SOFIA KAKOURI

Peter Jacquemyn & Sofia K. Improvisation performance for the 1st anniversary of Tic Tac Art center 8/08/2019

Auszüge / Impressionen Improvisierte Session alle Gunda Gottschalk (Violine), Felix Bürkle, Alice Boivin, Patrick Hagen (Klarinette), Kenji Takagi, Ute Völker (Akkordeon), Miriam Bathe (Violine), Peter Jacquemyn (Kontrabass), Jean Laurent Sasportes, Sofia Kakouri @ Peter Kowald Gesellschaft/ort e.V. "Music & Dance" Wuppertal 20.9.2019 http://www.kowald-ort.com #kowald #kowaldort Video: PIPO TAFEL #pipomovingpictures MOVING PICTURES MOVING PEOPLE https://www.pipotafel.com Agentur Pipo Tafel #maisonmusitowski https://maisonmusitowski.com

‘WORP’ is an cross-media improvising collective, combining musicians, visual artists and dancers. Through each performance, they explore the borders of the different media involved. By definition, music and movement are temporary, mobile and repeatable. Plastic arts are unique, static and made for eternity. The collective brings unique, not repeatable music and exercise combined and confronted with plastic arts and this with a pronounced temporary performance character. The action leads to the idea, the interaction shows the way. Performed by: Lazara Rosell Albear: dance | pocket trumpet Sofia Kakouri: dance | pocket trumpet Geraldo Si: dance Jan Pillaert: bastuba | voice Peter Jacquemyn: double base | voice Klaas Verpoest: live video Vincent Caers: live electronics This performance was recorded at Terrarium - Brussels [BE] on 28th of November 2018.

Excerpt from our improvisation at Batiment A Open Studio, Leuven (BE). With Sofia Kakouri, Lazara Rosell Albear, Geraldo Si, Jan Pillaert, Jo Zanders, Peter Jacquemyn & Klaas Verpoest.

‘Sichtlaut’ is a cross-media improvising performance, combining musicians, visual artists and dancers. Through each performance, they explore the borders of the different media involved. Sound receives a body. Movement creates traces. Form becomes sound. A game of feedback arises, dissolving the contours between instruments, players and material. Lazara Rosell Albear (dance | pocket trumpet | percussion) Sofia Kakouri (dance | pocket trumpet) Geraldo Si (dance) Peter Jacquemyn (double bass | voice) Jan Pillaert (tuba | Voice) Klaas Verpoest (live video) Vincent Caers (live electronics | percussion) Performed on October 24, 2019 - BAC Art Lab, Leuven [B] Camera | Pierre Michel Zaleski Watch the full performance: https://vimeo.com/416243337

‘Sichtlaut’ is a cross-media improvising performance, combining musicians, visual artists and dancers. Through each performance, they explore the borders of the different media involved. Sound receives a body. Movement creates traces. Form becomes sound. A game of feedback arises, dissolving the contours between instruments, players and material. Lazara Rosell Albear (dance | pocket trumpet | percussion) Sofia Kakouri (dance | pocket trumpet) Geraldo Si (dance) Peter Jacquemyn (double bass | voice) Jan Pillaert (tuba | Voice) Klaas Verpoest (live video) Vincent Caers (live electronics | percussion) Performed on October 24, 2019 - BAC Art Lab, Leuven [B] Camera | Pierre Michel Zaleski

Performance at the Sons Libérés Festival 2015 @Quincaillerie des temps présent Brussels 8 Novembre Camera: Olivier Bonny www.sl15 - tempoaltempo.org

Short clip from the rehearsal for the performance - "Pockets on Winter Damage" at Haekem in Brussels

Intrigued by the intersectional possibilities between liveness and structure, this event will offer an insight to the collaborative methods of Total 2017. It is not so much a performance in the conventional sense with a full dramaturgical arch, but rather fragments of experience that emerged in the frame of our 3 weeks collaboration.   Date: 28 July 2017 Duration: 50 mins Venue: Seoul Dance Center Total 2017 is a meeting of 5 artists from South Korea, Portugal, Greece and Germany. Jin Young Park, Nuno Lucas, Pavlos Kountouriotis, Sofia Kakouri and Tobias Gronau met in Hamburg in the summer of 2016 during Treffen Total. Influenced by the working methods of Sweet and Tender Collaborations, Treffen Total was an encounter of twenty-six artists with the goal of exchanging ideas and challenging modes of collaborative production. After that meeting, the five of us decided to pursue further this method of exchange because we trust it can produce a dynamic and fertile ground for individual and collective development.

choreography: Pavlos Kountouriotis Performance: Tobias Gronau, Nuno Lucas, Park Jin-Young, Sofia Kakouri Music: Tobias Gronau

Quintettformation 1 Quintettformation 1 Gunda Gottschalk (Violine), Patrick Hagen (Klarinette), Kenji Takagi, Felix Bürkle, Sofia Kakouri Auszüge / Impressionen Improvisierte Session @ Peter Kowald Gesellschaft/ort e.V. "Music & Dance" Wuppertal 20.9.2019 http://www.kowald-ort.com #kowald #kowaldort Video: PIPO TAFEL #pipomovingpictures MOVING PICTURES MOVING PEOPLE https://www.pipotafel.com Agentur Pipo Tafel #maisonmusitowski https://maisonmusitowski.com

Duo Sofia Kakouri mit Patrick Hagen (Klarinette) Auszüge / Impressionen Improvisierte Session @ Peter Kowald Gesellschaft/ort e.V. "Music & Dance" Wuppertal 20.9.2019 http://www.kowald-ort.com #kowald #kowaldort Video: PIPO TAFEL #pipomovingpictures MOVING PICTURES MOVING PEOPLE https://www.pipotafel.com Agentur Pipo Tafel #maisonmusitowski https://maisonmusitowski.com

reeTheSopranoPlayer is an artist collective created in Heraklion, Crete, in February 2017. The group's activities include improvised musical performances, as well as collaborative ventures between musicians and visual artists, dancers, actors, and other artists. Their goal is the immediate and collective artistic creation that expresses an instantaneous implulse and showcases the notion of "here and now" in the most dynamic way. Since there are no specified directions, the participants interact, converse via the language of their art and create a new piece in real-time before an audience. 12 January 2020 Sofia kakouri - dance Peter Jacquemyn - Bass Eirini Tornesaki - voice Maria Kritsotaki - voice Antonis Tsikandilakis - piano Dimitris Neonakis - guitar FreeTheSopranoPlayer Η ομάδα ελεύθερου αυτοσχεδιασμού FreeTheSopranoPlayer δημιουργήθηκε στο Ηράκλειο της Κρήτης το Φεβρουάριο του 2017. Στις δραστηριότητες της ομάδας περιλαμβάνονται συναυλίες ελεύθερου μουσικού αυτοσχεδιασμού αλλά και συμπράξεις μουσικών με εικαστικούς, χορευτές, ηθοποιούς και καλλιτέχνες άλλων μορφών τέχνης. Στόχος είναι η άμεση και συλλογική καλλιτεχνική δημιουργία που εκφράζει τη στιγμιαία παρόρμηση και αναδεικνύει με τον δυναμικότερο τρόπο την έννοια του «εδώ και τώρα». Καθώς δεν υπάρχουν προδιαγεγραμμένες κατευθύνσεις, οι συμμετέχοντες καλλιτέχνες αλληλεπιδρούν, συνομιλούν με τη γλώσσα της τέχνης τους και δημιουργούν ένα έργο σε πραγματικό χρόνο ενώπιον του κοινού.

Show me your Flava at Bravo Bxl Improvisation Performance sept.2014 Lida Vidali: video