Mariela Nestora
is it day or is it night?
is it day or is it night?, the new choreographic work by Mariela Nestora / YELP danceco., focuses on the sense of touch. Touch is always in interaction with the other senses. It is directly linked to movement and highlights the body as a body ‘in process'.
The lack of touch during the recent experience of a pandemic was the point of departure for our research. In what way was the sense of time and touch redefined? How do we re-invent intimacy?
The choreographic composition explores touch less as gesture and more as a conviviality of bodies in interaction with materiality. It shifts the attention to micro-movements and emphasises the reversibility of touch: when one touches, one is touched at the same time.
is it day or is it night? is an invitation to an experience that hopes to sensitise the body and stimulate tactile vision.
YELP danceco. Production with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports 2021-2022.




Choreography: Mariela Nestora
Co-creation/ performance: Ioanna Toumpakari, Yannis Tsigkris, Pagona Boulbasakou and Mari Kassapian
Music / original composition: ILIOS
Costumes: Eleftheria Arapoglou-DIGITARIA
Scenography: Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Video: Christina Katsari
Dramaturgy collaboration: Mårten Spångberg, Bettina Panagiotara
Lighting: Evangelos Moudrichas
Choreographer's Assistant: Elena Novakovits
Assistant set designer: Sophia Panagiotopoulou
Lighting Associate: Dimitris Koutas
Audio description consultant: Alexandra Georgovassili
Breath & speech score consultant: Anna Pagalou
Photos: Myrto Apostolidou, Leda Touloumakou
Poster design: Maria Elena Myrka
Production: KART productions, Mary Xanthopoulidou, Anastasia Kavalari
Press: Evangelia Skrobola
a spectator's response- art by Christina Katsari



