Feel Free to take a Nap

19-20-21 July 2023 — SPEL - The State Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus

24 August 2023 — CARPA 8 - International Conference on Dramaturgies of Artistic Research, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland

Concept and performance: Mirko Guido and Petros Konnaris

Dramaturg/performer: Rodia Vomvolou

Curator/performer: Evagoras Vanezis

Guest/performer: Alexis Vassiliou

Production: ByTheWay Productions

Residency support: Dance House Lefkosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Supported by: Cyprus Arts Council

Feel Free to Take a Nap is a performance installation exploring questions of boundaries, intimacy, fragility. Based on dialogical processes between movement, language and text, the project seeks to deconstruct the exhibition room by welcoming the public as a witness, participant/co-creator, building a space of sharing, intimacy and uncertainty. Performed by dancers and choreographers Mirko Guido and Petros Konnaris, dramaturg Rodia Vomvolou and freelance curator Evagoras Vanezis, the project was born during the European program ́Micro and Macro Dramaturgies in Dance ́ and since then is developing its research on embodied discourse and the process of live dramaturgy(ing). It proposes itself as a critical, collaborative interaction(s) with the audience/ witnesses, denoting a practice of navigating through vital ambiguities, multiplicities, and contradictions.