Greek Precarious Body: Future forms of dramaturgy through hacked and retro technology, going towards a material opera
“Greek Precarious Body: Future forms of dramaturgy through hacked and retro technology, going towards a material opera” is is an open Sound Laboratory that utilizes live art performance to explore future sound dramaturgies, through motion tracking and live editing techniques. The artist proposes an open to the audience space in the form of work-in-progress artwork, where live performers will be producing soundscapes through their abstract and restrictive wearables. The sound design of the performance is mainly based on the authentic sounds produced by the materials themselves. She aims to enhance the notion of restriction, by giving control of the sound to the performing body. Through the use of kinect’s skeleton tracking module, each movement of the body causes a distinct effect on the produced sonar qualities. The artist creates a soundscape that takes the initial source of the material and through the agency of the performing body, arrives at a transformation by several audio effects and compositional techniques.
Olga Ntenta (GR)
Olga Ntenta is an experimental scenographer that has been trained in engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and in scenography at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She works as a scenographer between Athens and London. She is also a visiting lecturer in scenography at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of the West of Scotland and the University of Athens, Theatre School. As an artist and a researcher she has a particular interest in Ancient Greek Tragedy and its contemporary significance. Olga’s work-in-progress project “Greek Precarious Body” participated in Staging Places: UK in PQ 2019, was exhibited in the V&A Theatre and Performance and was presented in UAL Central Saint Martins’ WIP Festival 2020 and the Critical Costume 2020 Conference and Exhibition. Also, it is selected to participate in the World Stage Design, Calgary 2022 in a form of workshop.
Register for the workshops!
Book a place by sending an email including your name and a contact number at workshops@adaf.gr Due to a limited number of places, priority order will be followed.
