Dancing Memories
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Workshop
Vila do Conde Conservatory of Music, Theatre and Dance22 Sept (Mon) | 18:30 – 20:30
Free admission
Target audience: non-professionals, all ages
Registration [here] | workshop taught in English
Τhis workshop explores our connection to memory and the archive through observation, writing, and movement. We’ll work with memories, sounds, and photographs that move us, focusing on small details, glances, and absences. Paying attention to what may seem insignificant can open the way to images, ideas, and thoughts yet to be discovered. Together, we’ll revisit places from the past as spaces for imagination and reflection, looking for spoken and embodied ways to tell their stories and relate to them.
ioannaparaskevopoulou.com
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She studied dance at the Greek National School of Dance and audiovisual arts at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between audiovisual media and movement, seeking to expand the choreographic field through hybrid methodologies.
She has collaborated as a performer with numerous choreographers and artists, including Iris Karayan, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Katerina Andreou, Lenio Kaklea, Alexandra Waierstall, Andonis Foniadakis, Patricia Apergi, Tzeni Argyriou and Brendan Fernandes, among others. She has also worked in interdisciplinary projects across theatre, film, and visual art.
Ioanna’s own creations move between stage and screen, often blending sound, image, and movement. Her video project All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap (Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8) received awards for Best Sound Design (FIVideodanza, Mexico) and Best Video Art (MIFVIF, Venezuela). She co-directed the video dance Battle of Fishes which was awarded the Best Cinematography – InShadow, Special Recognition – Screendance International. She created the staged duet MOS at Onassis NCF 9. MOS had its European premiere as part of Julidans NEXT (NL). Her 10 minute piece Coconut Effect received the Young Jury Prize at Danse Élargie 2022 and was later re-staged with students of the Conservatoire de Paris. The group version premiered in September 2023 at Théâtre de la Ville.
She was an Aerowaves Twenty23 artist with MOS and a recipient of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2019–2020). Her most recent works include the solo All of My Love (Onassis Dance Days 2024), Unseen Horses (a collaboration with Dance Theatre Heidelberg), and Telos, co-created with Maria Hassabi, Hannes Langolf, and Ermira Goro. She continues to tour her pieces MOS and All of My Love, and to collaborate as a dancer with other choreographers.
ioannaparaskevopoulou.com
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She studied dance at the Greek National School of Dance and audiovisual arts at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between audiovisual media and movement, seeking to expand the choreographic field through hybrid methodologies.
She has collaborated as a performer with numerous choreographers and artists, including Iris Karayan, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Katerina Andreou, Lenio Kaklea, Alexandra Waierstall, Andonis Foniadakis, Patricia Apergi, Tzeni Argyriou and Brendan Fernandes, among others. She has also worked in interdisciplinary projects across theatre, film, and visual art.
Ioanna’s own creations move between stage and screen, often blending sound, image, and movement. Her video project All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap (Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8) received awards for Best Sound Design (FIVideodanza, Mexico) and Best Video Art (MIFVIF, Venezuela). She co-directed the video dance Battle of Fishes which was awarded the Best Cinematography – InShadow, Special Recognition – Screendance International. She created the staged duet MOS at Onassis NCF 9. MOS had its European premiere as part of Julidans NEXT (NL). Her 10 minute piece Coconut Effect received the Young Jury Prize at Danse Élargie 2022 and was later re-staged with students of the Conservatoire de Paris. The group version premiered in September 2023 at Théâtre de la Ville.