Leda Taktikou is a graduate from the 3 years full attendance (Nikis Kontaxaki )ΝΙΚΗΣ ΚΟΝΤΑΞΑΚΗΣ dance academy in Athens. She also has a BA in Sports and exercise Science.of National and kapodistrial Univesrity of Athens.
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Working with Kiriakos:
the sounds effects on me really strongly..This is a principle truth for me and that is why I am always attractive in dance festivals which gives you the opportunity dance till collapse.. However that thing has change in me was the variety on not of the sounds..i need a great variety in order to create and not just follow the river.. back on Lab reality it was like a we got back in our origins where chaos is followed by order and that repeats again and again.....
Working with Robert Clark
Monday 30rd of July
After having a jam session with Kiriako's auditory stimulation..I discover the power of the eye contact..I mean I now really know that this is the potential energy that leads me to move as well as music.and it goes further more because after moving the music comes to my inside ears.. There are many dynamics in optical contact between us and the different qualities of strength in kinetic energy of each one of us..Within The girls I know for almost 2 weeks and have shared this lab experience was kind of open friendly and open energy it was like i wanted to hug everybody ..All energy I felt was a kind of a high vibration that made me move in terms of my time space .like the dropped stone in the water..amazing I am feeling full for the rest of my day ..Leeda
Tuesday 31st of july 2012
Happiness... what is for me and the others?? Can we gain happiness together ? what makes me happy..am I happy ...do I need something to get more happiness?/ a pair of shoes maybe..?? hah ...is this what we learnt about happiness ..Is now clear in my mind that being happy is a state of mind ..can i propose this to other people..?would they listen ..Do i care if people listen?? Do we all have same condition to be happy?? do we all need the same things to be happy?/ how happy do we feel for the air we breathe??/how happy for the food we had and shared maybe with others? i cant share food if i dont be asked for and then ..I am happy !! when I give.I am happy .what if i don;t have something to give.. ? ...happiness is to do something, anything with people u love..and What is love,,?/being a woman is to love eternally what if i were a man..?? how where with whom ..in which..way i Love .I feel happy ...Thank you,..I know i ll never be a man. ..in this life..Would I be happy in the next life??would i be a man or a woman is this happiness to find your identical other ?/ would totally happiness comes after death ? would be ever happy then, if only our hearts weight lighter than a feather ..can you smile at me as a child do ..?I am happy when you smile at me.. would a smile brings happiness..?? i think a smile is happiness.. :-)
Wednesday 1st August 2012
Happiness is a state of mind .a small piece in your back of your brain..and I choose circle for happiness a great circle in the wall as the great bright sun above us enlighten and warms us.. I can draw with my feet as well as a monkey can do..that also do when I am happy....Only when i am in this bright circle I can feel a way that moves me to to the space like a flying bird or the wild horse running full of energy and vitality. And then .when the pick has come.. the fall comes and drop an rebound and drop in consciousness and dive in to see from another point of view and upside down if necessary,,.and then always the words of Nikos Kazatzakis comes in mind saying that .."you 've got the paints ,you've got the colours ,Draw your world and live in...and then I smile .. ..
Thursday 2nd August 2012
It is clearly known that we can't understand a value if there isn't something opposite to stand against.so after happiness .sadness appears .. ..again with a smile so i can say if there is any word can describe this Iam sadly happy....so having been late to the studio.,( thankfully i manage to be on time to my appointment with Kiriakos Spirou..we work together for an hour and maybe more and I found something close to my truth close enough..sadness and happiness fighting ans standing facing the reality from the base not from above as a god from the machine. for my self not for the others and that is the energy that could run through my moves that perhaps leads to a choreography ..the story can't have an end because there isn';t any its a non stop procedure of life ..But the idea came out,related to now here and the journey (of me) begins...afraid but ...ready to dive in..with a smile :)
Saturday 4th of August
Working with Michael Klien was an establishment that dance is the language before language..the body says what want to say in addition to words most of the time ..all emotions and energy comes out and it makes me believe strongly that when the body talks ,its when the truth comes out..Moreover the method of structuring the moves come out and the opposite that the moves have a way to happen.. HAS made me think...EXTREMELY ..its kind of higher mathematics!!?! then the score came
Monday 6th of August 2012
Back to Zero!! Senor Roberto gave us an interesting so much and also hard task to manage. His choreography was sooooo truthful i HAAAAAA..suppose i should remember manage with this haaaa in every step i took but i was bit nervous to re remember and copy the whole details thing that needs more practise.tomorrow i ll do it right ...promise .
Wednesday 8th August 2012
"Fever"!!!
14/08/2012
I feel i made it .!!! We made it!! there are lots of ideas keep coming for my project i definitely need space on September ..and I am looking forward ...Thank U Ana-manoula!!!
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Working with Kiriakos:
the sounds effects on me really strongly..This is a principle truth for me and that is why I am always attractive in dance festivals which gives you the opportunity dance till collapse.. However that thing has change in me was the variety on not of the sounds..i need a great variety in order to create and not just follow the river.. back on Lab reality it was like a we got back in our origins where chaos is followed by order and that repeats again and again.....
Working with Robert Clark
Monday 30rd of July
After having a jam session with Kiriako's auditory stimulation..I discover the power of the eye contact..I mean I now really know that this is the potential energy that leads me to move as well as music.and it goes further more because after moving the music comes to my inside ears.. There are many dynamics in optical contact between us and the different qualities of strength in kinetic energy of each one of us..Within The girls I know for almost 2 weeks and have shared this lab experience was kind of open friendly and open energy it was like i wanted to hug everybody ..All energy I felt was a kind of a high vibration that made me move in terms of my time space .like the dropped stone in the water..amazing I am feeling full for the rest of my day ..Leeda
Tuesday 31st of july 2012
Happiness... what is for me and the others?? Can we gain happiness together ? what makes me happy..am I happy ...do I need something to get more happiness?/ a pair of shoes maybe..?? hah ...is this what we learnt about happiness ..Is now clear in my mind that being happy is a state of mind ..can i propose this to other people..?would they listen ..Do i care if people listen?? Do we all have same condition to be happy?? do we all need the same things to be happy?/ how happy do we feel for the air we breathe??/how happy for the food we had and shared maybe with others? i cant share food if i dont be asked for and then ..I am happy !! when I give.I am happy .what if i don;t have something to give.. ? ...happiness is to do something, anything with people u love..and What is love,,?/being a woman is to love eternally what if i were a man..?? how where with whom ..in which..way i Love .I feel happy ...Thank you,..I know i ll never be a man. ..in this life..Would I be happy in the next life??would i be a man or a woman is this happiness to find your identical other ?/ would totally happiness comes after death ? would be ever happy then, if only our hearts weight lighter than a feather ..can you smile at me as a child do ..?I am happy when you smile at me.. would a smile brings happiness..?? i think a smile is happiness.. :-)
Wednesday 1st August 2012
Happiness is a state of mind .a small piece in your back of your brain..and I choose circle for happiness a great circle in the wall as the great bright sun above us enlighten and warms us.. I can draw with my feet as well as a monkey can do..that also do when I am happy....Only when i am in this bright circle I can feel a way that moves me to to the space like a flying bird or the wild horse running full of energy and vitality. And then .when the pick has come.. the fall comes and drop an rebound and drop in consciousness and dive in to see from another point of view and upside down if necessary,,.and then always the words of Nikos Kazatzakis comes in mind saying that .."you 've got the paints ,you've got the colours ,Draw your world and live in...and then I smile .. ..
Thursday 2nd August 2012
It is clearly known that we can't understand a value if there isn't something opposite to stand against.so after happiness .sadness appears .. ..again with a smile so i can say if there is any word can describe this Iam sadly happy....so having been late to the studio.,( thankfully i manage to be on time to my appointment with Kiriakos Spirou..we work together for an hour and maybe more and I found something close to my truth close enough..sadness and happiness fighting ans standing facing the reality from the base not from above as a god from the machine. for my self not for the others and that is the energy that could run through my moves that perhaps leads to a choreography ..the story can't have an end because there isn';t any its a non stop procedure of life ..But the idea came out,related to now here and the journey (of me) begins...afraid but ...ready to dive in..with a smile :)
Saturday 4th of August
Working with Michael Klien was an establishment that dance is the language before language..the body says what want to say in addition to words most of the time ..all emotions and energy comes out and it makes me believe strongly that when the body talks ,its when the truth comes out..Moreover the method of structuring the moves come out and the opposite that the moves have a way to happen.. HAS made me think...EXTREMELY ..its kind of higher mathematics!!?! then the score came
Monday 6th of August 2012
Back to Zero!! Senor Roberto gave us an interesting so much and also hard task to manage. His choreography was sooooo truthful i HAAAAAA..suppose i should remember manage with this haaaa in every step i took but i was bit nervous to re remember and copy the whole details thing that needs more practise.tomorrow i ll do it right ...promise .
Wednesday 8th August 2012
"Fever"!!!
14/08/2012
I feel i made it .!!! We made it!! there are lots of ideas keep coming for my project i definitely need space on September ..and I am looking forward ...Thank U Ana-manoula!!!
