Three Times Three #4
For a year now, the “Three Times Three” performances have been bringing together artists from the fields of contemporary dance and experimental music, with the aim of creating a common code of communication that is valid as long as the meeting lasts.
Three musicians meet three dancers at a time. At the beginning of the evening, three random pairs are drawn at random and improvise for 15 minutes. The evening ends with all participants collaborating in a 30-minute improvisation.
“Three Times Three” takes place every month at KET, curated by the composer Spyros Polychronopoulos (Spyweirdos).
The fourth meeting of the season features:
Harris Lambrakis – ney
Danae Stefanou – piano
Thimios Atzakas – oud
Anna Kalogera – dance
Iro Vasalou – dance
Katerina Giannouli – dance
● Harris Lambrakis was born and raised in Athens. He started playing music at a young age, next to remarkable teachers. He graduated from the Music Gymnasium of Pallini and the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens, majoring in ethnomusicology. He has had the good fortune to collaborate, in Greece and abroad, with Haig Yazdjian, Savina Yannatou, Michalis Siganidis, Ross Daly, Kostas Tatsakis, Pericles Papapetropoulos, Christos Tsiamoulis, Antonis Apergis, Stefano Battaglia, Bijan Chemirani, Michel Doneda, among others. For the last 30 years, he has participated in recordings and concerts around the world, while teaching ney.
● Danae Stefanou makes improvised sounds and texts. Since 2007, she teaches critical history and philosophy of music, sound epistemologies, media arts and experimental artistic research at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she coordinates the Ensembles of Experimental and Improvised Music (s.p.A.M.*) and other interdisciplinary research initiatives. Musically active since the 1990s, she has co-created and implemented hundreds of actions and participatory events in public & self-managed spaces, art galleries and cultural institutions. Together with Giannis Kotsonis, she is a founding member of the acte vide group (since 2006) and the Sound Meetings initiative, based in Syros (since 2011). In recent years, her practice combines text scores, ephemeral poetry and sound fiction with original participatory and performative methodologies.
● Thimios Atzakas is a musician, producer and researcher. He studied music in Cologne, Leipzig and Berlin and completed his doctoral thesis at the Department of Cultural Communication and Technology of the University of the Aegean. He is systematically engaged in oud and the application of various tropical music systems on contemporary music writing, modal, electroacoustic composition and free improvisation. Since 2023, he has been performing as a DJ under the name THYMUS GLAND, creating soundscapes inspired by his personal collection of ethnographic vinyls. He has played at many international festivals. He has taken part in hundreds of musical performances. Professor at the Department of Music Art and Science of the University of Macedonia, he is also a founding member of the international event ‘Music Village’ that takes place every summer in Agios Lavrentios, Pelion, as well as the artistic forum ‘the egg’ in Thessaloniki.
● Anna Kalogera is an honors graduate of the Professional Dance School of Rallou Manou, a graduate of the Psychology Department of the University of Athens and a graduate of the Postgraduate Training in Psychodrama – Social Therapy at the Open Psychotherapy Center. She has participated as a dancer and creator in Athens Video Dance Project (2018) and Breaking Art II (2019). She has collaborated with A. Kazouri, E.Goro, Χ. Mandafouni, Ch. Kotsalis, S. Mavraganis, A. Marathakis, M. Karaleka, L. Kardouss, C. Laraaz. In 2019, she continued her studies in contemporary dance and improvisation at the LaFaktoria Choreographic Center in Spain, where she explored other movement tools. She thus collaborated with M. Coronado, M. Tompkins, L. Ayguade and others. She has curated movement in theatrical performances and has worked as a dance teacher in dance schools in Attica.
● Dancer, choreographer and dramatist Iro Vasalou studied dance at The Place (LCDS) in London and drama at Utrecht University. Her choreographies have been featured in European festivals and platforms such as the 7th Festival of Young Choreographers of the House of Arts and Letters, Nuevos Valores de la Danza, MAF (Malaga), Seasoning (Eindhoven), 8th You Better Move (Dansmakers, Amsterdam). Since 2020, she lives and creates in Athens where she works as a dance dramaturg, continuing her personal choreographic work. She presented her latest work, “Symposium”, at the Athens Concert Hall. She teaches the original method for improvisational movement “Gestures” with K. Chairetis in workshops for professional dancers and actors.
● Katerina Giannouli studied dance and psychology. She is a member of the dance group Underscore and co-founder of the art space M54. As an independent artist she has created/co-created the works “Lamento”, “Moving sound”, “Red Ghost”, “The other things that you say”, “Having One No Idea”, “Stay,Stay,Stay” and the publication “Pieces of us”. In recent years she has been teaching dance and improvisation classes to adults.