VALASIA SYMEONIDOU
Dance- movement workshop for people with disabilities and without disabilities 16- 50 years

2nd Week - 3 hours/day
17:30 - 20:30 (D. Vikelas Sport Centre)

syn: sync, synchronization, cooperation

Having as a canvas the structure of flocks, Syn investigates collective movement, groupness and the way we relate to each other in space. Starting with Laban’s movement principles and in combination with elements from visual arts, we will be encouraged to create our own movement through imaginative landscapes, visual sensation and the materials collected during the workshop.

More specifically we will explore synchronization, the common body flocks micro-architecture and the coexistence of different rhythms. The aim of this workshop is to learn through dance about each other and to provide the tools and space where people of all abilities can connect and create their own kinetic voices.

The workshop does not require a past experience to dance and is open to all. For people with kinetic problems certain autonomy in wheels is necessary


Valasia Symeonidou is a dance artist from Thessaloniki. She has studied dance at the State School of Dance and Mechanical Engineering at the Technological University of Greece. In 2009, she was awarded the Koula Pratsika Foundation dance scholarship, in order to continue her studies in choreography at Artez University of Arts (Master of Τheater Practices) where she researched upon the body–space relation in choreography.
Incorporating visual arts, texts, objects, scores and any other tools suitable for each work, she has always been interested in finding new possibilities to develop a performance and communicate her ideas.
Her work has been presented and supported by different venues, institutions and festivals including Artez University of Arts, Dansateliers Rotterdam, Punch Festival, Amsterdam and Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts Berlin, while as a dancer she has cooperated with the Hellenic Dance Company, Kyriakos Hadjioannou, Eva Karzcag and with Erik Kaiel and Julian Barnett as a movement advisor.
Since 2012, she has been working on movement for people with disabilities, delivering workshops for people with limited abilities in several places in Greece in order to create more opportunities for people with and without disabilities to communicate, move and dance together.