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20 – 26\/05\/24<\/h4>\n

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Performing Arts – Music
\nTitle of the project: “A missing step”
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Description of project:
\n<\/strong>Through our mutual interest in traditional music and dances from all over Greece – one as a musician and the other a dancer – we wonder in what ways we can co-create influenced by them.
\nHaving as our starting point specific steps, with different characteristics, measures, rhythms, and origins, we will attempt to study the kinesiology that is created as well as how one moves as a unit. The traditional dances of our land are by definition group (or binary) dances. What changes when we remove such a basic characteristic from them?
\nBy selecting and studying music with different styles, measures, arrangements, meanings, symbolisms, and themes, we will attempt to extract elements from them, record sounds connected to memories related to tradition and our perception of it, and finally, create a framework for live performance of electroacoustic music. All this in a harmonious encounter of movement and sound.<\/p>\n

Open presentation: Saturday May 25th<\/sup> 2024
\n21:30, Free Entrance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Co existing \u2013 Improvisation workshop for dancers and musicians<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/a>Saturday May 25th<\/sup> 2024, 17:00-19:00
\nSunday May 26th<\/sup> 2024, 12:00-14:00
\n<\/strong>Free submission<\/strong><\/p>\n

Olga Kalantzi<\/h3>\n

Olga Kalantzi was born in Athens in 1994. She studied at the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering in Syros and at the Higher Professional School of Dance “Aktina” in Athens. She has worked with Akropoditi Dance Theatre in Syros and SQx Dance Company in Canada. She now lives in Athens and teaches traditional dances together with Andreas Segditsas. In 2023 she presented her solo “WRAP: a pocket guide to never escaping yourself” in Athens, Portugal and Turkey and took part in the All4fun audience theatre awards at the Ideal cinema. She also collaborates with Collective Spine for the work “La Soiree”.
\nShe is interested in practices, improvisation tools and research on elements such as freedom and restriction, order and disorder, form and amorphousness, as well as collaboration and strengthening the connection between people.
\nhttps:\/\/vimeo.com\/867540517<\/a><\/p>\n

Filippos Raskovic<\/h3>\n

Filippos Raskovic is a composer, improviser and curator from Athens, Greece based in Vilnius, Lithuania. His work creates a sonic world; accidental and composed, recognizable and unexpected simultaneously.
\nAs a composer, he often creates interdisciplinary work with visual artists and in close relation to instrumentalists with a focus on the acoustics of objects, sculptures, and spaces. In 2021 he completed the performative installation \u201cEcho Chambers\u201d in close collaboration with the sculptor D.Tampakis which was developed during his FUGA residency in Spain and together with the collective UN P R 18T (Un. Processed Realities), they created \u201cPOST EUROPEAN RAGEROOM TM\u201d a performance & pop-up exhibition shown atCentrum Berlin.
\nAs an improviser, he self-released his first album \u201cgentle presence” in 2020 and has performed at the Monopiano Festival 2021 at Fylkingen, Sweden, State51 Studios, London, Flatterschafft – Basel, Flatterschafft: THE END – DefDefDefinitive, Studium P, Vilnius and Chimeres, Athens, amongst others. He is also a founding member of \u201cillucid trio\u201d with Kazimieras Jusinskas and Gediminas Stepanavicius. In 2019 he co-founded the KRAMA collective and festival an independent initiative aiming to present a new outlook within the art scene of Athens and beyond. Finally, he is a monthly resident host at the independent web radio “Radio Vilnius” and co-producer of the show Krama Entries at movement radio.
\nwww.raskovicfilippos.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Olga Kalantzi is a dancer with a love for improvisation and instant composition. She is interested in practices, improvisation tools and the investigation of elements such as freedom and restriction, order and disorder, form and amorphousness, as well as collaboration and strengthening the connection between people. In addition, she teaches traditional dances and has direct contact with the steps and music of the Greek tradition.
\nPhilip Raskovic is a composer and improviser from Athens based in Vilnius. Also with a love and involvement with improvisation and tradition, he is interested in the ways in which he can incorporate the traditional element in his music.
\nThe two of us being friends from a young age, we decided to collaborate for the first time by creating a performance that combines the sides of each of us, on the same coin.<\/p>\n

We started with our mutual interest in traditional music and dances around Greece – as musician and dancer – and wondered in what ways we could co-create influenced by them.
\nTaking specific steps as a basis, with different characteristics, measures, rhythms and origins, we attempted to study the kinesiology that is created as well as how one moves as a unit. The traditional dances of our country are by definition group (or binary) dances. What changes when we remove such a basic characteristic from them?
\nBy selecting and studying some music with different styles, measures, arrangements, meanings, symbolisms, themes, we attempted to extract elements from them, recorded sounds connected to memories related to the tradition and our own perception of it, and finally created a framework for live performance of electroacoustic music.
\nAll this in a harmonious encounter of movement and sound.<\/p>\n

None of this could have happened without Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre. It gave us the opportunity to stay at the venue for a week to make our research a reality. Our residency took place in May 2024.
\nIt is a unique experience, in one of the warmest and most welcoming spaces we have ever encountered. The fact that you are offered a space to stay and at the same time use it to explore and create is very special in itself. The people and the environment of the island are definitely factors that influence the creative process. When the space and the people embrace you, the help they offer to the project is immeasurable.<\/p>\n

Simultaneously with our research and creation, which we presented at the end of the residency, we also gave an improvisation workshop for dancers and musicians where we approached the dynamic between dance and music, starting from two key factors, the body and the space. Through exercises focusing on bodily awareness, our relationship with space and interaction, we expanded our observational skills and thus the communication between musicians and dancers, thus strengthening the group connection. We improvised in a collective process, equally fed by all participants, ultimately creating a dynamic and vibrant environment. We wanted to exist together in the present, creating a new composition, beyond the distinction of music and dance.
\nThe response from the people was touching and quite helpful for our own personal research. We discovered things we hadn’t imagined and got feedback that definitely helped us to evolve ourselves and to develop our work.
\nWe are grateful to all of you for this experience.<\/p>\n

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\nTitle of the project: “A missing step”
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