Three Times Three #1
Once a month, the cycle of performances Three Times Three, curated by the musician, composer and researcher Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos), invites people from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music to KET in order to create a code between them, a living language of communication that will be valid as long as the meeting lasts.
Three musicians meet three dancers at a time: at the beginning of the evening, three couples are decided randomly and improvise for 15 minutes. The evening ends with all participants joining together for 30 minutes.
The first meeting of the season involves:
Sofia Zafeiriou – violin / electronics
Alexis Porfyriadis – piano
Iakovos Pavlopoulos – percussion
Matina Kostiani – dance
Sotiria Koutsopetrou – dance
Marina Tsapekou – dance
Sofia Zafeiriou is a musician and sound artist. She explores the pollination of lived rhythms and modes with electronic and meditative media, noise, improvisation and acoustic instruments. Her works include music for ensembles and DIY orchestras, field recordings in nature and in camps, sound derived from relationships between things. She has performed live in Diyarbakir, Tirana, Beirut, Slemani, Berlin and Athens.
Alexis Porfyriadis is a composer, music theorist, pianist with a PhD in composition (University of Bath-Spa/United Kingdom). He also studied composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (Austria). He has received numerous awards and scholarships. His artistic career includes presentations of compositions and improvisation performances at festivals all over Europe and in Mexico or Canada. He teaches at the University of Macedonia. His compositions are published by BabelScores Paris, while one of his scores has been published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni (Milan).
Drummer Iakovos Pavlopoulos studied in The Hague, alongside Erik Ineke, Hans van Oosterhont and Alex Milo. He was a member of the KoorenHuis Big Band under the direction of Victor Borkrt (2006-2008). In recent years, he has been working as a percussionist and as a composer for theatre performances, collaborating with, among others: Thodoris Abazis, Wang Xiaoying, Nikos Karathanos, Yannis Kakleas, Stavros Gasparatos, Angela Brouskou, Lavrentis Machairitsas, Stathis Livathinos, Nikos Kypourgos, Closer, Monsieur Minimal.
Matina Kostiani, a graduate of the School of Architecture of NTUA and the professional dance school AKTINA, is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. She participates in the performing arts group Athanasia Kanellopoulou Performing Arts. She has collaborated with Teti Nikolopoulou (“You always unbalance me”, 2022), where she immersed herself in the technique of contact improvisation. Alongside her work in theatre (choreography, movement curation, participation as a performer in performances), she teaches contemporary and classical dance. Since 2023, she has been a member of the collaborative dance group “Πlanet Haπi”.
Sotiria Koutsopetrou has collaborated as a dancer with: Jenny Argyriou, Anna Konjetzky, Christos Papadopoulos, Iris Karayan, Dimitris Papaioannou, Anastasia Valsamaki and Thanos Papakonstantinou, in Greece and abroad. In 2019, she joined MiR Dance Company (Germany) and collaborated with choreographers Ivgi & Greben, Mauro Bigonzetti, Giuseppe Spota, Antonin Comestaz. In 2022, she presented her first solo work (“so it goes*”) at the Kalamata Dance Festival. She teaches contemporary dance. In 2023, she was invited to France by the Opéra de Lyon to give classes there as a guest teacher.
Marina Tsapekou has collaborated as a dancer or actress with Max Emanuel Cencic, Romeo Castellucci, Marina Mascarell, Agni Papadeli-Rossetou, Jenny Argyriou, Thanos Papakonstantinou, Eliane Roumier, Teti Nikolopoulou, Penelope Flouri, etc. She has participated in performances at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival, the National Opera House, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the Mir Festival, etc. He was the movement supervisor for the theatrical performances “Plasteelini” (by Katerina Skourli) and “The body I left behind me” (by Irini Zika). She has been teaching since 2017. She has participated in international festivals and numerous seminars in Greece and abroad, with Julyen Hamilton, Nitta Little, Thomas Hauert, Urs Stauffer, Salva Sanchis, Stavroula Siamou. She is a member of the dance collective M54 _ Underscore.