KATINES - Community Dance Group

The community dance group KATINES is a small community of Greek-speaking women with a feminist background, who have been living and working in Zurich for several years.
Within the group there are among others a choreographer and several architects, artists, mothers, researchers and dancers/movers.
What we share through this practice is not primarily a rehearsal for the creation of dance works, but rather a place of meeting, intimacy, relatedness and creation within the occasion of dance. 
We share a cultural relevance in terms of how we create, how we speak, how we move, and all the embodiment that accompanies them.
KATINES have presented Spekulative Praktiken, at the community dance festival Tanzmehr Bühne in Zurich in October '23, as well as at the collaborative art studio Sihlquai253, & the community space L200 (a space for the neighborhood) in December '23.

In 2024, they are conducting a research, that explores the notion of emancipation and they will present this research through a performance entitled: 'What if this dance is about emancipation?' 
They have been invited after open call to present at the Cultural Space Zentralwäscherei in Zürich. July 16th & 18th Performance & July 17th Drawing and Dancing workshop. 

 

KATINES, is a female Greek name that has a sexist connotation, and this was the reason to become the name of the first feministic Greek magazine, in order to change this undertone.

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News

25.10 - TANZMEHR BÜHNE FESTIVAL
08.12 - L200 Zürich, OPEN DISCUSSION & ONLINE PRESENTATION OF DOCUMENTARY OF THE FEMINISTIC GROUP KATINA magazine. Discussion and Dance with KATINES_Zürich
26.01 -  Workshop by the choreographer Medie Megas 08.03 Workshop by the choreographer Androniki Marathaki 

16.7 & 18.7 Performance - WHAT  IF THIS DANCE IS ABOUT EMANCIPATION @ Zentralwäscherei @19.30 
17.7 DANCING & DRAWING SESSION with Artemis Tsakiri @ ZW part of the KATINES WEEK. 

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'What if this dance is about emancipation?', explores the notion of emancipation from all potential vantage points that the KATINES group members could think of/ imagine/remember and dream of. Dancers pick a dance that feels very dear to their bodies, and dance it while listening to their favourite song.
9 WOMEN, dance
9 DANCES,
together on stage. 

One playlist is suggested to the audience!
Please bring your headphones and phones! 

Credits:
Research-Choreography -Performance: Eleni Mylona with and by Angeliki Papadia, Christina Tsouma, Daphne Kokkini, Domenika Chandra, Ioulitta Stavridi, Martha Gjikolaj , Nassia Vlachou, Vassia Roussi a.k.a KATINES_zürich
Dramaturgical Consultation: Rodia Vomvolou 
Music: Nassia Vlachou
Photos: Maria Cheilopoulou
Video: Artemis Tsakiri
Design: Kostis Sotirakos
Costumes: KATINES_zürich

TICKETS: eventfrog.ch/KATINES

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Spekulative Praktiken 
(Tanzmehr FESTIVAL 2023) 

The performers/movers respond to movement scores they have developed together. The intension is to reflect on how we come together, what is embodied knowledge, how our female bodies can and act as a way to resist patriarchal structures, and also how to find and expand idiosyncratic personal movement while at the same time take responsibility of our common body!
The scores are suggested verbally by the
choreographer and by the dancers when they feel like it, and the performers/movers create movement material on stage through "instant composition". The piece begins with a traditional Greek love song from 1828 from Asia Minor, and is accompanied by live music (guitar).

CREDITS
Choreography: Eleni Mylona with and by the dancers Domenika Chandra, Fani Kanoni, Daphne Kokkini, AngelikiPapadia, Vassia Roussi, Ioulitta Stavridi, Christina Tsouma, Nassia Vlachou
Live music (guitar): Pablo Allende
Live voice: Nassia Vlachou