4th Cyprus Choreography Showcase

Music Artdancegoing out Limassol 4th Cyprus Choreography Showcase Photos Sxk No I Am Not Relevant News 4th Cyprus Choreography Showcase 9 September 2026 Printmaking exhibition exploring human struggle and peace to open in Nicosia 9 September 2026 Corruption watchdog to issue statement on “black van” case on Monday 9 September 2026 newsroom 9 September 2026 FacebookXWhatsAppEmailPrintViber Three days celebrating contemporary dance from Cyprus, featuring eight selected choreographic works and a programme of encounters, exchange and professional networking. The Department of Modern and Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with Rialto Theatre, presents the 4th Cyprus Choreography Showcase, taking place from 18 to 20 September 2026 at Rialto Theatre in Limassol. The Cyprus Choreography Showcase (SKX) is an established platform dedicated to presenting selected choreographic works from Cyprus to international artistic directors, curators and contemporary dance festival organisers, who are invited specifically for this purpose. Through this international encounter, the Showcase aims to create opportunities for Cyprus-based artists and choreographers to present their work abroad and develop new professional collaborations. The 4th edition brings together nine choreographic works representing the diversity and vitality of Cyprus’ contemporary dance scene. Addressing themes including power and abuse, identity, gender, social justice, female strength, collective experience, transformation, instinct and our relationship with the future, the programme reflects a broad range of artistic approaches and choreographic practices. The Showcase is complemented by MEANWHILE, a series of parallel activities organised by the Dance House Limassol, Dance House Lefkosia and Nea Kinisi, offering further opportunities for exchange, discussion and networking within the local and international dance community. PROGRAMME Friday, 18 September 2026 19:00 | Panos Malactos – NO IM NOT | 25’ NO IM NOT digs into the abuse power dynamics within the dance world. Challenging the façade of wellness often presented in the sector, the piece shows how dancers struggle with their mental health in a toxic work environment – navigating systemic abuse, manipulation, and unrealistic expectations in their professional lives. NO IM NOT is a continuation of Are You Okay?, Panos’ previous full evening group work, which showcases the duality of the dancers’ experiences, unravelling the dissonance between the societal pressure to appear “okay”, and their inner turmoil. Choreography: Panos Malactos Dancers: Styliana Apostolou, Natalia Vasiliki Vagena / Andrea Ordonez Torre, Melina Sophocleous Assistant: Magda Argyridou Lighting design: Vasilis Petinaris Costume design: Orestis Lazouras Music Credits: Aenaa – Die Arkitekt, The Swan – Camille Saint-Saëns, Dystopia – Wax Wings&Die Arkitekt Music Production: TEO.x3 Lyrics: Ody Icon 20:00 | Petros Konnaris & Rodia Vomvolou – The future is dark which is the thing a future can be | 120’ | Seating on Stage The future is dark which is the best thing a future can be is a performance–board game that seeks critical ways of engaging with the urgencies of contemporary reality while activating alternative speculations about the future. Three players, guided by two facilitators, move like pawns across a floored landscape of stations of knowledge/ notions such as The Palace of Feminist Governance, The Rock of Responsibility, and The Cavern of Care, and through scores, they produce poetic manifestoes, imaginary narratives, critical questions, and embodied landscapes. The project investigates the relationship between the logic of a board game and choreographic thinking, blurring the line between performing arts and everyday life, proposing a horizontal redistribution of agency and power hierarchies. Drawing on the performativity and aesthetics of the (90s) TV game shows, the performance activates an open, vulnerable, and playful space for dialogue, reflection, and collective imagination. Concept & Artistic Direction: Petros Konnaris, Rodia Vomvolou Scenography, Game’s Visual Identity: Chrysa Georgiou Performers: Eleana Alexandrou, Konstantina Skalionta, Costantina Peter, Petros Konnaris, Rodia Vomvolou Original Cast: Eleana Alexandrou, Konstantina Skalionta, Costantina Peter, Miriam Gatt, Areti Chourdaki, Petros Konnaris, Rodia Vomvolou Graphics: Mary Pilakouri Electronics Advisor: Yiannis Poulakis Production: A moment to Perform In the frame of the Terpsichori 2025 programme of the Department of Contemporary Culture – Deputy Ministry of Culture. * The title is borrowed from a quote that Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary in 1915, following the outbreak of the First World War, as an attempt to preserve hope. Saturday, 19 September 2026 19:00 | Harry Koushos – NOT ALL WARS ARE VISIBLE | 40’ | Seating on Stage In this gripping performance, the audience is called upon to take responsibility for the dancers’ safety. The instruction “Shout the word STOP if women are in danger” establishes a dual reality: a battle unfolding before the spectators’ eyes and another, invisible one, within their minds. The space is shaped like an arena, with the audience surrounding the action. As the performance unravels, the dancers rely on their sense of hearing and touch—the spectators’ bodies become their reference points in space. Perhaps the real battle is not the one you see, but the one happening inside you. Choreography: Harry Koushos Performers: Styliana Apostolou, Magda Argyridou, Anna Nicolaou, Melina Sofocleous, Katerina Tylliridou Lighting Design: Vasilis Petinaris Set & Sound Design: Harry Koushos Costumes: Harry Koushos Production: Limassol Municipality Co-production: Cyprus New Movement of Dance Groups, Dancers and Choreographers Photos: Pavlos Vrionides 20:15 | Eve Dimitriou / En Drasei – Say Yes! Again and again | 50’ | 16+ | Seating on Stage Say Yes! again and again is a performance exploring questions of identity and gender through a playful and optimistic lens. Inspired by Adrienne Maree Brown’s Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (AK Press, 2019), the choreographer, together with the creative team, reflects on what activism can mean today, engaging with positivity and empowerment in saying ‘yes’ to ourselves and to our needs. On stage, three performers from Cyprus, Greece, and the Netherlands use physicality and linguistic forms to share personal experiences that have shaped them as individuals, opening a space to reflect on social norms, queer subjectivities and normative pressures. The work is part of the choreographer’s ongoing research to address social justice issues. Envisioning performance as the beginning of a dialogue with the audience, she explores various performative ways of engaging with body politics. Choreography: Evie Demetriou in collaboration with performers Eleftheria Socratous, Bas van der Kruk, Rania Glymitsa Dramaturgy Advisor: Georgina Kakoudaki Lighting Design: Aleksandar Jotovic Conversation Partner/Mentor (1st phase): Pavlos Kountourious Artistic Collaborator: Michalis Papamichael Vocal Coach: Cathryn Robson Styling: Kristia Michaelidou Photography: Pavlos Vrionides Trailer Filming & Editing: Suzana Phialas Trailer Sound: Konstantinos K. Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Deputy Ministry of Culture within the framework of the Terpsichore programme 2023. 21:15 | Milena Ugren Koulas & Stylish Junkies Collective – Mutated Gene | 50’ | Seating on Stage In this choreographic work, Milena was inspired by science-based research on how what we believe to be our true nature is an adaptation to the circumstances, environment, and experiences we live in. With dancers, she explored how identity is shaped by what we endure, the experiences we go through, and our relationships and attachments to the people around us. Choreographer: Milena Ugren Koulas Dancers: Apollonas Anastasiades, Magda Argyridou, Giannis Economides, Christopher Mills, Anna Nicolaou, Melina Sofocleous, Katerina Tylliridou Music: Georgios Koulas, Dafni Koulas Sunday, 20 September 2026 19:00 | Elena Antoniou – ODE | 45’ | On Stage ODE is a physical poem about togetherness and the principle of “no woman left alone”. Exploring ways of expanding the space available to women, the work approaches female strength through gaze, movement and presence. Elena Antoniou and Anna Papathanasiou transform the institutional space into a field of coordination, where vulnerability becomes a source of power and collective presence becomes an act of assertion. Concept, Choreography, Performance: Elena Antoniou Performance: Anna Papathanasiou Music: Maria Spivak Dramaturgy: Odysseas I. Konstantinou Art direction: Christos Kyriakides Lighting design: Vasilis Petinaris Styling coordination: Philippe G. Missas Photography & Graphics: Saint Production Coordination (Internationally): Alex Papasimakopoulou Production Coordination (Cyprus): Loukia Vassiliou With the support of the NEON Organisation for Culture and Development & ONASSIS STEGI Touring Programme. The premiere of the work took place in Cyprus, as part of the “Terpsichore 2025” programme of the Department of Contemporary Culture, Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture. 20:30 | Melina Sophocleous – Don’t You Just Love Melting? | 30’ | 16+ Drawing from a personal experience of gentrification and a place undergoing constant transformation, Don’t You Just Love Melting? explores the dissolution of familiar people and spaces into something new and unfamiliar. Resistance and surrender coexist in a shifting landscape of emotions, movements and structures. As the work gradually unfolds, the act of watching itself becomes part of the process of “melting”. Concept, Choreography & Performance: Melina Sofocleous Music: Kalaqs Lighting Design: Vasilis Petinaris Set Design: Rebecca Taki Produced by: Cyprus Choreography Platform 2024 Co-produced: Dance House Lemesos Residency Programme: Moving The New (Mtn 2025), Dhl Mentors: Christos Polymenakos (Platforma) & Rodia Vomvolou (MTN25) Dialogue Partners: Natalia Vagena, Giorgos Christofi, Eleana Alexandrou, Magda Argyridou, Odysseas I. Konstantinou, Caterina Politi, Joanna Graphic Design: Danae Laou Photos: Pavlos Vrionides *The performance premiered at Cyprus Choreography Platform in 2024 and was further developed during the Moving the New Residency 2025 by Dance House Lemesos 21:20 | Andria Michaelidou – FARMA | 25’ The choreographic work FARMA is inspired by the figure of Pan and his mythological dimension as the god of nature, herds, and instinct. On stage, the shepherd figure emerges as a symbol between order and chaos, guiding the “flock” through a liminal space reflecting social and personal struggles. The choreography blends ritual gestures, animalistic movements, and physical confrontations with urban elements and streetwear aesthetics, creating a stage environment that unites the primordial with the contemporary. Within this hybrid landscape, wildness, cyclicality, and transformation become the language of movement. The work invites the audience on a mythical journey exploring the human relationship with chaos, instinct, and the quest for freedom. Idea, Choreography: Andria Michaelidou Dancers: Anna Nicolaou, Maria Chrysostomou, Ivi Hadjivassiliou, Myrianthi Panagiotou, Apollo Anastasiades, Giannis Economides, Mike Demetriou Music: Andreas Rodosthenous Thanks to Evi Panayiotou and The Dance Central. MEANWHILE | Parallel Activities The 4th Cyprus Choreography Showcase also features MEANWHILE, a series of parallel activities creating spaces for encounter, exchange and professional networking within the dance community. Saturday, 19 September | 10:00 Walking Gathering | 120’Molos Theatre, Limassol Sunday, 20 September | 16:00 Pitching Session, Speed Dating & more | 120’Art Studio 55, Limassol The activities are organised by the New Movement of Dance Groups, Dancers and Choreographers of Cyprus, Limassol Dance House and Nicosia Dance House. Tickets: €8 per day, available from the Rialto Theatre Box Office, Monday–Friday, 10:00–15:00 (tel. 77777745), and online at https://rialto.interticket.com/programseries/sxk-23Free admission for school pupils, students, soldiers, pensioners and dance professionals. Organised by: Deputy Ministry of Culture – Department of Contemporary Culture and Rialto Theatre In Collaboration with: Dance House Limassol, Dance House Lefkosia, Nea Kinisi Supported by: Limassol MunicipalityHospitality Sponsor: AlineaMedia Sponsors: Phileleftheros, RIK Supported by: Limassol Tourism Development and Promotion Company, Vestnik Kipra, Cyprus News, Limassol Blog, Limassol Today, Εφημερίδα Λεμεσός A member of the European Festival Association. Subscribe to our Newsletter Latest News Printmaking exhibition exploring human struggle and peace to open in Nicosia Corruption watchdog to issue statement on “black van” case on Monday New housing schemes allow extra homes for children, state plots at 25% What is the Kinahan cartel, and why has its name surfaced in Cyprus? 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