'An Educational Album is a compilation of holistic dirty dancing. It is a space where references mix and match and spacetime meets the void. It is also a place of sharing is caring_ And if you don’t know now you know. So, let’s get meta-physical. Dive deep inside every-body. And get back into the groove.’

Natasha Papadopoulou and Yiannis Loukos perform their live show (concert) based on the ‘An Educational Album’.

An Educational Album is the first attempt by Natasha Papadopoulou and Yiannis Loukos to write songs in a traditional manner. An experiment to merge the disparate disciplines of pop music and holistic sciences. To infuse the dance floor with pedagogy and somatic knowledge. A back to the future of anatomical songs that Laurie Anderson never wrote, vitamin raps Neneh Chery should have sang and Lena Platonos almost did.

Natasha Papadopoulou lives and works in Amsterdam. She creates performances in many mediums and designs custom regimes for disciplined bodies and contorted minds. Her installations ask for participation and her artworks invite viewers to feel them in their own skin. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, including Komplot, Brussels; Framer Framed, Amsterdam; Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga; PuntWG, Amsterdam; Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam; EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; De Appel, Amsterdam; Buenos Tiempos, Int., Brussels; Kunsthalle Athena, Athens; 7th and 5th Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki; MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki.

Yiannis Loukos lives and works in Berlin. He is a contemporary composer and classical pianist. He has a background in film scoring, advertising, choir conducting and sound installation. His practice is about a combination of natural and synthesised sounds. His music pieces have been featured in Hotel Costes, Paris; The National Concert Hall, Thessaloniki; National Greek radio, Athens; HAU, Berlin; Darmstadt Festival for new music, Germany; Impuls Festival, Austria; Ogilvy advertising agency, Hong Kong; Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki; Z K/U, Berlin.

In the past, Natasha and Yiannis have created Miss Saturation (2014-2018) an automatic writing and free improvisation band. Miss Saturation would invite musicians to inspire her in a manner similar to Greek Rhapsodies. Where the narrator is guided by the muse of music to recite epic tales. Yiannis, Natasha and guest musicians would go on stage and create performances live, in the moment always anew, always unrepeatable.

Performers: Drums: Vasilis Sukos Guitar: Johnny Biner Bass: Richard Nacinelli Back Vocals: Beatriz Madruga, Sara Campos Sound Engineer: Alexandros Papamarkou

The project is made possible with the support of Mondriaan Fonds.