MOS
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou (GR)
23.07 | 21:30 | Mikis Theodorakis theatre
Tickets: 12€ (regular), 9€ (student, unemployed)
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 audiovisual media and movement. She has collaborated – among others – with Iris Karayan, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Alexandra Waierstall, Katerina S. Andreou, Lenio Kaklea, Sofia Mavragani, Tzeni Argyriou, Patricia Apergi, Antonis Foniadakis, Brendan Fernandes, Harry Koushos, Ki omOs kineitai, Maria Koliopoulou. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2019). She created her choreographic video project All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap as part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8. ALSIPBW has been awarded the Best Sound Design Award at the FIVideodanza Festival and the Best Video Art Award at the MIFVIF. She co-created the video dance Battle of Fishes in the context of Miniatures For Revolution. Battle of Fishes won the ‘Best Cinematography Award’ in the context of InShadow Lisbon Screendance Festival. She presented MOS at Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9. Also, she presented the 10-minute piece Coconut Effect at the 7th edition of Danse élargie competition with which she won the Young Jury Award. MOS was selected by Aerowaves Twenty23 and continues to tour as part of international festivals. Recently, she presented her new work All of My Love.
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.
* The word/acronym “mos” has more than 20 definitions. Here are just a selection: make optical splices / microphone off stage / microphone out of service / minus optical signal / minus optical stripe / minus optical sound / missing of sound / mit ohne stimme / mit out sprechen / mixer out smoking / motion on screen / motor only shot / motor only sync / music on side / muted on screen / muted on sound / muted optical stripe.
Concept & Choreography: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Performance: Georgios Kotsifakis, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Audio Technical Support & Live Sound Design: Danis Chatzivasilakis
Dramaturgy: Elena Novakovits
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Tour Lighting Design: Tzanos Mazis
Video Engineer: Efthimis Tikellis
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
Produced by Onassis STEGI, and first presented as part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9.
The presentation of MOS at the 14th Dance Days Chania is made possible with the support of Onassis STEGI’s & Outward Turn” Program
23 July | 21:30 | Mikis Theodorakis theatre
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou – MOS
