Unearthing Medea 2023
A modern-day interview in a devised theatre context - A deep dive research project into the mythology and character of Medea during a patriarchal siege of her rights as a woman, betrayed by her husband, exiled and framed by the Corinths of Ancient Greece - where she reveals that the playwright Euripides was bribed to write the play against her. An experimental work in progress as part of Alternating Currents by Public Energy Performing Arts at Theater on King -Peterborough Ontario.
January 2023
Artistic direction and choreography, Irèni Stamou
Performed by Irèni Stamou and Naomi Duvall
Artist Collaboration with :
Naomi Duvall, Theatrical research & props
Kate Story, Dramaturgical Mentorship
Eryn Lidster, Slide projection and special effects
Ryan Kerr, Lighting Design
Electric City Council / Grant for Individual Artists
Image of Irèni Stamou
Photographer: Andy Carroll
Anatomy of a Trio 2022
Erring at King George Festival, May 2022
Presented by Public Energy Performing Arts.
Hidden Anatomy 2022 by Bennett Bedoukian
Theatre on King St, February 2022
Peterborough, Ontario
Improvisational performances where a musician, poet and dancer create in the moment - live.
With Bennett Bedoukian, Justine Million and Irèni Stamou
Image of Irèni Stamou and Justin Million
Blackboard text, Leslie Givens
Photographer, Anita Erschen-Pappas
Bone Stories 2021
A powerful series of solo dance vignettes, storytelling in motion revealing feminine archetypes, ancestral memory, and violence against women.
As a site-specific performance, this work explores the distance between restoring performance as a cathartic experience, an ode to nature and our connection to the earth during these pandemic times.
Bone Stories
Artistic Direction and Choreography, Irèni Stamou
Performers Dreda Blow, Irèni Stamou
Bone Stories was presented as a site-specific offering at
Millennium Park, Peterborough, Nogojiwanong Ontario
September 16, 2021
Part of the PIvot 2 Festival
Presented by Public Energy Performing Arts
Bone Stories was created during a two-year-long COVID lockdown period, including an Artist Residency at ArtSpace with Public Energy Performing Arts 2020-2021. The origins of Bone Stories started as a work in progress at Theatre on King St. in the Dances for Small Spaces Festival In February 2020.
Supporting Organizations: Theatre on King Street, Monocle Center of the Arts, Inner Quiet Yoga, Kits Cafe, ArtSpace.
Irèni received an Electric City Council Arts Shift one mini-grant to explore creating an experimental film of Bone Stories with interdisciplinary artist Eyrn Lidster.
See the video below.
Image of dancer Irèni Stamou
Photographer: Anita Erschen-Pappas
Inside the Sculpture 2020
Created and performed for PIVOT I Festival.
A site-specific performance in downtown Peterborough Square during the COVID lockdown. This site-specific work was inspired by the sculpture Figures Dancing by Don Frost; the dancers interweave within the sculpture of a family dancing against the reality and desolation of urban life and those roaming in homelessness.
Artistic Direction and Choreography Irèni Stamou
Performers Dreda Blow, Irèni Stamou
Presented by Public Energy Performing Arts and Reframe Festival
Image of dancer Irèni Stamou
Photographer: Anita Erschen-Pappas