Melisa Diktaş, Ping-Hsiang Wang and Eli Mathieu-Bustos on the program at Right About Now Festival !
For the 7th year in a row, Thassos has partnered with MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM to help support the distribution of #WIPCOOP performances.
This year we are hosting the PROSPECTION day for programmers at wp Zimmer!
Have a Safe Travel tells the story of a train ride.
That ride could be banal.
Until three policemen stop Eli Mathieu-Bustos and ask for his passport.
I’ll be there for you (for me) explores the Western culture of self versus our need for connection.
I’ll be there for you (for me) explores the Western culture of self versus our need for connection. Lorena Spindler confesses her ambiguity toward the prevailing system ( ka-pi-ta-lism), her desire to be part of it, her fear of getting out of it and the despondency it evokes, and invites performers to explore these contradictions.
KIDNAPPED is a work in progress for a speculative metaphor: in our illusory world of neoliberal “freedom,” we are all, in a sense, kidnapped.
In Retina Maneuver, Ping-Hsiang Wang explores how Taiwanese millennials’ perspectives on conscription and military violence have evolved over the past decade – all through a queer lens.
When “Girl on Fire” is no longer just a pop song but a marching tune for soldiers going to war, Ping-Hsiang Wang wonders, will his fragile memories then be destroyed by the fire of war? Retina Maneuver is a solo lecture-performance that springs from Ping’s inexplicable obsession with Alicia Keys’ pop song “Girl On Fire”
Anna Karenina delves into the content and dance technicalities and explores what krumping means to her. The connection between the earthly and the heavenly is central in an attempt to understand, convey her own roots and touch a higher reality.
With VLAMINGO, Nela Deleu reveals her path to becoming a Fleming.
A specific and recognizable love story.
(out)Growing Pains is a performance about the remaining energy in the body after experiencing trauma. It is about awareness and the healing process as a continuous, cyclical journey.
