b(l)alloon_acoustic performative installation
Blip | inclusive multisensory project / Yiota Peklari, Vassia Zorbali (Greece)
30.07 | 20:00 | Center of Mediterranean Architecture


Blip | inclusive multisensory project is composed of disabled and non-disabled artists and focuses its practice on sounding and silent movement, embodied experience, and the organic relationship between body and matter through visual and performative practices. Through its work, the group explores modes of collective creation grounded in listening, attunement, and physical presence.
www.blipproject.com
Yiota Peklari
Versatile dancer with MS and choreographer with interdisciplinary vocabulary who delves into the sonic and social dimension of the moving body. Co-founder of PLAYGROUND for the arts, a cultural organization based in Athens, Greece dedicated to fostering an international community of artists, students and audiences who share a deep interest in the performing arts, with a particular emphasis on the exploration and study of rhythm. Since 2018 she has taken on a pioneering role leading mixed groups of people with or without hearing and visual disabilities in the design and implementation of CONNECTING BODY workshops.
www.yiotapeklari.com
Vassia Zorbali
Interdisciplinary artist, performer, practice based researcher and educator in the field of movement. She holds a master’s degree with distinction in Visual Arts (Athens School of Fine Arts), a graduate with distinction from Rallou Manou Professional School of Dance and a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She is active in the field of Culture as a performer since 2008 and as a creator and facilitator since 2014. She is a founding member of the artistic collective ANOMIA (2017), exploring the materiality of memory, the limits of the body, and the performativity of space through inclusive programs as well as interdisciplinary projects that map embodied memory and its traces in the city of Athens. Her work has been supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, NEON Organization, Kostopoulos Foundation, Flux Laboratory Athens, and the Municipality of Athens.
https://vassiazorbali.wixsite.com/vassiazorbali
b(l)alloon is a choreographic performance by Blip | inclusive multisensory project, a mixed ensemble of disabled and non-disabled performers. The work explores sound, movement, and vibration as shared perceptual fields, creating a non-verbal, multisensory language accessible to diverse audiences.
The piece is grounded in the concept of aesthetics of access, where accessibility functions as the artistic core rather than an addition. Performers generate a dynamic sonic environment in which music becomes visible and dance audible. Working with sounding and silent movement, breath, and voice, they use body music to collectively produce and organize rhythm. Through repetition, layering, and subtle shifts in intensity, tactile rhythmic patterns emerge that can be perceived through vibration and proximity, extending beyond fixed or metronomic structures. Tools of deep listening guide the process, directing attention to timing, spatial orientation, and the presence of others. Performers continuously attune to one another, shaping the work in real time. Communication unfolds through breath, vibration, and collective timing rather than spoken language, allowing a shared sensory field to emerge across different perceptual abilities.
The performance takes place in an intimate, in-the-round setting, inviting the audience into a shared space of attention. It is particularly attentive to blind, visually impaired, deaf, and hard-of-hearing audiences, without separating them from the general public. Central to the performative space is a fluid installation of suspended, polymorphic balloons, functioning as resonant bodies that amplify vibration and mark the passage of time, always on the verge of disappearance.
Conception, Choreography: Yiota Peklari, Vassia Zorbali
Visual installation: Vassia Zorbali
Sonic design: Yiota Peklari
Assistant Choreographer: Natasha Chanta-Martin
Performed by: Vassia Zorbali, Yiota Peklari, Natasha Chanta-Martin, Christos Koutsovasilis, Olga Dalekou
Cinematography: Archlabirynth
Production: PLAYGROUND for the arts
Under the auspices and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.
30 July | 20:00 | Center of Mediterranean Architecture
Blip | inclusive multisensory project / Yiota Peklari, Vassia Zorbali – b(l)alloon_acoustic performative installation





