Press Release
The group Yasemin Collective will open the doors of Faneromeni25 Arts Festival on Thursday 26 June with the theatre and dance performance "Aphrodite(s)".
A multidimensional proposal focusing on the female experience, identity and Cypriot multiplicity, directed and artistically curated by Natalia Panagiotou. Theatre, dance, music and poetry coexist in a polyphonic stage landscape, where Cypriot women creators from different artistic fields come together to renegotiate the image of Aphrodite: not as a Goddess or a myth, but as a living symbol of root and rupture, beauty and trauma, belonging and transition.
The "Aphrodite(s)". are many - as are the voices, bodies, experiences and identities that appear on stage. What does it mean to be a woman in Cyprus today? A female artist? Which identity do you carry, and which one do you claim? How do memory, histories and language converse in a place divided but shared? How does this division affect collective memory and identity?
CONTRIBUTORS
Direction and Artistic curation: Natalia Panagiotou
Performers: Despina Chrysanthou, Annie Sofokleous, Konstantina Xenophontos, Natalia Panagiotou, Stalia Nikolaou, Nasia Kelepesi, Maria Kasapi
Duration: 60 minutes
Date: Thursday, 26 June 2025
Time: 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 86-90 Faneromenis Street, 1011 Nicosia
Free entrance
Doors open at 20:00
Events will take place with observation of all necessary protection measures for the health and safety of visitors and staff and are accessible to disabled groups.
You can find more information on the website of the Cultural Foundation: www.boccf.org , on the official pages of the Foundation on Facebook & Instagram (@boccf)
