Panos Malactos - Aerowaves

NO IM NOT

Cyprus The Twenty26

NO IM NOT digs into the abuse power dynamics within the dance world. Challenging the façade of wellness often presented in the sector, the piece shows how dancers struggle with their mental health in a toxic work environment – navigating systemic abuse, manipulation, and unrealistic expectations in their professional lives.

NO IM NOT is a continuation of Are You Okay?, Panos’ previous full evening group work, which showcases the duality of the dancers’ experiences unravelling the dissonance between the societal pressure to appear “okay”, and their inner turmoil.

Biography

Panos Malactos is a Cypriot dancer and choreographer whose work navigates between queerness, identity, and transformation through a raw, physical, and emotionally charged language. His practice draws from everyday gestures and surreal imagery, constructing spaces where tenderness, absurdity, and discomfort coexist. Grounded in movement yet open to theatricality, his pieces unfold like intimate encounters—personal, playful, and political at once.

Trained in musical theatre at Bird College and in ballet and contemporary dance at Rambert School, he merges technical precision with a strong performative presence. Panos’ artistic universe is shaped by a curiosity for the body as a site of contradiction, memory, and resistance. His work has toured across Europe and New Zealand, inviting audiences into landscapes where movement becomes a way to rethink identity, vulnerability and belonging.