Tina Tzoka
Set & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Architect (M.Arch 2008, MPhil 2011), set & costume designer based in Greece. She has run her own studio in the centre of Athens since 2013 focusing on the fields of architecture and scenography. She collaborates with numerous directors, choreographers, artists, artistic teams and private clients in Greece and internationally. Her studio is connected with a broader network of regular collaborators from different disciplines and skills, which allows her to undertake a variety of projects of different scale and content, depending on the requirements. Collaborators include: Onassis Stegi, National Theatre of Greece, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Poreia Theatre, Maly Theatre Moscow, Dimitris Papaioannou, Yannis Moschos, Sofia Vgenopoulou, Natasa Triantafylli, Eleni Manolopoulou, Angelos Mentis, City Index Lab, Dainius Liskevicius, Vagelis Zouglos, Eleana Tsichli, Aris Laskos, Marianna Lianou, Aakash Odedra Company, Tanztheater Pina Bausch, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Ubuntu Company, Vault Festival London, Terre de Semis, Little Things Orchestra, Baku First European Games. Exhibitions/Awards: Benaki Museum (2010, 6th Biennale of Young Architects); National Museum of Contemporary Art (2013, Afresh-a new generation of Greek artists); Kunsthalle Rotterdam NL (2014, Urban by Nature, International Architecture Biennale); Onassis Cultural Centre (2015, Adhocracy).
What are dreams made of? What could Ouranoupolis, an immaterial, aethereal city, look like? A city experienced by its residents as a “prison”? The challenge for the set design was to find a materiality that could create this dual world on stage: the world of dreams and Arpatilaos’ prison. My aim was not to restrict imagination triggered in young and older audience by Evgenios Trivizas’ words with a stiff, representational image. Searching for a tough yet flexible and transparent materiality, I came to decide on using barbed wire as the main material of the set. Barbed wire is used to define areas, fence off and imprison, but it is also malleable, penetrable and transparent. In fact, it does restrict, but not vision. This material was given various shapes, different shades of colour and along with pillows and feathers formed our own Ouranoupolis on stage.
Music: George Dousis
Libretto: Eugene Trivizas
Conductor: Nicolas Vassiliou
Direction: Natasha Triantafylli
Set Design: Tina Tzoka
Costume Design: Ioanna Tsami
Movement: Dimitra Mitropoulou
Lighting Design: Giorgos Tellos
Photos: Andreas Simopoulos, Valeria Isaeva
What are dreams made of? What could Ouranoupolis, an immaterial, aethereal city, look like? A city experienced by its residents as a “prison”? The challenge for the set design was to find a materiality that could create this dual world on stage: the world of dreams and Arpatilaos’ prison. My aim was not to restrict imagination triggered in young and older audience by Evgenios Trivizas’ words with a stiff, representational image. Searching for a tough yet flexible and transparent materiality, I came to decide on using barbed wire as the main material of the set. Barbed wire is used to define areas, fence off and imprison, but it is also malleable, penetrable and transparent. In fact, it does restrict, but not vision. This material was given various shapes, different shades of colour and along with pillows and feathers formed our own Ouranoupolis on stage.
Architect (M.Arch 2008, MPhil 2011), set & costume designer based in Greece. She has run her own studio in the centre of Athens since 2013 focusing on the fields of architecture and scenography. She collaborates with numerous directors, choreographers, artists, artistic teams and private clients in Greece and internationally. Her studio is connected with a broader network of regular collaborators from different disciplines and skills, which allows her to undertake a variety of projects of different scale and content, depending on the requirements. Collaborators include: Onassis Stegi, National Theatre of Greece, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Poreia Theatre, Maly Theatre Moscow, Dimitris Papaioannou, Yannis Moschos, Sofia Vgenopoulou, Natasa Triantafylli, Eleni Manolopoulou, Angelos Mentis, City Index Lab, Dainius Liskevicius, Vagelis Zouglos, Eleana Tsichli, Aris Laskos, Marianna Lianou, Aakash Odedra Company, Tanztheater Pina Bausch, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Ubuntu Company, Vault Festival London, Terre de Semis, Little Things Orchestra, Baku First European Games. Exhibitions/Awards: Benaki Museum (2010, 6th Biennale of Young Architects); National Museum of Contemporary Art (2013, Afresh-a new generation of Greek artists); Kunsthalle Rotterdam NL (2014, Urban by Nature, International Architecture Biennale); Onassis Cultural Centre (2015, Adhocracy).
Music: George Dousis
Libretto: Eugene Trivizas
Conductor: Nicolas Vassiliou
Direction: Natasha Triantafylli
Set Design: Tina Tzoka
Costume Design: Ioanna Tsami
Movement: Dimitra Mitropoulou
Lighting Design: Giorgos Tellos
Photos: Andreas Simopoulos, Valeria Isaeva
