[OBLIVION_CRACKS_ON MY BODY]
A Study On Womanhood
Conception – Poetry – Performance: Christina Kyriazidi | Music Composition: Smári Gudmundson | Lighting Design: Maria Athanasopoulou | Production: OurStories
This trilogy is a collaboration between Greek poet and performer Christina Kyriazidi and Icelandic composer Smári Gudmundson. It delves into the multidimensional nature of female existence and identity—archetypal, ontological, sexual, political, and social—through the convergence of poetry, movement, and music.
At the heart of these three solo performances lies the dynamic interplay between body, voice, and memory. These elements intertwine within a multi-sensory stage landscape: a poetic, ritualistic universe where femininity emerges through cracks, silences, and unspoken narratives, shaping both light and darkness within.
Through solo dance-theatre compositions, the trilogy explores the multiple facets of female existence, using the body, voice, and poetry as carriers of memory, expression, and collective experience. It is an immersive journey into the spaces where identity is performed, felt, and remembered.
[OBLIVION]
A solo stage work that examines the pandemic of oblivion and its impact on contemporary women. The performance reconstructs fragments of women’s stories at the very moment memory abandons them— victims of femicide, political violence, exile, and abandonment. In a landscape of multiple voices and leaps of memory, these fragments coalesce into a chronicle of silent mourning.
Based on poetry and prose texts by Christina Kyriazidi, with references to C. P. Cavafy’s Polis and Jean Cocteau’s The Human Voice, the performance has been presented in Athens, Berlin, and New York, where it received Best International Show 2024 at the United Solo Festival.
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[CRACKS]
A solo ritual at the intersection of dance, theatre, and poetry, [CRACKS] gives voice and body to the timeless struggles of women, drawing on archetypes such as Phaedra, Antigone, and Medea.
The performance is a physical composition of movement, speech, and sound—a solo that blurs the boundaries between the personal and the archetypal. The performer shifts between identities and languages (Greek, Spanish, French, German), while her voice fractures into poetry, song, scream, and silence. Dramaturgically, the work weaves original poetry by Christina Kyriazidi with references to Sophocles, Euripides, Jean Anouilh, Yannis Ritsos, Heiner Müller, and Jean Cocteau.
[CRACKS] premiered internationally at TheaterLab and The Tank in New York in 2024, and it was awarded the Special Jury’s Award at SITFY Poland International Monodrama Festival. Since then, it has been presented in Athens, Berlin, New York, Krakow, and Smyrna.
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[ON MY BODY]
A solo stage composition that maps the concept of femininity, delving into the imprint of time and memory on the female body. The body becomes both a poetic field and a vessel of experience, tracing the search for female identity across political, social, and existential dimensions.
Based on Christina Kyriazidi’s The Body Within, with references to C. P. Cavafy and Yannis Ritsos, the performance fuses movement, speech, and sound within a multi-sensory environment. Here, the personal intersects with the archetypal and the political in an endless ritual of transformation.
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