MOVING BALKANS - Dance Scape Program
Selected Dance Scape artist for the first Moving Balkans showcase festival. Performances, Dance Scape pitches and other accompanying events take place across Ljubljana, Rijeka, and Zagreb.
10–13 May 2025
HORSE ME
SOFIA MAVRAGANI & JANIS RAFA
Dance, visual art, and music are intertwined in a horse-centered performance. In an atmosphere of misunderstood eroticism, the power dynamics between bodies riding and being ridden are subverted, redefining the boundaries of pleasure and submission.
🐴 3-6/04/2025
🐴 ONASSIS STEGI
🐴 INFO
TWO-DAY CONFERENCE
AT THE EDGES OF CULTURAL INDUSTRIES:
METHODS, CRITIQUES, RESISTANCES
23-24 NOVEMBER 2024
University of Thessaly, Volos
Invited Speaker for the the session: Artistic research practices: interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches.
MOVEMENT RESEARCH & COMPOSITION WORKSHOP
NOVEMBER 2024- JANUARY 2025
Maro Marmarinou Professional Dance Academy
FONES
A film about people hearing voices by Persefoni Miliou.
Supported by Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center, Development program 2024
Sofia Mavragani is production director and artistic collaborator.
THE GREAT CHIMERA
The novel by M. Karagatsis "The Great Chimera", directed by Vardis Marinakis, becomes a series on the digital platform ERTFLIX, co-produced by ERT and FOSS Productions.
Sofia Mavragani collaborates as movement director for the dance scenes.
GLORIOUS EPIC by Sofia Mavragani
01-04 JUNE 2024 // ALCATRAZ STRIP CLUB, ATHENS
06 OCTOBER 2024 // IFIGENEIA LIVE BASEMENT, DIMITRIA 59, THESSALONIKI
"Glorious Epic" is a bold and evocative dance performance, problematizing the tension between the heroic and the vulnerable. Through a poetic allegory, the work examines the death of the old heroes and the decline of the protagonist symbolizing the transition from power to fragility, from victory to loss. At the heart of this performance is the dynamic interplay between two bodies, forming a relationship that explores viscerally the strength in collectivity.
WOMEN OPERA MAKERS 2024 // FESTIVAL D’AIX—EN—PROVENCE
The Women Opera Makers workshop, conceived by stage director Katie Mitchell, aims to create a space for exchange between women who are evolving in the fields of musical or multidisciplinary creation, to discuss issues of equality between men and women.
Organized by the Académie du Festival d'Aix, who has been working to improve the representation of women in the opera field.
Sofia Mavragani is one of the selected women makers.
Photo by Vincent Beaume