Φ/2
"Φ/2" collective was created in Athens in January 2017 by Fotis Tsalouma and Barbara Bardaka.
Their collaboration started with a common axis of "visuality" of movement translateted through dancing improvisation. They created the homonymous piece in collaboration with Katha Platz (GE) and in March 2017 they were chosen to present the "Φ/2" at the InProgressFeedback Festival 2017, of "Kinitiras" artistic center. Ιn October of the same year they were selected to present their work at Art for Change Festival Vol II . Φ/2 "is the introduction of its factors into the" creative process "and the provision of new stimuli. The foundation of this motivation is the structure of the group's identity in the context of aesthetic expression.
Barbara Barbara. Comes from Rhodes/Greece. After graduating at the Panteion University (2013) at the Department of Economic & Regional Development, she decided to work professionally and exclusively with dancing and in the same year she entered in the first year of SEAD-Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria. During her studies she took part in festivals in Athens (ADVP,2014) & Belgium (In Works, 2015) and experimented as a theater choreographer in Salzburg in collaboration with the director Katrin Herm.
In 2016 she completed her studies at SEAD and in the same year she continued her education in Spain with David Zambrano on Flying Low & Passing Through techniques. Finally, she returns to Greece and during the transition period between her studies and the job market she continues her research on improvisation and composition with her main influences to be Edivaldo Ernesto, Rakesh Sukesh and Linda Kapetanea. Besides working with Φ/2, as a performer during 2018 she has also participated in projects of the "Ergo Collective" (Latraac, Athens) & Sharon Friedman Company (Kalamata Dance Festival).
She is currently working as a performer with Artius Dance Theater for the production that will be presented in May 2019 in Rhodes after a grant from the Ministry of Culture, and in April she is invited as an Artist in Residence again to “Kinitiras”.
Her personal goal is to develop as a performer and artistic contributor through collaborations and personal creative actions in Greece and abroad.
Fotis Tsalumas. Born on 27.06.1991 in Athens. He studied photography at the Leica Academy (2009-2011) and was professionally involved in photographic plays and musical concerts. In 2016 he conducted the Foundation Course in Plakas workshop to create his animation folder. He took part in the exhibition of students of the "Plakas Arts Center" with two series of photographs "Ich bin der Berg" and "Eine Frau Sein". He is currently studying the project with a view to his introduction to the Fine Arts School.
Katharina Platz. Βorn in Stuttgart, Germany in 1993.She started her pre-education in Essen Werden at the Dance Department within highschool in cooperation with the “Folkwaang Universitat der Kunste” and “Alto Theater Essen”.After her pre-education she entered “Iwanson International of Contemporary Dance School (Munich). During this time she also started to choreograph and had the possibility to show her piece “Did you?” at the Gagsteig Theater. Katarina worked at the Philharmonie Catemboorg as a dancer , at the “Landestheater Niederbayern” and in Madrid with the dance company “CaraBdanza”. She was selected to follow David Zambrano in 30days of EX IN, and she has worked with choreographers such as Jonathan Lunn, Felix Landerer, Jean Claude Galotta, David Zambrano, Patrich Delcroix, Caroline Finn, Nadine Gaspacher, Sonja Roodrige and Ryan Mason.