Performances Alternative Stage
26.07 | 19.30 | 45'
Μέγαρο Χορού Καλαμάτας / Εναλλακτική Σκηνή
AGNI PAPADELI ROSSETOU
The Day I Went All The Way Up The Mountain
The performance The Day I Went All the Way Up the Mountain develops around the function of breathing.
The choreography is structured by the dancers according to a score of breaths, which—beyond the texture and rhythm of breathing—determines each body’s movement patterns, as well as how the dancers relate to one another. The body becomes a vessel, whose form and motion arise from the way air flows in and out of it, often to the point of extremity.
The piece seeks to simultaneously convey two dimensions of this involuntary and vital function: on one hand, its technical, mechanistic aspect—where air is the fuel of the body-as-machine, and the body is subjected to an unbroken sequence of inhalations and exhalations; and on the other hand, a more poetic dimension, in which breath becomes the breath of life, allowing for the emergence of images, moments, and relationships between the two bodies.
The duet The Day I Went All the Way Up the Mountain, with the childlike tone evoked by its title, alludes to the effects that such an ascent has on the body—the states it must pass through in order to make it all the way to the top. At the same time, on an imaginary level, the mountain’s relief mirrors that of the body—especially when carved by breath, and thus, by time.
- Choreography: Agni Papadeli Rossetou
- Dancers: Vitoria Kotsalou & Agni Papadeli Rossetou
- Music: Ragnar Andreas Kasapis
- Dramaturgy: Eleni Moleski
- Costumes: Eleftheria Arapoglou / Digitaria
- Lighting Design: Maria Athanasopoulou
- Research Collaborators: Eleftheria Lagoudaki & Vassoula Delli
AGNI PAPADELI ROSSETOU
Agni Papadeli Rossetou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens.
She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance and holds a BA from the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens. From 2004 to 2008, she lived in Brussels, where she continued her training in dance and improvisation.
As a performer, she has collaborated with numerous choreographers and artists, and has choreographed for both theatrical and musical productions.
In 2015, she began her solo choreographic work. She has created the performances The Day I Went All the Way Up the Mountain, Three Left Thumbs, The Representation of Jouissance, The Garden, A Very Pacific Ocean, Rooms, Look and the Beast, and Blossom.
Her work has been supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the NEON Organization for Culture and Development, and has been presented at festivals including the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, MIRfestival, among others.
During 2021–2022, she conducted the research project The Representation of Trauma: The Experiential Imprint on the Body and the Inclusion of the Real Body in the Art of Dance, funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.