Antis Iakovou,Evie Demetriou

Evie is a dance maker and a performer based in Cyprus. She studied dance at Trinity Laban Centre Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and with scholarship at Limon Institute in New York. She is a 2004 Danceweb scholarship recipient (Impulstanz Festival) and a travel grant recipient from the E-motional European Program 2011-2014. She was an invited artist at “Act Your Age” program, a European collaboration between Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Italy), Dutch Dance Festival (Holland) and Dance House Lemesos (Cyprus). Her staged works are performed in various venues in Cyprus and were invited in international festivals in Italy, Latvia, Romania, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Croatia, Lithuania, Spain, Iceland, Turkey and Kenya. She has co-created the videodances “Pallas” and “on the brick” and she collaborated with Lucy Cash for the video installation “My mountain” exhibited at Centre of Evagoras Lanitis in Limasssol, Cyprus and Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Holland. In the past two years she experimented with underwater filming and collaborated with Antis Iakovou for the making and performance of two short underwater films “the day I jumped” and “posidonies”. Antis Iakovou graduated with Beng Mechanical Engineer from the University of Warwick, UK. He worked in the fileds of Environmental Cetrifications (Green Globe) and management of wind parks development (Wind Vision). Lately he is interested in a more sustainable development of the city of Limassol and therefore he designs and restores listed buildings. Artistically he collaborates in the last six years with choreographer Evie Demetriou as a creative collaborator and technical coordinator in the making and touring of the works. Together they also collaborated in a series of video dances screened in Cyprus, France and the USA. Recently his passion for the underwater world initiated two short underwater films in which he co-directed and filmed.