Curator: GEORGIOS KOUKOUMAS
VOID SPACES
Concept/ Choreography/ Artistic direction: Elena Christodoulidou
Performance Design: Eleni Ioannou
Video art: Alexis Demetriou
Lighting: Aleksandar Jotovic
Music: Haris Sophocleous
On stage: Ivy Hadjivasiliou Nicole Yiannaka, Joanna Savva, Elena Christodoulidou
Eleni Ioannou
PERFORMANCE DESIGNER
Eleni studied Theatre Design (BA Hons) at the Royal Welsh College of Music and
Drama. She is currently based in Cyprus.
She has worked across disciplines both in the UK and Cyprus, as a freelance
performance designer as well as as an assistant scenographer alongside some of
the most important cypriot scenographers, and has also had experience working as
a scenic artist. Her collaborations include most of the big theatres and festivals of
the island: the National Theatre (THOC), Kypria International Festival among others,
as well as a number of independent theatre and dance companies. She has been
part of the broader creative team of the Young on a desert island platform at
THOC’s Apothikes venue, focusing on youth engagement in the performing arts.
In April 2022 she co-curated the international symposium Performance Design
Futures 2022, held in Cyprus and online.
She currently teaches Theatre Design to undergraduate drama students at
Vladimiros Kafkarides School of Drama in Nicosia.
She is a board member of CYCSTAT, the Cyprus Centre of Scenographers, Theatre
Architects and Technicians (2018-)
She is a founding member of 8×8 and Join the Dots theatre companies.
www.eleniioannou.com