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EIVV 2019
Presentation by Fenia Kotsopoulou of her works, in collaboration with Daz Disley and other artists.
Moderated by Blas Payri – Centre del Carme, Valencia 20th October 2019
6th EIVV International Meeting on Videodance and Videoperformance
Video recording and editing by Jaume Blanco Alambiaga & Gonzalo Moreno Jiménez
00:00 Introduction
05:18 Itinerários
13:47 Inside-out
29:12 Catch me
39:56 A cuppa with ancestors
45:48 Carriage return
50:40 This dance has no end
Itineraries
05’20’’
Direction/camera/editing Fenia Kotsopoulou Music Stefano Risso
Itinerários is a collage of instant collective compositions by pedestrian in urban context. Individuals, couples and groups map a journey across time and space by walking in different paces and/or standing still; passengers become a performative ensemble which creates multiple trajectories and random encounters, transforming the square in a site of performance.
A cuppa with ancestors
01’00’’
Lincoln (UK), 2017
Camera Fenia Kotsopoulou Edit/performance Fenia Kotsopoulou
A one minute video dedicated to the deviant, extravagant, whimsical, insolent, indocile, irritable, naughty, talkative, incoherent, depressed, chatty, simpering, flirtatious, unconventional, irascible, impulsive women interned in Sant’Antonio Abate mental hospital during Italian Fascism. Women who have
not been able to “fulfill” the roles of mother-housewife-fieldworker as imposed by the oppressive patriarchal society.
Catch me
03’29’’
2017
Performance/choreography Andrea Coppone, Cinzia Sita, Sophia S.D.
Camera/editing Fenia Kotsopoulou
Three different non-narrative short stories. Three different ways of expressing the attempt to “capture” what is not easy to trap: like the rapid, playful body moving in the middle of a green field; like the dream in her mind during a warm evening; like the smoke of the incense, burning during the cold nights.
Inside out
09’20’’
Lavanderia a Vapore (Italy), 2016 Performance/choreography Sara Marasso Music Stefano Risso
Camera Fenia Kotsopoulou / Daz Disley Editing Fenia Kotsopoulou
A triptych journey in search of a tension capable of restoring the fragmented nature of a “continuity constantly receding”.
This dance has no end
10’53’’
Lincoln (UK), 2018
Camera single shot by Daz Disley Performance Fenia Kotsopoulou
A dance dedicated to artist, drag king and gender activist Diane Torr who passed away in May 2017. A year to the day, I dance in a black room : a single shot fusing male and female as ode to life and death.
Waiting on the doorbell
01’00’’
Rome (Italy), 2017
Camera/edit Fenia Kotsopoulou Performance/choreography Mariella Celia & Fenia Kotsopoulou
Fx edit: Daz Disley
Sometimes, while you are waiting for something to happen, you don’t realise that so much is already happening in each millisecond that passes.
Carriage return
01’00’’
2017
Directors Fenia Kotsopoulou & Daz Disley Dance Fenia Kotsopoulou
Camera Daz Disley
Edit/post Fenia Kotsopoulou
Single shot where the camera follows the dancer while the dancer follows the camera and both draw circles around the table of memories. The old gramophone and its repetitive rhythm create another cyclical movement. Does such a thing as a straight line exist?
