Symbiotic Danscapes ◦ Research Residency w/ guest artist Androniki Marathaki (GR)
Symbiotic Danscapes is a unique artist residency series that examines choreography through three different lenses:
Dancer as both a feeling and thinking subject
Choreography as a decentralized practice for reflection and improvisation
Dramaturgy that considers the audience—not by serving it, but by unlocking its political potential for social commentary
What if…
⋗ Choreography can listen to the dancer rather than serve them or use them?
⋗ The dancing body is the center of decision-making and scores reflect the dancer rather than the other way around?
⋗ The audience’s participation is more than just presence or even active engagement, but a political statement that truly mattered?
⋗ Dance was not something to be consumed, but an act of being, becoming, and encountering?
It is a new hybrid program that invites one guest artist to conduct and share their research, in dialogue with a dedicated and curious group of participants. Over the course of three weeks, in the sloping forest of Paleohori, the guest artist will bring specific questions emerging from their personal practice to be explored collectively. Together, the group will engage in a process of co-inquiry, exploring scores, inventing rituals, sharing meals, and allowing time to shape their discoveries.
This series of research workshops seeks to reclaim time as a privilege: to unlearn and rethink the ways we create dance, to acknowledge and highlight our interconnectedness and
to reimagine spectatorship beyond presentation, through dances shaped by encounters. To remember why dance was important to us in the first place.
This October, Androniki Marathaki, a Greek dancer and choreographer who adopt “practice” as her main choreographing method will share her research with us in a dynamic moment where everything remains fluid and possible.
Androniki facilitates conditions from which ‘awareness’ can be cultivated for anyone that participates in a dance event. In her work, the different processes of experiencing (choreographing, performing, observing) are interwaved in order to release compositional as well as defamiliarization processes of movement that are also related in everyday life and do develop capacities in world-making and self-creation.
Below is a note from Androniki regarding the research she will share during these three weeks.
“As dance artists, I have the faith that through movement and the body we are able to serve impossible ways for communicating with each other, ways that have the potential to redefine our processes as humanity to co live together in ways we may not even have realized yet.
To address that within a dance performance is a political act, an invitation to join with each other outside of stereotypical embodied selves, an act of resistance to communicate outside of the representational structures for the body and for the Dance.
Through the years that I am researching and working as choreographer, I am trying to find ways to allow these processes between me and the dancers to expand viciously and courageously and so in that way to keep alive the “Dance on stage” . To allow its experience as something that is beyond us but as well as our common ground.
Through that lens then my invitation to audience members is spread on possible alternative ways in receiving the Dance.
How can we, as dance artists invite them to observe their social embodied self, to relate to the Dance through the bodily intelligences?
How can we provoke, sensitize and activate responses before meaning-making, before neuro-perceptual pathways that may lack new imaginative potentials for a community?
In these 3 weeks residency, I am truly thrilled to share these questions with whoever is related to a choreographer’s, performer’s , audience’s research through that lens, to play and become curious about what kind of performers, choreographers and audience members we are, to unfold strategies between those and amongst all possible mixed identities by those on how to relate to each other through the Dance.
This research is in relation to my upcoming project in which its main theme is the ‘body as a score’ and the ‘practices of solidarity’.
As its parts and structures of the body in order for us to move freely and effortlessly are creating an ecosystem, in that way we question how can a group of people or a task be related to those practices of solidarity?
Some phrases that may offer you a wealthier insight to the project are: sensoriality and movement , scores by artists from 1960-2025, transformation of physical materiality, practices, solidarity, the physical organ of the heart, observing, observing the self observing, dancing, performing, imagining”
Where: Paleohori Art Space, Neohori Lefkada island, Greece
When: September 22 – October 12, 2025
To register:
Those who wish to witness and actively engage with Androniki’s creative process follow the link to register > https://paleohori.com/research-workshop/
Due to limited spots, participation will be confirmed on a first-come, first-served basis.
The residency offers three meals per day and shared accommodation.
Paleohori is an artist-run independent space; therefore, to cover residency expenses, a
minimum contribution of 550 euros is required for food and living costs.
For any questions please feel free to contact us at [email protected]