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POLINA KREMASTA is a Greek contemporary dancer and choreographer who made her first professional steps around 2010, at the dawn of the economic crisis in Greece. As a dance-artist in evolution who becomes through practice, she also developed a folkloric-driven research based on traditional dances, or as she claims ‘societies of dance’, that contain the embodied memory of the residents of Northern Greece.
Through observation and deconstruction, this physical research culminated in a contemporary movement practice beyond the limits of this geographical region that aims to enhance the spirit of belonging and community-making by creating instances of micro-societies. Interested in how to bind people together through a shared and common movement language, Polina also came across the fundamental question of ‘What is Dance?’ that is also at the center of this conversation with Ariadne Mikou.
Together they attempt to trace through the elusive nature of words how the practice of embodied memory shifts, evaporates and gets transformed to give space to the ‘contemporary’ that is understood as something that occurs in the present.

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:

[00:02:33] What are your first memories related to dance that shaped your choreographic poetics?
[00:05:49] Is there something in your path as a dancer that you would like to forget?
[00:08:24] In your work, what is the relationship between oblivion and creation?
[00:11:36] Could you speak about your kinetic-dance-anthropology research “Apogeos”,
its evolution and its connection with memory?
[00:23:07] What is the role of improvisation in “Apogeos”?
[00:29:56] Do you think that the memory that you practice has a Greek identity?
[00:33:24] Where would you position yourself on the map of the history of contemporary dance?
[00:36:55] Are there any links between the practice of memory through dance and your academic studies?
[00:42:13] Do you keep an archive of your choreographic work?