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R OPEN PRACTICE SESSIONS
An invitation to come together and practise autonomously alongside each other using space as an open studio. Open Practice Sessions are central to Rhyzome Choreographic School, as here we explore and negotiate what it means to cultivate an environment of working alongside each other and in extension with the world we inhabit!
We provide ideas as starting points, as well as drawing and writing materials. Typically, sessions are held for 2 hours and is followed by a shared discussion with all the participants.
These sessions are anchored to the body and presence, so we ask that you keep the space free of laptops and phones.
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2026 @ MUNICIPAL GARDENS, LEMESOS
WITH RIA ALEXANDROU
EMBODIED GARDENS
Embodied Gardens is a site-responsive project initiated by Rhyzome Choreographic School, inviting artist Ria Alexandrou to engage with the Municipal Garden as a civic and choreographic space, a site that can nurture shared presence and cultivate embodied ways of being in the city. Working on site with the garden’s existing elements, ephemeral gestures unfold over time, inviting audiences and passersby to collectively explore new constellations and materialities. The project proposes a form of embodied participation to be experienced in one’s own time, engaging with the garden as a space to inhabit and listen to, shifting our attention away from the anthropocentric to include all life forms, transient compositions, and communities.
The project approaches choreography in an expanded sense, attending to the constant movement of all life around us, both visible and invisible, while allowing our imaginations to unfold formations, traces, and arrangements that may become a collective and meditative action of togetherness within the garden.
For the three days of the summer festival and beyond, RCS wants to cultivate an embodied way of being in the garden, the city and in extension to the world.
“The world we inhabit is not, in this sense, a determinable set of objective processes. It is our larger flesh, a densely intertwined and improvisational tissue of experience. By inhabiting our bodily experience all the more richly and wakefully, feeling our way into deeper contact with other experiencing bodies, and hence with the wild, incorporeal life of earth itself.”
(David Abram, Becoming Animal)
presented at summer dance festival, nea kinisi
Past Events
08/03/2026 @ THKIO PPALLIES, NICOSIA
WHAT IS BEHIND THAT CURTAIN?
UNWRITTEN SCORES FOR A PARTY
Elena Savvidou is a performance artist working with sound and a musician working through performance. Over the past few years, she has been improvising in diverse spaces, using a variety of materials to create feeling-specific performances that offer self-contained sonic experiences. Her work is deeply influenced by the environments in which she performs. She is particularly interested in how movement and sound act as transitions between moments, shaping new, temporary environments. An important aspect of her practice unfolds on the dancefloor, where people’s gestures and unspoken dynamics become her medium.
In recent years, through organising parties together with a collective of people, she has explored the dancefloor as a space for movement experimentation and shared listening, intentionally shaping these gatherings to feel as casual and intimate as a living room. Through this research, she coined the term vibe creator, proposing that within the structure of the dancefloor, interactions between people and the DJ give rise to shared memories, unwritten choreographies, and fluid social roles.
Choreography emerges in parties through unwritten scores - social cues, spatial relations, and shared rhythms that guide bodies while leaving room for improvisation. Existing within a defined temporality and often unfolding in unconventional timeframes, the party can be understood as a happening: a continuous becoming in which moving, resting, and relating emerge as a forever changing compositional act.
by elena savvidou
05/03/2026 @ ATHALASSAS PARK, NICOSIA
TANJA BROWN IN RESIDENCE: 01/03 - 06/03/2026
Tanja is an environmental movement artist, who has worked and trained extensively with Helen Poynor - Walk of Life. Her creative practice combines sculpture, expressive arts and installation inspired by the diverse and wild landscape of Dartmoor, England where she lives.
She loves to create environments that deepen our connection to innate wisdom, creativity and our place within the web of life. She often offers outdoor workshops as well as moving and mark making sessions collaborating with life models, dancers and movers.
Some threads she will be exploring….. (threads of exploration)
Grounded fluidity - exploring through the body and creatively
form and ground - body, earth, rock together with fluidity - body of water
Alive rootedness - inspired by seeds, rhizomes, moving with spring emerging….Rooting, Gestation, Sprouting, Emerging, Growing, Extending, Multiplying, Blooming, ReSource
TANJA BROWN: OPEN PRACTICE
25/02/2026 @ THKIO PPALLIES, NICOSIA
BELINDA PAPAVASILIOU + EVA PAPAVASILIOU
rhyzome: OPEN PRACTICE
The first event of the launch programme: An open practice session hosted by Belinda Papavasiliou and Eva Papavasiliou
21/11/2025 @ THKIO PPALLIES, NICOSIA
Rhyzome Choreographic School premiered with a launch event, followed by a series of events at our beloved space Thkio Ppalies on the 25th of February till 13th of March 2026.
Through a series of choreo-curated events, open practice sessions, workshops, screenings, talks and performances, Rhyzome looks into the politics of coming together, body-based practices and works, as well as different forms of gathering and spontaneous choreographies.
Huge thanks to Thkio Ppalies