_ Kosmas Kosmopoulos
	_ Biographical Information Kosmas Kosmopoulos was born in Athens. He works as a choreographer, performer and video artist in Berlin, Belgium and Switzerland. From 1989 to 93 he studied theatre studies and German literature at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 1990 to 92 he took dance classes with H. Vogl and at the Tanzfabrik Berlin, from 1992 to 95 he completed his dance education at the Etage e.V. Berlin. From 1995 to 98 educational program for dancers and choreographers with P.A.R.T.S. (director: A. T. de Keersmaeker) in Brussels, caleidoscope-scholarship of the EU. In 1999 he received a choreographer's scholarship from the Berlin Senate. In 2000 he participated at the X-group- Project of P.A.R.T.S. & BRUXELLES 2000 in Brussels. He took part in pieces by F. Ruckert, R. Wilson, D. Hernandez, R. Warshaw/J. Ritsema. In 1998 he co-founded the production company ALKYONIS with Anabel Schellekens, in 2000 he was funded by the Flemish community, the Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Gent and the cultural centre CCBerchem, Antwerp.
_ Approach to Work Kosmas Kosmopoulos mixes elements of contemporary dance, theatre and modern visual arts. His main topic is the examination of the opportunities and limits of communication in the area of conflict which is created by the desire of self-realization and the claimes asserted by others. His pieces, experimenting with the perspectives of human perception, are poetic documentations of feelings and at the same time demonstrate their manifold deformations due to social conventions.
_ Current Production In the duet "Scratches - to live by" text, video image, movement and music flow continuously into each other. A real person (Susanne Mueller, CH) and her projected figure - at the same time shadow and inner voice - move in an endless play between form and emotion, reality and surrealism, parody and seriousness, abstraction and concretion, cliché and poetry. By the means of unusual perspectives, dissolution or exchange of usual categorisations the familiar order gets cracks.	_ Future Projects 2001: "[2 . 1] zwei.eins" dance theatre piece, duet with video installation. Places of production: Hasselt (B), Berlin; "one eye look", dance theatre piece, group choreography. Places of production: Brussels (B), Gent (B), Zurich (CH) _ Repertory _ "[I Want: Remix]" (2000), Duett with Videoprojecktion, 20 min., Minimum stage: 9 x 9 m _ "SCRATCHES - to live by" (1999), Duett with Videoprojection, 60 min., Minimum stage: 10 x 10 m _ "Cyprus. Frauenballett" (1999), 6 female Dancers, 60 min., Minimum stage: 12 x 12 m _ "I want t see you... to be seen in black and white" (1998), Duett with Videoprojection, 30 min., Minimum stage: 7 x 8 m _ "A Room..., Airy and Sunny" (1998) Solo with Videoprojection, 55 min., Minimum stage: 10 x 10 m _ Links