Vicky Filippa

Vicky Filippa is born in September 1990 in Athens. Her contact with dance and performing arts started at a very young age through the genres of ballet, modern, lyrical jazz, musical, hip-hop and has been accompanied by various distinctions in youth dance and choreography competitions. She continues learning contemporary dance, doing intensive seminars with well known established choreographers - Athanasia Kanellopoulou, Dafnis Kokkinos [Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch], Olia Tornaritou, Nico Monaco [Akram Khan] - and other artists.

From 2008 until today she is intensively engaged in the postmodern dance technique BUTOH which is now the main form of expression of her work. She has studied, among many others, with the masters of the genre Yumiko Yoshioka, Valentin Tszin, Koseki Sumako, Yuko Kaseki and is one of the few Greek accomplished performers and teachers of the genre.

Since 2016 she has founded the Quantum Body Athens Butoh Dance Group. She gives butoh classes on a regular basis, choreographs, directs and organizes seminars and performances in Greece and abroad.

 

Studies:

- Mathematics - University of Crete

- M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, University of Athens

- PhD Candidate - Athens Medical School, University of Athens, Greece

 

Teaching:

- Incarnation through movement of the poems Inhalations/Breaths - by the poet C. Antiochos and composer N. Panagiotakis, Music and Poetry Festival 2017

- The Ghost with the Fan - at the presentation of the book Stories

- Ghost stories from Japan - by Lafcadio Hearn

- Asceticism/Salvatores Dei - 2018

- Compartments Dance Project, MOIRES - 2018

- Touch my Limbo - with Valentin Tszin - 2018

- Exo apo Nao Epaites - 2019

- Shoot Jeez my Gosh

- TAMAMO - Japan and Fantasy event - Japan Festival - 2020

 

Seminars:

- The Wave: organizing and producing butoh workshop - with Valentin Tszin

- Intersection: butoh workshop and performance - Switzerland 2019

- Root and Stem: organizing and producing butoh workshop - with Yuko Kaseki

-The mechanism of phonation: the multidimensional role of the performer's         voice - in collaboration with Angeliki Toubanaki - 2020