Aniline Magenta is a collaboration between choreographer/performer Phaedra Soutou and scenographer/visual artist Alegia Papageorgiou, currently based in Athens Greece. It aims at the creation of a space for contemplation, experiment and reflection on issues between the matter and the body – mind, the shadow and the light, the creator and the creation. The simplest means, the body itself and raw ma
terials, are in dialogue in order to rethink of one’s relationship with the world around us. Through movements and interaction with materials we embody ideas. Our work combines several aesthetic tools which lead us to the creation of site specific/artistic installation.
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Phaedra Soutou is choreographer, dramaturg, dancer and performer. She graduated from:
● Professional School of Dance of Despina Grigoriadou.
● Theater Department Of the National Kapodistrian University in Athens.
● Vaganova diploma ( Master of Choreography and Teaching ) from the Varna International Dance Academy, Bulgaria. She has participated in seminars in Greece and abroad such as Costas Fillipoglou ( physical theater ), Richard Nieoczym ( Stanislavsky Method ), Kalina Bogoeva ( classical ballet / repertory ), George Elkin ( contemporary dance / choreography ), Mary O' Donnell Fulkerson ( performance art & release choreography ),Maria Chors, Mirka Gementzaki ( the musicality of the human body),
, Motus Theater company ( documentary theater), Ron Burton ( Alba Technique), Alex Serrano & Paul Palacios ( audiovisual theater )
As a Choreographer, she has collaborated with the Hellenic-American Union, STET The English theatre in The Hague Nationale Toneel, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Cultural Center, National Theater of Greece / Experimental Scene, Central Saint Martins University London, Middlesex University, Panevezas Theater Lithuania, Theatro Technis. She has worked as a dancer and performer with Roes Dance Theater headed by Sophia Spyratou, the Modern Dance Team headed by Persa Stamatopoulou, Maro Grigoriou, Lee Breuer, Razvan Mazilu, Grigoris Valtinos, Ersi PIta, Dyonisis Savvopoulos, Dimitra Hatoupi, Dimitris Degaiti, Stavros Apostolatos, Eamonn Farrell, Sevastiana Anagnostopoulou, Middlesex University company, Dalia Yassine, Claire Blake, Iddo Gruengard, Mette Sterre, Hye Baek, Marco Turcich,
Mapped Productions company, Joyce Raie – Jasad performing & Audio visual arts giving performances in Athens and abroad. (Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Aeschyleia Festival, Delphi Ancient Theater,Swan Lake theater / London, Platform theater / London, Expo Japan, National Theater of Bucharest / Spain / National Toneel The Hague, Jordan / The National Center for Culture and Arts / Lebanon National Theater κ.α )
In 2005 she was awarded by the European Youth Young Artists as choreographer. In 2019 she was selected to participate in Directors Lab Mediterranean in Beirut. Projects:
• Fragment , ΙΜΕ
• TRAiNSPOTTiNG, Chytirio Theater
• Τριλογία Αίματος , Booze Cooperativa
• Blood Suite, Kolono’s Theater
• Das Kleid Hamlet, Small Argo
• Trunk,School of Fine Arts / Athens Video Dance Project 10 / Lebanon International Contemporary Dance Festival / Fäden der Freiheit - Téchne Berlin
She teaches workshops in physical theater. She teaches contemporary dance ( limon technique), physical theater, improvisation to theatre groups, dance studios. She has delivered Master Classes in physical theater to University of Athens in the Theater department and Ancient Drama in Delphi Workshop.
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Alegia Papageorgiou is a scenographer and visual artist. She holds a BA in Interior Design (Vakalo College of Art & Design / University of Derby, UK), an MA in Scenography (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK), and she has also attended an MA in Art Science (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL). She works as a set designer, costume designer and video artist in the fields of theater, cinema, and performance. Her work combines several aesthetic tools, such as video, photography, lighting installations, projection mapping, sound processing, electronic hacking, sculpture, painting, and any other technique that is necessary to support a given project. Her artistic work focuses on the images that surround us, more specifically on their impact on our conceptions of reality and our sense of identity. She challenges not only what we see but also what we perceive as real, thus hoping to bring forth a complete re-definition of those images and of the ideas they imply. Having grown up within the Western paradigm of what is thought of as a reasonable behaviour, she has followed those impulses that supposedly lead to “safety” and to a successful and happy life. However, it was not long until she redirected her gaze towards more playful experiments that go beyond the restrictive reasoning of the everyday. In a world full of rationality, political correctness, and anxieties driven by a never-ending quest for success and financial domination, those transient moments of “playful confusion” can be the key to the realization of the absurd as something meaningful and exciting. For Alegia, art is a dialog created by what lies deep within ourselves (something that we might not be able to grasp or describe) and what lies around us and is external to us. Her work experience includes, amongst other, her collaboration in the world premiere of Edward Bond’s “Dea” at Sutton Theatre (UK), various productions for the National Theatre of Greece, Athens Biennale, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, and Commedie de Reims (FR), Ugly Duck London (UK), Asylum Chapel London (UK) as well as participation in several art exhibitions in Athens (GR), Thessaloniki (GR), Venice (IT), The Hague (NL), Eindhoven (NL) Berlin (DE) etc.
