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Viktoria Andersson
Gorik Bellemans
Ruben Brown
Alvilda Faber Striim
Kaelin Isserlin
Kevin Julianto
Sierra Kellman
Sofia Larriera

“Night and darkness have historically been burdened with stigma. They have been used to signify ignorance, evil, the unknown that provokes fear, and sadness. Yet it is the world of the day that makes jaws clench and keeps them shut throughout the night.

As Europe re-arms, the night is filled with fear and uncertainty; the skies are lit by missiles, and hope is trapped in the blinding light of day. The ‘enlightened’ West builds its myth on an aseptic whiteness, and night is instrumentalized as evil, the impure other half of the earth that threatens the light. In Hesiod’s Theogony, first there was Chaos, and Chaos gave birth to Darkness and Black Night. And these two mated and gave birth to Day.”

– Chara Kotsali, Choreographer

Chara Kotsali is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher based in Greece. She teaches contemporary dance at the Rallou Manou and Marmarinou Professional Schools of Dance and has been a guest teacher and choreographer at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) as well as at several institutions across Europe.

With a background in theatre studies, social and cultural anthropology, and professional drum training, she explores choreography through a broad and investigative approach where anthropology, documentary art, music, and movement intersect. She is particularly interested in how sound and movement interact and influence each other, politically, physically and poetically.

Her solo work to be possessed (2023) received significant attention during Onassis Dance Days and the ImPulsTanz Festival, where it was awarded an honorary mention. Her second work, borborygmi (2024), premiered at the Athens Epidaurus Festival, receiving the audience award, and is now touring internationally.

Chara Kotsali is an Aerowaves Twenty24 artist, an Onassis AiR Fellow 2024–2025, and part of the Visiting Artists Programme 2025.

Jeph Vanger is a sound artist and electronic music composer working across performing arts and sound installations. 

His work has been supported by ARTWORKS (Stavros Niarchos Foundation), Arts Council England, and Help Musicians UK, and in May 2021, he served as Composer in Residence at EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm. His compositions often explore multi-channel sound systems, emphasizing the physical and spatial properties of sound as a dynamic, raw entity.

As a composer, he has collaborated with choreographers, theatre directors, and musicians, including Chara Kotsali, Candy Karra, Christos Papadopoulos, Netherlands Dans Theater, Mario Banushi, Savina Yannatou, Eliza Soroga, Martha Passakopoulou, Sofia Antoniou, Christos, Theodoridis,  Aris Papadopoulos, Giorgos Koutlis, Aris Biniaris, Anastasia Valsamaki, Alexandros Raptotasios, Kyriaki Nasioula, Michalis Theofanous, Yannis Panagopoulos, Polina Evangelou, Ermira Goro, Maria Hassabi, Georgia Tegou.

Periklis Pravitas has been working as a sculptor in Athens since 2009, and has since 2010 been working as a visual artist with theatre groups, directors, and choreographers, including Bijoux de Kant, Ioli Andreadi, and choreographer Chara Kotsali.

He has designed sets for performances at the Athens Festival, the Onassis Stegi (Onassis Foundation Cultural Centre), the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation, among others. He has presented three solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions. Since 2021, he has been collaborating with the Ekfrasi Art Gallery of Gianna Grammatopoulou, presenting the solo exhibitions Déjà Visité (2021) and Deux-Pièces (2026).

Since 2012, he has also been working at the Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) as a marble sculptor. He has worked in the following teams: Parthenon workshop, where he worked on the sculptural creation of new forms — reconstructions made from new marble — which are placed as structural supplements to the temple. Dispersed Stones workshop of the Acropolis rock, where he collaborated in the recording and classification of scattered stones, and at the Erechtheion workshop where he collaborated with the conservation team on the reattachment of fragments from the North Porch of the temple, as well as on the design of architectural members of the Archaic Temple located in the area of the Chalkotheke.

She has been awarded the 1st UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts for her stage design proposal at the 2007 PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL Exhibition.

She has also been awarded for her innovative lighting design in Relic performance (by E. Laskaridis, presented at Barbican Centre) at the Theatre and Technology Awards, Theatre Fullstop, London, October 2017, won the gold prize for her lighting design in Elenit performance (by E. Laskaridis) at the Greek Lighting Awards, Athens, November 2021 and won the Stage Lighting Design Award from the Hellenic Association of Theatre and Performance Critics for her lighting design in Nekyia performance (dir. Christos Papadopoulos), Athens, October 2024.

She works in Athens and abroad as a stage lighting designer, counting more than 200 personal lighting designs for theatre plays and dance performances.

Among others, she has collaborated with stage directors such as Yannis Houvardas, Vassilis Papavasileiou, Argiro Chioti, Nikos Karathanos, Katerina Evangelatos, Thomas Moschopoulos, Giorgos Koutlis, Dimitris Karatzas, Christos Passalis, Angeliki Papoulia, Syllas Tzoumerkas, Anestis Azas, Prodromos Tsinikoris and performing artists/ choreographers such as Euripides Laskaridis, Christos Papadopoulos, Iris Karayan, Marianna Kavallieratos, Chara Kotsali, Aris & Martha, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou.

In lighting design, except from her personal theatre work, she explores the creative fields of light installation and public light art, as a founding and active member of the creative group Beforelight. Beforelight started their creative career back in 2007 by creating purely light-art works, initially participating in festivals and museum spaces, and very soon went out into the public space with large-scale interactive installations.