Dido Gkogkou
Set & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Born in 1992. She is a set & costume designer. She graduated from the School of Drama of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki specialising in set & costume design. She graduated from the Conservatory of Northern Greece as a classical violinist. In 2022, she was selected as a Residency Artist of the A Turma research centre of performing arts (Portugal 2022). Since 2016, she has worked as a set & costume designer between Greece and Germany, in collaboration with Graz National Theatre, Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Grips Theater in Berlin, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Onassis Stegi, Experimental Stage of the National Theatre et.al. In 2018, she collaborated as a set designer with Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll) for the performance Bubble Jam which premiered in Berlin and Athens. Among others, she has collaborated as set & costume designer with Influx Collective for the Ibsen Scholarship Winning Project 2015 (Firing Range, We: the Dramaturgy of crisis). She has participated in the festivals 22 Internationales Figuren Theatre Festival Erlangen (Nuremberg 2019), Fast Forward Europäisches Festival für Junge Regie (Dresden 2017), Skien International Ibsen Conference (Skien, Norway 2017), Performance Rooms 2020 – Kappatos Gallery (Athens 2020), UWE der Festival (Munich 2017), Venice Open Stage (Venice 2016), Athens Epidaurus Festival (Athens 2021).
The interactive Bubble Jam performance stage was designed and developed simultaneously with the development of the text and its dramaturgy. Drawing on the influence from visual and applied arts and technology, my objective was to create a space of interaction with the spectators, for they -as heroes- remain in that space throughout the performance. A space that follows and underpins the project’s dramaturgy, consisting of points, parts of the digital world that spectators are invited to discover, collecting the information they are given and recording it anew in their mobile phones, thus affecting the progress of the performance. A unique experience of collaboration with Rimini Protokoll was born due to the hybrid theatre form that combines performing arts, technology and visual installations. This artistic cooperation encouraged me to reflect on contemporary theatre / performance design.
Concept & Direction: Daniel Wetzel
Authors: Nikolas Hanakoulas, Giorgos Panagiotakis, Daniel Wetzel
Space: Dido Gkogkou
Lighting Design: Guy Stefanou
Graphics: Dimitris Trakas, Renia Papathanasiou (ViRA)
Sound Design: Lambros Pigounis
Photos: © david baltzer/bildbuehne.de, Magdalini Gkogkou
The interactive Bubble Jam performance stage was designed and developed simultaneously with the development of the text and its dramaturgy. Drawing on the influence from visual and applied arts and technology, my objective was to create a space of interaction with the spectators, for they -as heroes- remain in that space throughout the performance. A space that follows and underpins the project’s dramaturgy, consisting of points, parts of the digital world that spectators are invited to discover, collecting the information they are given and recording it anew in their mobile phones, thus affecting the progress of the performance. A unique experience of collaboration with Rimini Protokoll was born due to the hybrid theatre form that combines performing arts, technology and visual installations. This artistic cooperation encouraged me to reflect on contemporary theatre / performance design.
Born in 1992. She is a set & costume designer. She graduated from the School of Drama of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki specialising in set & costume design. She graduated from the Conservatory of Northern Greece as a classical violinist. In 2022, she was selected as a Residency Artist of the A Turma research centre of performing arts (Portugal 2022). Since 2016, she has worked as a set & costume designer between Greece and Germany, in collaboration with Graz National Theatre, Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Grips Theater in Berlin, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Onassis Stegi, Experimental Stage of the National Theatre et.al. In 2018, she collaborated as a set designer with Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll) for the performance Bubble Jam which premiered in Berlin and Athens. Among others, she has collaborated as set & costume designer with Influx Collective for the Ibsen Scholarship Winning Project 2015 (Firing Range, We: the Dramaturgy of crisis). She has participated in the festivals 22 Internationales Figuren Theatre Festival Erlangen (Nuremberg 2019), Fast Forward Europäisches Festival für Junge Regie (Dresden 2017), Skien International Ibsen Conference (Skien, Norway 2017), Performance Rooms 2020 – Kappatos Gallery (Athens 2020), UWE der Festival (Munich 2017), Venice Open Stage (Venice 2016), Athens Epidaurus Festival (Athens 2021).
Concept & Direction: Daniel Wetzel
Authors: Nikolas Hanakoulas, Giorgos Panagiotakis, Daniel Wetzel
Space: Dido Gkogkou
Lighting Design: Guy Stefanou
Graphics: Dimitris Trakas, Renia Papathanasiou (ViRA)
Sound Design: Lambros Pigounis
Photos: © david baltzer/bildbuehne.de, Magdalini Gkogkou
