Earth Voices: a walking performance at Troodos Botanical Gardens

Within the framework of its Cultural Decentralisation Program 2022, Dance Gate Lefkosia-Cyprus is presenting a series of walking performances at the Troodos Botanical Garden in collaboration with the community of Amiantos. Their next happening is the Earth Voices performance on Sunday, and again on Sunday 15 at 11am.

Focusing on the practice of performer/choreographer Arianna Economou and curated by dr Kostas Prapoglou, Earth Voices will develop in its duration a multifaceted programme of actions. This will incorporate a series of walking performances inspired by the past and the ancient imprint of the area, its ecology, the role of plants and mythology. It will also explore the healing and resurgence process in relation to the former Amiantos asbestos mine and the significance of the remediation of the biodiversity and the ecosystem of the area.

Embarking from the process of creation and research, the formation of artistic and sensory perception will be the springboard for both the creator and the viewer. Creators and viewers are invited to construct a metaphorical condition of symbiosis, equilibrium and harmony with the surrounding space.

“The urgent need to seek solutions to climate change,” say the organisers, “and the annihilation of the planet’s ecosystems emphasise liberation from a human-centred approach, which is now becoming unjustified and unfair. We turn our gaze to multi-layered methods of attunement under the prism of receptivity and consciousness. Earth Voices will attempt to expand our sensory stimuli and bring viewers to a new and unprecedented domain of observation and adaptability in direct relation and connection with the presence of entities and conditions we had not previously imagined that coexist with us.”

Earth Voices

Walking performance directed by Arianna Economou and curated by dr Kostas Prapoglou. May 8 and 15. Troodos Botanical Gardens, Pano Amiantos. 11am-2pm. Tel: 99-199180, 97-772264