Ec(h)osomata (2021 - ongoing research)
The
research project Ec(h)osomata aims to examine the relationship
between the human body and nature in
contemporary society. We seek to explore the ways in which humans
have become disconnected from nature
and how this affects our well-being and the health of the planet. Through
a series of site-specific explorations, we create live performances,
videos, musical compositions, and
interactive installations, that invite audiences to reflect on their
own relationship with nature and to consider
how we can better integrate our bodies with the natural world.
The
research project Ec(h)osomata aims to examine the relationship
between the human body and nature in
contemporary society. We seek to explore the ways in which humans
have become disconnected from nature
and how this affects our well-being and the health of the planet. Through
a series of site-specific explorations, we create live performances,
videos, musical compositions, and
interactive installations, that invite audiences to reflect on their
own relationship with nature and to consider
how we can better integrate our bodies with the natural world.
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A happy day (2023):
https://youtu.be/ZboqEs9fxZc
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How to dance Flamingo (2022): https://youtu.be/35NploU0_ew
(3
min)
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Where
is Molly? Lovers’ Bridge (2021)
https://youtu.be/rrp3gTAEHBY
(2.48)
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That
nothing of sand that passes through the hourglass and leaves
fingerprints on the flesh (2021):
https://youtu.be/pEXhLh1Pgtw
(2
min)
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| Agwue - Poster |
VOYAGE TO/FOR FREEDOM. AT THE SEA. THE BOAT SINKS. PEOPLE DROWN. 1821/2021
Creation / Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Music: Kostas Tsiolis
Music: Kostas Tsiolis
Safe Distance (2021)
What does a safe distance between us sound like? The closer our bodies
get, the stronger the vibrations between us get. Can we embrace each
other without causing our own destruction? An audio-kinetic game with
the public health rules on social distancing, where social contact is
distorted through telecommunication.
"Safe Distance" was developed in three works that combine choreography, sound, mobile phones and philosophy. The works were presented at Stavros Niarchos as part of the SNF Nostos Festival, at Kappatos Field and in the streets of Aegina as part of the TsakBam Festival.
Press:
Safe Distance (3) was presented at Stavros Niarchos as part of the SNF Nostos Festival in Athens with the support of ARTWORKS Fellowship Program.
Concept/Choreography: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Performance: Maria Vlachou, Maria Kandylaki, Christina Karagianni, Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Technical Support: Kostas Tsiolis
Video Documentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jr-qipwZXg
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| Safe Distance (2) Still from Video. |
Concept/Choreography: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Performance: Eleonora Ilia, Maria Vlachou, Kostas Tsiolis, Nikos Chronopoulos, Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Video: Roman Zoter
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| Safe Distance (1) Still from Video. |
Concept/Choreography: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Performance: Maria Vlachou, Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Documentation: Konstantinos Tsiolis
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| BREARTH Photo: A. & C. Bourelias |
video performance
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v5VZ7GbX7rU
A journey inwards to our own nature: breath and matter. The body, the earth, the water and the air are the main elements of
this dance ritual that takes place inside an enclosed limited space. The video was created under the 2021 lockdown period
due to coronavirus restrictions. The confrontation with mortality, the experience of an expansion of time, as well as the
redefinition of our relationship to the self are some of the themes that occurred in this journey.
this dance ritual that takes place inside an enclosed limited space. The video was created under the 2021 lockdown period
due to coronavirus restrictions. The confrontation with mortality, the experience of an expansion of time, as well as the
redefinition of our relationship to the self are some of the themes that occurred in this journey.
Stella Dimitrakopoulou: Artistic Direction, Production, Choreogrpahy, Performance, Voice
Alekos & Christos Bourelias: Set Construction & Design, Cinematography, PhotographyKonstantinos Tsiolis: Music
This research project is made with the support of the Greek Municipality of Culture (2020).
CyberTouch (2020) 
Live performance
Video documentation: https://youtu.be/s6pwRGwBKl4
“CyberTouch” is an experimental audiovisual performance which combines dance and music with live coding, and a prototyped wearable interactive technology to create audiovisual experiences. It is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research informed by Cybernetics, a structured improvisation between two individuals, a composer (Vasilis Agiomyrgiannakis) and a dancer-choreographer (Stella Dimitrakopoulou). Our goal is to explore and propose new relationships and strategies in performing practices and interactive audiovisual arts, while expanding the potential of the human body.
Construction Insight (2020)
video performance
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| Construction Insight |
This work presents an alchemical experiment with construction materials and bodies on a ritual journey to the interior. In a peculiar site, we follow a process of construction of an ever-changing world that is revealed. Can we think of the choreographic process as a process of exchanging qualities and properties between organic and inorganic bodies? Can we think of dance as a transformation of energy? How can the movement transform into voice, the voice into stone, the stone into gaze, the gaze into light?
Teaser: https://vimeo.com/490924198
Stella Dimitrakopoulou : Direction & Production / Performance / Filming / Video Editing / Music
Konstantinos Tsiolis : Filming / Video Editing / Music
Elpida Orfanidou : Performance
Julianna Bloodgood : Voice Training
Made with the support of The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation.
Ondes Particulaires (2018)
live performance
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| Ondes Particulaires - Photo: Y.Bakalis |
Concept / Choreography / Production: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Music - Poster Drawing: Konstantinos Tsiolis
Music - Poster Drawing: Konstantinos Tsiolis
Performers: Angeliki Anargyrou, Georgia Chasapi, Maria Kandilaki, Veatriki Kapnisi, Zoe Mastrotheodorou, Marianiki Pagoni, Dimitra Papourtzi, Marina Piniatorou.
Technical Support: Dimitris Stamatis
Poster Postproduction: Panos Iliopoulos
Video Documentation: sick my duck sound&vision
Poster Postproduction: Panos Iliopoulos
Video Documentation: sick my duck sound&vision
Photos: Yiorgos Bakalis
Teaser: Yannis Lianos
Presented: November 1st, 2018 - Piraeus Municipal Theatre without respect but with love (2016)
video
PhD Research Project
A: https://vimeo.com/151397618
B: https://vimeo.com/149513456
'without respect but with love' (2015) is part of Stella Dimitrakopoulou’s PhD research on “(Il)legitimate Performance: Copying, Authorship and the Canon”. The work examines how copying, as part of an illegitimate process, influences the formation of a canon and the attribution of values, to propose copying as an act of love. A series of 15 videos were made one after the other like a Chinese whispers game based on a video of Trio A by Yvonne Rainer (recorded by Sally Banes in 1984).
Concept & Creation: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Video Consultant: Konstantinos Sidiras
Dancers: Megan Armishaw, Clare Daly, Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Andrew Hardwidge, Antje Hildebrandt, Samuel Kennedy, Elena Koukoli, Εvangelia Kolyri, Alice MacKenzie, Martha Passakopoulou, Helena Rosamund Webb, Lizzie Sells, Tania Soubry, Rosalie Wahlfrid, Emelie Wångstedt Af Dalmatinerhjärta.
Presented at:
- 2nd International Symposium Performance Philosophy School of Athens, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), (September 2017). Documentation of the presentation and discussion: youtube.com/watch?v=uWuuG-7Y0u8
- Trio A and Yvonne Rainer: Dance on Film, London Feminist Film Festival and JW3, London, UK. londonfeministfilmfestival.com/lfff-archive/iwd-2016-celebrations-at-jw3/ (January 2016)
Duende (2015)
Choreography and Performance of the video advertisement of the winery 'Habla' (Spain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QZ7bfQzUJg
The Last Lecture (a performance) - Filmic Documentation (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEctBRizbtw&t=1763s
Creation / Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Technical Support and Video: Jesus Ubera
14 Day Theatre, Athens, Greece
Andy Monroe (2012)
Peer TV By Andrew Hardwidge and guests Chisenhale Dance Space, London, March 2012
AnaKrisi (2011)
A site specific performance created for the Communi(cati)on of Crisis, Live Arts Research Institute, Nafpaktos, Greece, 2011
Concept: Stella Dimitrakopoulou & Yannis Loukos
Creation Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Yannis Loukos, Natasha Papadopoulou, Eleftheria Togia.
Participation: Pantelis Mouloudakis
Photos and sculptures by Natasha Papadopoulou
re-re-twothousandth-ree (2011)
https://vimeo.com/28992066
By Trio Collective
Presented at:
- Resolution! 2011, Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Place, London, UK, 2011
- Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton, UK, 2011
- Oh So Totally Rad!, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, UK, 2011
Frauen danst Frauen (2011)
https://vimeo.com/21062522
A video made by Stella Dimitrakopoulou with Maria Tsesmetzi
Aliveri, Greece, March 2011
About the piece "Frauen Danst Frauen": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYSRHwmXu98
Presented at:
- Dimanche Rouge, Weekly Television Programme
- The French cable channel 'Souvenirs from Earth' (SFE): http://www.souvenirsfromearth.tv/
January 2014
- ABUNDANCE, International Dance Festival, Karlstad, Sweden, 5-7 September 2013
- Performance and Live Art Platform, Larnaca, Cyprous, 21-22 July 2013
- Peer TV, by Andrew Hardwidge and guests, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, March 2012
- Emergency Accommodation, Blankspace, Manchester, UK, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99wWIMbFQks
By Trio Collective
Presented at:
- Bonnie Bird Theatre, Laban, London, UK, 2009
- Sodaworks Postgraduate Platform, Berlin, Germany, 2009
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| without respect but with love |
PhD Research ProjectA: https://vimeo.com/151397618
B: https://vimeo.com/149513456
'without respect but with love' (2015) is part of Stella Dimitrakopoulou’s PhD research on “(Il)legitimate Performance: Copying, Authorship and the Canon”. The work examines how copying, as part of an illegitimate process, influences the formation of a canon and the attribution of values, to propose copying as an act of love. A series of 15 videos were made one after the other like a Chinese whispers game based on a video of Trio A by Yvonne Rainer (recorded by Sally Banes in 1984).
Concept & Creation: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Video Consultant: Konstantinos Sidiras
Dancers: Megan Armishaw, Clare Daly, Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Andrew Hardwidge, Antje Hildebrandt, Samuel Kennedy, Elena Koukoli, Εvangelia Kolyri, Alice MacKenzie, Martha Passakopoulou, Helena Rosamund Webb, Lizzie Sells, Tania Soubry, Rosalie Wahlfrid, Emelie Wångstedt Af Dalmatinerhjärta.
Presented at:
- 2nd International Symposium Performance Philosophy School of Athens, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), (September 2017). Documentation of the presentation and discussion: youtube.com/watch?v=uWuuG-7Y0u8
- Trio A and Yvonne Rainer: Dance on Film, London Feminist Film Festival and JW3, London, UK. londonfeministfilmfestival.com/lfff-archive/iwd-2016-celebrations-at-jw3/ (January 2016)
Duende (2015)
Choreography and Performance of the video advertisement of the winery 'Habla' (Spain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QZ7bfQzUJg
Trio Collective: A self-Interview (The performance) (2015)
RE:COLLECTIVES - A Round-table Symposium exploring the past, present and future of artists collectives (organised by CLUSTER BOMB [collective])
Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green, London
Pas Des Kot' (2013)
https://vimeo.com/67308820
A comical video made by Stella Dimitrakopoulou and Eleftheria Togia
London, UK, May 2013
https://vimeo.com/67308820
A comical video made by Stella Dimitrakopoulou and Eleftheria Togia
London, UK, May 2013
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| m my me |
m my me (2012)
https://vimeo.com/50235452
Performance by Stella Dimitrakopoulou & Natasha Papadopoulou
Music by Yannis Loukos
Presented at:
- 6th Thessaloniki Biennale Of Contemporary Art, Greece, June 2015
https://vimeo.com/50235452
Performance by Stella Dimitrakopoulou & Natasha Papadopoulou
Music by Yannis Loukos
Presented at:
- 6th Thessaloniki Biennale Of Contemporary Art, Greece, June 2015
- Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, Greece, 17 July 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvSbxYx62c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvSbxYx62c
- The Callas Studio, Athens, Greece, 2012
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| Another Chair Dance |
Another Chair Dance (2011)
By Trio Collective
Presented at:
- Circuit Performance Platform, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
9th June 2013
Photos by Ruben Plaza.
- Parallax01, Old Police Station, London, UK, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KIrjMDuooU
- Q-Art Convenors, University of the Arts, London, UK, 2011
- 10th Dance Festival of the Association of Greek Choreographers, PK Theatre, Athens, Greece, 2011
Mind the Dance (2012)
https://vimeo.com/63391549
Creation: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Music production: Yannis Spyrou
Performance: Amanda Prince-Lubawy, Antje Hildebrandt, Dominique Vannod, Don E More, Else Tunemyr, Jonny Blamey, Kuo-Chieh Liang, Mark Carberry, Michelangelo Miccolis, Nina Alexopoulou, Robert Cook.
Presented at The Book Club, London, 6/11/2012
By Trio Collective
Presented at:
- Circuit Performance Platform, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
9th June 2013
Photos by Ruben Plaza.
- Parallax01, Old Police Station, London, UK, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KIrjMDuooU
- Q-Art Convenors, University of the Arts, London, UK, 2011
- 10th Dance Festival of the Association of Greek Choreographers, PK Theatre, Athens, Greece, 2011
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| Mind The Dance |
Mind the Dance (2012)
https://vimeo.com/63391549
Creation: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Music production: Yannis Spyrou
Performance: Amanda Prince-Lubawy, Antje Hildebrandt, Dominique Vannod, Don E More, Else Tunemyr, Jonny Blamey, Kuo-Chieh Liang, Mark Carberry, Michelangelo Miccolis, Nina Alexopoulou, Robert Cook.
Presented at The Book Club, London, 6/11/2012
Photos by Ludovic De Cognets
Trio Collective: A Self-Interview
https://vimeo.com/133885334
Trio: A Self-Interview is a performance that takes the form of a self-interview of the collective, which acts as a mode for questioning, understanding and performing our collaboration. The text is based on several self-interviews that took place during our creative process and served as methodological tools for our performances. The performance derives from texts developed in June 2009 and in April 2012, therefore making explicit a gap in both our personal and collective memory, as well as interrogating our collaborative process through past, present and future times.
We discuss issues arising from our collaboration including the relationship between talking and doing, different modes of communication, misunderstandings and failures, responsibility and decision-making. The members of the collective are both interviewers and interviewees –exchanging roles and seeking identities. Questioning issues of authorship and non-hierarchical working structures, we are trying to define and organise the fluid boundaries that exist within our modes of production.
without respect but with love (the performance)(2012)
https://vimeo.com/56722841
Creation: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Antje Hilderbrant, Nina Alexopoulou
Reframing Yvonne Rainer's 'Trio A'.
Trio Collective: A Self-Interview
https://vimeo.com/133885334
Trio: A Self-Interview is a performance that takes the form of a self-interview of the collective, which acts as a mode for questioning, understanding and performing our collaboration. The text is based on several self-interviews that took place during our creative process and served as methodological tools for our performances. The performance derives from texts developed in June 2009 and in April 2012, therefore making explicit a gap in both our personal and collective memory, as well as interrogating our collaborative process through past, present and future times.
We discuss issues arising from our collaboration including the relationship between talking and doing, different modes of communication, misunderstandings and failures, responsibility and decision-making. The members of the collective are both interviewers and interviewees –exchanging roles and seeking identities. Questioning issues of authorship and non-hierarchical working structures, we are trying to define and organise the fluid boundaries that exist within our modes of production.
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| without respect but with love |
without respect but with love (the performance)(2012)
https://vimeo.com/56722841
Creation: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Antje Hilderbrant, Nina Alexopoulou
Reframing Yvonne Rainer's 'Trio A'.
Αgony Art, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, 23/12/2012
The Last Lecture (a performance) (2011/2016)
Concept - Creation: Stella Dimitrakopoulou Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou & Technician This work brings into question the notion of copy in dance and performance, in relation to academia. Based on Jérôme Bel’s lecture presentation ‘The last performance (a lecture)’, the performance’s aim is not the satire but to use copying as a means for rethinking the notions of authorship, originality and intellectual property in the field of choreography.
Video Documentation made by Jesus Ubera in February 2016 in Athens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEctBRizbtw
Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou & Jesus Ubera.
Presented at: - Royal College of Art, Battersea, London, UK (June 2013) - Frown Tails, Athens, Greece, 20-21-22 April 2012 (Technical Support: Yannis Loukos, Live Music: Eleftheria Togia, Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou & Yannis Loukos) - Goldsmiths University, London, UK (February 2012) - Empros Theatre, Athens, Greece, 2012 - Performing Text / Reading Performance, Pandemic, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK, 2011
The Last Lecture (a performance) (2011/2016)
Concept - Creation: Stella Dimitrakopoulou Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou & Technician This work brings into question the notion of copy in dance and performance, in relation to academia. Based on Jérôme Bel’s lecture presentation ‘The last performance (a lecture)’, the performance’s aim is not the satire but to use copying as a means for rethinking the notions of authorship, originality and intellectual property in the field of choreography.
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| The Last Lecture (a performance) |
Video Documentation made by Jesus Ubera in February 2016 in Athens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEctBRizbtw
Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou & Jesus Ubera.
Presented at: - Royal College of Art, Battersea, London, UK (June 2013) - Frown Tails, Athens, Greece, 20-21-22 April 2012 (Technical Support: Yannis Loukos, Live Music: Eleftheria Togia, Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou & Yannis Loukos) - Goldsmiths University, London, UK (February 2012) - Empros Theatre, Athens, Greece, 2012 - Performing Text / Reading Performance, Pandemic, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK, 2011
The Last Lecture (a performance) - Filmic Documentation (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEctBRizbtw&t=1763s
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| Andy Monroe |
Creation / Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Technical Support and Video: Jesus Ubera
14 Day Theatre, Athens, Greece
Andy Monroe (2012)
Peer TV By Andrew Hardwidge and guests Chisenhale Dance Space, London, March 2012
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| AnaKrisi |
AnaKrisi (2011)
A site specific performance created for the Communi(cati)on of Crisis, Live Arts Research Institute, Nafpaktos, Greece, 2011
Concept: Stella Dimitrakopoulou & Yannis Loukos
Creation Performance: Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Yannis Loukos, Natasha Papadopoulou, Eleftheria Togia.
Participation: Pantelis Mouloudakis
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| re-re-twothousandth-re |
re-re-twothousandth-ree (2011)
https://vimeo.com/28992066
By Trio Collective
Presented at:
- Resolution! 2011, Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Place, London, UK, 2011
- Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton, UK, 2011
- Oh So Totally Rad!, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, UK, 2011
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| Frauen danst Frauen |
https://vimeo.com/21062522
A video made by Stella Dimitrakopoulou with Maria Tsesmetzi
Aliveri, Greece, March 2011
About the piece "Frauen Danst Frauen": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYSRHwmXu98
Presented at:
- Dimanche Rouge, Weekly Television Programme
- The French cable channel 'Souvenirs from Earth' (SFE): http://www.souvenirsfromearth.tv/
January 2014
- ABUNDANCE, International Dance Festival, Karlstad, Sweden, 5-7 September 2013
- Performance and Live Art Platform, Larnaca, Cyprous, 21-22 July 2013
- Peer TV, by Andrew Hardwidge and guests, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, March 2012
- Emergency Accommodation, Blankspace, Manchester, UK, 2011
- Pandemic!, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK, 2011
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| Culture |
Culture (2009)
Solo Performance
MA Research Project
Trinity Laban, London, UK, 2009
Trinity Laban, London, UK, 2009
Menu of the Day (2009)
Video Installation
MA Research Project on Food and Everyday Life
Presented at The Deptford Project, London, UK, 2009
For more information press here
Presented at The Deptford Project, London, UK, 2009
For more information press here
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| Trio |
Trio Minus Michelle Plus You (2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIPH_Uhnqqw
By Trio Collective
The Southwark Playhouse, London, UK, 2009
Trio (2009)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIPH_Uhnqqw
By Trio Collective
The Southwark Playhouse, London, UK, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99wWIMbFQks
By Trio Collective
Presented at:
- Bonnie Bird Theatre, Laban, London, UK, 2009
- Sodaworks Postgraduate Platform, Berlin, Germany, 2009
