The 2025 edition of SIE On Stage features a wild dancer-musician duo from the Netherlands. Amsterdam-based Greek dancer Maria Mavridou and Dutch guitarist Arvind Ganga will share with their work “tzZiiiY”, created in 2013 and newly discovered through each performance.
This event will be followed by a semi-formal discourse with all the attendees, discussing the presented work, leading to a more open dialogue about Improvisation in socio-political contexts.

"tzZiiiY" is a movement and sound performance that thrives on unpredictability. The two performers go on stage without previous agreements, committed to an uncompromising, moment to moment search for intensity – a 'tzZiiiY' – that is felt and that resonates. Engaging intuitively with the atmosphere of the gathered audience and the room, they hand each other full permission and push themselves to the edge. The desire to overcome their limits is central to this work. Riding on the same desire, with often radically different attitudes and ways, the two reveal the wilderness, awkwardness, devastation, fragility and humorousness of their co-existence. Meanwhile, they both surrender to serendipity which brings together sounds and movements into ephemeral pieces of art.

Credits: 
Arvind Ganga (electric guitar + objects) + Maria Mavridou (movement + undefined stuff) 

Bios:

Maria Mavridou. Greek dancer/performer/maker/teacher based in Amsterdam. Graduated from the State School of Dance in Athens and the SNDO in Amsterdam. Did post-graduate studies at the Dance Space Center and the Movement Research in New York with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation. Studied extensively with Katerina Bakatsaki and Frank van de Ven (Body Weather) and Real Time Composition with Katie Duck and affiliated artists. Engaged in numerous productions of Andrea K. Schlehwein + Netzwerk AKS. Other artistic collaborations include: Free The Dance / Malgorzata Haduch, The Warp / Lee Ellickson, White Horse Collective, Jonathan Nagel, Asa Horvitz a.o. Performed worldwide together with artists from different disciplines in a wide and diverse range of art projects. Taught at the Korean National University of Arts (Seoul), the SNDO (Amsterdam) and at ArtEZ (Arnhem) and leads workshops on contemporary dance, movement research and real time composition. Maintains a curious mind and keeps learning by coming in touch with unfamiliar places inside and outside. http://mavridoumaria.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html

Combining an explorative mind with an obsession for raw sound, Dutch guitar player Arvind Ganga creates an intense sonic experience that is simultaneously abstract, psychedelic, noisy, and spiritual. Central to his approach is the physical aspect, where he wrenches the sounds out of his guitar using his bare hands, improper techniques, some objects and a reverse effect and combines them back together using free improvisation. He draws from a wide range of influences: noise, drones, avant garde composers, North Indian ragas, hardcore, experimental rock, free jazz, and the everyday sounds of cities and nature. Arvind plays solo, in fixed collaborations, improvises with like-minded artists and presented his music all over Europe, South America and Asia. Notable places include Supernormal Festival, Incubate Festival, Le Guess Who?, Mózg, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, ADM Festival, OCCII, Worm. His music has been released on Flaming Pines, Orbit577, A New Wave Of Jazz, Econore, Silver Ghosts, Toztizok Zoundz. 

Arvind and Maria met in the improvisation/ free jazz scene in the Amsterdam in 2008. Since 2013 the play in the trio Help Me to Crash band, together with Polish dancer/choreographer Malgorzata Haduch, the duo tzZiiiY and in various other constellations. Their work developed with a DIY attitude, making things happen with whatever there is available, celebrating an adventurous spirit. They have performed for various publics in music venues, theatres, galleries, open fields, squats, domestic spaces in The Netherlands, Poland, Belgium and Spain.