Episode 10: MOVEMENT CREATES SPACE Sofia Kondylia: Choreographer | Performer | Architect
Performing Geometries-The Square Live PerformanceIdea, Choreography, Performance_Sofia Kondylia. Photo Credits Maria Karkavilla
SOFIA KONDYLIA is an award-winning choreographer, performer and architect. Motivated by the simple truth, that ‘movement creates space’, her work, through dance, performance, physical theatre and film, explores intersections between choreography and architecture, and its impact on emotional self transformation.
Music Credits:: Antari Loops_The Square
Sofia holds an MA in Performance Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts, in Arnhem, The Netherlands, and an MA in Architectural Engineering, and BA in Dance and Dance Pedagogy, both taken in Athens, Greece.
Her ongoing practice-as-research projects, “Architecture + Dance” and “Performing Geometries”, have so far resulted in various performances (“The Square”/2020, “BodIS”/2019, “Asleep”/2018, “Sympraxis”/2017, “Human Constructions”/2016-2017, “Between Me”/2015), screendance films (“The Square”/2020, “Squared”/2020), in her “Architecture + Dance” and “Spatial Flow” workshops, as well as in her “Pictographic Glyphs” dance documentation (“Performing Geometries”/2020).
Her work has been awarded governmental, as well as private funding and international awards. She has travelled across Europe for numerous artistic residencies and for performances, workshops, conference lectures and artist presentations. She has been sharing her dance and choreographic practices through regular teaching since 2014. She currently lives and works in Scotland.
Performing Geometries _ The Square
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TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT
“Everything that happens, happens through dance. So, instead of taking off their clothes, I take off their roles through dancing because when you dance with another body, dance has the here and now, that does not afford to dress up with your role, either a body is falling or not. Either you save it or not. Either you look at the body, or you don't look at it. The very action of trying to be synchronized with another person, demands from the body a certain attention and certain stance towards the other body. So, things like respect to the older, does not count in this performance. The older and the younger, for example, at the synchronized moments, they were just two bodies. So that's why I wanted to point out that, of course it is a base, where nakedness is important, but not in a literal sense, in a metaphorical sense, nakedness of their role, through dance.
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From Left to Right:
01 Performing Geometries-The Square_Live Performance_Idea-Choreography-Performance_Sofia Kondylia_Photo Credits_Maria Karkavilla
02 BodIS-The Body IS_site-specific performance_2019_Idea-Choreography_Sofia Kondylia_Photo Credits_Marina Fragkioudaki
03 BodIS-The Body IS_site-specific performance_2019_Idea-Choreography_Sofia Kondylia_Photo Credits_Marina Fragkioudaki
04 BodIS-The Body IS_site-specific performance_2019_Idea-Choreography_Sofia Kondylia_Photo Credits_PV
05 BodIS-The Body IS_site-specific performance_2019_Idea-Choreography_Sofia Kondylia_Photo Credits_Stelios Vlachos