Join Greek dancer and choreographer Ioanna Paraskevopoulou for a unique audio-visual performance for the digital stage.
The screen is split in two, one side showing a montage of archival film footage (three girls fishing in a lake, a zombie chase scene, a woman in the bath); whilst the other shows a performer in dialogue with the images. Using various resources including her own body, to devise, create and produce a new soundtrack, Paraskevopoulou creatively brings these filmed images to life.
All She Likes is Popping Bubble Wrap is a playful and captivating experiment for the screen from an artist at the forefront of experimental dance and film.
About the artist +
Credit Julian Mommert
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance and is currently studying at the Department of AudioVisual Arts (Ionian University).
Her artistic practice focuses on the relationship between audio-visual media and movement, reconfiguring the expansion of the choreographic field. She has collaborated, among others, with Iris Karayan, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou and Alexandra Waierstall.
She was awarded the Best Performance prize for the dance film Sans Attente by Konstantinos Rizos at InShadow International Festival and second prize for her performance in mneme [action] 21 by Maria Koliopoulou at International Dance Festival, Algiers. She was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2019-2020.
Her choreographic video project All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap was created as part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8. ALSIPBW was selected by several video art festivals and awarded Best Sound Design at FIVideodanza Festival, Mexico and Best Video Art at MIFVIF, Venezuela.
MOS premiered at Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9 and had its European premiere at Julidans Next. She presented Coconut Effect at the 7th Danse élargie competition and won the Young Jury award. She was selected to present MOS at Aerowaves Twenty23.
Cast & Creative +
- Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Concept, Direction & Performance - Danis Chatzivasilakis
Audio Technical Support & Sound Design - Elena Novakovits
Dramaturgy - Carlos Muñoz
Video & Editing - Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Archival Material Editing - Miltos Athanasiou, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Andreas Simopoulos
Photography - Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Set & Costumes Design - Miltos Athanasiou
Wooden Construction
Credits +
Produced by Onassis STEGI as part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8
Films featured: Carnival of Souls (1962, dir. Herk Harvey); Fear and Desire (1952, Stanley Kubrick); Vengeance Valley (1951, dir. Richard Thorpe); Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero); The Amazing Transparent Man (1960, dir. Edgar G. Ulmer); The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962, dir. Joseph Green); Dixiana (1930, dir. Luther Reed); The Little Shop of Horrors (1986, dir. Frank Oz); Charade (1963, dir. Stanley Donen); The kissing
Access +
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No audio description available.
Language: English
Sound effects and music, with very limited dialogue.
This film largely takes place as a split screen: one half of the screen is footage from old films (list below) and the other half of the screen is Ioanna Paraskevopoulou by a microphone and Danis Chatzivasilakis sitting in a sound booth, trying to recreate the sound effects like foley artists, using an array of everyday objects and the body. Ioanna uses her body to imitate the movements and rhythms of what is depicted in the films.
Ioanna wears different outfits. For most of the film, she wears a colourful patterned jacket with blue jeans and black tap shoes. In other clips she is wearing a yellow coat, black turtleneck and a grey blazer, layered over the same outfit. Her long hair is tied into a high ponytail.
Films featured: Carnival of Souls (1962, dir. Herk Harvey); Fear and Desire (1952, Stanley Kubrick); Vengeance Valley (1951, dir. Richard Thorpe); Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero); The Amazing Transparent Man (1960, dir. Edgar G. Ulmer); The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962, dir. Joseph Green); Dixiana (1930, dir. Luther Reed); The Little Shop of Horrors (1986, dir. Frank Oz); Charade (1963, dir. Stanley Donen); The kissing
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