Name: Self Help | PANOPTICON at Jersey City Theater Center
Start: 2024-09-21T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Jersey City Theater Center

Self Help | PANOPTICON at Jersey City Theater Center

Self Help | PANOPTICON, a split-bill performance by mignolo dance & Vasiliki Papapostolou aka Tarantism at Jersey City Theater Center, will run September 20 at 8PM & September 21 at 8PM.
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Self Help by mignolo dance
“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 by Vasiliki Papapostolou aka Tarantism
“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 prison 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.

mignolo dance is a contemporary dance company founded by sisters Charly & Eriel Santagado in 2017. They are lifelong dance and creative partners dedicated to developing new work that explores elements of various artistic mediums through movement. Their work has been presented throughout the tristate area as well as in Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, Belgium, France, Greece, Israel, and Italy.
Vasiliki Papapostolou (a.k.a Tarantism) is an international experimental dance artist who incorporates physical theatre, ballroom Latin and movement concepts from street dance styles in her work. As a choreographer, she has showcased her work at Sadler’s Wells (Open Art Surgery), Whitechapel Gallery, TEDx Panteion University, The Place, Teatro Principal Burgos and Block 336 - ICF. As a dancer, her credits include performing with Edifice Dance Theatre, Teatro Regio Torino, Pottporus: Company Renegade, Taira Foo Dance Company, Fussballkultursommer and more.