Lapsus Corpi are a London-based performance group directed by choreographer Efrosini Protopapa.
We are interested in new propositions about what dance performance is and how it may function in front of an audience. Our work seeks to question the relationship between performer and spectator and to explore how reality and fiction are constructed in performance.
We use a combination of movement and action with spoken text, elements of scenography and sound to best serve the concept of each of our productions. Deriving from task-based processes, our performances are often structured as intriguing game-like situations, calling into question theatre making and theatre viewing.
The group was founded in 2003 by Efrosini Protopapa (Greece) together with performers Susanna Recchia (Italy) and Anastasia Tsonou (Greece), and has expanded since to include more than 20 collaborators from many different European countries.
Lapsus Corpi have performed in traditional theatre spaces as well as more unusual and site specific locations, and have developed educational projects and participatory activities throughout the UK (Northampton, London, Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Leeds and Eastleigh), in The Netherlands (Utrecht), Germany (Berlin) and Greece (Athens).
Our current and most recent projects have been realised with the support of Dance4, where Lapsus Corpi were in residence in July-August 2008, Arts Council England, Laban, The Place, Roehampton University, and the A. S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. Previously, we have also been supported by Lewisham Creative and The Raymond and Isadora Duncan Dance Research Centre in Athens.
