Holding Strategies

2023 - premiere at exhibition This Current Between Us (Athens, Gr)
2022 - developed during a residency at OnassisAir, (Athens, Gr)

Premiere: March 12th, 2023
Part of This Current between Us, a group exhibition held at the first steam-electric power
station in Greece and curated by Panos Giannikopoulos and Georgia Liapi.
Concept/Choreography/Performance: Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Marianne Tuckman
Sound: Dimitris Patsaros
Scenography: Laure Jaffuel

holding strategies generates unnoticed desires while investigating everyday tensions between two bodies. In holding strategies we witness two bodies who have chosen one another and are committed to sharing this time together. The labour of holding and being held becomes an active, visible space of negotiation; one which requires patience and understanding. Role playing dynamics and investigating relationships of power, are active
catalysts within the piece. This piece examines the work it takes to be synced, to regenerate desires, to listen, to negotiate, to take space and to let go. Repetitive attempts to reshape networks of personal communication within a relationship of desire and disgust, become the focal point and mirror an instinctive need for friction between two bodies yearning to produce an intimate space for exchange.