Andreas Skourtis
Architect - Scenographer
60 designers
57 projects
Award-winning practising architect, scenographer and Lecturer in Scenography at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama – University of London. He studied architecture, drama and holds an MA in Τheatre Design/Scenography from Wimbledon College of Arts. His studio Performing Architectures creates buildings, performance designs, installations and educational activities. Architectural designs include a New Performing Arts Centre in Uganda and the New Studio Nikos Kourkoulos of Athens National Theatre, a transformable space that won a gold medal for best work in theatre architecture and performance space at the Prague Quadrennial 2011. He has co-curated and designed exhibitions for PQ15 and PQ19, including the exhibition design of Staging Places: UK Design for Performance 2015-19 in Prague and at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He is co-curator of the UK student exhibition and co-curator of the Greek entry in the Exhibition of Countries and Regions at the Prague Quadrennial 2023. His architectural project A New Performing Arts Centre (International School of Uganda, Kampala) is selected to participate in the Performance Space Exhibition at PQ23.
At the meetings, short residencies, in experimentations and rehearsals during seven months (November 2021 – June 2022), we were driven by a main inquiry: How can we develop a collective scenographic toolbox – a set of design principles, instead of a finalised set – that will allow scenography to be co-designed / co-curated / co-created through teamwork between dancers-choreographer-scenographer-creative team? The result is a fluid scenographic landscape, created at every moment by a sole material and the performers. Bodies became space, space became costumes. The scenography of co-inhabiting.
Choreography: Polina Kremasta
Performance Design: Andreas Skourtis
Original Music: Babis Papadopoulos
Lighting Designer: Melina Mascha
Creative Associate: Panos Andrianos
Production Management: Orestis Tatsis | reon AMKE
Photos: Panos Andrianos
At the meetings, short residencies, in experimentations and rehearsals during seven months (November 2021 – June 2022), we were driven by a main inquiry: How can we develop a collective scenographic toolbox – a set of design principles, instead of a finalised set – that will allow scenography to be co-designed / co-curated / co-created through teamwork between dancers-choreographer-scenographer-creative team? The result is a fluid scenographic landscape, created at every moment by a sole material and the performers. Bodies became space, space became costumes. The scenography of co-inhabiting.
Award-winning practising architect, scenographer and Lecturer in Scenography at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama – University of London. He studied architecture, drama and holds an MA in Τheatre Design/Scenography from Wimbledon College of Arts. His studio Performing Architectures creates buildings, performance designs, installations and educational activities. Architectural designs include a New Performing Arts Centre in Uganda and the New Studio Nikos Kourkoulos of Athens National Theatre, a transformable space that won a gold medal for best work in theatre architecture and performance space at the Prague Quadrennial 2011. He has co-curated and designed exhibitions for PQ15 and PQ19, including the exhibition design of Staging Places: UK Design for Performance 2015-19 in Prague and at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He is co-curator of the UK student exhibition and co-curator of the Greek entry in the Exhibition of Countries and Regions at the Prague Quadrennial 2023. His architectural project A New Performing Arts Centre (International School of Uganda, Kampala) is selected to participate in the Performance Space Exhibition at PQ23.
Choreography: Polina Kremasta
Performance Design: Andreas Skourtis
Original Music: Babis Papadopoulos
Lighting Designer: Melina Mascha
Creative Associate: Panos Andrianos
Production Management: Orestis Tatsis | reon AMKE
Photos: Panos Andrianos
