What kind of sound effects would you derive from a simple umbrella, a vacuum pump, a basketball, a hammer, or river stones? In cinema, some scenes need additional sound to enhance the impression and impact on the viewer. And you will see some of that magic on stage.

The two performers create authentic soundscapes for film cuts and archive videos – footsteps, screams, splashing water, rustling clothes, nature scenes, and actions that usually cannot be captured by the camera and are separately montaged. A cross between dance, cinema and sound, the MOS performance is a choreography that unfolds live in front of the spectator. The result is an original soundtrack of cinematic sounds extracted through unusual movements and real-time actions. The performers become mediators between the scenes and the audience, offering their interpretation of the visible and invisible, the logical and illogical relationships between images, sounds, and movements.

Their mixing provokes the imagination and shows contemporary choreography as a physical soundtrack and a new medium for communication. The resulting material is layered, repeated, distorted, paused, and then exploded so that each viewer can make new connections and associations.

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance and is currently studying at the Department of Audiovisual Arts (Ionian University). Her artistic practice focuses on the relationship between audiovisual media and movement. She has collaborated – among others – with Iris Karayan, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Alexandra Waierstall, Lenio Kaklea, Katerina S. Andreou, Sofia Mavragani, Tzeni Argyriou, Patricia Apergi, Antonis Foniadakis, Brendan Fernandes, Harry Koushos, Ki omOs kineitai, and Maria Koliopoulou. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2019). She created her choreographic video project All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap within the framework of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8. All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap has been awarded the Best Sound Design Award at the FIVideodanza Festival and the Best Video Art Award at the MIFVIF. She co-created the video dance project Battle of Fishes in the context of Miniatures for Revolution. She presented MOS at Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9. She also presented the 10-minute piece Coconut Effect at the 7th Danse Élargie competition, winning the Young Jury Award. MOS was selected by Aerowaves Twenty23.