Workshop for Dancers: Dancing Memories & Christos Papadopoulos Repertoire Practice

Anmeldung: workshops@tanznetz-niedersachsen.de

Level: The workshop is addressed to professional dancers and advanced amateurs.

This workshop is structured in two parts and combines a practice-based research approach with repertoire transmission.

Part I – Dancing Memories
Dancing Memories is a practice-based approach that examines memory and the archive as embodied processes, explored through observation, writing, and movement. Working with memories, sounds, and photographs as research materials, the workshop focuses on minor gestures and overlooked details as spaces for observation and thought.
The process begins with a guided improvisational warm-up that attends to the body’s existing rhythms, intentions, and states. Movement is approached as a mode of listening and attunement, allowing participants to observe how internal experience and the surrounding environment interact.
Through writing and embodied exploration, participants engage with images, texts, and fragments of memory, experimenting with ways these materials can be translated into bodily experience and articulated through expressive form.

Part II – Repertoire Practice
In the second part of the workshop, participants will be introduced to repertoire from the latest production by choreographer Christos Papadopoulos. The focus will be on the transmission of movement material, attention to timing, presence, and the collective dynamics of the work.

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. Her practice unfolds between movement and audiovisual media, shaping hybrid works that move between stage and screen. She studied at the Greek National School of Dance and at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University.

As a performer, she has collaborated with choreographers and artists in Greece and internationally. Her work has been presented at international festivals and has received awards and distinctions, including the selection of MOS by the Aerowaves Twenty23 network and the Young Jury Award for Coconut Effect at Danse Élargie 2022. She was part of the Artworks program of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2019–2020) and is an Onassis AiR Fellow (2025–26).