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    PHOTO: ALEXIS BISTIKAS
  • My second choreographic attempt was disastrous. I had not been prepared to face the core challenge: structure. A man and a woman are cocooned in protective sheaths (a sleeping bag and a raincoat respectively) from which they repeatedly and unsuccessfully attempt to emerge; they never meet. The piece was revised and re-arranged many times before it took its final, presented form. This work made it quite clear to me that no matter how charming the moves, or impressive the ideas, all is in vain without a structured composition.

1987 / THE RAINCOAT / DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU - ANGELIKI STELLATOU DUET / EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE
 

20 minutes
Première: August 1987, on the island of Halki (Greece)

Concept - Direction - Choreography: Dimitris Papaioannou
Environment: Zafos Xagoraris
Music: Dimitris Karagiorgos
Performers: Dimitris Papaioannou, Angeliki Stellatou