UNDERTHUMBS

How many bpm does it take to break the stone? How many feet below the ground do you do your most frantic dance? How many thumbs do you have to lift to catch your breath?

Underthumbs is a handmade choreographic work for those who live, work and have fun underground. A work dedicated to subterranean human activity – invisible, but absolutely essential to the functioning of the ‘above world’ as we know it.

Approaching the term underground both aesthetically and realistically – through the reality of work and fun underground – the two choreographers create an underground world where bodies vibrate from the impact, while thumbs always remain raised. Bodies that claim their space, bodies that fall but continue. Between shovels, breaths and beats, the boundaries of the real and the imaginary blur and the fatigue of work gives way to a strange, crouching, crazy dance.

We would like to thank Mavra Gidia for kindly providing the short film “Canary”.

Many thanks to: Lia Hamilothori, Margie and Ioanna Trikka, George Dimopoulos, Anna Nikolaou, Angelos Kottas, Fotini Banou, Dimitris Alexakis and all the contributors without whose valuable contribution this project might have remained just an idea.