ACT 2021 Residency award: The gravity between us

‘The Gravity Between Us’ is a choreographic work for 2 performers. The piece has been created to explore the human desire for connection. The work explores the complexities of what individuals will do to be seen, heard, and understood. The piece explores what it means to be together; to be alone and to be together yet alone.

Company: Angelos Papadopoulos
Duration: 40’
Language: No lenguage
Category: Dance
Origin: Greece
Cast: Angelos Papadopoulos (Choreographer); Danae Pazirgiannidi (Performer; Cocreator); Thanos Ragousis (Performer; Cocreator); Elsa Siskou (Assistant Choreographer); ECATI (Music composition); Steve Purcell (Associate Producer).

Angelos Papadopoulos is a choreographer, director and performer. Angelos’ choreographic and other related digital and performance work look to create impactful experiences for audiences where the body is foregrounded as a key site of social, political, and aesthetic ideas and pleasures. He studied Economics at the Athens University of Economics & Business, Dance at the National School of Dance and the Greek National Opera Dance School and Choreography & Performance at the University of Roehampton in London, where he was awarded an Alumni Referral Scholarship.

His performances have been shown in Germany (Tanzahoi International Dance & Dance Film Festival), Greece (Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall), Spain (Act International Festival for Emerging Performing Artists) & Taiwan (Take part in Taiwan Festival). His short films have been screened in festivals in France, Georgia, Greece, Germany (audience award), Mexico, Portugal, South America, U.S.A. & Spain and in more than 20 cities in Europe courtesy of the Freiraum Festival.