FENIA KOTSOPOULOU
Photography and Performance
Below you can find some examples of video documentation and trailers in which I have contributed by filming and/or editing.
For details about service and prices, you can contact me at: danzaprimitiva@gmail.com (with subject: Video-Documentation service).
SEVEN I AM MANY - SOZO visions in motion DANCE Co. 2019
Year of production: 2019
Running time: 03:55
Trailer of dance performance
Konzept / Choreografie: Deborah Smith-Wicke
Komposition, Tanz und Klang Performance: Lia Beuchat, Florian Heiml, Zaneta Kesik, Seung Ju Lee, Chiara Leonardi, Sini Rautjoki, Huong Tran Thi Tam
Musikalische Leitung: Olaf Pyras
Kostüme: Michaela Kirschberger
Assistenz: Technik und Klang Performance Iria Arenas
Trailer: Fenia Kotsopoulou
Premiere: 8th November 2019 in Kassel
more info: https://www.sozo-zone.com/seven-i-am-many
CPAP - collision prevention assist plus - A personality-clash laboratory
Year of production: 2019
Running time: 2:30
trailer of dance performance
Direction/Concept/Choreography: Deborah Smith-Wicke
Co Creation/Performance: Sini Rautjoki, Dhimas Satwiko
Technical Assistance: Iria Arenas
Sound: Daz Disley
Laboratory Assistant: Aura Antikainen
Trailer: Fenia Kotsopoulou
Production supported by: Stadt Kassel, Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Wolfgang-Zippel Stiftung, Quan Dao Akademie, Doppelhorn
Premiere: 28. September 2018 - Kassel
more info: https://www.sozo-zone.com/cpap
NO COMFORT ZONE (teaser)
Year of production: 2016
Running time: 1:04
Teaser of performance
video teaser of "No Comfort Zone" (excerpt) by Fenia Kotsopoulou
"No Comfort Zone": esprime un’idea di creazione contemporanea come interazione tra differenti linguaggi e pratica di ricerca comprendendo un margine auspicabile di non conforto, o rischio, come parte fruttuosa del processo. Riconosciamo nel movimento del corpo e nel movimento del suono una stessa entità che sottoponiamo ad un pari trattamento decostruttivo/ricostruttivo.
Nel corpo sonoro cerchiamo una dimensione non organica, non fluida, non scorrevole: un segno capace di restituire la frammentarietà dei pensieri e l’opposta tensione, o forza del sentire, verso quell’esperienza di “continuum” costantemente sfuggente. Ascoltando Beethoven.
corpografie/choreography : Sara Marasso
materiali sonori: Stefano Risso contrabbassi, ukubass ed elettronica su op.131 di Ludwig van Beethoven/ doublebass, ukubass and electronics on op. 131 by Ludwig van Beethoven
materiali visivi e corporei / visual and body materials: Fenia Kotsopoulou
materiali corporei / body materials: Andrea Coppone
luci/ lighting design : Davide Rigodanza
assistenza alla drammaturgia/ dramaturgical assistance : Giulia Muroni
24 HR CINEMA || Festival x-24 ||
Year of production: 2016
Running time: 2:24
Festival trailer
>100 videos from >100 artists in >30 countries :: 24H Cinema at Festival x-24 Curated and Produced by Fenia Kotsopoulou and Daz Disley with additional Curation by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne (artvideokoeln) and Eirini Olympiou (Athens Digital Arts Festival), and projection support courtesy of The Collaborators
Free 24-hour festival with live bands They Say Fall, Years Young, Savour the Silence, Youth., Bleeding Tooth, Red Eyed Juveniles, Future Theory, Pt Punk, DJs, silent disco, fabulous free food, fun activities for kids including bouncy castle, tug of war and painting, Spoken Word, gaming tournaments, art installations, 24-hour cinema, workshops, fire pit, bar.
FB: facebook.com/events/1713746762218383/#
BA DANCE: Locating Dance
Year of production: 2016
Running time: 3:57
Site specific documentation
Trailer from 3rd years BA Dance students site specific performances, created for the module: Choreography: Locating Dance, led by Tessa Palfrey.
Location: University of Lincoln - Campus
date: 9th December 2016
video/editing Fenia Kotsopoulou
performers: Performers
[3rd year BA DANCE]
Charlotte Bennett || Yasmin Diver || Camilla Evelegh || Indre Ezerskyte || Sophie Hack || Claire Hambly || Zoe Heelas || Lauren Isbell || Eleanor Johnson || Rebecca Leigh || Ashna Patel || Anna Peters || Phoebe Redhead || Emma Rignall || Nicole Roberts || Elizabeth Rowly
Music:
Kosta T-Impression
Ars Sonor-Leaving this Godforsaken Place
Lincoln 2016
Poems of the River
Year of production: 2015
Running Time: 5:30 min
performance documentation
‘Poems of the River’ celebrates the achievements of people with sight and hearing impairments from the charity’s Glenside Resource Centre who took part in a six month project with poet Laila Sumpton to create poems, stories, photographs and artwork inspired by the river. Participants also worked collaboratively with sound artist Daz Disley, to compose sound pieces of creatures found by the river banks, from eels and ducks to herons and rabbits.
The exhibition is part of Sense’s, Arts & Wellbeing programme, which supports people with sensory impairments at all stages of their involvement in the arts and cultural sector.
Poet: Laila Sumpton
Sound Artist: Daz Disley
Drama coordinator: Karl Gernert
Producer: Poppy Szaybo
Pariticipants: Glenside Resource Centre's clients
Location of the performance/exhibition: Ayscoughfee Hall Museum
video/editing: Fenia Kotsopoulou
Film Painting Workshop
Year of production: 2015
Running Time: 5:15 min
Film Painting Workshop with Stewart Collinson, held at [gP] Space.
Coordinated by Thomas Cuthbertson.
Participants: Kiel Delaunois, Karolina Dworska, Milly Hewitt, Sophia Nicholson, Scarlett Lily Rowland and Peter White.
Video documentation by Fenia Kotsopoulou.
Editing: Daz Disley
This workshop is part of A.L.E (A Landscape Exhibition), a public programme of art responding to the landscape in a series of exhibitions, workshops and live events. See the full programme here: gpale2015.tumblr.com
GNARL FEST (official trailer)
Year of production: 2014
Runnining time: 2:53 min
editing: Fenia Kotsopoulou & Pavlos Kountouriotis
This is the second edition of GNARL fest, the East Midlands Platform exhibiting International and National Live Art. This year's schedule is even bigger, more experimental, more provocative and more International. With practices as distinct as song lecture, digital performance, new media punk rock, trash spectacles, there is certainly something for every performance lover who is interested in finding fresh approaches to art and performance. Get ready for an intensive week of performances, installations, screenings, workshops and discussions over drinks led by emerging and acclaimed UK and international artists. From burlesque to trash, and from transgressive to guerrilla acts, GNARL Fest promises to create an unprecedented event. The festival includes artists from more than 20 countries with 2 International and 5 UK Premieres and more than 40 videos & films.
"Fragments of Experience"
Year of production: 2013
Running time: 21:53min
video/edit: Fenia Kotsopoulou
Video documentation about the choreographing process of "Ptosis" by Pavlos Kountouriotis, the second of his minimalistic and repetitive choreographies
(www.kountouriotis.org)
"Fragments of Experience" is actually a series of video documentaries that I did in order to encapsulate the process and help it find a new life. These videos document only some tiny fraction of the work and function both as a historical record and as a new artwork themselves.
Performance made by
Kristina Becker, Arthur Haas, Johanna Honkanen, Jerimia Jerimia, Hanna Lee, Marianne Linder, Tina Machulik, Koeun Park, Oovi Patrao, Alex Polupanow, Swarna Rautiainen, Céline Riat, Caroline Servollek, Viktoria Trow-Poole, Timothée Uehlinger, Serja Vesterinen
Choreographic Process, Scenography, Sound Editing by
Pavlos Kountouriotis
Assistance to the Choreographic Process & Video by
Fenia Kotsopoulou
Special Thanks for her kind support, sexy and endurance workshops
Deborah Smith-Wicke
Soundbites
Alva Noto- Opiate
PJ Harvey- Rid of Me
Michael Jackson- Thriller
SUSTAIN IT
Year of production: 2012
Running Time: 4:23 min
documentation of theatre workshop by Daniel Unsoeld
Workshop/Performance of Political Aktiontheatre by DANIEL UNSOELD http://www.danielunsoeld.de/
5 Juni 2012, Frei Universitaet (Berlin).
video/editing: Fenia Kotsopoulou
"Sustain it!" is a coordinated initiative of students with distinct environmental awareness together with the Grüne Hochschulgruppe, the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU), and the Energy and Environment Unit of the Freie Universität Berlin.
http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/sustain/ueberuns/index.html
Year of production: 2010
Running time of original video: 11:25 min
http://www.contactfestival.de/
Video documentation for the Contact Festival Freiburg in 2010.
The contactfestival freiburg is an annual event, which supports and facilitates an international exchange of the dance form Contact Improvisation.
Video: Fenia Kotsopoulou, Colleen Bartley
Editing: Caterina Tiveron