16:00-19:00
satellite meetings 3: Κωνσταντίνα Γεωργέλου
sideways transversal moving
What are the choreographies, politics, imaginaries and art-life practices of moving sideways, without full intentionality? This workshop draws on collective readings of selected excerpts, co-writing experiments, interrupted conversations and possible in/outdoor micro-actions. It questions how knowledge can be generated on unstable and disorientating grounds such as in the present moment and probes sideways and transversal ways of moving together, which risk failure, joy, and exceptionality. This proposition is inspired by Bayo Akomolafe’s understanding of fugitivity as “navigating the world by becoming lost” (2022), and by what Lauren Berlant has described as “lateral agency”, a state of “scavenging for survival”, in which one seeks new idioms of the political from the baselines (2011)
bio
Konstantina Georgelou is a dramaturge and researcher based in Amsterdam. Her research is on the practice and theory of dramaturgical activity, especially regarded from a political perspective, which is part of her ongoing inquiry on embodied practices of resistance and forms of dis/order as these are thought and expressed within dance and performance. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and at the University College Utrecht. She is also a tutor at DAS Choreography and at DAS Theatre, both MA programmes at the Graduate School of the Amsterdam University for the Arts. Together with Efrosini Protopapa she is currently researching “dramaturgies of moving laterally”, presenting performative dialogues, publications and other events in various contexts. Her publications have appeared in several journals and books, such as with TDR, Performance Research Journal and Maska. She co-authored The Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performance (Valiz, 2017) and has worked together with several artists including Genevieve Murphy, Zhana Ivanova, Billy Mullaney and Chara Kotsali.