This dance has no end (Fenia Kotsopoulou, Daz Disley, UK 2018)

"What happens when someone dies is that we, the living, contain their memory within us ... They will live on in us, and we will celebrate them. And dance like there is no tomorrow". Diane Torr A dance dedicated to artist, drag king and gender activist Diane Torr who passed away in May 2017. A year to the day, I dance in a black room : a single shot fusing male and female as ode to life and death. Traditional urban zeybekiko dance of Rebetiko, exclusively danced by men is danced by my hybrid manifestation - blended apescts of my identity. In silence I hear Diane's words "Take space with all your being. Own the space". I lift my arms and dance like there is no tomorrow as the camera follows. No edits or retakes : the aim is not to please or excite but to offer myself as site for collective unburdening. camera: single shot by Daz Disley performance: Fenia Kotsopoulou location: Lincoln (UK) Fenia Kotsopoulou (1981) is a Greek cross-disciplinary, award-winning artist (dance, performance, video, photography and curation) with international practice, currently living in Lincoln (UK). She holds a MFA in Choreographing Live Art from the University of Lincoln (UK), BA Honors in contemporary dance from Dance Academy of Rome (Italy) and a BA Honors in Italian Literature and Language from the Aristotle University of Thessalonikis (Greece).