“GRAHAM FROM SCRATCH“

with Iris Fousteri

ONCE A MONTH
Starting: Saturday, 9/11
Time: 11:30 – 13:00
Martha Graham is considered to be one of the greatest personalities in the Art of 20th century. Full of passion for both life and movement, she created a body language capable to express the inner intensity of her time. One could say that Graham technique is the bridge that unites classical and contemporary dance. Still maintaining some postures and functions of ballet, Graham evolved her own vocabulary mainly based on the torso, which becomes the center from which all movements emerge. Breathing, axis, volume, opposite forces, contraction, release, spirals, rhythmical alternation are the basic ingredients of the class, which begins on the floor for maximum realization and activation of the torso and closes with big transfers of weight across the space. It’s an excellent tool both for beginners, as through the clarity of forms one can perceive a great deal of body actions, as well as for experienced dancers, who can discover new mechanisms and enrich their technical skills and performativity

Registrations:
tomikrostudio.aigina@gmail.com | 698 7527358

Iris Fousteri is a multidisciplinary artist and dance teacher based in Athens, Greece.Her artistic practice spans choreography, performance art, digital art, illustration, video dance, poetry, and video poetry. She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance and was a member of the Hellenic Dance Company from 2003 to 2010, performing in productions across Greece, Belgium, and France. As an educator, she has taught Graham technique in both the pre-professional and professional departments of the Greek National School of Dance, as well as at the Professional Dance School “Rallou Manou,” where she choreographed the pieces Breaking a Line and Kaleidoscope. Since 2017, she has been teaching Graham technique at the Pre-professional & Professional Dance School of the Athens Conservatoire. As a performer, Iris has collaborated with numerous dance companies, choreographers, directors, visual artists, and composers, including Company 7, La Lalie Cie, Omada Kentro, Arthrosis Dance Co., Analysis Dance Co., Sofia Pintzou (Greece/Germany), Harris Mandafounis, Vassia Zorbali, Kostas Daflos, Anna Papathanasiou, Errikos Sidiropoulos, and others. Her work—both performative and visual—has been presented at various venues and festivals, including The Bebop Dance and Theater Festival (NY), Academia Romantica, Video Art Miden, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens Video Dance Project, Athens International Video Poetry Festival, Santorini Arts Factory (SAF), Akropoditi Dance Festival, and ONC - SGT Onassis Foundation as an associate movement director and dramaturgy consultant. In 2022, her piece (A)UTOPIA 2.2: (a) being in a woman’s body" won the Audience Prize at the Handmade & Recycled Theater Festival performance contest. In June 2021, she was selected as a resident artist at CN D (Centre national de la danse, Pantin - Paris), with the support of the SGT Onassis Foundation. Beyond dance, Iris occasionally works as an illustrator, writes poetry, and creates art books, and produces video works.