concept, coreography and artistic direction Fotini Stamatelopoulou
performance Despina Sanida Crezia
original music and sound planning Panos Alexiadis
wearable metallic objects, sculptural elements Dimitris Tampakis
lights planning Nysos Vasilopoulos
text Fotini Stamatelopoulou
dramaturgical support Elena Novakovits
production management Alex Papasimakopoulou
production Onassis Stegi
co - produced by Latitudes Contemporaines, Spring Performing Arts Festival, Mirfestival
supported by European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA)
research sustained by Grand Luxe Network, Choreographic Platform e Onassis Air (Atene), L’Abri (Ginevra), Trois C-L (Lussemburgo), Pôle-Sud (Strasburgo), Grand Studio (Bruxelles), Theater Freiburg

National Premiere 

Near Misses is a performative, sound, and installation work born from a series of rituals related both to ex-votos and to body-protecting equipment. Ceremonials linked to life and death radiate, detachable metal objects generate armor, and a personal altar hosts a composition dense with meaning on the ways of acquiring strength, faith, and hope. The work includes material collected during kinetic, sonic, and historical research on human anatomy and body image, as well as material from various religious ceremonies, images, vows, and protection rituals. Investigating social and personal meanings around the contemporary idea of faith, the need for freedom in vulnerability, in silence and in anger, and the acquisition of power through collectivity.

supported by Onassis Stegi