ioannaparaskevopoulou

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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.

“MOS” – a continuation of my research into a broadened approach towards choreographic composition using tools and concepts drawn from the audio-visual sphere – brings together materials plucked from select moving image archives, explores ways of producing original soundscapes, and tries out new means of capturing them.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.

40′ MINUTES LIVE PERFORMANCE

CONCEPT & CHOREOGRAPHY IOANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU

PERFORMANCE GEORGIOS KOTSIFAKIS, IOANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU

DRAMATURGY ELENA NOVAKOVITS

AUDIO TECHNICAL SUPPORT & SOUND DESIGN DANIS CHATZIVASILAKIS 

LIGHT DESIGN ELIZA ALEXANDROPOULOU

SET & COSTUMES DESIGN IOANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU

VISUAL DESIGN BOIS FUTURI

WOODEN CONSTRUCTIONS MILTOS ATHANASIOU

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IOANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ALEXANDROS TOMARAS

SPECIAL THANKS TO ELENI TZAROU & THANOS DASKALOPOULOS

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COCONUT EFFECT is the third part of a series of projects in which I explore the relationships and the potentials between sound, image, and movement.

A ten minute piece that was presented at Danse Elargie 2022 and awarded the Young Jury Prize.

The series also features All she likes is popping bubble wrap a 17,27’- minute video project (part of Onassis  New Choreographers Festival 8, 2020) and MOS (2021), a 40-minute staged choreographic work, which premiered within the context of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9(ONC9). Through the selection and editing of diverse film scenes and the contemporary rendering of their sound, the project attempts to explore new kinetic material, negotiate the relationship and the interaction among the three performers, along with the expansion of the potentialities of the sound-image-movement exchanges. The performers turn into sound animators experimenting with objects, materials, micro-movements and archive dances aiming to create an audible performative condition where the unseen side and sonic effects become the core. action. Within this frame it creates a playful staged proposition by transforming the selected archive towards new possibilities of audience's perception.

COCONUT EFFECT is an impromptu contemporary kinetic effect that animates those elements that cannot be easily seen and heard and highlights them as new tools for formulating a new choreographic logic.

10′ MINUTES LIVE PERFORMANCE

CONCEPT & CHOREOGRAPHY IOANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU

LIVE SOUND & SOUND TECHNICAL SUPPORT DANIS CHATZIVASILAKIS

LIGHTING DESIGN ELIZA ALEXANDROPOULOU

COLLAGE BOIS FUTURI

EDITING & SET UP IOANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU

WITH  DANIS CHATZIVASILAKIS, GEORGIOS KOTSIFAKIS, IOANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU

PHOTOS NORA HOUGUENADE

PRODUCTION AND SUPPORT ONASSIS STEGI

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Six female bodies are suspended in space; they detect, meet and touch, dancing a light dance. Stop motion creates the illusion of the bodies’ oscillation in the air, in an attempt to capture deviation and resistance to gravity. BATTLE OF FISHES is an assemblage of snapshots, dislocated maps, technologies and bodies, rhythms and broken locations.

3′ MINUTES VIDEO DANCE

Choreography, director, costume coordination: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou 

 Music: Sofia Zafeiriou (the performance featured the work Allochthono) 

Direction of photography, cinematography, editing: Chrysanthi Badeka 

Dancers: Alexandra Georgovasili, Elina Demirtzioglou, Natalia Baka, Theano Xydia, Sophia Pouchtou, Marina Tsapekou /

Musicians (members of the Intercultural Orchestra of the Greek National Opera): Orestis Gargoulakis (flute), Panagiota Xydi (ney), Anastasia Papageorgiou (lyre), Victoria Taskou (yaylı tambur), Christos Syngelos (οud), Stathis Koutouzos (percussion), Sofia Zafeiriou (electronics)

Sound recording, editing: Kostas Bokos – Studio 19

Photo: Chrysanthi Badeka

Filmed on 14 May 2021.

Special thanks are due to the Municipality of Vari – Voula – Vouliagmeni.

The video dance festival Miniatures for Revolution is the new production of the GNO Learning & Participation Department. Inspired by the idea of revolution, five young composers and five young choreographers worked together to create short music and dance works, the Miniatures. The Miniatures were captured in original videos that will be broadcast on GNO TV. The production was realised in collaboration with the GNO Ballet and the Intercultural Orchestra of the GNO Learning & Participation Department. Five video/film-makers as well as young professional dancers also took part in the production.

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All she likes is popping bubble wrap - 17:38′ VIDEO PROJECT - PART OF ONASSIS NEW CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL  8

The screen is split in two. One side shows a montage of archival film images: three girls fishing at a lake, a zombie chase scene, a woman in the bath. The other side shows Ioanna Paraskevopoulou in dialog with the images: using various material resources and/or her own body to devise, create, and produce a new soundtrack to accompany them, thus orchestrating the images aurally and bringing them to life.

Because “All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap” is a sound and image performance, a diptych of parallel actions: a screen divided into two in order to amplify the sound and visual impressions made by selected extracts of archival film footage.

Seeking to create a kind of audio-visual choreography composed of micro-movements and objects, the artist explores the correlations between sound, image, and the body, as well as the potential to exchange information across two moving images screened in parallel. This process leads to a playful experiment: a designated dramaturgical act on the part of the performer enters into discourse with the archival material to nurture non-synchronous realities, pushing them into unique new perspectives and dimensions.

How do two parallel activities affect the viewing process? How can the different temporalities of two images lead to multiple performative correlations and/or abstractions? What correspondence discovery mechanisms are activated in attempts to formulate a virtual fake entity?  

Concept, Direction & Performance: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou  

Dramaturgy: Elena Novakovits

Audio Technical Support & Sound Design: Danis Chatzivasilakis

Video & Editing: Carlos Muñoz 

Archival Material Editing: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Photography: Miltos Athanasiou, Andreas Simopoulos, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Set & Costumes Design: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Text: Elena Novakovits

Wooden Construction: Miltos Athanasiou

https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/onassis-new-choreographers-festival-8/all-she-likes-is-popping-bubble-wrap

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“Land Blooms” is a 3:17′ video project. It was created as part of the research on post production film practices. 

In a kitchen background, following the process of connecting audio and verbal elements borrowed from the cinema, the video deals with the boundaries of privacy and public, along with the boundaries between fantasy and reality. 

Concept, Performance & Editing: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Part of the 14th Audiovisual Festival

Part of “The New New: a major online tribute to the next generation artists from the fine art and audio-visual art schools in Greece” in the context of the collaboration of the Ionian University and the Video Art Festival Miden (Kalamata).

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The performance "No Leap Is Ever Into The Void" attempts to negotiate questions related to what is visible and what is not, what it looks like to be and what it is. It is an immersive game between the performer and spectators where the condition of appearance and disappearance of the snapshots of the performer’s body in the air creates a new way of interaction.

20′ MINUTES INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE

Concept & Performance: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Technical support: Georgios Lampropoulos 

“No Leap Is Ever Into The Void” was created within the context of the educational program “Open Art” in collaboration with the Athens Digital Arts Festival.

Part of the 14th Audiovisual Arts Festival.