Performances Dance in the city
24.07 | 10.00 & 19.30 | 30-35’
Kalamata Municipal Railway Park
MARTHA PASAKOPOULOU
Dance Your Way Out
Dance Your Way Out is an audio-walk experience—a guided journey celebrating movement and the joy of free dance. Participants meet their “guides” and follow them along a route in public space, surfing between narrative voices and physical movement prompts. Dance Your Way Out draws from the idea of the “dancing plague” (or choreomania) and the contagious nature of dance—a social phenomenon that appeared in the late Middle Ages, sweeping people into non-stop dancing for days. It relies on entertainment and the body’s innate capacity to “hear” rhythm. The piece proposes a collective experience and extends an invitation to a techno-driven dance in public space. How do we experience our daily passage through the city when shaped by sound and movement? Participants navigate as a group moving to their own rhythm, within the shifting temporalities proposed by the urban landscape. Dance Your Way Out is a vibrant and sonic experience for those taking part—while remaining silent to onlookers.
- Concept & Design / Choreography: Martha Pasakopoulou
- Material Development & Performance: Christina Karagianni, Despina Sanida Crezia, Martha Pasakopoulou
- Composition / Sound Design: Anna-Maria Rammou
A Flux Laboratory production.
MARTHA PASAKOPOULOU
Martha Pasakopoulou is a dance artist from Greece. She holds a BA in Dance from the Professional Dance School of N. Kontaxaki in Athens, a degree in Chemistry from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and an MA in Performance from the London Contemporary Dance School. She has collaborated with choreographers and artists such as Wally Cardona, Robert Clark, Eva Recacha, Sung Im Her, Seke Chimutendwende, Tino Sehgal, Iris Karayan, Ermira Goro, and Marina Abramović, among others.
Since 2017, she has been collaborating with Aris Papadopoulos under the name arisandmartha, experimenting with choreographic and performative practices through varied conceptual frameworks. Together, they have created the works touching.just (Aerowaves 2018), Five Steps to Save the World (2018), Lucy. tutorial for a ritual (Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2019), ALL THAT MATTER or notes on performing friendship (2022), OUT OF SPRING (2022), they returned regularly, each time for more (2023), and SKINFLICK (2024).
In 2024, she created the audio-walk performance Dance Your Way Out with the support of Flux Laboratory, as part of the ART ATHINA exhibition (curated by Nikolas Vamvouklis). Martha is a 2019/20 ARTWORKS Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.