Open the Interaction with the Score  Throughout its Performance

Every Performance of the Event is Open to be Varied in All its Elements and Parameters, throughout its Evolution and in every New Performance Version.

Open Duration - No Time Limit


*Research  Investigation  Exploration

FOR  Methodology &  Working Techniques + Practises 

RESULTING to Tasks + Scores

OF  Experimental Processes + Experiential Practices

FOR   Interdisciplinary Performances  -Open Works -Process Orientated  - Performer Centred

AT the Intersection of Performance - Live Art -  Improvisation

WITH Interrelations of  Body –Movement –Text –Voice –Sound –Music -Image



*Stage – Performance Scene
Fusion of  Studio Space/Time &  Performance Space/Time



*Audience
Spectator who is Watching a Spectacle ?
Or Witness who is Witnessing  an  Event ?



*A  Critical Choreographing Practice

IN RELATION to A Broader  Nexus ---Artistic  ---Existential  ---SocioPolitical    

Creating Spaces to explore = Immediacy & Reality
-the Experience of things
-the Ambiguities of Meaning
-the States of the Individual Agency

Corporality -Inner Body  -Outer Body
Motion - Gesture –Movement –Action
Practises – Ways – Paths 
Medium - Means
Logos-Word – Voice – Sound
Memory – Biography – the Personal – Issues – Matters –States - Desires
Relations- Interrelations -Interactions – Reactions  -Positions – Statements  - Conditions – Choices



* Work  Analysis   

Open  Score
Open  Work                                                                 
Open  Form
Open  Structure
Open  To  Time
Open  To  Space
Open To   the Moment
Open To  Evolvement
Open To  Real
Open To  Mutable
Open To  the Personal
Open To  the Subjective
Open To  the Internal
Open To  the Invisible 
Open To  Unknown 
Open To  Unpredictable
Open To  Imponderable
Open To  Inexplicable
Open To  Unintelligible  
Open To Ambiguous
Open To  Paradox
Open To  Secret
Open To  Poetic
Open To  Meaning
Open To  the  Context
Open To  the Actuality
Open to  the Activity
Open  to Subversion  
Open   to Possibilities

No  Start
No  End
No  Construction
No  Control                                        
No  Confinement
No  Definition
No  Linear
No  Finalization
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No  Showing
No  Knowing
No Descriptive
No Narrative
No Illustrative
No Theatrical
No Acting
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No  Anticipation 
No  Premeditation
No  Intermediation  
Νο  Explanation
No  Justification
No  Excuse
No  Apology

* Work  Practice
OK Gaps
OK Discontinuity
OK  Interruption
OK  to Diffuse
OK to Dissolve
OK  ‘Silences’
OK  ‘Pauses’
OK  Fragments
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OK  Incomprehension
OK  Uncertainty
OK  Searching
OK  Instability
OK Puzzlement
OK Frustation
OK Conflict
OK Contetement
OK Pleasure
OK Enjoyment
OK  Difficulty
OK  Easiness
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OK  Motion
OK  Stillness
OK  Simplicity
OK  Complexity
OK  Climax
OK  Anticlimax 
OK  Tidewise
OK  Repetitions
OK  Moments of Movement
OK  Action
OK  Gesture
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OK  to Be in Harmony
OK  to Contradict
OK  to be in Flux  
OK  to Juxtapose
OK  to Relate
OK  Not  to Relate
OK  to Responde
OK  Not to Responde
OK  to  Interact
OK  to  Counteract 
OK  Together (2-3-4)
OK  Apart
OK  With
OK  Separated 
OK  Outwards
OK  Inwards
OK  Close
OK  Distant
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OK  to Look
OK  to  Listen
OK  to Challenge
OK  to Attempt
OK  to Come
OK  to  Go
OK  to Enter
OK  to Exit
OK  to Carry On
OK  to Cut off
OK  to Insist
OK to  Quit 
OK  to Deny
OK  to Accept
OK  to Avoid
OK  to Embrace
OK to Fight it
OK to Invite it
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OK to Follow through
OK to Suspend
OK to Pursuit 
OK to Interrupt 
OK to Break In
OK to Break Out
OK   Slow
OK   Fast
OK   Little- Minimum
OK   Big – Maximum
OK   Strong
OK   Soft
OK   ‘Quite’
OK    ‘Noisy’
OK    Smooth
OK    Harsh
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OK Not knowing
OK Not Naming
OK Not Concluding
OK Not Defining



* ‘LOST ’ IN TIME & SPACE
IN + THROUGH + BEYOND

Space    Auditory & Visual  =   INSIDE & OUTSIDE
Open + Expanded
Every Single Point Counts  
Everywhere Paths + Directions
Shaping – Rechaping – Moving the Space
Other perception – Other Perspective 
No Limits to Floor-Ceiling – Wals – Projected  Live Image 
No Defined
No Orientation
No Frame
No Staging
No Placement
No Positioning
No Confinement
No Box
No Rectangular 
No 3D Cross
No Lines
No Directions

Time
Time is Space
Timeless Space
Spacious Time 



* BODY – LOGOS -SOUND –IMAGE
IN + THROUGH + BEYOND

BODYSPACE = An Existential Space
LOGOSSPACE = A  Meaning Space
SOUNDSPACE =An Auditive Space
IMAGESPACE = A Visual Space

BODYLAND = An Experiencing Land
LOGOSLAND = A Signing  Land
SOUNDLAND = A Vibrating Land                             
IMAGELAND  =  A Seeing Land

BODYSCAPE  =   A Living Scape
LOGOSSCAPE =  A Mystic  Scape
SOUNDSCAPE = An Invisible Scape
IMAGESCAPE =  A Visible Scape


* Work  Guide Lines

*LOGOS (3)TRIAD notions:

1 LANGUAGE                            'One Word thousand pictures'

2 REASON

3 RELATION 


*THE PASSAGES-PATHWAYS-COURSES
Of Logos (3)
IN THE BODY
ON THE BODY
AROUND  THE BODY


*BOGY INSIDE   LOGOS
 &
 LOGOS INSIDE  BODY

 
*LOGOS MOVES BODY
 &
 BODY  MOVES LOGOS


*BODY    &   LOGOS
= OPEN Signifiers – Signs -Clues – Traces 
PERSONALY  Signified

GETS IN  &  COMES OUT
Draws Out Something You Didn’t Know You Had it

LET THINGS HAPPEN

LET IT BECOME

LET IT APPEAR

LET IT MANIFEST

LET IT EVOLUATE

LET IT TRANSFORME

LET IT  TAKE YOU

YOU FOLLOW

YOU DON’T KNOW IN ADVANCE
Where it Takes you
What it means

YOU DON’T  INERPET IT
IT INTERPETS YOU

YOU DON’T KNOW IT
UNTIL YOU FIND IT
THEN YOU GOT IT
YOY FOLLOW IT
YOY LET IT TAKE YOU