The ongoing dialogue between Christos Papadopoulos and the Romaeuropa Festival continues, as the Festival has closely followed the Greek choreographer’s trajectory in recent years, accompanying his rise on the international scene. Landless also extends his collaboration with dancer Georgios Kotsifakis, for whom the solo was created.
Rather than a portrait, the work emerges as the crossing of a threshold: the abandonment of the security derived from established experience in order to enter a new territory—one that is only apparently unfamiliar, as it is rooted in the questions that have long shaped Papadopoulos’ artistic research. Over the years, the choreographer has explored movement in its most subtle, everyday, almost imperceptible qualities, as if it always concealed a secret core.
With Landless, he returns to viewing the body as a territory yet to be deciphered, engaging modern and postmodern architecture as a field of reference. Can the body be thought of as space? Can it be organised according to a new internal logic, like an architecture that redefines functions, trajectories, and relationships?
From these questions emerges a choreographic writing that sets nature and artifice, construction and organic form in tension, imagining a movement capable of continually reinventing itself through its relationship with the surrounding space.
