TRIAL& - PERFORMING ARTS
Trial& - Performing Arts is an interdisciplinary group of performing artists - experimental dancers and performers, that focuses on the interaction of dance, theater and audio-visual arts. Trial & was founded in the spring of 2019 as a test of a new artistic approach that explores the boundaries between different types of art with an emphasis on movement. The members (Marianna Kravida, Lydia Xourafi, Angeliki Petraki, Athena Stavropoulou) met at the Athens Dance Video Project Project 2019 -Promenade where they started their collaboration. Since then they continue their artistic research and composition using dance and theatre techniques. Their first project "Us, Joints" was created to ask questions about the future at a social level. The performative artwork "Us, Joints" was created out of a need to wonder about what has happened in social level and raise questions about the future and was presented at the TV Control Center (KET) in November 2019 getting an extension of performances. Continuing to create the current project “Medusa: a tentacle system” using as a springboard for his artistic research the eco-feminist movement and the practices that lead to equality and the dynamics of female existence in modern societies of the 21st century.
ARTISTS - PERFORMERS
ANGELIKI PETRAKI
www.angelikip.pixieset.com/danceyourstyle/
Angeliki Petraki is a professional dancer,choreographer,dance teacher.
She has professional degree from Anna Petrova-Maro Marmarinou Higher Professional School of Dance. Also she has master degree from Panteion University, in the Department of Political Science and History. Since graduating from the professional dance school, she has collaborated with the Batsheva Dance Company in Berlin as part of a seminars about learning variations and learning of Gaga technique. She is also the co-creator and choreographer of the contemporary dance and perform acting group Trial &. Creator and choreographer of performance An Exotic Moment 2021. She works as a teacher of classical ballet, contepmorary dance and improvisation in dance schools in Greece. At the same time she has cooparate with various professional dance companies in Athens and Patra.She worked as a ballerina at Patras Ballet Opera DIPETHE. He has also taken part in various dance festivals including the RAD Ballet Festival and the Athens Video Dance Festival. she has attended seminars on the analysis of movement and the structure of choreographic material, contemporary and neoclassical dance.About Panteion University participated in the seminar on the development of culture in Greece,culture and creative woman.
MARIANNA KARAVIDA
Marianna Karavida was born and raised in Athens. He graduated from the Higher Dance School of Rallou Manou in June 2016 while she has also studied at the Geography Department of the Harokopio University of Athens. He has collaborated with the group Around us for the production but also with the Spanish choreographer Pere Faura at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. In April 2018 she presented her first work in progress entitled De Pueritia in the "In progress feedback festival in Kinitiras studio where the public voted it as the best performance of the festival. She has also participated in other festivals such as Adapt Festival, Tempus Verum Theater, ARC for dance festival. She has attended various contemporary dance seminars such as: Hofesh Schechter intensive workshop under the guidance of the dancers, Eastman Sidi Larbi Cherakoui
LYDIA XOURAFI
www.lydiaxourafi-selfasstories.com
Lydia Xourafi is a performing artist / performer and social scientist while working as a facilitator of creative and mindful movement courses. She studied Theater-Performance (EKPA-Department of Theatrical Studies, CISPA.DK) and Psychology (BA / MSc Psychology). She has also been trained in mindful movement techniques through a variety of seminars and courses (Mindfulness, Feldenkrais, Flow movement, Contemporary Dance, Improvisation, Physical Theater) and specializes in the Art of Participatory Performance at the Stockholm Academy (Stockholm Academy of Arts). As an artist / performer she collaborates with dance and theater groups (Riscus Theater Group, Trial & - Performing Dart, Athens Disco Kidz, Project Otherness, Teater Interakt) while she has participated in art festivals and residencies (12th ADVP, ADD Festival 2019, PPLG Conference 2019, MEME Gallery Residency 2019, Nights Edgar Allan Poe 2018-Rabbithole Theater, 5th Handmade And Recycled Theater Festival 2018, Off-Off Athens 2015). Finally, she is working in artistic research through the long-term personal project Self as Stories (www.lydiaxourafi-selfasstories.com).
