National premiere

Down to Under investigates the choreopolitics in the urban space, first presented in the basement of an Athenian stoa in 2023.

Through video gaming, internet, and Generation Z culture, the urban space works as an algorithm, a playground, a battleground, a living space, a field of ever-flowing stimuli as well as a confinement. In this environment, the performing bodies enact physicalities and gestures appearing in urban underground music-based subcultures, such as hip-hop/rap, emo, noise, hardcore and punk, exploring forms of social disobedience through movement and sound. These obnoxious figures, charged by the effects of social injustice and struggle, proactively and playfully appropriate urban space and expose their confusion, frustration and rage while allowing their physical effort to transform into vulnerability, tenderness and intimacy.

Bio

Despina Sanida Crezia (1998) is a performer and performance maker based in Athens. They graduated from the State School of Dance (Athens) and the History and Archaeology Department of the NKUA. Their practice focuses on effort and labor, internet culture, urbanity, sound as well as on phenomenology of learning. In 2021 and in 2023 they presented HOWEVER in Athens. Also, in 2023 they premiered Down to Under at MIR Festival in Athens, and it was later presented in Brussels ((Pas si) fragile!, 2024), in Paris (PERFORMISSIMA, 2024), in Madrid (Festival Domingo, 2025) and in Loulé (Verão Azul, 2025). They have been a resident artist at the Duncan Dance Research Center (Athens, 2021), at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels, 2023) and at Neue Muzik Zentrale (Essen, 2024). They are one member of the VIGIL artistic duo. Sanida Crezia is currently a Dutch Art Institute student (2024-2026).

Crediti 

Concept, choreography, artistic direction: Despina Sanida Crezia

Performance: Eleni Roberts Kazouri, Despina Sanida Crezia

Installation (in Athens presentation): Stavros Kapetanios, Hristos Hantzis

Music: Panos Alexiadis

Dramaturgy: Elena Novakovits

Light design: Panagiotis Tomaras

Costumes: Despina Sanida Crezia

Zine: Marina Legaki, Blind Mind Editions

Production: PMY Progress

Production coordinator: Alex Papasimakopoulou

Coproduction: MIR Festival

Premiered at MIR Festival 2023

Created with the financial support of the Greek Ministry of Culture

Duration

45′

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