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Ioanna Paraskevopoulou (Greece) - MOS

MOS is a physical soundtrack to a series of scenes – think: nature, chases, zombie horror – from films and other visuals. The performance is inspired by the Foley film sound technique, which is used to create sounds in a sound studio that cannot be captured on the live film set: footsteps (walking through a box of gravel), rustling of clothes (flapping a roll of plastic foil), sounds of wood or iron and water (splashing in a baby's bathtub).

The sound technique was wittily depicted in the film Monty Python and The Holy Grail from 1975. In this film, the Monthy Python members play grail knights who knock two halves of a coconut together to suggest the sound of a horse – cataclop, cataclop – the horse in question is nowhere to be seen. The technique is also called the coconut effect.

In MOS, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou and Georgios Kotsifakis use this appealing coconut effect as a choreographic tool. Their bodies enter into combat with all sorts of unexpected objects to produce sounds. The resulting sound material is intensified, imploded, paused, repeated and distorted in every possible way to enhance the sound experience. At Julidans you will also see the two dancers on stage in Christos Papadopoulos' opening performance, Larsen C.

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