Photography by Heather McGrath
Panos Tsigkos (GR) is a professional piano technician, covering also other keyboard instruments. In his workshop, there is a small selection of modern and vintage keyboards, available for various projects. He works closely with Ov Off studio and many other institutions. He is especially interested in microtonal tunings, extended techniques and player pianos. He also performs on the piano, saxophone and electronics.
Justine Goussot is a French multidisciplinary performer, choreographer and dance professor based in Athens(GR). She studied classical piano (lately at the International Conservatoire of Paris), Jazz and vocal technic in a professional school in Bordeaux (CIAM), musicology and philosophy. In 2005 she is accepted at the Conservatoire of Bordeaux for the professional cursus in contemporary dance and choreography. She traveled many years in Asian countries to gather traditional material such as Kalbeliya, Sufi, Vajra, Bharatanatyam, to then get specialized in Kathak. She has a B.A. in pedagogy of dance from the French ministry of culture. Her first collaborations as an interpret was multidisciplinary oriented, touring with an Orchestra, collaborating with Carlotta Ikeda (Butoh company Ariadone), Nina Dipla (German dance), being an extra and then a dancer at the National Opera of Bordeaux, then later for Lausanne and Saint-Etienne with Lilo Baur, playing music professionally. She created her company La Lali cie in 2011, and signed 11 pieces, in a constant fusion between Dance, Theatre, Music, and at last Science as a support for the raise of a new scoring approach. In Greece, she keeps exploring versatility, playing at the opening of Niarchos Foundation with the music band Klezmer Yunan, working as a movement instructor and choreographer for the “Youths of the Opera” at Niarchos Foundation, writing music and acting for the theatre company Avstronavtes, exploring improvisation and instant composition, lately with Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou for her contemporary music and performative piece “Aïzo”, or with “Enumérations” of Georgios Aperghis, co-produced by the Athens conservatoire and the Onassis Foundation. She was recently involved in a production for Elevsis 2023 implying research on sensors and telematic with Japanese artists, as an artistic director assistant, choreographer and dancer.
Stella Fotiadi has graduated in 2006 from the Rallou Manou dance school, in 2007 from the Communication and Media Department of the University of Athens and is currently a master’s degree student at the Intra-University Postgraduate Program “Information and Communication Technologies for Education”.
Apart from her dance studies, she has attended several seminars/classes with distinguished teachers in Greece and abroad, while since 2006 she is a teacher of contemporary dance and music and dance education.
She has collaborated as a dancer/performer in Greece and abroad (Berlin, Brussels) with: Stella Zannou, Apostolia Papadamaki, Greek National Opera, Mariela Nestora, Maro Grigoriou, Dagipoli dance theatre, LaborGras, Howard Katz, Jessica Jobaris, Sybille Mueller and Willie Dorner.
In 2005, while still being a dance student, she co-choreographed and danced a duet, which won the 1st award of its category in the national dance competition ‘’Terpsihore’s Works’’; the duet was presented that same year in Barcelona.
In 2011 she became a member of the “Theatre of Panic”, participating in the performances “Antonello’s death” and “1-100”.
In 2013 she established her own contemporary dance company, Still Pilgrim Paradox. The company counts four productions so far: The performances “Hands/Χέρια”(2015), “Unspoken”(2016) and “Seeking Bliss”(2017) and the videodance “Whispers and wishes”(2016). “Whispers and wishes” has been screened in a number of international festivals, such as POOL 16 (Berlin), Moving Images International Videodance Festival (Nicosia), Athens Video Dance Project (Athens), Dance on Screen Festival (Graz) and at the 21.Internationales Tanz Solo Festival (Stuttgart).
Furthermore, in 2016 she participated as a choreographer and dancer in Music in Motion Festival in Athens and in the borders of the International Athens Photo Festival at Benaki Museum.
In Spring 2018, she selected and choreographed six students of Aktina Professional Dance School (Athens), based on her last work, “Seeking Bliss”.
“Seeking Bliss” was chosen and presented in June 2018 at Summer Nostos Festival (Athens) by Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
During season 2019-2020 she led a cultural program for kids and teenagers in primary and secondary schools of Attika, under the title “What if we just dance?”, which run under the aegis and was subsidized by the Greek Ministry of and Sports, with the support of Duncan Dance Research Center, in collaboration with the Experimental Pedagory Lab(Faculty of Primary Education/University of Athens) and with the approval of the Hellenic Ministry of Education.
In winter 2019-2020, she was invited by Kinitiras(Athens)to work as a resident artist in Lo Studio in Arbedo (Switzerland) under the module “femininity in transition”. She has created an ongoing solo choreography, which will be completed and presented during spring 2021, in collaboration with the musician Katerina Papachristou.
This period she runs with her company the dance action for kids and teenagers/primary and secondary schools “Dancing, rolling, spinning, flying”, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the funding of Flux Laboratory Athens and in collaboration with Duncan Dance Research Center, while she is already organizing a third dance action fot young audiences/schools, again with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and in collaboration with Duncan Dance Research Center.
Iakovos Pavlopoulos was born in 1976 in Athens. He is a graduate of music technology, theory and harmony from the Philippos Nakas Conservatory, a branch of the Berklee Music College, and the National Conservatory (1997-1998, 2009-2011).
He studied drums with Giannis Kalkanis and jazz music with Christos Kotzinas (2002-2004). He studied music further at the KOOREN HUIS music school in The Hague, drums with Erik Ineke, Hans van Oosterhont and rhythm session with Alex Milo. He was a member of the Koorenhuis Big Band under Victor Borkrt (2006-2008).
In 2017 he attended the Dutch Impro Academy.
He was a co-founder of the company of cultural producers “I Trelli Rodia”.
During the last decade he has been working as a percussionist and sound designer for theatrical performances.
Indicatively, he has collaborated with: Thodoris Ambazis, Wang Xiaoying, Nikos Karathanos, Angelos Triantafyllou, Konstantinos Rigos, Dimitris Maramis, Giannis Kakleas, Stavros Gasparatos, Angela Bruskou, Om@dance, P. Tavernier, Giannis Vouros , Jenny Drivala, Nikos Kypourgos, Joalz, Leon Sega, Νefeli Stamatogiannopoulou, Mary Tsoni, Telemachos Mousas, Fenia Papadodima, George Palamiotis, Closer, Monsieur Minimal, Apollonas Retsos, Andrianos Nonis, Sequence Theory Project, M. Eugenia Demeglio, Thanos Polymeneas, ost ensemble, Ocean Hope, Nefelopetra, Modified Dogs, Chrysanthos Christodoulou, Takis Vassilakis, Yorgos Maraziotis.
Aggelos Mastrantonis (GR) -composer, violinist- studied composition at Ionian University. In 2017 he obtained a Master’s Degree in composition with distinction from the Reid School of Music of University of Edinburgh. He owns a PhD in composition at the University of Edinburgh supervised by Peter Nelson and Dr. Gareth Williams.
He has collaborated with the Greek Ensemble of Contemporary Music, Red Note Ensemble, Edinburgh Quartet, Ov Off -Nefeli Stam., Edinburgh University String Orchestra and the Reid School of Music Ensemble of Contemporary Music. Aggelos has been awarded the first prize at the Emre Araci Composition Competition 2016 for his work ‘Stygian Reflections’ for string orchestra, and the first prize at the competition of Workshop for Young Greek Composers 2014 organized by GCU for his work ‘Carthago Delenda Est’ for Ensemble. Aggelos organized and co-curated events during Dialogues Festival 2019, as part of the annual Innovative Learning Week of University of Edinburgh, co-funded by the Edinburgh College of Arts. He has worked as a music copyist for the Greek National Radio & Television Broadcast (ERT) and as a composition tutor at the University of Edinburgh and University of Macedonia.
Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou is a composer, performance artist and improviser based in Athens.
As a composer she has written more than 50 works including compositions for many performances/theater and films, as she has also worked as a director in several projects.
She plays double bass, electric bass, electronics, piano and she is also exploring the limits of the voice.
In her last music and stage compositions, the artist, focuses on a personal system of notation and creation, which explore the relationship between music composition, movement and the dramaturgy of sound.
She has been awarded for her work as a composer/musician as well as a sound editor.
She has performed on many concert, festival and theatrical halls.
She studied at the department of Composition, with specialisation on the Performing Arts. She also studied at the graduate department “Composition for Cinema, Theater and Performing Arts”, of the Ionian University, participated for many years in masterclasses/seminars focused on physical theater, voice and composition under the supervision of the Grotowski Institute (PLN), the Song of the Goat Theater (PLN) , L.I.S.P.A. (DE), the Kristin Linklater Voice Centre(UK).
She is also the composer and founder of, among others, the research artistic group Ov Off (Quintet ’84, The Glass Between, αϊζο-the bird-e.t.c),the music group Spooky Redrum, as well as the founder of Ov Off Studio.
She is exploring – rhythm, voice- and composition as an instructor and a solo artist.
She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University. She teaches seminar courses & workshops in Greece and abroad, as well as at the Ionian University as a guest lecturer.
photo by Karol Jarek
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