Sofia Pantouvaki

Professor (Artistic Practices), Costume Design for Theatre and Film at Aalto University School of Business

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Aalto University School of Business

Field of work: Scenography and Costume design practice and research. Costume in live performance and film. Research interests: Narrativity, performativity and interactivity of costume; design for opera, dance and musical theatre; dress history and dress sociology; costume collections and related museum studies; curation and exhibition design; narrative environments; colour, texture and space; visual semiology and visual communication; World War Two–period theatre and dress in concentration camps (expertise on Theresienstadt and Auschwitz)

BACKGROUND

Freelance scenographer and costume designer, 1997 - currently Previous university teaching positions: Department of Theatre Studies, University of Peloponnese, Greece (2006-2012); Department of Interior Architecture, Decorative Arts and Design, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece (2001-2012); Fashion and Costume design Programme, Antenna College (1997-2001).

CURRICULUM VITAE

Sofia Pantouvaki, PhD, is Professor of Costume Design for Theatre and Film at Aalto University, Finland. She has studied Interior Architecture (BA Hons) at Athens TEI and Scenography (MA) at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London. She specialised in design for opera and ballet at La Scala, Milan. She was awarded a PhD in Scenography by the University of the Arts London (2008). Her design credits include over 70 theatre, film, opera and dance productions in major venues in Greece, Italy, UK, Cyprus and Finland: Greek National Opera, State Theatre of Northern Greece, Athens Festival - Herod Atticus Odeon, Finnish National Ballet, Municipal and Regional theatres. She has collaborated with Megaron-Athens Concert Hall, Cairo Opera House, Athens and Epidaurus Festivals and La Scala. She was awarded for Best Production Design and Best Costumes at the Short Film International Festival of the city of Drama (2005). She is co-author of History of Dress - The Western World and Greece (2010), editor of Yannis Metsis – Athens Experimental Ballet (2011), and co-editor of Presence and Absence: The Performing Body (2014). She is a member of the Global Editorial Board for Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style and member of the International Advisory Board of Scene, a journal dedicated to a critical examination of space and scenic production; also, a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Costume Society and active member of the OISTAT Costume Design Group and of the ICOM Costume Committee. Project Leader for Performance: Visual Aspects of Performance Practice (Inter-Disciplinary.Net), International Curator for World Stage Design 2013, and Associate Curator for Costume in Action. Also, co-Editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Studies in Costume and Performance (Intellect, 2016). At Aalto University, Sofia founded Costume in Focus, the first research group on performance costume, and leads a 1.2M€ Academy of Finland project on Costume Methodologies. Her recent research focuses on theoretical insights and processes in performance costume design, costume curation, the potential of new materials and embodied technologies in costume practice, and clothing in the concentration camps of the Second World War.

Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Journal article-refereed, Original research

Towards a philosophy of costume

Barbieri, Donatella; Pantouvaki, Sofia
2016 in Studies in Costume and Performance (INTELLECT LTD.)
ISSN: 2052-4013

Sharing “untamed ideas” process-based costume design in Finnish contemporary dance through the work of Marja Uusitalo

Helve, Tua; Pantouvaki, Sofia
2016 in Scene (INTELLECT LTD.)
ISSN: 2044-3714

Experience, Materiality and Articulation in Art/ Design and Research Practices

Nimkulrat, Nithikul; Seitama-Hakkarainen, Pirita; Pantouvaki, Sofia; de Freitas, Nancy
2016 in STUDIES IN MATERIAL THINKING (INTELLECT LTD.)
ISSN: 1177-6234

Tribes costume performance and social interaction in the heart of Prague

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2016 in Theatre and Performance Design (INTELLECT LTD.)
ISSN: 2332-2551

Behind the Seams, James Bellini and Sally Angel (2015)

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2016 in Studies in Costume and Performance (INTELLECT LTD.)
ISSN: 2052-4013

From Critical Costume 2015 to Studies in Costume and Performance

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2016 in Studies in Costume and Performance (INTELLECT LTD.)
ISSN: 2052-4013

Making Things Present: Exhibition-Maker Judith Clark and the Layered Meanings of Historical Dress in the Here and Now

Pantouvaki, Sofia; Barbieri, Donatella
2014 in Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style (INTELLECT LTD.)
ISSN: 2045-2349

Narratives of Clothing: Concentration Camp Dress as a Companion to Survival

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2014 in International Journal of Fashion Studies (INTELLECT LTD.)
ISSN: 2051-7106

Book section, Chapters in research books

A Stitch in Time: Film Costume as a Narrative Tool beyond Time Linearity

Trencheva, Elena; Pantouvaki, Sofia
2015
ISBN: 978-0-7864-7807-1

Reflections

Burnett, Kate; Bugg, Jessica; Cohen, Haya; Malka Yellin, Liora; Pantouvaki, Sofia; Sharifi, Parjad
2014
ISBN: 978-1-84888-263-8

Revisiting Greek Elegance: Greek Local Costume as a Source of Inspiration for Contemporary Fashion and Costume Design

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2014
ISBN: 978-0-9525518-3-6

Costume in the Absence of the Body

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2014
ISBN: 978-1-84888-263-8

Επιδράσεις της λαϊκής φορεσιάς στη σύγχρονη ενδυματολογική δημιουργία

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2014
ISBN: 978-960-8092-72-3

Experiencing Visual Metaphors: The Perception of Theatre and Imagery by Children and Youth in Oppressive Situations

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2013
ISBN: 978-1-84888-169-3

Dance Costumes on Display: Reflections and Practice

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2013
ISBN: 978-1-848-88121-1

‘Fashion in Auschwitz’: Concentration Camp Clothing during World War II Heretofore Unknown Aspects of Personal Experiences

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2013
ISBN: 978-1-84888-160-0

Aristophanes/Hadjidakis' The Birds (Ornithes): Two Costume Case Studies

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2012
ISBN: 978-1-84888-148-8

Conference proceedings

Technology-inspired Experimental New Transparences

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2013
ISBN: ISBN 9782930423173

Folk culture as a means of expression in contemporary Greek scenography (1985-2010) [In Greek]

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2013

'A Space Within A Space’: Contemporary Scenographic Approaches in Historical Theatrical Spaces

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2012
ISBN: 978-1-84888-066-5

Typology and Symbolism in Prisoners' Concentration Camp Clothing during World War II

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2012
ISSN: 1108-8400

Non-refereed scientific articles

Unrefereed journal articles

Editorial, Studies in Costume and Performance 1.2

Dorney, Kate; Pantouvaki, Sofia
2016 in Studies in Costume and Performance (INTELLECT LTD.)
ISSN: 2052-4013

Dress and Politics - Editors’ Introduction

Pantouvaki, Sofia; Petridou, Elia
2015 in ENDYMATOLOGIKA (INTELLECT LTD.)
ISSN: 1108-8400

Book section

Introduction / Presence and Absence

Anderson, Adele; Pantouvaki, Sofia
2014
ISBN: 978-1-84888-263-8

Scientific books (monographs)

Book (editor)

Tribes A Walking Exhibition

Pantouvaki, Sofia; Lotker, Sodja
2017
ISBN: 978-80-7008-384-0

ENDYMATOLOGIKA/5: DRESS AND POLITICS Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Meeting of the ICOM Costume Committee Nafplion and Athens, Greece, 7-13 September 2014

Pantouvaki, Sofia; Petridou, Elia
2015
ISSN: 1108-8400

Presence and Absence - The Performing Body

Anderson, Adele; Pantouvaki, Sofia
2014
ISBN: 978-1-84888-263-8

Aalto Research Day 2013 — Research with Impact: Proceedings

Kirschenmann, Karolin; Leinonen, Teemu; Pantouvaki, Sofia; Person, Oscar; Schwob, Alexandre; Kauppi, Katri
2013
ISBN: 978-952-60-5290-8

Publications intended for professional communities

Article in professional journal

Finland: The Other Side. Gold Medal PQ2015 for Best Exposition in the Student Section

Pantouvaki, Sofia; Pyhälä, Sampo
2015 in Meteli (Aalto ARTS Books)

Critical Costume 2015: A Brief Overview from a Curatorial Perspective

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2015 in Meteli (Aalto ARTS Books)

Article in professional hand or guide book or in a professional data system, or text book material

Additional guidelines for the art teachers [in Greek]

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2012

Description of the Scenography and the Costumes of the Performance [in Greek]

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2012

Instructions by the Performance Designers [in Greek]

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2012

Article in professional conference proceedings

Design for Performance Selection Panel Introduction

Cohen, Aby; Farley, Peter; Hirvikoski, Reija; Pantouvaki, Sofia; Van der Geest, Henk
2013
ISBN: 978-0-9529309-7-6

Published development or research report

Aalto Research Day 2013 : proceedings

Kauppi, Katri; Kirschenmann, Karolin; Leinonen, Teemu; Pantouvaki, Sofia; Person, Oscar; Schwob, Alexandre
2013

Public artistic and design activities

Public contribution to artistic work

Aladdin och den magiska lampan - Costume design

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2017

Exhibition Co-curators, "The Other Side" Exhibit

Pantouvaki, Sofia; Pyhälä, Sampo
2015

Tribe "The Official Finnish Tourism Association (with one pair of Lapikkaat and a Pulla purse)"

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2015

"The Semolina Boy", National Theatre, Greece - Scenography and costume design

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2015

"The Tempest", Sibelius Academy, Music Centre (Musiikkitalo) Helsinki - Costume design

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2015

"Costume at the Turn of the Century 1990-2015" International Exhibition

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2015

"Evolving Design for Performance", International Exhibition

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2015

"Critical Costume 2015: New Costume Practices and Performances" International Exhibition

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2015

Ancient Drama: Influences and Contemporary Approaches, Academic Supervisor

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2015

"Argonautic Expedition", Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kozani, Greece - Performance design

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2014

"Zorba the Greek", ballet, Greek National Opera, Scenography

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2014

"Don Giovanni Giocoso", musical theatre performance - Costume design

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2013

"A Thousand and One Nights", Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kozani, Greece - Costume design

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2013

Associate Curator, Costume in Action at World Stage Design

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2013

"A Collection of Endings", Finnish National Ballet, Costume design

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2013

"The Barber of Seville", Greek National Opera - Scenography and costume design

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2012

“Spectacle, Extravaganza, Cultural Implications and the Body”

Pantouvaki, Sofia
2012

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