Elpida Orfanidou & Juan Perno: Elpid’ arc

Discussion with choreographers participating in the 1st "New Choreographers" Festival

2 February 2014
22:30 | Upper Stage

Moderated by:
Christiana Galanopoulou, art historian, artistic director of MIRfestival

Elpida Orfanidou

Elpida Orfanidou first studied Dance in Athens (Despina Grigoriadou Professional Dance School) in parallel to her Piano and Pharmacy Degree. With a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation she continued her studies in Choreography and Performance in Arnhem, Montpellier (ex.e.r.ce 2007, direction Xavier Le Roy and Mathilde Monnier) and in London (ΜA Performance Practice and Research, direction Ana Sanchez-Colberg). Born in Berlin she came back to the city in 2009 where she currently lives and works. The last years Elpida has been developing a series of solo works which concluded to One Is Almost Never (a trash dance & exotic DJing performance homaging personal freedom). Elpida collaborates closely with other artists, currently with Juan Perno for the film-performance Elpid’arc, as well as with Hermann Heisig for the duet United States (2010). Her projects have been presented in various venues and festivals throughout Europe. As a performer Elpida has worked among others with Hermann Heisig, Gui Garrido, Meg Stuart and Tim Etchells.

Juan Perno

Juan Perno holds a bachelor degree on philosophy in UAM Madrid and a PhD in aesthetics, photography and video in the fine arts UPV Valencia with a published essay (“Museology, Design and Video Art: A proposal for online cataloguing”. Currently developing his artistic work on the concept of time and appropriationism in different formats and contexts as real-time video, live cinema, performance and hybrid projects that are based on the development of interactive participation from online media with offline impact. He lives and works between Berlin and Madrid.