Three Times Three #3

Under the curation of composer and researcher Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos), the monthly performances Three Times Three bring together people from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, in order to create a code between them, a 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 random couples are drawn by lot and improvise for 15 minutes. The evening ends with all participants joining together for 30 minutes.

The third meeting of the season involves:

Vassilis Tzavaras – guitar, loops, effects

Andreas Monopolis – electronics

Giorgos Kokkinaris – double bass

Sophia Pouchtou – dance

Chara Kotsali – dance

Manos Kotsaris – dance

The musician, composer and improviser Vassilis Tzavaras is a founding member of Occasional Dream, Take the money and run, Project 37, 4+1, Silent Move, the theatre group Atonal, the artistic-educational group Gnous and AMKE weave. He has composed music for theatrical performances and has performed in concerts in and outside Athens mainly with the groups Occasional Dream, Take the Money and Run, Silent Move and Storyville Ragtimers. He has released 7 personal albums.

Andreas Monopolis is active in the field of music technology. He has participated in many cultural and social activities, bringing cultural diversity to the forefront. Besides music, he chooses sometimes image and sometimes matter to express himself, using the name “MoCM”.

The double bassist Giorgos Kokkinaris composes, improvises and collaborates with people from the fields of composition, visual arts, poetry and dance. His art is based on the physicalization of music through voice and movement and the use of new technologies.

Sofia Pouchtou is a dancer and performer based in Athens. After completing her studies in Greece and Austria, she collaborated with choreographers, visual artists and photographers, including Patricia Apergi, Ermira Goro, Androniki Marathaki, Iris Karayan, Hiroaki Umeda, Madeline Hollander. As a (co-)creator and performer she has participated in various festivals in Greece, while her latest work ‘WHY DON’T YOU LIKE ME?’, a duet she co-created with Chrysanthi Fytiza, was presented in Athens in 2022 and 2023.

Chara Kotsali is a choreographer, performer and dance teacher. She graduated from the “Rallou Manou” School of Dance, the Department of Theatre Studies and the Postgraduate Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Panteion University. She also studied music. As a performer, as well as a choreographer in theatre, she has collaborated with numerous choreographers and directors. She creates choreographic and research projects, either individually or through collaborative groups.

Manos Kotsaris is a dance artist. He is the founder of the NGO “Breaking Borders” (2012) and a graduate of the National School of Dance. Since 2018 he lives and works in Berlin. His choreographic research is drawn to the possibilities of education and body composition in dialogue with the wild environment, as well as the integration of social structure into the creative process. He has collaborated with Meg Stuart, Abraham Hurtado, Euripides Laskaridis, Iris Karayan, and Andrien Hod and has presented works with them in Europe and Canada.