A trans man learns to dance with his demons (and his Greek heritage) in an attempt to exorcise masculinity.
A body pushes itself to the edge, refusing to settle.Zeibekiko is an intimate window into the limbo between what the body is told to be and who it actually is. A new solo work by Theo Carroll exploring masculinity as something learned, inherited, and repeatedly failed.Stories of gender, close encounters with violence, a female etiquette camp, and memories of his Papou unfold between moments of humour, intimacy, and rupture.Inspired by the Greek Zeibekiko dance — traditionally performed as a rite of masculinity — Carroll untangles the pressure of becoming “a real man” and what is lost in the process. To dance Zeibekiko the way his ancestors intended, he must first find a way to connect with the body and history he has spent years trying to understand.Accompanied by a haunting soundscape that echoes tradition before slipping into distortion, the body attempts to inhabit itself while searching for its own identity.A dance that won’t complete itself.A person desperate to connect with himself.Caught between inheritance and reinvention, he keeps dancing anyway.
