Created and performed by Frown (Mariana Christofi, Angeliki Hatzi, Konstantinia Vafeiadou, Maria Varela)
Paratherisi (a word referring to the act of staying in a specific location for the entire summer holidays) is a movement based performance/installation which aims to recreate the sensation of greek summer holidays with the family.
The performance relocates the environmental state of stillness and nothingness of summer days, by using a movement vocabulary drawn from common memories of generations, as well as objects-symbols of summer family holiday attached to particular smells, such as cheap lemon scented cologne, mosquito coils, and fried fish.
Paratherisi aims to indulge the audience into the summers of childhood and teens, when sensuality bloomed with the heat and sexuality was trapped in an intimate family environment which worked against but also for it.
The four performers rotate the four stages of the installation in which, each of them is interacting in her own personal way with the objects, the smells and the audience, creating short action sequences and 'small dances'.
June 2012, Thermisia, Peloponisos, Gr
