Dancing at the edge: the Diving Horse and Other Mythologies

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Airing as part of the ‘Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8’, in this video, choreographer Konstantinos Papanikolaou uses five striking photographs as a starting point to recall dance tropes doomed to fade away.

Showing us such haunting sights as a young female rider falling into the void on the back of a white horse, and dance marathons whose aim was simply to remain standing, Papanikolaou’s presentation is a blend of documentary and personal memory, as he searches for traces in the present, left by the past.

Based in Athens, the non-profit Alexander S. Onassis Foundation promotes Greek culture and civilisation, locally and internationally.

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