Dance maker and performer
ON COMMON GROUND is a performance by Evie Demetriou / Omada En Drasi, conceived as a collective creation involving five performers and one musician. The work takes place in an open outdoor space, in a city that is constantly changing, on the shores of the Eastern Mediterranean. Bodies meet, guide one another, separate, and reconnect. Through a…
“A dynamic and bold solo performance about womanhood that dares to reveal both sorrow and happiness, interpreting today as a powerful tomorrow for women.”— Georgina Kakoudaki, Dramaturg NEVER JUST I is a solo performance by Evie Demetriou that explores the complexities of identity and lived experience. Navigating through the different roles as a woman, mother,…
SAY YES! AGAIN AND AGAIN Say Yes! again and again explores topics of identity and gender . Three performers from Cyprus, Greece and Holland, through physicality and linguistic forms, share personal experiences that shaped them as persons to explore social norms, queer subjectivities and normative pressures. “Say yes! Again and again and again: our…
WHO CARESA solo performance by Evie Demetriou in collaboration with dramaturg Guy Cools. “Evie Demetriou’s ‘WHO CARES’ explores the complexities of care within our commodified society, reflecting the systemic inequalities that shape our interpersonal relationships.” WHO CARES is an evocative solo performance that playfully explores the nature of care—who we care for, how we care,…
POSIDONIES A short film by Antis Iakovou and Evie Demetriou Endangered seagrass species Posidonia Oceanica; a fictional story of a woman. Shot entirely underwater, two parallel stories are interconnected through cinematography, movement and sound. Direction: Antis Iakovou & Evie Demetriou Concept/ Director of Photography/ Filming: Antis IakovouChoreography/ Performance: Evie DemetriouEditing: Emilios AvraamMusic and Sound Design:…
What does it mean to be on air in a world where everything is already being broadcast? ON AIR is a series of performance happenings , where the act of presence becomes a form of protest, an act of transmission, a living declaration. Each performance is shaped by its environment: the architecture, the noise, the…
Fountains of Mojitos By Evie Demetriou “In one of her brilliant ironic essays, the feminist writer Rebecca Solnit (Author of Men Explain Things to Me and Whose Story is This?) deconstructs the myths of women having to get drunk in order to feel sexually less inhibited and more free; blaming their drunkenness as one of…
genes and tonic a solo performance by Evie Demetriou The performance questions the relationship of the past and identity. How much the past has a say in our present? Do our genes matter ? Are we free to choose our own destiny? Taking the role of a wannabe DJ the performer travels the audience from her own…
when it turns red a solo performance by Evie Demetriou ‘Evie Demetriou’s humorous performance “when it turns red” … speaks about the stress evoked by being consistent with the duties as a parent but also as a lover. Filling the stage with energy… Demetriou allowed us to laugh… to be moved by the obligation of…
“The More You Dance the More You Get is a great work about a critical, often misunderstood, issue, acting as a metaphor for the imprisonment of women in its various global forms.” Richard Pettifer – theaterstuck.blogspot.de The work is routed on the idea of the forced use of the body as a commodity for sale, with reference…