UNSEEN HORSES

Music & Sound Design(w/ Ioanna Paraskevopoulou)

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Dance & Multimedia Performance
Dance Theatre Heidelberg
2025

In Unseen Horses, Greek dancer and emerging choreographer Ioanna Paraskevopoulou delves deep into the lives of the DTH dancers. Their personalities, challenges, and moments of joy become tangible through video projections and live soundscapes. Inspired by Foley artists, the dancers create live sounds for their filmed scenes in real time, using a microphoned stage construction filled with various materials.

This stage becomes both a resonating body and a playground, while the piece also references the harsh reality of 1930s dance marathons and quotes the film They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?. With Unseen Horses, Paraskevopoulou uniquely merges dance, film, and sound, honouring both the art of Foley and the resilience of dancers.


Concept, Choreography, Video Editing, Costumes: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Music: Aliki Leftherioti
Sound Design: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Aliki Leftherioti
Stage Design: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Marilena Kalaitzantonaki
Lighting Design: Jonah Fellhauer
Rehearsal Manager: Jorge Soler Bastida
Dramaturgy: Natalie Broschat
Artistic Production Management:Adrián Castelló
With the dancers: Matilde Borges Correia, Jochem Eerdekens,
Joan Ferré Gómez, Marc Galvez, Polina Kliuchnikova,
Yi-Wei Lo, Lucía Nieto Vera, Kuan-Ying Su,
Mathias Theisen, Ana Torre, Adrien Ursulet