Tuesday 18th to Thursday 20th of February

10h to 11h30

We are happy to welcome Anna Vekiari and Irini Kourouvani from Exis – Inclusive Dance Company in Athens. They will be in residency in our studio and lead morning classes.

 

Our classes will focus on the tools and techniques essential for composing our duet. Each session begins with a warm-up, followed by an exploration of concepts such as negative space, complementary shapes, the dynamics of moving shapes, and techniques rooted in contact improvisation. Our work will be primarily based on duet collaboration.

The classes are open to all movers.

Irini Kourouvani is a freelance dancer based in Athens, Greece. She was born with a disability called arthrogryposis. She

dances since she was 25 years old, she is one of the first

disabled dancers in Greece. She has collaborated with

many choreographers and dance companies in Greece

and abroad.

Anna Vekiari is a dancer, a choreographer and a dance therapist. She is the founder and the artistic

director of Exis- Inclusive Dance Company and the co-founder of Ison Dance Theater, the first training

facility for performing arts for disabled and non-disabled performers in Athens, Greece. Her field of work concerns social inclusion through dance and collective creation.

EXIS is a professional inclusive dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers based in Athens, Greece. It was founded in 2015 with the aim to include people with disabilities into the dance world. EXIS Dance Company aims to promote inclusive dance through professional dance projects and performances, to create a site for inclusive dance education and training and to provide access to creativity and artistic expression to disabled people. At the heart of our values is the acceptance that each body is unique and this sets the basis for building mutual understanding, co-creating and dancing together without losing our personal artistic identity. By organizing workshops and dance performances, we want to create social awareness and foster equality for disabled people in the field of dance. In 2019, EXIS together with THEAMA (Professional Inclusive Theatre Company) created ISON, a school that provides inclusive education and artistic expression for Theater and Dance. It is the first space for inclusive education in the performing arts for disabled and non-disabled artists in Athens. Exis participates in European and Erasmus programmes and collaborates with inclusive companies and institutions locally and abroad.