Po-ta-mo-roh-e

Arianna Economou's solo dance is shaped from her readings of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" - 2013 Greek translation by Eleftherios Anevlavis - a monumental piece of writing on the workings of a dream.

Po-ta-mo-roh-e explores the final lines of Finnegans Wake where the river Liffey which has made its way through the city of Dublin, pours out into the Irish Sea, as the dawn breaks.

Interestingly, the text comes to an end, mid-sentence… A way along a last a loved a long the only to continue at the start of the text as river run past Eve and Adam's from swerve of shore to bend of bay… suggesting a cyclical view of history .

At the centre of the solo dance looms the figure of Lucia Joyce (1909 – 1975).

She took up dancing in her mid-teens, with success. She was drawn to the 'new dance ' practiced in Paris during the 1920's, and studied with a variety of innovative teachers such as Delcroze, the Duncans, Morris, Hutton, Egorova and Borlin.

Lucia's long hours of practice was often in the very same room as where her father would be found writing his WORK IN PROGRESS — a title he preferred to use, before it was finally released to the world in 1939, as FINNEGANS WAKE. Lucia's dance career was short lived, for by 1932, she was placed in psychiatric wards, first in France and then in England.

The process of dancing, movement and mime had a strong impact on
James Joyce, which he once described as “The silent eloquence of the
moving body.”

Credits:
Direction/Choreography/Performer – Arianna Economou
In dialogue with Ruth Keshishian
Advisor/Direction – Pantelis Georghiou
Sound – Sofoclis Sofocleous
Advisor/Style – Anita Michaelides
Photographer – Christos Avraamides

Parallel Events
Sunday 13th April 11:00 - 12:00 & 16:00 - 17:00
The silent eloquence of the moving body

Friday 11th April - Sunday 13th April
James Joyce & Company- Exhibition of Artists Books