- Conception, choreography, performance: Valasia Symeonidou
- Research advisor: Nikos Valkanos
- Scenography: Faidra Apostolika
- Artistic collaborator: Mariza Vinieratou
- Lighting design: Thomas Oikonomakos
- Dramatization advisor: Bettina Panagiotara
- Music design: Michalis Vrettas
- Costume designer: Pavlos Thanopoulos
- Production organization: Cultopia
- Production: Onassis Stegi Foundation
- Photographer: Andreas Simopoulos (Onassis Stegi)
- (Some of the photographic material listed below is by Andreas Simopoulos)
Valasia’s Symeonidou “Ephemeral Body” is an autobiographical dance performance that outlines the journey of recovery and the research for the physical identity of the performer, who, as a dancer and choreographer, now experiences a motor disability.
Using the concept of the folding/unfolding of her stage object, the performer unfolds aspects of her personal experience through the relationship with a folded object.
By penetrating the materiality of the object, she retrieves memories by transforming the object into living moving images dotted with moments and experiences.
Furthermore, the matter-fold takes shape from the inter world of the performer and becomes the occasion for the unfolding of the psyche, as Gilles Deleuze mentions in his book on folding.
Using the material object as a carrier of memories and emotions, but also as a construction material, the body constructs, unites, develops and recreates spaces where dipoles such as “movement-station”, “human-non-human” coexist and dialogue, emerging from fragments another life, while at the same time redefining itself.”
(From the official website of Onassis Stegi Foundation)
