STRIKE
STRIKE departs from the echo of a fight.
Three performers, one phone, two movable platforms. A low-resolution video from Exarcheia, Athens, December 2008, stays at the size of a hand. Filmed in the minutes after a shot, it holds bodies still gathering, moving and reacting.
The image is carried and consulted rather than projected. It becomes a small point around which attention reorganises. Three bodies attempt the logic of a crowd through coordination, fatigue, failed surges and regrouping.
A street, held in one hand
The source footage and the performance documentation occupy different places in the work. The archival image remains on the phone. The photographs here document what the performers do around it, and the space they share with an audience.
Developed in Sala Comando at Centrale Fies, the performance turns a long concrete hall into a channel between two banks of spectators. Platforms become ground, obstacle, monument and vehicle. Bodies travel, stop, accumulate and wait.
States rather than steps
The movement score works through charged stillness, momentum that builds and fails, and postures that assemble into images and dissolve. Rage enters as rhythm and pressure: tempo, weight, distance, when bodies hold, when they release, how long they wait.
The original version premiered on 19 July 2026 at the LIVE WORKS Summit, Centrale Fies. A reworked, extended 45-minute version premieres on 13 March 2027 at AFTERSCHOOL Festival, La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris, with a further presentation on 17 March 2027.
© Roberta Segata
© Roberta Segata
Other presentations
STRIKE — Outdoor adaptation
Adapted for a public park in daylight, STRIKE used scaffolding and encountered a music-festival audience of children, passers-by and festival visitors.
Conversation
In conversation at CSC Bassano
Interview by Operaestate during the STRIKE residency · May 2026
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Rehearsal photograph · © Roberta Segata
Credits
- Concept & creation
- Eleni Roberts Kazouri, Vladimir Babinchuk
- Performed & co-created by
- Eleni Roberts Kazouri, Vladimir Babinchuk, Urtė Groblytė
- Sound
- Panos Alexiades
- Dramaturgical advice
- Fotini Stamatelopoulou
- Lighting design
- Andrea Turrone
- Lighting advice
- Glenn Cox
- Production
- SOAP Office (BE)
- Co-production & fellowship
- LIVE WORKS 2025–2026 · Centrale Fies (IT)
- Residencies
- Kunstencentrum BUDA (BE), CSC Bassano (IT), Centrale Fies (IT), workspacebrussels (BE)
- Photographs
- Alessandro Sala · rehearsal photographs: Roberta Segata
- Outdoor adaptation photographs
- @julierommelaere
- Costume design — 2027 extended version
- Arthur Belhomme (AGIR BIZARREMENT)
Selected presentations
19 July 2026 · LIVE WORKS Summit · Centrale Fies · Italy · World premiere · original version, approx. 30 minutes
30 August 2026 · MOES / Maanrock · Mechelen, Belgium · Outdoor adaptation · Mechelen
13 March 2027 · AFTERSCHOOL Festival · La Ménagerie de Verre · Paris, France · Premiere · extended 45-minute version
17 March 2027 · AFTERSCHOOL Festival · La Ménagerie de Verre · Paris, France · Extended 45-minute version