Peregrinus. Choreographic Installation. Premiered May 2017, as part of
Fast Forward Festival 4, Athens, Onassis
Cultural Centre.
- Submitting institution
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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- Dimitriou1
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first performance
- May
- Year of first performance
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Peregrinus is an off-site installation/performance, commissioned and produced by the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens as part of the International Festival Fast Forward 4; May 2017, with subsequent touring at Firkin Crane in Ireland in July 2017. It was further selected to form
part of a documentary film, called ‘Homes’, which was commissioned by the Onassis Cultural Centre and premiered at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival on the 4th of March 2019. Inspired from a particular social situation
of mass migration and in search of a definition for ‘home’, the research focuses
on a deep exploration of formal devices and techniques which disrupt the spectator’s perceptual relationship with material, in order to defamiliarize the automatic responses that an audience might have to this subject matter.
This is achieved through the invention of a movement technique termed ‘pixelation’ which aims at examining how the breaking and performing of movement in small increments, and functions as a technique of ‘defamiliarization’, as defined by Viktor Shklovsky. Making forms difficult, augments the linearity and automatism of perception and compels individuals to recognize a distinctive type of artistic language. Attempting to create a similar condition of defamiliarization and perpetual movement for the audience, the set is specifically designed so to offer varying degrees of visibility and thus compel the audience to 'peregrinate' in order to follow the performance. The set therefore functions with a sense of choreographic agency and becomes a ‘choreographic object’, as termed by William Forsythe.
Proof of date: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/fast-forward-festival-4/fff4-peregrinus
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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