On Bodies Festival 2025: Exploring Resilience through Dance and Performance

Strategic Insights -

The On Bodies festival 2025, taking place from May 22 to 25 at Dance House Lefkosia and Athalassa Park in Nicosia, Cyprus, will focus on the theme of Resilience, highlighting the ability to adapt to life's challenges. The festival will feature a diverse range of contemporary choreographic performances, interactive creations, and site-specific performances that aim to provide a critical correlation with the concerns and issues of today.

Key Takeaways:

  • The festival will showcase a total of 9 performances, including stage works, interactive/participatory creations, performance lectures, site-specific performances, and long durational works.
  • The program includes proposals from young and established artists from Cyprus and abroad, as well as workshops, discussions, and more.
  • The festival will implement creative accessibility methods, including audio description elements, haptic tours, and Cypriot Sign Language interpretation, to make the performances friendly to people with sensory disabilities.
  • The festival's overall program was curated by Petros Konnaris, with the pieces from the open call selected together with Arianna Economou, Andromachi D Lindahl, Pavlos Marios Ktoridis, and Charis Iacovou.
  • The festival will feature performances by a diverse range of artists, including Ahmed El Gendy, George Bizios, Avgoustina Triarou, Satoshi Kudo, Konstantina Skalionta, Mariia Bakalo, Nayia T Karacosta, arisandmartha, and Jana Jacuka.

Statistics:

  • The festival will take place over 4 days, from May 22 to 25.
  • The festival will feature a total of 9 performances.
  • The festival will offer workshops, discussions, and other activities in addition to the performances.
  • The festival will implement creative accessibility methods on all three days, with haptic tours and audio description elements available.
  • The festival will feature a total of 4 workshop sessions led by Satoshi Kudo.

Sources:

  • Dance House Lefkosia
  • On Bodies Dance and Choreography Festival program 2025