Danceathon – Open Call (MPArt 2024)

Open Call for Participation and Public Invitation  

by Almalibre.co group and the 11th Mill Festival of Performing Arts

Danceathon 

Friday 20 September 2024, 17.00-22.00

Mill of Pappas, Main Building, 2nd Floor

After the successful realization of the danceathon co-production at the 29th International Dance Festival of Kalamata and at the art space M54 in Athens, Anastasia Brousioti and the Almalibre. co group are organizing the first dance marathon in Larissa in the framework of the 11th Mill of Performing Arts and Festival invite dancers, people who are systematically involved in movement and people who would like to confront themselves through dance to participate in a dance experience of endurance, exchange, coexistence and challenge, while the public is welcome to attend either the whole or part of the marathon.

What is the danceathon

Danceathon is a meditative process based on the enjoyment of perpetual movement. During it, participants, allied with each form of dance and movement, music, intense physicality and fatigue, redefine and discover themselves, while gradually moving towards ecstasy and personal liberation. The dance marathon has a maximum duration of five hours and is led by the dancers of Almalibre.co. Participants, as they map their personal path based on continuous movement, freely choose which moments to follow the musical and choreographic map proposed by the group or when to coexist with their co-dancers since it is them who decide whether to complete the route or not. The danceathon is a safe framework without any kind of competition or criticism, because its essence is not in proving who is the best dancer or the fastest runner, but it is based on the will, perseverance and the sense of redemption that compensates everyone who reaches the end by dancing.

Participation in the danceathon is free of charge as well as the admission for the public. Spectators can stay in the venue as long as they wish and watch either the whole or part of the marathon. Registrations until Friday 13 September 2024 at:

https://almalibrecoop.wixsite.com/danceathon or email at danceathon2023@gmail.com