Sun’s Height, Performance, 2020

A performance conceived and directed in the framework of the great white flower of China concept and the city of Shanghai. Inspired by the Chinese fan dance it is a 45 min piece choreographed for a team of six performers holding mirror fans while their faces are transfigured giving them a permanent grim. The motion is slow while the audience is mirroring in the fans and the performers while periodically revealing themselves, moving in a grotesque butoh like manner.

“An imaginary presentation of post-punk Shanghai, Anna Papathanasiou’s choreography with movements mimicking the flying of birds completed a ritualistic religious atmosphere connecting with the spiritual world..”-Ta nea

“A deeply immersive live performance by Anna Papathanasiou” -Instyle magazine