Program Dance in the city
19.07 | 21:00
Kalamata Main Square
KOSTAS PHOENIX & CHAOTIC UNIVERSE
I USED TO WANT TO BE A SUPERHERO
A boy wants to be a superhero.
He sees himself as strong and confident. Optimistic.
Things are very simple in a landscape where the good guys fight the bad guys and the good guys win. Because they are the good guys… and the good guys always end up winning.
Or not.
He grows up and discovers a much more complicated world. The good guys are usually weak, the bad guys win. Life punishes honesty and rewards liars.
Everything is gray and cold. Everywhere there is insecurity, fear, hatred. People are suspicious, desperate and alone.
In the end, should I have stayed a child or did I do the right thing by “growing up”?
I still want to be a superhero.
Admission to all Kalamata Main Square performances and side events is free for all.
- Choreography / Performance: Kostas Phoenix
- Music Composition: Stamatis Spiropoulos
KOSTAS PHOENIX
Kostas Phoenix began his dance journey at the age of 12, with Breaking. He graduated from the Greek National School of Dance in Athens in 2016 and since then he has been working with a plethora of choreographers, both in Greece and abroad, while also giving workshops and creating his own work.
He worked with the Akram Khan Company on the restaging of Vertical Road in partnership with the Hellenic Dance Company (London and Athens), he spent a year in the Staatstheater of Görlitz (Germany), he worked for two years with KMDT — Kennedy Muntanga Dance Theater in London, and he is also an active freelance dance associate of Patricia Apergi and the Aerites Dance Company (Athens), choreographer Ilias Hatzigeorgiou (Athens) and choreographer Lida Doumouliaka (Zürich, Switzerland), to name only a few of his collaborations.
Kostas himself is inspired in his art by people’s everyday stories and situations, the traditional dances of different cultures, martial arts, streetstyle dances and fantasy art media such as books, movies and video games.