08/03/2026 @ THKIO PPALLIES, NICOSIA

WHAT IS BEHIND THAT CURTAIN?

UNWRITTEN SCORES FOR A PARTY BY ELENA SAVVIDOU

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.