An artist's introduction
Two performers enter into discourse with a disparate series of images and seek to impart their own transcription in space. The body and (micro-)movements co-exist with curious objects and materials to act as a means of sound production. The material is intensified, exploded, paused, repeated, and distorted in order to bolster the sound experience.
Within the scenic formulation, individual pieces of information are teased out of the reused materials, thus inviting audience members to generate new connections and interrelations. They find themselves successively transformed into listeners of a makeshift and heterogeneous soundtrack that unfolds before them. The performers become the intermediaries between archive and audience, offering up their own personal takes, composing their own sound adaptation of a non-linear cinematic script, and choosing, at the end of the day, what could possibly be heard.
MOS is a scenic game operating in among the conspicuous and hidden relations that exist between movement, sound, and image, amplifying narratives that arise out of the mutual interplay and co-existence of seemingly incongruous archival sources, thus bringing visibility to elements that cannot easily be seen or heard.
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MOS images by Pinelopi Gerasimou for Onassis STEGI
Performers and creative team
Concept & Choreography Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Performance Georgios Kotsifakis, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Dramaturgy Elena Novakovits
Audio Technical Support & Live Sound Design Danis Chatzivasilakis
Lighting Design Eliza Alexandropoulou
Tour Lighting Design Eliza Alexandropoulou, Tzanos Mazis
Video Engineer Konstantinos Asimakopoulo
Set & Costume Design Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Video Editing Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Wooden Constructions Miltos Athanasiou
Poster Design Bois Futuri
Photography Pinelopi Gerasimou
Production Management Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Tour Management Cultόpια & Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Tour Coordinator Onassis STEGI Christina Liata
Special thanks to Eleni Tzarou, Thanos Daskalopoulos, Alexandros Tomaras
Acknowledgements
Presented by the Barbican and Dance Umbrella
Produced by Onassis STEGI and first presented as part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9
The presentation of MOS at Dance Umbrella is made possible with the support of Onassis STEGI Athens – “Outward Turn” Program
Biographies
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance and is currently studying at the Department of AudioVisual Arts (Ionian University). Her artistic practice focuses on the relationship between audio-visual media and movement, reconfiguring the expansion of the choreographic field. She has collaborated, among others, with Iris Karayan, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou and Alexandra Waierstall. She was awarded the Best Performance prize for the dance film Sans Attente by Konstantinos Rizos at InShadow International Festival and second prize for her performance in mneme [action] 21 by Maria Koliopoulou at International Dance Festival, Algiers. She was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2019-2020. Her choreographic video project All She Likes is Popping Bubble Wrap was created as part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8. ASLIPBW was selected by several video art festivals and awarded Best Sound Design at FIVideodanza Festival, Mexico and Best Video Art at MIFVIF, Venezuela. MOS premiered at Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9 and had its European premiere at Julidans Next. She presented Coconut Effect at the 7th Danse élargie competition and won the Young Jury award. She was selected to present MOS at Aerowaves Twenty23.
Georgios Kotsifakis
Born in Heraklion Crete, Greece on 12th of October 1988. Graduated with distinction from the Professional Dance School of Rallou Manou in Athens, Greece and from the Amsterdam School of Arts (Modern Theatre Dance). He has also been accepted in the first year of the international dance school P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels in 2008 and got a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece in 2010. He studied in the University of Piraeus, Greece at the International and European Studies department.
As a dancer he has collaborated with many companies and artists in Greece and abroad such as DV8, RAMBERT, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jan Fabre, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Dimitris Papaioannou, Andonis Foniadakis, Christos Papadopoulos, Iris Karayan, Lenio Kaklea, the National Theatre of Greece, the National Greek Opera (William Forsythe), the State Theatre of Northern Greece, the National Dance Centre of Romania, Konstantnos Rigos, Nanine Linning, Alexandra Waierstall, Sinequanon, TedX Brussels, Nigel Charnock and others.
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