{"id":26582,"date":"2026-04-06T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/?p=26582"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:33:19","slug":"june-july-the-new-performance-by-choreographer-eleonora-siarava-at-plyfa-premiere-23-26-april-2026-plyfa-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/en\/june-july-the-new-performance-by-choreographer-eleonora-siarava-at-plyfa-premiere-23-26-april-2026-plyfa-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"JUNE JULY – The new performance by choreographer Eleonora Siarava at PLYFA | Premiere, 23-26 April 2026, Plyfa, Athens."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why did I come in here again;<\/p>\n

\u2018Here\u2019, Richard McGuire<\/p>\n

JUNE JULY is a cosmology of the Now<\/strong>, of our microcosm and the macrocosm, drawing references from sci-fi <\/strong>and retrofuturism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A performance about nostalgia, anticipation and time, unfolding through the creation of choreographic haikus<\/strong>, condensed, fleeting, fragmentary impressions.<\/p>\n

It takes its initial inspiration from the groundbreaking graphic novel\/comic Here (2014) by Richard McGuire.<\/strong> In that, the same location, a corner of a room, is depicted across multiple moments in time, from thousands of years of past into the future.\"\"<\/p>\n

The piece invites us into a choreographic liminal space<\/strong>, a zone of reminiscence and anticipation, an undefinable feeling that connects the familiar with the unknown, everyday glimpses with imaginary futures.<\/p>\n

How do we inhabit -literally and metaphorically- places of personal and collective nostalgia<\/strong>? Of intimacy and vastness? How can the ephemerality of the natural world and human nature unfold in parallel with cosmic time and the time of everyday life? What remains if we \u201cblow this cosmic dust\u201d?\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe a trace of a Japanese hip-hop song is heard from the depths as a background on a spring afternoon, or somewhere on a night screen, the first scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey playing.<\/p>\n

The performance weaves a narrative of an imaginary story without end, containing traces and memories. It expands and self-ignites to create something new, an alchemy of nostalgia, memory, surrealism and fantasy.\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the context of an expanded choreography, JUNE JULY becomes a living hybrid landscape of bodies, movements, sounds, objects, voices, words, microphones, neon signs, screens, and minimalist digital elements.<\/strong> They are activated and evaporate, creating an open composition that unfolds within a multi-layered universe.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

With the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of Greece<\/em><\/p>\n

With the support of <\/em>International Theatre Institute \u2013 German Centre<\/em><\/strong> and <\/em>Motion Bank Project<\/em><\/strong>, in the framework of an <\/em>artistic residency program, Berlin, 2024<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n

Concept, Choreography, Art Direction: Eleonora Siarava<\/p>\n

Performance, co-development of movement material: Maria Vourou, Mairi Giannoula, Sofia Pouchtou<\/p>\n

Sound Design: Aliki Leftherioti<\/p>\n

Texts, lyrics: Eleonora Siarava<\/p>\n

Media Design: Eratw Tzavara<\/p>\n

Set Construction: Sofia Theodoraki, Adonis Douroundis<\/p>\n

Costumes: Eirini Georgakila<\/p>\n

Lighting Design: Tasos Palaioroutas, Evita Skrimizea<\/p>\n

Video \u0391rt: Antigoni Iliadi
\nPress Photos: Katerina Markoulaki<\/p>\n

Press Relations: True Colours Comms<\/p>\n

Production: Per_Dance Choreographic Research Platform<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Info<\/strong><\/p>\n

Location: PLYFA, Athens<\/p>\n

Dates: 23-26 April 2026<\/p>\n

Hours: 23-25 April 21.00 | 26 April 19.00<\/p>\n

Duration: 45 minutes<\/p>\n

Tickets: https:\/\/www.more.com\/gr-el\/tickets\/dance\/junejuly\/<\/a><\/p>\n

FB event: https:\/\/fb.me\/e\/5Zuy4JGPZ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

Eleonora Siarava<\/strong> is a choreographer working between Greece and Germany. She has presented her work in Greece and internationally. She studied \u2018Dance \u039caking and Performance\u2019 (MA-Distinction, Coventry University), \u039c\u0391 \u2019Choreography and Performance\u2019 (Justus Liebig University, Germany) under the direction of Bojana Kunst & MA\/CoDE-Academy for Music and Performing Arts of Frankfurt. She creates enigmatic multilayered performances experimenting with aesthetic forms, imaginary-real spaces, overlapping temporalities, hybridity, atmospheres. For her piece The Body and the Other~ premiered at Tanzhaus NRW, TEMPS D’IMAGES Festival, was supported by the program \u00bbTransfer International\u00ab of NRW KULTURsekretariat of Germany, Ministry of Culture and Science of NRW, artistic grant I-Portunus\/Creative Europe and collaborated with Mixed Reality and Visualization Institut for the implementation of digital technology. Since 2020 is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Greece. She created the pieces BLUE BEYOND presented in National Theatre of N. Greece, Theseum Theatre Athens, Tanz:digital\/ITI Berlin, Frankfurt LAB Emerging Artists 2023, Who knows where the time goes-potential destination #1 (Roes theatre, residency at SE.S.TA Centre for Choreographing Development\/Interdisciplinary Incubator, Prague), I am Dancing in a Room (MOMus-Stereoma Festival). She participated in Moving Digits\/Creative Europe project for Dance and Digital Technologies, Tanzhaus D\u00fcsseldorf & STL Tallinn (2018-2020) and in \u2018TANZ:DIGITAL \u2013 Process, Dynamics, Discourse\u2019 (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland & International Theatre Institute Germany, Berlin 2023). Siarava has been awarded the S. Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS 2022-2023 in the field of Choreography, was fellow of START\/Robert Bosch Stiftung & Goethe Institut and resident choreographer at UniArts Helsinki, Finland 2025 and ITI International Theatre Institute Germany\/Motion Bank, Berlin, 2024. Her works have been included in the Media Library for Dance and Theatre – ITI International Theatre Institute Germany, one of the most extensive audiovisual documentation archives for the performing arts in Germany.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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