Dimitra Κandia

Based in Berlin, Dimitra Κandia is interested in folk tales and songs, “discusses” with contemporary poetics, and investigates as a Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience, music, and language perception and development. Through the women’s vocal ensemble Perperúna, she focuses on the study, interpretation, and communication of the polyphonic sound, often in combination with the use of performative elements. As a member of Perperúna she has participated in festivals in Germany (including 48h Neukölln, Import Export Munich, GutAlaune) and various artistic projects. She has attended vocal and music seminars in Greece and abroad with, among others, the female vocal ensemble Pleiades, Martha Mavroidi, Katerina Papadopoulou, Emmi Kujanpää, Paulina Miu and Sofia Lampropoulou.

PROJECT
Dimitra together with Andreas Levisianos and Marilena Katranidou curate and present the original site-specific music theatre performance “Thalassa Quarry” at the homonymous quarry. The topography of the “Thalassa” Quarry becomes music and stage score, exploring the physical and symbolic characteristics of marble. The performance is a landscape composition: it composes the sounds of marble as a natural material in the quarry, the sounds of marble when sculpted by craftsmen, the interpretation of its sound and symbolic features by acoustic instruments, voices, and narrative speech, and the sounds of the bio-soundscape. Dimitra has created the original text and vocal design for the performance.
Through participatory workshops, the local community of the island will have the opportunity to attend the individual – organisational and creative – levels of preparation of the performance, including vocal, rhythmic and stage preparation workshops.