“I have a problem in existing without creating, so my solutionto exist is to create.” -Dimitris Papaioannou

Dimitris Papaioannou avoids calling himself a choreographer or a director, just as he avoids calling the artists he works with - actors or dancers, and his creative techniques, as he himself describes them, are outside any usual norm. The terms he uses describe a spontaneous, living, instinctive process rather than a predetermined plan, the artistic vision being the one that unites these processes, only after the not at all precise and planned probing of possibilities. Emotion, in the case of his performances, is transmitted to the spectator through conscious or unconscious identification with the message conveyed by the image/sound/movement. The strong impact comes from this kind of maximum condescension he uses on stage, the way in which the spectator is practically forced to absorb sensations and information located on many levels at the same time. The rigor with which each element participates in completing the scenic picture requires attention to which all the senses must participate. And this necessary attention becomes an absolutely natural phenomenon, thanks to the perfect measure. Attention becomes fascination, and although, as a spectator, you realize that you certainly cannot be, at the level of understanding, in sync with the unfolding, the integration of the processes unfolding on stage, whatever the type of inner translation, takes place, at one level or another, consciously or not in what form, but certainly consciously at the level of emotional Impact.