Daphne Aidoni
Set & Costume Designer
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57 projects
Stage & costume designer. Born in Athens in 1985. She holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Patras and an MA in Theatre Scenography from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU). Since 2012, she has collaborated with artists in Spain, the Czech Republic, Argentina and Greece. She has taught seminars on stage & costume design, claiming the active, functional and transforming role of scenography in the performing arts. Since 2015, she has lived and worked in Athens and is a founding member of the creative team of APARÄMILLON. She has collaborated with the Municipal Theatre of Santa Fe (Argentina), the Alternative Stage of GNO, Onassis Stegi, the 56th Dimitria Festival, the Experimental Stage of Greece’s National Theatre, Horos Theatre, KET, Rabbithole, Bios, Romantso, Roes and other theatres.
The performance was realised in the context of FUTURE N.O.W. festival, commissioned by Onassis Stegi, during the lockdown. It was first filmed and premiered online with online dialogue initiated by the viewer’s comments. The documentary theatre performance was built around the issue of births and natality. Four “experts” on stage and three through video approach the subject from various perspectives inside a laboratory – a simulation was used from the beginning of the rehearsals, defining the way the non-actors inhabit the scenic space. There are two large tables with props: the scenography points out the process of the performance’s creation, research into and analysis of the subject. The video starts with a view of the empty theatre seats: “This is not a play; it is the video of an absence. You are not the audience. There is no audience. There are no spectators. There is no play”.
Direction: Dimitris Bampilis
Dramaturgy: Dimitris Bampilis, Georgia Kanellopoulou
Set & Costume Design: Daphne Aidoni
Lighting Design: Eleni Choumou
Photos: Andreas Simopoulos
The performance was realised in the context of FUTURE N.O.W. festival, commissioned by Onassis Stegi, during the lockdown. It was first filmed and premiered online with online dialogue initiated by the viewer’s comments. The documentary theatre performance was built around the issue of births and natality. Four “experts” on stage and three through video approach the subject from various perspectives inside a laboratory – a simulation was used from the beginning of the rehearsals, defining the way the non-actors inhabit the scenic space. There are two large tables with props: the scenography points out the process of the performance’s creation, research into and analysis of the subject. The video starts with a view of the empty theatre seats: “This is not a play; it is the video of an absence. You are not the audience. There is no audience. There are no spectators. There is no play”.
Stage & costume designer. Born in Athens in 1985. She holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Patras and an MA in Theatre Scenography from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU). Since 2012, she has collaborated with artists in Spain, the Czech Republic, Argentina and Greece. She has taught seminars on stage & costume design, claiming the active, functional and transforming role of scenography in the performing arts. Since 2015, she has lived and worked in Athens and is a founding member of the creative team of APARÄMILLON. She has collaborated with the Municipal Theatre of Santa Fe (Argentina), the Alternative Stage of GNO, Onassis Stegi, the 56th Dimitria Festival, the Experimental Stage of Greece’s National Theatre, Horos Theatre, KET, Rabbithole, Bios, Romantso, Roes and other theatres.
Direction: Dimitris Bampilis
Dramaturgy: Dimitris Bampilis, Georgia Kanellopoulou
Set & Costume Design: Daphne Aidoni
Lighting Design: Eleni Choumou
Photos: Andreas Simopoulos
