The artists Melina Sofocleous and Maria Papageorgiou open up part of their work to the public in the form of a work in progress with the pieces “Sparkly Facades” and “Walking into it”.
Join us to get a taste of what our MTN resident artists are working on and share some thoughts on their pieces in an informal feedback discussion.
June 26th at Synergeio theatre, from 19:00 to 21:00.
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More about the pieces:
Working Title: Sparkly Facades
By Melina Sofocleous
New, Hopeful Shinny & Doomed Delusions Entertaining & Hot Melting Illusions
Melina Sofocleous is a performance maker currently revisiting and unraveling the abstract and physical content of Don’t You Just Love Melting?, originally presented at the Cyprus Choreographic Platform at Rialto Theatre in 2024.
In this moment, they’re exploring the work’s adaptability — both in form and location — using this informal sharing within MTN2025 as an opportunity to experiment with a site-specific outdoor adaptation.
A defining element of the process is the ongoing research into materiality — how physical form, texture, and embodied methods such as improvisation, responsive interaction with the space, and tapping into intuitive play shape the life of the work.
During this residency, they are investigating how the piece shifts and responds to different environments, echoing its central themes of human construction and deconstruction, and the way small, collective systems adapt — reflecting how these systems may generate structures that benefit some, while disadvantaging others.
Working Title: Walking into it
By Maria Papageorgiou
Walking into it is a solo ritual composed of stories of grief in motion. The performer moves through a shifting and fluid environment, reflecting on the Past, the Present, and the Future. She stands upright as a gesture of resilience and survival in times of mourning.
Maria Papageorgiou is a dancer and performer from Limassol. Beginning with the project “Let Unfold”, first presented at the Summer Festival of Nea Kinisi in 2024, Maria uses this first act of sharing to explore how a grief ritual can be created in public space through contemporary choreographic language.
Inspired and influenced by local mourning customs and approaches, the artist investigates how the body becomes a site for recording and archiving personal and collective memory, sorrow, and loss.
As part of MTN2025, she seeks to explore how we shift from paralysis to action. How does physical storytelling keep us standing, strong in the face of violent systems and landscapes, in isolated societies that resist and reject their grief?
