Katerina Papachristou
"Traces of Antigone" (2020-2022)
Music composition and performance at the digital/physical show “Traces of Antigone”, written by the Swedish playwright Christina Ouzounidis, directed by Elli Papakonstantinou (ODC Ensemble). The show premiered digitally in May 2020 via Zoom and physically at RomaEuropa Festival, Rome, in October 2020.
"Illusions" (2020)
Music composition for the theatre play “Illusions” by Ivan Vyrypaev, directed by Nadia Foskolou, to be presented at Roes Theatre in Athens, Greece.
"Femininity in Transition" (dance performance, 2020)
Music composition for the dance performance “Femininity in Transition”, created by the choreographer and dancer Stella Fotiadi, to be presented at the “In Progress Feedback Festival (IPFF) at Kinitiras, Athens.
"Aède of the Ocean and Land: a play in seven acts" (digital opera, 2020)
Cue operator and additional sound design for the digital opera “Aède of the Ocean and Land: a play in seven acts”, written by Noor Inayat Khan and directed by Elli Papakonstantinou (ODC Ensemble). The show premiered in the US, in September 2020.
"Beneath the Pavement, the Beach" (Κάτω από την άσφαλτο υπάρχει παραλία, 2022)
Music composition and live performance. Four women meet by chance in a park, after a prolonged pandemic lockdown. They start bonding over experiences, trauma and daydreaming, and over how it is to grow up and be a woman in a patriarchal society.
"This Space In Between" (2023)
Music composition, music cover arrangement, live performance. Inspired by the connections between migrant experiences and pop music, This Space In Between explores embodiments of in-between states. Through songs, sounds, remixes and calculated choreographies, three performers examine states of being in motion, arriving, not/working and celebrating for their inherent in-between places, in-between times, and in-between languages. Influenced by transgenerational migration experiences in Germany, by queer music cultures as well as by the losses and delights of the working class, the performers improvise post-migrant pop utopias. They employ polyphonies, hybridity and in-between cultures as choreographic strategies to claim space and as transformative paradigms for social and artistic formations.
"La Bohème Supergroup" (2021-2022)
Music composition, music performance, live performance. - Giacomo Puccini's opera "La Bohème" from 19th century Paris to 21st century Berlin. Based on scenes from the melodrama and against the backdrop of current feminist positions, women living in precarious conditions and the ensemble of glanz&krawall - bohemians of the present - form the SUPERGROUP, only with 100% women. A group that can be trusted to do superhuman things: The women's troupe, experienced in the art of living, recomposes all the characters, shifts the perspective of the opera, deconstructs outdated gender stereotypes, hijacks the lightness of the male protagonists and transforms them into female action patterns. Together they put on a music theatre performance at the Berlin club Mensch Meier that combines analytical tutorials and liberating electropunk concerts – and in which individual voices grow together to form a band.
"Dancing, rolling, spinning, flying" (2021)
Music composition for the dance action "Dancing, rolling, spinning, flying" by dancer and choreographer Stella Fotiadi, addressed to kids and teenagers/primary and secondary schools.
"CATS of Berlin/Frankfurt (Oder)/Erfurt" (2023-2024)
Music composition and live performance.
"Stadt der Teufel" (2024)
Music composition, music arrangement and performance.
"DEMENZ*ionen" (2022)
Music composition. A piece for children and adults on the topic of the "Dimensions of dementia and forgetting".
Poetry Book: "Σου'χω πει ποτέ" ("Have I ever told you", 2020)
A handmade poetry book written and handcrafted by K.P. during the pandemic lockdown 2020. Dreamlike, surreal imageries and stories interwoven with titles, deriving from trauma, dreams, bright and dark experiences and from the exploring of the self. It includes two songs, "3:22am" and "intermission". Language: Greek
Tango with Lions - Verba Time (2010)
Tango with Lions' debut album, released in 2010 via Inner Ear Records. It features the song "In a Bar", viewed over 35M times on YouTube. 12 vignette-songs, music and lyrics by Kat, composed in the period 2007-2009, are the fragments from a music diary that includes thoughts, emotions, images of daily life, influences from favourite films and books, very personal lyrics but also symbolisms referring to social and political issues.
Tango with Lions - A Long Walk (2013)
Every song in "A Long Walk" is a small story, self-contained, with routes through dark dreams, night trips, sunny fantasies, memories and stories of love and separation. Throughout this long walk, bittersweet melodies and dreamy lyrics encounter rich arrangements. Dark outbursts, mystic trombone melodies, an old piano and a dark and solid rhythm section.
Tango with Lions - The Light (2018)
"The Light" documents a desire to emerge towards the light through nine stories-question marks of introspection. Stories of separation, pleasures, deconstruction that motivate either nihilism and sinking into darkness, either excessive optimism or the acceptance that darkness and light can steadily coexist in music. This natural coexistence is the thread that unites the songs of “The Light” musically and lyrically. Nine songs, different in style, reaffirm that the atmosphere in Tango With Lions’ music is created through images that lure the music, with the lyrics being the key link.
Tango with Lions - The Strike (2021)
Single "The Strike", released in 2021.
Tango with Lions - you.me. (2022)
The album is a tale of reflection on heartbreak and significant life changes, written shortly after the artist’s permanent relocation in Berlin, amid the pandemic. The lyrics express the need of introspection and of processing the impact of various interactions with different people, time passing and global events. The songs observe, address questions or come to realisations about a different “you”, from the perspective of a different “me” in each tale.
"Κάτω από την άσφαλτο υπάρχει παραλία" - OST EP (2022)
The music for this EP was composed for the titular theatre play by Constantina Voulgaris. "Beneath the pavement, the beach", 2021 - Four women seek news ways of life, following a prolonged confinement. They start bonding over experiences, trauma and daydreaming, and over how it is to grow up and be a woman in a patriarchal society. Music written, performed and produced by Tango with Lions & Miss Trichromi.
