A three-day event hosted in Lublin, Poland, on 22-24/05 dedicated to Cypriot Choreography and transnational exchange, within the framework of the Cultural Programme of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU 2026.
PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 22.05.2026
LOUKOUMI
Performance
Zoi Eleftheriou & Alejjos
19:00 | 30’
@ Centre for Culture in Lublin – Outside Square
An opening celebration of music, movement, and collective expression. Rooted in tradition while embracing the future, the performance invites us to connect through rhythm and dance.
IN MEMORY OF & DEAD MOUSE
Double Bill
Milena Ugren Koulas
19:30 | 35’
@ Centre for Culture in Lublin – Main Stage
“Dead Mouse” is a powerful reflection on vulnerability, recovery, and human connection as it explores the body’s instinctive response to trauma and survival. “In Memory Of…” reflects on how trauma shapes memory, movement, and human relationships.
LOUKOUMI AFTER PARTY
DJ Set by Alejjos
20:00 | 120’
@ Centre for Culture in Lublin – Courtyard
The night ends with an uplifting DJ set by Alejjos, blending electronic sounds with Cypriot influences. Warm rhythms and hypnotic beats create an atmosphere of celebration and connection.
SATURDAY 23.05.2026
FREEZE, FIGHT, FLIGHT
Workshop for Professional Dancers
Milena Ugren Koulas & Stylish Junkies Collective
11:00 | 180’
@ Centre for Culture in Lublin – Rehearsal Studio
This workshop invites dancers to deepen their improvisational practice by connecting movement with emotional and psychological states. Through material from “In Memory of…” and “Dead Mouse” by Milena Ugren Koulas and the Stylish Junkies Collective, participants will explore themes of tension, freezing, collapse, falling, and catching, inspired by research on trauma, resilience, and their expression through the body.
CHAOS
Performance
Aurora Lubos
18:00 | 45’
@ Centre for Culture in Lublin – Main Stage
In contexts shaped by conflict, violence, and trauma, chaos emerges through images, sounds, and gestures that cannot be forgotten. As a tool of expression, it gives form to experiences that resist language-blurring the boundaries between victim and perpetrator, observer and participant.
A DANCE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
Performance
Diamanto Hadjizacharia
19:30 | 20’
@ Akademia Sztuki Nowoczesnej
The piece explores collectivity, survival, and intimacy in a collapsing world, where isolated bodies dance to reconnect with their lonely selves (and the selves of others).
MEDITERRANEAN SIGNAL
DJ Set by Alejjos
20:00 | 120’
@ Akademia Sztuki Nowoczesnej
The night ends with an uplifting DJ set by Alejjos, blending electronic sounds with Cypriot influences. Warm rhythms and hypnotic beats create an atmosphere of celebration and connection.
SUNDAY 24.05.2026
CHOREOGRAPHIES OF THE CITY
Performance
Jacek Owczarek & guests
16:00 | 75’
@ Centre for Culture in Lublin – Main Stage
A live dance experience unfolding in real time through movement, music, space, and audience presence. Rather than a fixed performance, it is a constantly shifting situation where every decision and interaction shapes what happens next.
NEVER JUST I
Performance
Evie Demetriou
18:00 | 45’
@ Centre for Culture in Lublin – Main Stage
NEVER JUST I is a raw and intimate solo performance by Evie Demetriou exploring identity through the shifting roles of woman, mother and daughter. Blending movement, text, humour and emotional honesty, the work transforms personal experience into a shared space of vulnerability, resilience and collective imagination.
*The project is implemented as a continuation of the first collaboration within the framework of the international cultural program of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2025.
*The event is organised within the framework of the Cultural Programme of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026 and is under the auspices of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in the Republic of Poland.
Organisers: Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU 2026, Deputy Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus & Dance House Lemesos
In Collaboration With: National Choreographic Centre in Lublin
With the support of: Adam Mickiewicz Institute
