Tripping
Choreographer
Theano Ksidia
Dancers
Alexandra Drandaki, Faidonas Korakianitis, Fotini Stamatelopoulou, Stef Tsogas, Elpinikh Saripanidou
Photographer
Dimitra Triantafullou
Location
KET TV Control Center, Athens, Greece
Year
2020
“We do it when we fall in love and lose ourselves. We do it at the peak of a mind-blowing orgasm. Some of us did it when we were little, spinning round and round until we fell into a heap on the floor. We didn’t think to question why we did it. It just felt good. Feeling good, getting high, letting go”. Tripping is an approach to nightlife, the dance scene, an exploration of ecstasy as it is experienced at parties and in rave culture. Trusting their dance and body, the dancers gradually increase the intensity of their mental state and discover unity, relaxation and flow, both in movement and in their relationship with music and space.
“The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy ”. A new common place where people seek the purification and abandonment of the “I’m dancing, i am dancing, i am dancing”.