The project “hardcore echoes” is a sonic and choreographic exploration born from a desire to enter into dialogue with the memories of those who once lived in another time. It begins with a phrase that haunts Ioanna Paraskevopoulou: “Seek things where nothing exists.” The choreographer searches for unheard voices and forgotten stories to reshape them and bring them into the present. The intention is to reimagine the past, composing its landscapes anew by weaving multiple narratives and acts of translation.

This research collects the lived experiences of individuals who once worked in professions and crafts that are now fading or have already been lost. At its core lies the body, and more specifically, the hands as instruments of contact with the world and carriers of sensory memory. By bringing together diverse materials—archival photographs, interviews, recordings, and letters—the project explores the interplay between performance and manual labor: a meditative state of repetition, a method for transforming heterogeneous materials, and an expression intertwined with physical exhaustion.

Using a multimedia approach—particularly through live manipulation of sound and image—“hardcore echoes” borrows various techniques, craft processes, tools, and devices. It becomes, itself, manual labor seeking connection through physical contact. Everything we touch touches us back, leaving traces. In what ways are we touched by hands that never met ours? How do we carry the experiences of people we never knew? How do unseen ‘choreographies’ that once unfolded in fields, factories, kitchens, and workshops still resonate with us?

Ultimately, “hardcore echoes” is an attempt to map lost elements—a persistent effort to document fragments of our collective memory, a dialogue with the ghosts of the past, a resonant imprint of everyday recollections, an experiment in processing grief and loss, a way to prepare for what is yet to vanish, and a physical imprint of embodied workspaces.

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Concept, Research & Texts: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Sound Research & Sound Processing: Vasilis Zlatanos, Giorgos Stenos, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Research Collaboration: Maria Arkouli, Alice Bröker, Brune de Guardi

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Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is an Athens-based dancer and choreographer. She trained at the Municipal Dance School of Kalamata under the direction of Vicky Maragkopoulou and is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance and the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at the Ionian University.

Her practice operates at the intersection of choreography and audiovisual media, engaging with hybrid forms that bring into dialogue movement, image, and sound. Working extensively with archival material, she reconstructs photographic and video archives, approaching editing as a choreographic tool and exploring the performative dimension of foley sound as a means of reactivating the relationship between body and media.

Recent works include Unseen Horses (2025), All of My Love (Onassis Dance Days, 2024), and MOS (Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9, 2022), which was selected by Aerowaves 2023. She is an Onassis AiR Fellow (2025–2026) through the Dramaturgy Fellowship.