{"id":22126,"date":"2024-03-06T01:33:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/?p=22126"},"modified":"2024-03-06T01:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:33:53","slug":"dimitris-papaioannous-ink-a-story-that-drowned-in-an-inch-of-water-sadlers-wells-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/dimitris-papaioannous-ink-a-story-that-drowned-in-an-inch-of-water-sadlers-wells-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitris Papaioannou\u2019s INK: A Story that Drowned in an Inch of Water Sadler\u2019s Wells\u2019 Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photograph of Dimitris Papaioannou taken in April 2019 \/ Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Twenty years later, he still embraces this distinctive relationship between the setting and \u00a0movement, amplifying the effect of the dark and silent scenes in <\/span><\/span>INK<\/span><\/span> with water. Though, there is too much of it! The performance feels rather diluted with motionless and often confusing silent rituals in the background of water running against a plastic curtain. It is hard to look away from the performance, that is so oversaturated with watered-down symbolism, in an attempt to find a sign of the promised <\/span><\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/span>hyper-visual dance theatre<\/span><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A german dancer <\/span><\/span>\u0160<\/span><\/span>uka Horn assists <\/span><\/span>Papaioannou<\/span><\/span> on stage in this uneasy task to strike with the depth of this sinking performance, as both artists engage in a <\/span><\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/span>nightmarish manhunt<\/span><\/span>\u2026<\/span><\/span>testing the limits of reality<\/span><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/span>. In reality, the depth of this performance is limited to the few inches of water on Sadler<\/span><\/span>\u2019<\/span><\/span>s Wells stage, and as the two engage in a dance, it is soon over and replaced by a variety of props and <\/span><\/span>paraphernalia<\/span><\/span> for the artists to play with in the water. Finally, at the end of it, they conceive a half-human, half-octopus baby creature, which they later consume together. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n