SIDE EFFECTS

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“It is the irony of being a woman: at once hyper-visible when it comes to being
treated as the subservient sex class and invisible when it counts – when it comes to
being counted.” Caroline Criado Perez

In this work, the choreographer explores the “side effects” of being a woman, which
are passed on from woman to woman, generation to generation, with all the things
that she may inherit. By imposing her body to a demonstration of “disappearances”
that she has practiced, endured and enjoyed from time to time, the performer claims
the Italian stage as a place and the performance situation as a frame, in which she
can restore her visibility, against a patriarchal society that constantly displaces,
shrinks, silences and finally vanishes the female experience.

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Αrtistic team
Choreography / Performance: Konstantina Skalionta
Dramaturgy: Rodia Vomvolou
Sound designer Panos Bartzis
Artistic collaborator: Eleana Alexandrou

Visual material: Artemis Evlogimenou
Lighting Design: Alexander Jotovic

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Premiered as part of the 25th Cyprus Choreography Platform

on the 15th of November 2024, 8:30pm

​at Rialto Theatre in Lemesos.

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Funded by the Debuty Ministry of Culture - Cultural Services of Cyprus.

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