Dialogues: A Solo/Relational Artistic Practice for a Composed Theatre

Abstract

This artistic research, situated within contemporary theatre and performance, began from a simple story: transitioning from Greece to Sweden, I was confronted with a profound sense of absence, both in my apartment and in the studio—I was alone. This condition became the starting point for exploring how soleness can be translated into relationality. Searching for collaborators, I encountered, instead of people, diverse materials—texts, sounds, physical objects—that I approached as my creative co partners, composing assemblages rooted in resonance rather than hierarchies of reason. I developed a practice towards Composed Theatre by treating theatrical elements as music and vice versa. In this essay, I chose to work with textual materials (quotes) as my main collaborators, to compose and complement my thoughts. The research culminated in a live performance (February 2026) and this essay, proposing a space where being solo expands into a relational and polyphonic artistic practice.