Konstantinos Rizos
- Live performance
- Fives Cail, Lille
- 45min
- Entrée libre
- Première Française
Prometheus’ Echo
Prometheus’ Echo is an incandescent duo for a dancer and an acoustic artist, in which dance, noise music and the spoken word create a shared attention space where the solid and the ephemeral, the fragile and the intense – can coexist without tension.
In Greek mythology, Prometheus is the god who steals the sacred fire to give it to the humans. To punish him, Zeus condemns him to eternal suffering: each night: an eagle comes to devour his liver, which grows back each day. Konstantinos Rizos and Enrico Malatesta use the myth as a starting point for research on techniques from which we inherit, the bodies we inhabit and the movements which we repeat. In resonance with the raw spaces of Fives Cail, the body of the dancer functions like fireworks: both celebratory and sacrificial, consumed in the flame of hope and the violence of our time. The duo, driven by resonances and friction, channels resistant pulses which ebb and flow into slow combustion.
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Biography(s)
Konstantinos Rizos
is a choreographer and musician born in Athens. He holds a black belt in judo and a master’s degree in sports education. After discovering contact improvisation, he continued his studies at the Niki Kontaxaki Professional Dance School in Athens. He has performed for several choreographers, including Patricia Apergi and Lia Haraki in Greece and Cyprus, as well as Vincent Dupont, Émilie Labédan, and Simone Forti. Notably, he took part in the reconstruction of Dance Constructions as part of the exhibition A Different Way to Move at the Carré d’Art in Nîmes, France.
In 2015, he joined the master’s program EXERCE at ICI–CCN in Montpellier. He is the co-director, together with Paola Stella Minni, of the company Futur Immoral — a company supported by the French Ministry of Culture / DRAC Occitanie — and has created several choreographic works, music albums, fanzines, and original soundtracks for dance and theatre. With Futur Immoral, he is an associate artist at Théâtre La Bulle Bleue in Montpellier and was an associate artist at the CDCN Le Paci- fique in Grenoble from 2020 to 2022.
Enrico Malatesta
is an Italian percussionist and sound researcher active in exper- imental music, sound intervention, and performance. His artistic practice investigates the relationships between sound, space, and the body, with a focus on the vitality of materials, the mor- phology of surfaces, and percussive modes of listening
For over twenty years, Enrico has presented his work interna- tionally—across Europe, Canada, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, the UK, the USA, and Russia—at venues and festivals includ- ing Pirelli HangarBicocca (Milan), Berghain (Berlin), Museu de Arte Moderna (Rio de Janeiro), Bourse de Commerce (Paris), Museion (Bolzano), the Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Blank Forms (New York), and the Venice Biennale
Credits
Artistic direction: Paola Stella Minni and Konstantinos Rizos
Choreography, staging: Konstantinos Rizos
Performance and sound creation: Konstantinos Rizos and Enrico Malatesta
Outside eye and research: Paola Stella Minni
Assistant to creation: Sophia Seiss
Artistic collaboration: Myrto Katsiki and Frédéric Pouillaude
Objects and drawings: Cyril Cabirol
Production: Futur Immoral
Co-production and world premiere: MIR Festival, Athens
Co-production and residency support: “Impulsions” by the City of Montpellier
Project selected at the 2025 Artistic Scouting Day of La Pop, Paris,
in partnership with Théâtre de Vanves, Danse Dense, and Théâtre Les Gémeaux – Scène Nationale de Sceaux
