nightscores
novemeber 2024 till January 2026
They started in November 2024, and if we could sum it up in one sentence, we would say that they are three-hour meetings during which we practice with scores by Greek and foreign artists and for one hour create live collective dance works open to spectators.
Nightscores III is a technology of relationships, an organization for bringing us closer together.
This year, I believe more and more in such a choreographer or choreographers.
Nightscores is a choreography that manifests itself through a score that brings us together, where there is more than one choreographer, where the performers adapt to the needs of everyday life and where the audience is minimized.
🌙ೱ॥৻ৡ三🌙三What is 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬?
How do we practice scores today? How do we embrace the authority of a score and how do we take care of the right it gives us to annihilate and re-materialize it every night?
How do we consent not so much to its materiality, but to the physicality it carries and the embodied information we performatively convey
Our flesh retains the connections within it. How does the Body recall them?
-Nightscores are a field of encounters, an opportunity to exist through movement and observation, while relating to each other as members, points of a Body, an organism, and while gradually raising a collective awareness, an awareness that has been selected to be shared.
-These are gatherings that negotiate the multiplicity of our perspectives in relation to dance and its relationship to signs and scores.
-These are meetings that function as gateways to the experience of the body and the community that is created each time in situ, revealing to us qualities and dimensions of our Body that are different each time, qualities of our society, the ways in which we relate and communicate with it, and bodily understand, process, and evaluate the stimuli.
How do we encounter the "Body of a score" that runs through time in self-existence? How and why should we act reflectively, contemplative?
How and why should we consent to revival of each score?
They are activated through a warm-up that raises awareness of how each human body uniquely feels movement and how it is organized, connected, and moves through its various systems, and from there seeks how this cultivated awareness can be shared, can raise awareness and is able to bring negotiation and organization to the whole group.
How can we coexist in this way?
Can we cultivate a shared awareness?
How do we connect and communicate with the forms of awareness of others?
🌙ೱ॥৻ৡ三🌙三 How do 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 work?
The first three rounds took place once a week, while the fourth round took place once a month. In both cases, participants were experiencing a different score each time, either as interpreters or as witnesses to the process:
𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 (𝐈𝐍) |19.30-22.30: This concerns individuals who will register their participation for each meeting, thus forming the group that will practice the proposed score each time. IN initially offers ways to communicate with the Body's networks and sensory awareness, and then proposes various forms of horizontal organization and exchange/interaction with the aim of helping participants develop, correlate, provoke, listen, support, and share their perspective while relating to each score and to the other participants.
𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 (𝐎𝐍) | 21.00-22.00 :
Then, the group joins the score that has been selected for each time and discussed in IN and interacts with/experiences it for about an hour. This process is open to spectators, observers, and witnesses.
The nightscores close with a discussion open to anyone who has watched the process and wishes to participate.
🌙Why now, 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬?
-Because we don't need to produce something new every time, but rather allow ourselves to come into "new" contact with what we encounter around us and within us. To come to terms with what the Body is today and not what we remember it was or what we would like it to be, and to observe our embodied tendencies as we relate to the world.
-Because what we create does not always need to be "complete" in order to be addressed, and thus we allow the other to coexist precisely because we are learning to address our dance interactions.
-To manage again and again how we relate to each other, human and non-human, performer and observer, and to create a world precisely because we allow empty space between.
-To listen to how our eyes fall on the dance of scores, on the dance of others, on the dance between others and between what we see outside and inside us.
-Because the context is always changing, and so is everything within it, and so there is a question of how today's perceptions influence the approaches and practices that were created with other filters of embodied knowledge.
🌙Why should I witness as a viewer 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬?
-Because you can participate in the next one too.
-To support, on various levels, individuals and dancers/choreographers who explore collective practices of creation, thought, action, and dance.
-To support choreographers who have shared their scores with the community and develop various forms of exchange of knowledge and action.
-To support choreographers who have shared their scores with the community and develop various forms of exchange of knowledge and action.
-Because you participate as an attentive spectator, cultivating how you observe a world, the pursuit of what you do not already know, and the perspective of such a movement.
-Because you collaborate as a member of an organism that seeks to communicate and connect.
-Because you connect with processes that transform and move something bodily and thus socially.
-Because you liberate the meaning of movement and allow it to move in every now.
-Because when you tune in and sync up with other people, just like with all mammals, processes are activated in us humans that reduce stress and increase the sense of security, connection, and coexistence.
general information about nightscores
🌙The 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 are open to dancers, visual artists, musicians, amateurs and professionals of various talents, and generally anyone who wishes to connect through this process! If you have any questions, please send us a message at 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐢@ 𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦
🌙At 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬, scores by choreographers, score researchers, and a few visual and musical artists are generally proposed. Given the abundance and variety available, we will focus on scores that are being performed rather than those that are created for documentation. The scores are proposed by each choreographer, sometimes in the form of text, drawings, recordings, videos, etc., depending on what the individual chooses and in line with the texture of the score they had created for their work in the past.
🌙ೱ॥Rounds of nightscores till today
n𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈: Nov -Dec 2024 | 𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞
𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐈: Jan -Feb 2025 | 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬
𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐈𝐈: Mar -Apr 2025 | the greeks II
𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐕Ι: Oct 2025-Jan 2026 | time travellers
🌙ೱ॥𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 in shuffle mode of 𝐘𝐨𝐤𝐨 𝐎𝐧𝐨, 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐚 𝐍𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐌𝐞𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐬 & 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚, 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐞 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞, 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐳𝐢𝐚 & 𝐅𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮, 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮, 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐢 𝐌𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐚/𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬, 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐍𝐭𝐨𝐯𝐚, 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐲, 𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐢 -𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮, 𝐗𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐠𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐢, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮, 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢, 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐨𝐮, 𝐄𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐎𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐮, 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐢, 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐊𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧, 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐤𝐢, 𝐙𝐨ë 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐍𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠, 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐮,𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧, 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬 & 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 , 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲’𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐙𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐒𝐯í𝐭𝐞𝐤𝐨𝐯á, 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐚-𝐀𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐭, 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐭 , 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐱𝐭𝐨𝐧, 𝐋𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠, 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐳𝐢, 𝐒𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐳𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐧𝐞 𝐄𝐫𝐝 𝐮𝐫 et al.
🌙ೱ॥ Warm thanks to Maria Papadopoulou, Nasia Fourtouni, Vani Papadeli, Grand Union, Grand Re Union, Sabina Holzer, and Defne Erdur, to Georgia Paizi for hosting the first rounds of this special project, to Marigo Alexopoulou, Tasos Bonakis, Kostis Kallivretakis, Nyssos Vasilopoulos, Vitoria Kotsalou and to all the humans and non-humans for everything they shared with us.
🌙ೱ॥Design, artistic organization, and facilitation: Androniki Marathaki
🌙ೱ॥ Hosted by Cochlea Studia and M54 (Athens, Greece)
ᨎᨄ☾╮╯Are you a dancer and want to get in touch with choreographers' scores?
ᨎᨄ☾╮╯Are you an improviser and want to cultivate how you respond in your encounters with other Bodies and the "Body" of a score?
ᨎᨄ☾╮╯Are you an actor, musician, visual artist, practicioner, student and want to explore in movement - or in your own medium - how choreographic practices offer alternative ways of being in relation to other people, to your surroundings and to the Body of a score?
ᨎᨄ☾╮╯Are you none of the above and want to experiment with what score means, how do you relate to it?
ᨎᨄ☾╮╯Are you all of these and/or so much more and want to explore how you experience the eyes of the spectators/witnesses of this process?
ᨎᨄ☾╮╮╯Are you all of these and/or so many others and have you felt that sensuality and bodily practices can form a common ground for our Bodies and for the Body of a group to meet?
ᨎᨄ☾╮╯Don't you have this as knowledge and want to explore it?
ᨎᨄ☾╮╯Are you all this and/or so much more and/or none of this and want to participate in something that is not just a class or just meetings or just improvisation?
🌙ೱ॥Register for possible next round or nightscores at 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐢@ 𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦 !