Symbiotic Danscapes ◦ Research Workshop

About the Open Call

Symbiotic Danscapes is a new hybrid program that invites one guest artist to conduct and share their research, in dialogue with a dedicated and curious group of participants. Over the course of three weeks, in the sloping forest of Paleohori, the guest artist will bring specific questions emerging from their personal practice to be explored collectively. Together, the group will engage in a process of co-inquiry, exploring scores, inventing rituals, sharing meals, and allowing time to shape their discoveries. This series of research workshops seeks to reclaim time as a privilege: to unlearn and rethink the ways we create dance, to acknowledge and highlight our interconnectedness and to reimagining spectatorship beyond presentation, through dances shaped by encounters. It is a unique artist residency series that examines choreography through three different lenses: Dancer as both a feeling and thinking subject; Choreography as a decentralized practice for reflection and improvisation; Dramaturgy that considers the audience—not by serving it, but by unlocking its political potential for social commentary. Androniki Marathaki, a Greek dancer and choreographer, will share her research focusing on cultivating awareness through movement and the body, seeing dance performance as a political act and an invitation to communicate outside of stereotypical embodied selves and representational structures. Her research is in relation to her upcoming project on 'the body as a score' and 'practices of solidarity'. Key themes include sensoriality and movement, scores by artists from 1960-2025, transformation of physical materiality, the physical organ of the heart, observing, dancing, performing, and imagining.

What is Offered

This is an artist residency series combined with a research workshop in dance and choreography.

Requirements

The opportunity is open to a dedicated and curious group of participants, including choreographers, performers, and those interested in audience research. No specific formal requirements are listed beyond a willingness to engage with the research process.

How to Apply

Those who wish to witness and actively engage with Androniki’s creative process can register via the provided link. Participation will be confirmed on a first-come, first-served basis due to limited spots.