About US
Blip is composed of disabled and non-disabled artists and focuses its practice on sounding and silent movement, embodied experience, and the organic relationship between body and matter through visual and performative practices. Through its work, the group explores modes of collective creation grounded in listening, attunement, and physical presence.
Due to the composition of the group itself, accessibility in our work functions as an artistic core rather than a supplementary addition, aiming to empower participants and to foreground collective artistic practice as a tool for social cohesion.
HISTORY
2018 - 2022
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VISUALIZING SOUND — Greek National Opera, November 2018 - April 2019
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online CONNECTING BODY and creation of videodance — Greek National Opera, January - June 2020
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VISUALIZING SOUND — Municipal and Regional Theatre of Ioannina, Greece, February 2020
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CONNECTING BODY workshop — OUR Festival, July 2021
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CONNECTING BODY and creation of the first Greek fully accessible documentary — supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture, September - November 2021
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Screening of CONNECTING BODY documentary — 1st Nevronas Inclusive Arts Festival, October 2022
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Screening of CONNECTING BODY documentary — Athens Video Dance Project, December 2022
2023 - 2025
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CONNECTING BODY workshop — supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture, November 2022 - February 2023
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Screening of CONNECTING BODY documentary — dare Dance Festival, May 2023
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CONNECTING BODY for young adults with hearing and intellectual disabilities — Istituto dei Sordi di Torino, Italy, May 2023
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Screening of CONNECTING BODY documentary — "Specialized Day Centre for Social Dialogue”, June 2023
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CONNECTING BODY and creation of a fully accessible videodance for teenagers with or without visual or hearing disabilties — Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, November 2023
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CONNECTING BODY workshop — supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture, November 2022 - February 2023
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Screening of CONNECTING BODY documentary — dare Dance Festival, May 2023
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CONNECTING BODY for young adults with hearing and intellectual disabilities — Istituto dei Sordi di Torino, Italy, May 2023
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Screening of CONNECTING BODY documentary — "Specialized Day Centre for Social Dialogue”, June 2023
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CONNECTING BODY and creation of a fully accessible videodance for teenagers with or without visual or hearing disabilties — Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, November 2023
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In-depth research for the creation of b(l)alloon, September 2023 - February 2024
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b(l)alloon — presentation of the research, workshop and open discussion — ART & SCIENCE MICROFORUM III” by FLUX Laboratory Athens, February 2024
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Premiere b(l)alloon — PLYFA, Athens, April 2024
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b(l)alloon — International Body Music Festival, Athens, November 2024
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CONNECTING BODY — 1st multidisciplinary Arts & Mental Health Festival “SoUL Made”, November 2024
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Moving Soundscapes — Greek National Opera, January 2024-April 2025
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b(l)alloon, BRAINSHOT Festival, Technopolis City of Athens, October 2025
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Connecting Body — for a group of 13 blind adults at the House of Dance, Lemesol, Cyprus, December 2025
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b(l)alloon — Beyond Disdance Festival, Lemesol, Cyprus, December 2025
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b(l)alloon — International Day of Body Music, PLAYGROUND for the arts, Athens, February 2026
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b(l)alloon — Reset! Forum organised by Reset! Network & Culture for Change, Romantso Athens, April 2026
2025 - now
Our genuine intention for mutual attunement highlights the importance of silence, a space where stimuli are transmitted with clarity and precision, creating a safe and welcoming environment (relaxed session), not only for people with sensory disabilities, but also for neurodiverse audiences with different attention spans or rhythms of participation.
Vassia Zorbali is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, practice-based researcher, and educator in the field of movement. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts, is a graduate of the Rallou Manou Professional Dance School, and holds a degree in Biology from the University of Crete. She has been performing since 2008 (Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Stegi, Larnaca Biennale, Sychrono Theatre, among others), presenting her own work as a creator since 2014 (Greek National Opera, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Kinitiras, Hellenic American Union, Kappatos Gallery, among others) and collaborating with artists as an assistant (Dimitra Trypani, Nikos Diamantis, Chara Kotsali, and Christos Thanos etc). She is a founding member of the artistic collective ANOMIA, exploring the materiality of memory, the limits of the body, and the performativity of space. Through inclusive programs engaging the elderly community, the collective works toward an exclusion-free landscape, while also developing interdisciplinary projects that document embodied memory and its traces in the city of Athens.
Yiota Peklari is a dancer with MS. As a choreographer she uses an interdisciplinary vocabulary to delve into the sonic and social dimension of the moving body. She is the co-founder of PLAYGROUND for the arts, a cultural organization based in Athens, Greece dedicated to fostering an international community of artists, students and audiences who share a deep interest in the performing arts, with a particular emphasis on the study and research of rhythm. Since 2011, Yiota has been a collaborator with the International Body Music Festival (IBMF) contributing as an artist, educator, and producer. Recently PLAYGROUND for the arts assumed leadership of the IBMF by its founder Keith Terry and the cultural organization Crosspulse, based in Oakland, California. Since 2018 she has taken on a pioneering role leading mixed groups of people with or without hearing and visual disabilities in the design and implementation of CONNECTING BODY workshops. Her educational and choreographic work has been supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture, the NEON Cultural Organization, the Greek National Opera, the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation and the FLUX Laboratory Athens.
Natasha Chantas-Martin is a percussive dance artist and dance anthropologist whose main interest is combining sociocultural research with performance and vice versa. She holds a degree in Sociology from Panteion University, a master's degree in Dance Anthropology and Ethnochorology and is the 1st Greek graduate and scholar of Choreomundus: International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage from a consortium of four Universities: NTNU (Norway), Universite Auvergne (France), University of Szeged (Hungary), and Roehampton University (London). She has dedicated the last decade teaching and performing with and for vulnerable communities, such as unaccompanied minors, the elderly and people with disabilities.
Olga Dalekou was born in Athens. Graduated from the Department of Theatre Studies of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has been working as an actress since 2009. She is a founding member of the Deaf Theatre Group "Crazy Colors". She has been working as a Greek Sign Language teacher since 2019. As a Deaf interpreter, she collaborates with professional interpreters at accessible concerts and festivals. Since 2023, she has been collaborating with Eurobank as an accessibility consultant for people with hearing loss.
Christos Koutsovasilis was born in Athens and raised in Thebes. Studied at Panteion University, Department of Public Administration. Has attended traditional dance classes, Argentine tango and is involved in Tandem cycling. Since 2018, has been attending Connecting Body workshops. He is the first blind Greek performer to participate in a professional dance group.
Thanos Daskalopoulos is a dancer and musician whose work focuses on the embodied coexistence of music and dance, blurring the boundaries between the two in both solo and collective contexts. As a performer he has appeared at the Athens Concert Hall and the SF Jazz Center, among many other stages. A collaborator of leading names of the Greek jazz scene, he is co-founder of Kantu Korpu, member of Funkollectiv and Wolfy Funk Project, and currently a performer in b(l)alloon. Internationally, he made his Off-Broadway debut in 2015 with Spanish company Cambuyon and has toured worldwide with Body Music: See Music, Hear Dance. His own work includes the short film shunt (2024), the interdisciplinary performance Way We Parade (2025), and the ongoing project PACE (2026), a combination of audible dance and electronic music. He teaches regularly in the US, Canada, Spain, France, and Brazil, and since 2024 has been a member of the production team of the International Body Music Festival.