Micropolies: Invisible Cities Series (2018–2019)
Just [5] Micropolies: Invisible Cities Series was a continuation of the series of J[us]t 5 events. The events took the methodology of participation further by dispensing with the audience altogether; everyone was a participant engaged in their solo: invisible performances, in dialogue between a chosen place within the city and the participants' own history within it.
Participants joined five events that took place in Stockholm/Sweden, Miami/Florida, Byblos/Lebanon, San Juan, Puerto Rico returning to Athens, Greece for the closure of the cycle. The events reached out to participants across the globe and further individual 'rogue' events took place in London, Copenhagen and as far as Panama City.
Concept, performance scores, audio scores: Ana Sánchez-Colberg
J[US]T 5 Redux (2018)
J[US]T 5: REDUX took place under the umbrella of The Performance Shop as part of the Athens & Epidaurus International Festival.
J[US]T 5 – REDUX (from Latin reducere, "to bring back") gathered under a single site and a single reiteration, the five events of J[US]T 5 that took place between May and October 2017. The event was therefore a 're-dux' version, re-articulating and reviewing the accumulated narratives of the original five.
Concept and performance: Ana Sánchez-Colberg
Text: Ana Sánchez-Colberg
Sound design: Ana Sánchez-Colberg and Dimitris Karalis
Photography by Manos Garyfallou and Ana Gabriela Webb-Sánchez
Text: Ana Sánchez-Colberg
Sound design: Ana Sánchez-Colberg and Dimitris Karalis
Photography by Manos Garyfallou and Ana Gabriela Webb-Sánchez
Video documentation
J[us]t 5 (2017)
J[us]t 5 were a series of site-sensitive interventions around the prime number 5, an event of only 5 minutes, repeated five times, starting at 5 o'clock, on the 5th month of the year, on the fifth decade of the artist's life, for 4 audience members (+ dancer makes 5), in a 5m area, throughout five locations in Athens, in a five month span.
J[us]t 5 exposed the dialectics between a series of oppositions: the personal/intimate, the public/private, the indoor/outdoor, a private dance in a public space, a city audio walk experience – without walking.
J[us]t5: 9th May, 2017, 5.00pm. Site: Agathonos Street, Athens, Greece
An[other]5: 27th May, 2017, 5.00pm. Art Athina 2017
J(us)tAn[ot]her5: 9th June 2017, 5.00pm. Back to Athens Festival
Still[jus]t 5: 17th June, 2017, 7.00pm. Back to Athens Festival (Finissage events)
Final[5]: Mythical Cities, 26th October, 2017, 5.00pm. Plateia Eirini, Athens. Intersection Performance Series
An[other]5: 27th May, 2017, 5.00pm. Art Athina 2017
J(us)tAn[ot]her5: 9th June 2017, 5.00pm. Back to Athens Festival
Still[jus]t 5: 17th June, 2017, 7.00pm. Back to Athens Festival (Finissage events)
Final[5]: Mythical Cities, 26th October, 2017, 5.00pm. Plateia Eirini, Athens. Intersection Performance Series
J[us]t 5 was made possible with the support of CHEAPART.gr
Fallen [One] (2017)
Solo, choreographed and performed by Ana Sánchez-Colberg
Music composition: Kiriakos Spirou
Lighting design: Pavlos Mavridis
Music composition: Kiriakos Spirou
Lighting design: Pavlos Mavridis
Arts Festival American College of Greece, Athens, Greece
Fine Arts Centre Luis A Ferré, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Move + Sound (2014–2016)
The project exploring improvisation, choreography, sound and space, developed in two stages. The first stage of R&D took place in 2014 in collaboration with CoDa21, director Dimitris Karalis, composer Yiannis Kassetas and members of Guess Who Jazz Ensemble that finished in an informal sharing in the studios of CoDa21. The second stage in 2016 received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and was performed at the Fine Arts Centre Luis A. Ferré, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 23–25, 2016.
A discussion of the project by Ana Sánchez-Colberg with Dimitris Karalis can be read at the recently published Oxford Handbook for Dance Improvisation.
Abandoned Worlds – Triptych (2015)
Three works created over a period of six years brought together as a triptych explored the concept of 'crisis' as exposed by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. In the choreographic work the concept is explored as a relationship between dancer, audience and sonic spaces.
45, 46, 47 The Unbearable was created in 2010 at the height of the crisis and explored ways forward within a hostile environment that at the time seemed capable of exterminating all creativity.
After all is said and done…, created in 2012 is a dialogue between two performers trying to find common ground, a cease fire so to speak, within a struggle to survive amidst the empty rhetoric of the status quo.
The third work, Out of the belly of a whale (premier, 2015), takes Nancy's statement "in this darkness, this coming elsewhere, this breaching of time and space of all orientation… If there is something rather than nothing, it is because there is this limit made body, these bodies made limit, and exposed by their limits" as a starting point to propose modes of recovery – sound from the inside of the performer's body delineate a path from darkness into light, the invisible to the visible.
Concept, choreography and performance: Ana Sánchez-Colberg
Kiriakos Spirou, music composition for The Unbearable and After All is Said and Done
Dimitris Karalis, sound design and engineering for Out of the Belly
Lighting and Photography: Pavlos Mavridis
Kiriakos Spirou, music composition for The Unbearable and After All is Said and Done
Dimitris Karalis, sound design and engineering for Out of the Belly
Lighting and Photography: Pavlos Mavridis
