AUTO RUN

source: greekfestivalgr

Πώς κινείται ο σύγχρονος άνθρωπος; Με μηχανιστικό τρόπο, σαν να έχει βάλει μπροστά τον αυτόματο πιλότο.
Στη δεύτερη χορογραφική της απόπειρα, η Μαριάννα Καβαλλιεράτου παρατηρεί με προσοχή τον εαυτό της και τους άλλους. Μοιάζει να εμπνέεται από τις ανθρώπινες αδυναμίες, αυτές που στέκονται εμπόδιο στη δράση, στην επικοινωνία με τον άλλον, στην ίδια μας τη ζωή, οι οποίες ωστόσο αποτελούν αναπόσπαστο κομμάτι μας.

Οι αλλόκοτες κινητικές φόρμες που γεννιούνται από τους τρεις περφόρμερ είναι ένα παιχνίδι με τα δίπολα, με τα αντίθετα που μας συνιστούν.
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source: -enelculturegr

How do contemporary people move? Mechanically, as though on auto-pilot. In her second choreography, Marianna Kavallieratou carefully observes herself and the other. She seems inspired by human weaknesses, those elements that impede our actions, our communication with one another, our very lives and yet also form an integral part of our identity. The peculiar forms of movement created by the three performers play with the diametric opposites that make us who we are.
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source: sgtgr

Marianna Kavallieratos is a dancer and choreographer. Born in Athens, Greece, she studied contemporary dance at the London Contemporary Dance School. She continued her studies at S.U.N.Y. Purchase School of Arts in New York as an exchange student for one year. Then she studied the Graham technique at the Graham Studios in New York.
Since 1992 she is a collaborator and participant at the Watermill Center of the Arts and Humanities in Watermill Southampton NY. She has performed as a dancer at the following Robert Wilsons plays: T.S. Eliot, Une Femme Douce, Persephone, The Days Before DDD III, Wings on Rock, Prometheus, Alcestis (the opera ), Relative Light, Odyssey. She danced with the company ‘Kobalt works’ in Brussels for 3 years. In 2010 she presented her first choreographic work at the Athens festival with the piece Moment. This work was also performed at the Guggenheim Museum in the series Works and Process ,a collaborative evening with selected artist from the Watermill Center,curated by Robert Wilson, and in the festival Satellart-transmitting Greece in Milan, in May 2012. In July 2012 she choreographed the dance piece Auto Run,for The Athens Festival. She has been a dance and movement teacher at ‘Veaki’ school of drama, ‘Embros’ school of drama, and has given a dance workshop at the summer Academy of The Greek National Theatre. She also teaches dance classes in several studios in Athens, and the summer program movement class of the Watermill Center in New York.
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source: kobaltworksbe

Marianna Kavallieratos was born in Athens in 1969. She studied dance in England, at the Carol Hanis School of Classical Ballet and the London Contemporary Dance School. She continued her studies at the State University of New York, under a fellowship of the Alexander L. Onassis Foundation, and in parallel attended classes at the Martha Graham School. She has been working with Robert Wilson since 1992: T.S.E. (1994-96); Une Femme Douce (1994); Persephone (1995); 70 Angels on the Façade (1998); Wings on Rock (1998); The Days Before (1999); Prometheus (2001).

In 1995 she performed in Diario Ironico dall’ Esilio directed by Roberto Ando at the Teatro Biondo in Palermo.

In 2002 she created Mirth with Arco Renz and Kobalt Works.