Outdoor meetings for the exploration of public spaces through circus and performative arts: the idea starts from the contemporary need to redefine our ways of being in the environment. Public space is not just for consuming and passive existence. It’s a meeting point for creation, connection to ourselves, to others and to the environment. The meetings can include everyone - no matter what age, physical abilities, or experiences. They aim to generate relations, personal health care, expression and to awaken the senses. They also activate the artistic personality and support the value of green and free urban spaces in a dense city like Athens. Go outdoors, get upside down, invade the urban jungle, be alone (a μόnos) together (juntos)!

The project focuses on outdoor acrobatics combining excersice, artistic expression, connection with others,
connection with nature, and the revival of public space. 

The goal is a collective redefinition of the urban landscape through outdoor acrobatic movement research. Circus art has different expressions. The team behind the project is interested in its nomadic origin, its street form, its connection to improvisation and low budget art character. This is translated as degrowth. One step back, to our rootes, closer to our inner self and inevitably to the outer environment. Climbing, jumping, rolling are natural moves to humans but due to our contemporary ways of living we forget them and have to reinvent them.

The innovative ingredient of the idea is the connection to public spaces. Athens is a vibrant city but used mainly as a system for consumption rather than a public, common ground. Also it is dense and made of concrete with few green, open spaces. A way to redefine the urban landscape would be to actively become a part of it. (bodyscapes) We will also use aerials as a tool for movement research. It provides a variety of qualities like strengthening, coexisting against the modern liberal model, community meetings, sharing of knowledge, cocreation, artistic praxis.