Dimitra Liakoura
Set & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Born in Corinth in 1985. She graduated from the Department of Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and from Central Saint Martins College, London (MA in Design for Performance and Practice). She is a PhD candidate at the Theatre Department, University of the Peloponnese. She has also attended stage design seminars at RADA. Since 2008, she has collaborated with many directors, choreographers and theatre groups. Her work has been presented in theatres and organisations in Greece and abroad, including: Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Onassis Stegi, Athens Festival, National Theatre of Greece, Art Theatre Karolos Koun, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, Ancient Theatre of Philippi, Gessnerallee Theatre (Zurich), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Tank (New York), et.al. She has presented projects through residencies in Sicily and Lithuania. She also works in film as a production and costume designer. She has participated with her work in group exhibitions. She has curated the exhibitions Camiros, a ship with orange funnels and Deja Visite.
The advertising slogan of the ‘80s “It’s better in the Bahamas” features an idyllic place that promises it’s better there, in a general and rather vague sense. I attempted to depict that non-place via DIY exoticism fragments, full of cracks and visible “seams”. In that obscure place, nothing is given or easy for the beings we find there. Their moves are always under scrutiny and they constantly fail to do even the simplest thing. The “exotic” surroundings work either as a comfort zone or as a menacing tropical storm. The performance emanates a suspended sense similar to that after a disaster. The two beings (nothing can confirm there’s only two of them) discover their bodies and a way to move around in them. They always fail and then try again to move from one place to another, for no apparent reason. Any interaction between them is unintended. It may be the beginning or the end of the world as we know it.
Concept – Performance: Natasha Sarantopoulou, Ioanna Antonarou
Dramaturgy: Alexandros Mistriotis
Original Music: Pavlos Katsivelis
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Set & Costume Design: Dimitra Liakoura
Photos: Dimitris Parthimou, RGB STUDIOS
The advertising slogan of the ‘80s “It’s better in the Bahamas” features an idyllic place that promises it’s better there, in a general and rather vague sense. I attempted to depict that non-place via DIY exoticism fragments, full of cracks and visible “seams”. In that obscure place, nothing is given or easy for the beings we find there. Their moves are always under scrutiny and they constantly fail to do even the simplest thing. The “exotic” surroundings work either as a comfort zone or as a menacing tropical storm. The performance emanates a suspended sense similar to that after a disaster. The two beings (nothing can confirm there’s only two of them) discover their bodies and a way to move around in them. They always fail and then try again to move from one place to another, for no apparent reason. Any interaction between them is unintended. It may be the beginning or the end of the world as we know it.
Born in Corinth in 1985. She graduated from the Department of Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and from Central Saint Martins College, London (MA in Design for Performance and Practice). She is a PhD candidate at the Theatre Department, University of the Peloponnese. She has also attended stage design seminars at RADA. Since 2008, she has collaborated with many directors, choreographers and theatre groups. Her work has been presented in theatres and organisations in Greece and abroad, including: Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Onassis Stegi, Athens Festival, National Theatre of Greece, Art Theatre Karolos Koun, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, Ancient Theatre of Philippi, Gessnerallee Theatre (Zurich), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Tank (New York), et.al. She has presented projects through residencies in Sicily and Lithuania. She also works in film as a production and costume designer. She has participated with her work in group exhibitions. She has curated the exhibitions Camiros, a ship with orange funnels and Deja Visite.
Concept – Performance: Natasha Sarantopoulou, Ioanna Antonarou
Dramaturgy: Alexandros Mistriotis
Original Music: Pavlos Katsivelis
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Set & Costume Design: Dimitra Liakoura
Photos: Dimitris Parthimou, RGB STUDIOS
