I consolidated my position through choreographic and performance work with IHOS Opera and Artistic Director Constantine Koukias  from 1992 until 2012 and established IHOS Opera’s most seminal works, The Barbarians, Mikrovion, To Traverse Water and Days and Nights with Christ.

 

I worked in a collaborative cross disciplinary forms with instrumentalists, conductors, performers, filmmakers, lighting, production, set and costume designers. I choreographed for singers, choirs, dancers actors, musicians, children and animals.

 

This artistic experience founded my cross-disciplinary practice

for a theatrical body. This developed my understanding of choreographer and composer collaboration in the making of large-scale experimental, music theatre. I mentored artist in cross arts practice and experimented with a range of 'out of the box' and 'site specific' spaces, where short works were created as laboratory pieces and not developed into operas. Works include, Oroma, Kypnos and Orpheus.

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In 2012, The Barbarians was the presented at MONA FOMA festival in Hobart and I was responsible for the choreographic staging of myself actors, singers and animals, along with performing the central character (The Emperor).

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I was commissioned to create main scenes  that included the  pre-recording of films for projection, performing naked the entire show and designing actions for principal singers and adding a section of my musical composition to an erotic dance scene.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The company founded IHOS Lab in 2002 and I was it's first guest directer to create an experimental music theatre work. I devised, directed and choreographed the work, Slip Synthetic Spaces.

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The work Slip  included three principal singers and a chorus of five men. I used a set design which was able to collapse, influenced by the decay of ancient Greek sculptures, in a theme based on corporate greed and globalization.

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        "The opera-based show explores globalisation with its

          capitalist base as a form of oppression - is poetic and

          visually chaotic wit beautifully dramatic spaces that make

          the show dynamic, challenging and invigorating."

                                                                               Wal Eastman. The Mercury. December 6. 2001.

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The featured opera of the company Days and Nights with Christ was developed in 1992, where Koukias gave me the authorship to design the actions and dramaturgy for the opera, was based on the  schizophrenic condition. The work was highly provocative and received noted critical aclaim. It was and was staged in Hobart went on to tour at the  Sydney Arts Festival in 1994 and re staged in 1997 for the Salamanca Arts festival in Hobart.

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                “A harrowing and beautiful performance”

                                                                 Deborah Jones. The Australian, August 1997

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The  multi dimensional work of To Traverse Water was staged

in a large shipping warehouse, and  based on cultural migration from Greece to Australia. I choreographed actions for the four principle actors, two singers, children and eleven chorus, who navigated around a water flooded and lawn filled space.

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The work was presented  at the 1995 Melbourne International Arts festival, the 1994 Sydney Carnivale and the 1992 Salamanca Arts festival in Hobart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 1994 I was involved in a long term development of MIKROVION, an opera about the HIV virus that provoked the senses of how one is seen and their identify shaped by the illness. It was staged in a large railway yard in Hobart and I choreographed actions based on religious rituals with a cast of twenty male and twenty female chorus and four principle singers.

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