MOS
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Dance
Vila do Conde Municipal Auditorium20 Sept (Sat) | 22:40
National Premiere
€5 | combined ticket (includes access to the performance Cooperativa) | 6+ | Approx. duration: 40 min
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.
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.
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Concept & Choreography: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Performance: Georgios Kotsifakis, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Audio Technical Support & Live Sound Design: Vasilis Zlatanos | Lighting Design: Eliza Alexanoulou | Tour Lighting Design: Tzanos Mazis | Video Engineer: Konstantinos Asimakopoulos | Dramaturgy: Elena Novakovits | 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 | Special thanks to: Eleni Tzarou, Thanos Daskalopoulos, Alexandros Tomaras | Produced by: Onassis STEGI and first presented as part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9
MOS is presented with the support of Onassis Stegi – Outward Turn Program.
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.