Zeppelin bend
Katerina Andreou (GR/FR)
Dance
Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde — Sala 117 Sept (Sat) | 21:30
National Premiere
M/12 | duration 55 min. | 5 €
Workshop: 19 Sept (Mon) | 18:30 - 20:30, Escola de Dança de Vila do Conde
National Premiere
M/12 | duration 55 min. | 5 €
Workshop: 19 Sept (Mon) | 18:30 - 20:30, Escola de Dança de Vila do Conde
In my ongoing research on free will on stage and its subjective nature, I explore different body practices and try to approach new skills as if there were new technologies. I keep learning in order to keep unlearning. This saturation of rigor and discipline comes along with a desire of tackling matters such as control and power structures. It helps me sort out knowledge and constitute my own personal culture. Which training for which performance? Which effort for which goal?
Zeppelin Bend, taking the name of an end-to-end joining knot that was used to moor airships, is a duo. Ioanna Paraskevopoulou and me are putting together dances, actions and sounds that demand hardcore discipline and psychedelic imagination. In a world where staying ‘’grounded’’ or getting’’ high’’ seem to be often considered as survival methods, we try out both. While seeking moments of freedom, we try to maintain realness by focusing on our bodies in the act of doing.
— Katerina AndreouConcept/Creation/ Sound design: Katerina Andreou | Performance: Katerina Andreou, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Sound: Katerina Andreou and Cristián Sotomayor | Sound collaborator: Tal Agam | Light Design: Yannick Fouassier | Outside Eye: Myrto Katsiki | Production, bookings: Elodie Perrin | Production: BARK | Coproduction: Les Spectacles vivants du Centre Pompidou, Onassis Stegi Athènes, Tanzquartier Vienne, Atelier de Paris / Centre de développement chorégraphique national, La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie, dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil Studio, CN D Centre national de la danse, accueil en résidence, Le Gymnase, CDCN de Roubaix, CCN de Grenoble, Far festival des arts vivants Nyon, Centrale Fies (dans le cadre de LIVE WORKS Act Award 2019) | With the support of: BUDA Courtrai, RAMDAM UN CENTRE D’ART, Angers-CDCN, CDC de Grenoble, « Accueilli en résidence aux SUBS – lieu vivant d’expériences artistiques, Lyon », Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans | With the support of Van Cleef & Arpels
Circular's Acknowledgments: Pneus Azurara, Fundação Casa da Música, Marcelo Lafontana
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Katerina Andreou was born in Athens in 1982, she is based in France and makes dances, music and choreography.
She graduated both from the Law School - University of Athens, and the State School of Dance in Athens. As a scholar of the greek foundation “K.Pratsika”, she attended the program ESSAIS in CNDC d' Angers in 2011, under the direction of Emmanuelle Huyhn, and holds a master degree of Paris 8 on research and choreography. She was a DanceWEB scholar in ImpulsTanz Festival in Vienna in 2015. As a dancer she collaborated among others with DD Dorvillier, Lenio Kaklea, Bryan Campbell, Dinis Machado, Emmanuelle Huynh, Ana Rita Teodoro.
In her own work, she is interested in developing states of presence sorting out from a constant negotiation between contrasted tasks, fictions and universes, often questioning the relation to ideas as authority and autonomy, communication and censorship. She often makes the music design of her own pieces.
She was awarded with the choreography price Prix Jardin d'Europe, in ImpulsTanz Festival in 2016 for the solo dance piece A kind of fierce, a coproduction of Festival of Athens.
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer, based in Athens. She graduated from the Greek State School of Dance and is currently studying at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of Ionian University. She has collaborated, among others, with Iris Karayan, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Alexandra Waierstall, Brendan Fernandes, Sofia Mavragani, Tzeni Argyriou, Patricia Apergi, Andonis Foniadakis, Harry Koushos, “Ki omos kineitai”, Maria Koliopoulou, Artemis Lampiri and ‘Sinequanon,’ performing in Greece and internationally. Ioanna was awarded the ARTWORKS, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship in 2019. She was also awarded the Sound Design Award at the FIVideodanza Festival for her video project “All she likes is popping bubble wrap" (ONC8) . Recently, she created her first choreographic work ' MOS' in the context of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9. Her research focuses on the relation between audiovisual media and movement.