A Talk | ΦΕΜ group

The dance group ΦΕΜ returns to KET with their performance “A Talk” for three nights in December 2019.

A meeting. You speak and I listen. I ask, you answer. We agree. I lead and you follow. You resist. Embarrassment.

“A Talk” is a duet exploring the ways in which we communicate and shape relationships. It is a kinetic dialogue of two bodies that need to understand and to be understood. They create relationships of interdependence, friendship and exploitation, trying to find out what sets them in motion. How will they choose to continue the discussion? It is a dance performance inspired by interpersonal communication, everyday encounters and the familiar relationships that a person experiences and creates in his/her life. Two bodies that carry memories, experiences and needs – two worldviews – confront and try to synchronize with each other within the surrounding noise. They lead, follow, suffocate and collide in an attempt to reduce the difference that separates them, with one move at a time.

The performance focuses on the processes of communication and dialogue and attempts to redefine the classical roles and vocabulary we encounter in ballroom social dances. It approaches the typical “male” and “female” roles as constructed structures, built by a set of communication rules. It seeks to break these roles and entangle the rules through a lead-follow game of intention and touch.

The ΦΕΜ group leads a kinesiological workshop at KET from the 3rd of November to the 15th of December (www.polychorosket.gr/events/ergastiriokinisis).