Call Me Sugar
produced by Onassis Foundation for FUTURE NOW FESTIVAL 2023
What makes a job good? How is dignity defined in the workplace? Do we share another view on sex work with regard to its online versions? Why should its choice as a source of income conceal a sad underlying story? Is this simply the male gaze or is it a conscious appropriation of the patriarchal system in favor of sex workers? “Call Me Sugar” sets out as a surrealistic performance conference centered on working conditions, sexuality, fetishism, and its commodification. OnlyFans, cam girls, and used underwear are the backdrop for a modular performance that will negotiate taboos, stereotypes, and loneliness through the field of online sex work promising sexual and financial liberation, insatiable pleasures, and arousing images. A performance made of research material, humor, personal confessions, and fictional stories.
TRAILER:
TEXT
CHRISTINA KYPRAIOU, MICHALIS PITIDIS, ZOE SIGALOU
DIRECTED BY
CHRISTINA KYPRAIOU, MICHALIS PITIDIS
DRAMATURGY
CHRISTINA KYPRAIOU, MICHALIS PITIDIS, ZOE SIGALOU
ART DIRECTION
ZOE SIGALOU
SET DESIGN
CAPTAIN STAVROS
COSTUME DESIGN
VASILIA ROZANA
LIGHTING
PANAGIOTIS LAMPIS
MOVEMENT
NATALIA KALOGEROPOULOU
LIVE MUSIC
CHRISTOS POULOS RENESIS
FEATURING
MELINA KOTSELOU, CHRISTINA KYPRAIOU, CHRISTOS POULOS RENESIS, DESPINA STAVRIDIS, MICHALIS PITIDIS, ZOE SIGALOU
The Perseids or How to Party Hard
Goethe - New Stages x National Theatre of Greece
produced by Onassis Foundation for FUTURE NOW FESTIVAL 2023
The basement stage of the Onassis Stegi transforms into the “Perseids” club: a place full of strobe lights, disco balls, pink neon lights, electronic music, and 80s love songs. Five femininities meet in a chance encounter (or not) in the ladies’ room. They talk about their first time; their Barbie dolls; the one-night stands. They text nude pics and create sexting inspired anthems. A night full of drunken confessions, swearing, loving, hugging, and wild dancing. A universe filled with glitter, TikTok tutorials, dating apps, and pop culture references that oscillate between Gen Z and the Millennials.
Is there any room for love in the generation of dissociation and tinder dates? How can you revolt in a world that is constantly fighting against you and your whole identity? Five girls crave to fall in love, to express themselves, and to live their dream, even though they were born and raised in a world where love didn’t come as they expected. Raising their voice against what defined them to this day, they unite in one entity, one solid body. A “dance" of the “here-and-now,” where the ladies’ room transforms into a space of release and liberation. A sharp, delightful, moving manifesto.
TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/872837310/ec3a5030f3?share=copy
CONCEPT-SCRIPT-DIRECTION
ZOE SIGALOU, MARINA SIOTOU
SETS AND COSTUMES
ELENI STROULIA
MOVEMENT INSTRUCTOR
ALEXANDROS VARDAXOGLOU
ORIGINAL MUSIC
MARILENA ORFANOU
LIGHTING DESIGN
PANAYOTIS LAMBIS
SETS AND COSTUMES ASSISTANT
TZANOS MAZIS
CUSTOM-MADE COSTUMES
DIMITRIOS PARASKEVOPOULOS
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
ROXANNE KRIMIZI
2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
IRINI BAZANI
CAST
DANAE DELAPORTA, MARIANNA BOZANTZOGLOU, KATERINA ROUSIAKI, ZOE SIGALOU, MARINA SIOTOU
Chromosome W: An Alphabet of Womankind
2022
One letter difference in our 23rd chromosome makes us female, if only were that simple. Two X Chromosomes on stage take us on a journey through the Alphabet of Womankind. Twenty-six stops concerning what it means to be part Womankind.
Through different media (video, visual art and music) we explore what it means to be female. Performed by two actresses on stage, using videos, songs, poems, advertisements, folk tales, interviews, to understand and explore the female position in society, sexuality and sexualization, female voice in art, science, society and culture in general.
The performance is constructed in 26 chapters following The Alphabet of Womankind (bellow). The Alphabet is used as a short handbook which will help us take a trip to what it means to be female, as seen through the eyes of literature, church, society, business, art, science, social media.
Throughout the performance the actors try to uncover the thread that connects the depiction of women through different areas of life and eras.
A RooZ Theatre Company production.
PROMOTION: https://cptheatre.co.uk/artists/RooZ-Theatre-Company
TEXT / DIRECTED BY
ZOE SIGALOU, ROXANNE KRIMIZI
COSTUME DESIGN
ELENI KAVADA or @240791ek
CHOREOGRAPHY
ALEXANDOS VARDAXOGLOU
Meta-Amour
2020
A contemporary dance performance inspired by Café Müller and Triptych by Peeping Tom. Using the pattern of repetition, our goal was to explore the stages of a polyamorous relationship. From its blossom to its decay.
Creators & Performers: Michalis Koutskoudis, Zoe Sigalou, Marina Siotou
The performance was staged at Arhi Theatre, Athens in January 2020.
Yerma
2019
A narrative performance of the titular play by Federico García Lorca. Three young performers dive into the female gendered psychosynthesis; each giving their unique perspective on love, loss and despair. To help us embody the rest of the characters we used puppetry to sift from Victor to Maria to Juan and back to Yerma again.
Creators: Zoe Sigalou & Marina Siotou
Performers: Sotiria Papantidou, Zoe Sigalou, Marina Siotou
The play adaptation was staged at Arhi Theatre, Athens in February 2019.