Response to Atlas da Boca by Gaya de Medeiros @Pavlos Vrionides Dear mouth, How does it feel to be the gatekeeper? How do you handle all this pressure all the time? How is it to carry the responsibility on your shoulders (οr better in your lips)? I imagine it must be hard, sometimes even heartbreaking... Continue Reading →
Response to melody II by Artemis Evlogimenou @Pavlos Vrionides Dear humidity, Below you will find 160 words about my journey to melody II. I enter a space. The space is Sinergio, the time is 19:00. There are four stations. The stations have texts. The texts are scores. The texts are invitations. The texts are provocations. ... Continue Reading →
Dear Festival and friends, How do you feel about our presence these days? Are you going to miss us? What does it mean for a man to curate only female artists? What are your presumptions for the feminine qualities that this festival would have? Were you surprised? Do you believe that smashing the patriarchy is... Continue Reading →
Response to MOS by Ioanna Paraskevopoulou @Pavlos Vrionides Dear you, What is the sound of a dance festival? What are its bodies, literally and metaphorically and imaginatively? What is their sound? I can hear Rodia’s voice in my head. The sound of the printer, which moves as it prints, annoying everyone in the room but... Continue Reading →
Response to Vounaros by Melina Sofokleous @Pavlos Vrionides Dear queen, In the middle of the labyrinth, I found you, eating on your throne. I’m just an insect; I try to fly around you to catch your attention, until you look at me, and your eyes become bigger and bigger, and then I ask permission to... Continue Reading →
Response to Developing and sustaining a voice as an artist Podcast by Lia Haraki @Pavlos Vrionides Dear Lia Haraki, On taking initiatives On taking spaces On decolonizing : For being the initiator Do the perfect conditions exist? I am not Cypriot but I feel like one. I am not European and I don’t want to... Continue Reading →
Response to MOS by Ioanna Paraskevopoulou @Pavlos Vrionides Dear Contemporary Dance, Thank you for the space you provided me yesterday. Thank you for offering something that I don’t need to think of. Something that I don’t need to process further. And don’t get me wrong I believe the force that contemporary dance has of making... Continue Reading →
Response to Vacationists in the Absurd by Styliana Apostolou- Polena Kolia Petersan @Pavlos Vrionides Dear Open Call, Thank you for initiating the work I experienced yesterday afternoon. The following letter will be in three parts based on what was activated in me. Part 1: The framework: An open call that led to a transnational residency... Continue Reading →
Response to Happy Happier Days by Arianna Economou @Pavlos Vrionides Dear (…) you, This is a letter: To the ones who left. Το the ones who left early. To the ones who remember the ones who left. To the ones who found their voice. To the ones who are telling their stories. To the ones... Continue Reading →
Response to The pure gold is seeping out of me by Renata Piotrowska-Auffret @Pavlos Vrionides Dear younger self, I am writing to you about this performance I saw last night. Entering the performance after watching SPIRIT you were very present in my mind! THE PURE GOLD IS SEEPING (in and) OUT OF ME An ode... Continue Reading →
Dear Festival and Friends 