Repertoire
BOX4
BOX4 (Box to the fourth power) began as a re-visioning of my 1994 work A Parcel of Men's Knowledge. However, in creating BOX4 I am not interested in the telling of a linear story (the audience can find one if they choose). I aim more to work with tension, in particular masculine tensions between the four dancers in a confined space; through obstacles, confrontation, and cooperation. As director/choreographer I can play the “cook” (a great hobby of mine) with the dancers supplying the ingredients and me creating the dish. I am most inspired by what this new and talented cast has brought to my vision and the challenges we have met together. The creative journey of BOX4 quickly became more than just a re-telling of a piece that I have done before but instead a continuation on the notion of confinement, possession, and masculine dominance, in particular the tension and aggression that can erupt from it like popcorn in a pressure cooker.”
Lighting Designer: James Proudfoot
Dancers: Caroline Farquhar, Nathaniel Siri, Manuel Sorge, Donald Taruc
...And Speaking of Orestes...
A lucid dreamscape inspired by the Euripidean play Orestes. Choreographer Paraskevas Terezakis has realized his personal vision through this peiceof work on a journey which explores family dysfunction, guilt, revenge and erratically, love. ...And Speaking of Orestes... is a story about one child's reality which becomes a dream to free himself from all that holds him back.
The creative process for this project involved extensive exploration on an international level involving artists from Canada, Croatia, Poland, France, Greece, and Belgium. In the peice, two men and three women explore the forces behind family dysfunction on a simple, domestically-inspired set, while live musicians animate and add texture to wonderfully visual and evocative choreography.
Artistic Direction & Choreography: Paraskevas Terezakis
Dramatuge: Alex Ferguson
Musical Composition: Darko Rundek and Isabel
Lighting Designer: James Proudfoot
Set Concept: Paraskevas Terezakis
Dancers: Anne Cooper
Caroline Farquhar
Delia Brett
Tomasz Wesolowski
Colin Atkins
Length: 48 minutes
Shellshock
The work itself is in four parts and explores the various kinds of conflict, passion and violence that are at the core of human nature.
“Choreographer Paras Terezakis throws such a head-spinning mix of material into his ambitious Shellshock that audience members might succumb to a light case of the title disorder...”
- The Georgia Straight, Vancouver
The work itself is in four parts and explores the various kinds of conflict, passion and violence that are at the core of human nature. "We construct an elaborate mask of deception that disguises the truth behind our actions," says Paras Terezakis, Artistic Director and Choreographer of Kinesis Dance. "By constructing a world in which we blame someone else for our insecurities and fears, we violate what is inherently beautiful within our own lives and the lives of others."
Inspired by the myth of the Trojan War and the very human characteristics that story embodies, Terezakis has constructed a unique work that engages the dancers in a fierce battle between the physical and the emotional components of transformation. “I have carefully and deliberately used text to support a narrative, a thread of story that supports continuity by holding together the emotional theme,” he says.
Artistic Direction & Choreography: Paras Terezakis
Part One: PHOS/Light
Part Two: AESTUS/Heat
Part Three: KATEGIDA/Storm
Part Four: SHELLSHOCK/Trauma
Hecuba: Andy Thompson, Colleen Wheeler
Cassandra: Shauna Elton, Anne Cooper
Helen: Caroline Farquhar
Paris: Walter Kubanek, Farley Johansson
Lighting Designer: James Proudfoot
Video Creators: D-Anne Trépanier, Gordon Wong
Sound Design: Noah Drew
Music Composition for Phos: Ted Hamilton
Set & Costume Concepts: Paras Terezakis
Set Consultant: Yvan Morissette
Costume Designer: Andrea Hiestand
Production Stage Manager: Larisa Fayad
Length: 80 minutes
* Phos was first created for the Kokoro International Dance Festival
* Aestus was created for the Chutzpah Festival
Affiliations 2: Ariadne
Affiliations 2: Ariadne is about self-imposed exile in a labyrinth of our own making. The struggle to emerge from the maze of our own fears is the catalyst which leads to freedom.
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Artistic Direction/Choreography: Paras Terezakis
Performers: Rhonda Lee Cooper, Michael Whitfield, Walter Kubanek, Alison Denham
Visual Concept: Paras Terezakis
Composer: Ted Hamilton
Lighting: Jean-Phillipe Trepannier
Length: 20 minutes
Affiliation 1: Daedalus and Icarus
Affiliation 1 is the choreographer’s interpretation of the poem Daedalus by Angelos Sikeliano. Loosely based on the myth of Daedalus 
and Icarus, the piece is a metaphor for the relationship between two men, specifically a father and son. The story centres on issues of power and trust, unmet expectations, disappointments, conflicts, the loss of trust and the attempts to regain and rebuild trust and finally, reconciliation and resolution.
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Artistic Direction/Choreography/Visual Concept/Costumes: Paras Terezakis
Performers: Alvin Erasga Tolentino and Wen Wei Wang, Walter Kubanek
Composer: Ted Hamilton
Lighting: Jean-Phillipe Trepannier
Length: 10 minutes
Unruly Body
Sensuous and emotional choreography that reveals the impact of isolation and the symptomatic fear of loneliness in society.
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Artistic Direction/Choreography/Visual Concept/Costumes/Set: Paras Terezakis
Performers: Rhonda Lea Cooper, Pascal Desrosiers, Fiona Macdonald, Raymond Milne, Kim Tuson
Composer: Jeff Corness
Lighting: Ian Arnold
Length: 51 minutes
Café Nocturne
Combines video and emotionally charged choreography to explore the mystical turbulence of love and desire.
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Artistic Direction/Choreography/Visual Concept/Costumes/Set: Paras Terezakis
Performers: Rhonda Lea Cooper, D’Anne Kuby-Trepanier, Daelik, Raymond Milne, Alvin Tolentino
Composer: Jeff Corness
Lighting: Barry Hegland
Length: 55 minutes
A Parcel of Men's Knowledge
The all-male cast explodes, turning sublime tenderness into pure, raw aggression as they do battle with rage and fear.
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Artistic Direction/Choreograph/Visual Concept, Set, Costumes: Paras Terezakis
Perfomers: Pipo Damiano, Daniel Lauzon, Ron Stewart, Alvin Tolentino, Daniel Lauzon and Edmond Kilpatrick
Music: RIchard Winddeyer
Lighting Barry Hegland
Length: 50 minutes
Arena
What first drew me to Walls (Arena) was the repetitiveness and the stubborness of the performance. The dancers relentlessly throw themselves against the wall, and in so doing present a mad view of the world as a place of non-communication, of indifference, of interference, of hostility. This dystopia is a lot closer to a real presentation of the urban experience than any of us would like to admit; it says many important things about the human condition – its decay, its lack of community, its rampant individualism, its competitiveness.
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Artistic Direction/Choreography/Visual Concept/Costumes: Paras Terezakis
Performers: Sofia Kallinikidou, Lucia Tjara, Theofanis Kafousias, Alkis Kormas
Music: Astor Piazzolla
Length: 6 minutes
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