Name: Self Help | PANOPTICON
Start: 2024-09-27T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-27T22:00:00-04:00
Location: 15 Chisholm Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

Presented by Mignolo Dance and The Don Arts Academy.
About this Event

Self Help:

“an astonishing work of art that accurately depicts the incredibly complex soul-dynamic that is manifested in the therapy room” - Ilias Xanthopoulos (psychologist)

Self Help explores mental health through the lens of a relationship between a therapist and patient using Movenglish® – a movement language in progress that directly corresponds to English. The translation of spoken conversations is complemented by fragmented and deconstructed phrases that represent what happens between the lines and inside the mind, embodying a ceaseless yet hopeful striving toward balance between thought and feeling, mind and body, self and other.

Panopticon:
“A brilliantly grotesque solo by Vasiliki Papapostolou” - The Spectator

PANOPTICON explores concepts of surveillance, discipline, and punishment. In the eighteenth century, Jeremy Bentham, invented an architectural mechanism for social control – a Pr*son called panopticon in which all cells are always visible. Foucault suggested that the panopticon mirrors the functions of everyday life in modern societies; the external gaze becomes internalized, inducing individuals to surveil themselves.

In PANOPTICON, while the red hands of the performer are the ruler, the body of the performer represents the human spirit, the constant fight to preserve the human instinct and individual mind in a society where humans become increasingly mechanical, interested in objects, numbers, controlled outcomes and statistical rules.

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PANOPTICON, has been performed at The Place, Sadler’s Wells (Open Art Surgery), and the prestigious Whitechapel Gallery in London. Moreover, it has been chosen to be performed at 29MASDANZA in Gran Canaria (Oct, 2024).
Self Help, has also been performed both locally and internationally at several festivals including Altofest Naples (Italy) and FAKI Festival (Croatia), as well as at venues like The Berrie Center at Ramapo College (NJ), Dixon Place (NYC), and Gardenship Art (NJ).