Athens as a field of conflict and fascination: a city of history, power and contradiction, in a permanent state of fluidity and deregulation, where past and present coexist.

Athena sprang fully armed from her father’s head, after he had first devoured her pregnant mother because he was afraid she would usurp his throne. She carries wisdom, strategy, and justice — but she lives in his shadow.

A female body becomes a carrier of historical, morphological and conceptual stakes. It moves at the limits of space and time, between discipline and defiance. Its movement claims, resists, insists. Movement becomes denial. Denial becomes rage. Rage becomes pleasure.

SUPER A claims disorder and disobedience as a feminist act. As a space where the female body is not explained, compromised, asking for permission. A space of brilliance, survival and political desire — gilded, fragmentary, alive.

The solo was originally created for the hybrid documentary Super Athens by American director Richard Ledes. Arc For Dance Festival 17 features the first expanded stage version of the work.