VANISHING POINT

Alexandros Vardaxoglou (1986) is a dancer, actor and choreographer who graduated from the ‘Modern Times’ theatre school and the State School of Dance in Greece. Vardaxoglou received his postgraduate degree in Acting at RADA and has collaborated with several dance companies and choreographers in Greece and abroad, such as Andonis Foniadakis, Marianna Kavallieratos, Christos Papadopoulos and Johannes Wieland. Most recently he created ‘Vanishing Point’ with fellow choreographer Dafin Antoniadou which premiered at the New Choreographers Festival 7 at Onassis Cultural Centre. He also choreographed the movie ‘Brutalia’ by Manolis Mavris. As an actor in cinema and theatre, Vardaxoglou has worked with acclaimed directors for films such as ‘Interruption’, which premiered in Venice Film Festival in 2015 and ‘Third Kind’, which premiered in Cannes Film Festival in 2018. He was awarded the Best Male Newcomer award at the Athens International Film Festival.

Dafin Antoniadou is a freelance choreographer, performer and dancer based in Athens, who graduated from the Greek National School of Dance. Antoniadou uses the human body, light, and sound as her tools to explore the limits of the human condition. Her first choreographic work, ‘Matter’ (2017) was a collaboration with composer Constantine Skourlis and artist Stathis Doganis. In 2018 she presented ‘Fos’ in the context of Onassis Cultural Centre’s Borderline Festival. In 2019 she performed in Efi Birba’s performance piece ‘Don Quixote, 2nd Book, chapter 23’ and choreographed Rafika Chawise’s ‘Europeana’, produced jointly by the Greek National Opera and Ibsen Awards. Her choreographic co-creation ‘Vanishing Point’ (2020) premiered at Onassis Cultural Centre’s New Choreographers Festival 7. The work is the result of her collaboration with dancer and choreographer Alexandros Vardaxoglou and composer Constantine Skourlis, and was selected for the Aerowaves Twenty22. Antoniadou was awarded the ARTWORKS fellowship by SNFCC (Athens) in recognition of her artistic skills and qualifications.
 

Constantine Skourlis is an artist from Athens, Greece, who uses sound, film and the human body as his main tools for evoking apocalyptic images that are both violent and transcendental. His work expands through diverse medias; music, choreography, cinema, theatre and fashion. Constantine’s work has been featured and performed all over the world in different contexts such as festivals, museums, galleries, nightclubs and theatres, including BOZAR, Greek National Opera, BERGHAIN, Institut Francais, ONASSIS STEGI, Alserkal Avenue, MEGARON: Athens Concert Hall, Theater Rotterdam. His critically acclaimed music albums HADES (2017) and ETERNAL RECURRENCE (2020) were released on Bedouin Records, a label that he co-curates alongside Salem Rashid. His critically acclaimed music albums HADES (2017) and ETERNAL RECURRENCE (2020) were released on Bedouin Records, a label that he co-curates alongside Salem Rashid.