Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance and is currently studying at the Department of Audiovisual Arts (Ionian University). Her artistic practice focuses on the relationship between audiovisual media and movement, reconfiguring the expansion of the choreographic field. She has collaborated, among others, with Iris Karayan, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Alexandra Waierstall, Ermira Goro, Lenio Kaklea, Katerina S. Andreou, Tzeni Argyriou, Patricia Apergi, Sofia Mavragani,, Antonis Foniadakis, Brendan Fernandes, Harry Koushos, Ki omOs kineitai, Maria Koliopoulou. In 2019-2020, she was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS. She created her choreographic video project “All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap” as part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8. ALSIPBW was officially selected by several video art festivals and has been awarded the Best Sound Design Award at the FIVideodanza Festival, Mexico and the Best Video Art Award at the MIFVIF, Venezuela. She co-created the video dance “Battle of Fishes” (Best Cinematography – InShadow Screen Dance Festival) in the context of Miniatures For Revolution – GNO Learning & Participation Department. She presented “MOS” at Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9, which had its European premiere at the Julidans NEXT (NL). In addition, she presented the 10-minute piece “Coconut Effect” at the 7th edition of Danse Élargie competition with which she won the Young Jury Award. The award was to restage the project with the students of the Conservatoire de Paris. “Coconut Effect (group version)” premiered on September 2023 at Théâtre des Abbesses. Having been part of Aerowaves with selected works by Iris Karayan (“Mothers” and “Unauthorised”) and Christos Papadopoulos (“Elvedon” and “Opus”), her piece “MOS” was selected to be one of Aerowaves’ Twenty23 works. She recently presented her personal solo “All of My Love”, which premiered at Onassis Dance Days 2024 and co-created the project “Telos” with Maria Hassabi, Hannes Langolf and Ermira Goro. She is currently touring both “MOS” and “All of My Love” across Europe, while she is preparing her new project “Unseen Horses”, a collaboration with the Dance Theatre Heidelberg.