Emotional resilience describes the ability of a person or a group of people to recover from a traumatic experience and thrive after it. In Bounce the individuals are exploring sensorial responses to effect emotional state and develop tools and systems of endurance. Hovering around emotional spaces of uncertainty and pressure, the performers are relying to their own senses to seek for relations of support, care and empowerment. 

Bounce is an embodied and embedded process towards an ecology of perception, that is, the way the activity of our senses functions to bind our separate nervous systems into the encompassing environment and thrive – or in other words: to bounce back.

Costas Kekis began dancing to pop music in his family’s living room and later continued his practice in new terms on stage as a performer and choreographer. His works were shown among others at the Ostertanztage Salzburg, at the Altera Pars Theater in Athens, at the 100 Grad Festival Berlin and in Vienna at brut, Raw Matters, Tanzquartier, WUK and ImPulsTanz. In addition to his work as a dancer and choreographer, Costas Kekis also works as a dramaturge and choreographic consultant with numerous other artists.