In ÂNSIA, the thorns of place, memory, and departure become what remains on the body after displacement, small traces that travel with you. They are what you carry hidden inside the luggage of your silence, exiled sea urchins taken with you when you left the island.

Choreographer Stella Spyrou returns with a duet about bodies displaced from land, from people, from versions of themselves that no longer exist. In a world marked by diaspora and forced journeys, two bodies, two worlds made of thorns, not enemies but companions in a process of transformation, search for a way to caress life without fearing they might pierce it. Through movements that feel sacred and almost ritualistic, the work maps a journey from denial to embodiment, from confinement to companionship, from pain to creation. The sea urchin no longer wounds; it becomes body.

The performance ÂNSIA is realised with the financial support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

Choreography: Stella Spyrou
Dance: Elina Demirtzioglou, Kofi Yadom
Body Extensions Design & Construction: Lara Buffard
Music Composition: Titos Grigoropoulos
Lighting Design: Tzanos Mazis
Artistic Collaboration: Angelos Papadopoulos
Teaser Videos: Thanasis Misirlis
Photography: Thanasis Misirlis & Studio Pareidolia
Production: Cicadas
Special thanks to Froso Trousa and DAN.C.CE.