Description texDescription text Elisavet Panagiotou is a performer, creator and researcher working within the fields of contemporary dance, improvisation and psychology. Her creative work focuses on movement improvisation methods rooted in sensory and emotional experiences while creative writing and video play an important role in her artistic processes as well. Apart from her own creative work, Elisavet further collaborates with choreographers as a performer – dancer. As part of her formal dance education, she has followed the intensive dance program Oficina Zero in Portugal, directed by Mafalda Deville (2019-2020), and the OpenUp Performance Lab coordinated by Lia Haraki in 2021. She further holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Cyprus (2011-2015) and an MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology from LSE (2016 - 2017).

Her recent works include the site-specific work “when the hostess gets quite…” which was performed at the State Gallery of Contemporary Art – Majestic in 2024 and her solo performance “childhood leftovers” that was performed at Open Up Festival (2023), OnBodies Festival (2024) and Meanwhile (2024). In the past, she has performed her work at festivals such as Juxtapose Festival 2022, Openhouse Festival 2022, On_Bodies Festival 2021, and Dance Throughout the Year 2020. As a performer, Elisavet has collaborated with notable choreographers like Arianna Economou, Annie Khoury, Machi Dimitriadou Lindahl, Maria Kamperis and Viky Kalla among others. Alongside her artistic work, she is pursuing a PhD in Psychology at the University of Cyprus where she studies the embodied experiences of dancers and how these may constitute their self-understanding and identity processes.t goes here

Description text gΝikos Diminakis has been active since 2008 as a music teacher in primary education.

He holds a doctorate from the Department of Music Studies (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), in the field of systematic musicology, under the supervision of K. Tsougras. His dissertation is related to the saxophone oeuvre of Ch. Lauba, in particular the analysis of the composer's first concertstudies, as well as the evaluation of their virtuosic and pedagogical substance. He has published articles in the proceedings of Greek and international musicological conferences (ICMC/ESCOM, AAWM/FMA, Hellenic Musicological Society), while from 2014 to 2023 he delivered a series of courses at the T.M.S. (Didjeridoo, Harmony, Vocal and Acoustic Cultivation, Beatbox and Aerophones, Extended Saxophone Techniques).

He has received a degree in counterpoint from the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki (class: K. Tsugra) and the first officially recognized saxophone diploma (class: Th. Sotiriadis) based on the current legislation.

Since 2014 he has been actively engaged in vocal techniques such as overtone singing and beatbox with the aim of applying them simultaneously mainly on wind instruments (flute, saxophone, didjeridoo, mouth harp, etc.). Gina Georgiadou recorded part of the above in her documentary "Beatbox & Aerophones - Nikos Diminakis", which premiered in 2017 at the 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and was also broadcast on ERT3. He also appears in the documentary by Giorgos Gargala about beatbox, "Dancing With The Mouth", which was broadcast in 2018 by the Parliament Channel.

Finally, he collaborated in several performances with the Thessaloniki Concert Hall as well as with the State and Municipal Orchestra of Thessaloniki. At the same time, he has been a member of various and diverse groups of the city, covering a wide range of musical idioms. In recent years he has been collaborating with Thanasis Papakonstantinou both on recordings ("Aprostateitos" / "Urbanum") and in live performances (tours 2022-2024).oes here