takis
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takis studied Costume and Set Design at the Romanian National University of Arts (Bucharest), with a scholarship from the Romanian Ministry of Education where he graduated with honours in 2002. He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on the Theatre Technical Arts Course, graduating with distinction in 2004, with support from a “Kiveli-Horn” scholarship given by the Greek Friends of Music Society. He is currently concluding a PhD at the London College of Fashion, researching new methodologies of design in Fashion and Performance, supported by an Onassis Foundation scholarship.
takis has worked as a model room assistant at the Royal Opera House in London, as a scenic art assistant for several productions at the Greek National Opera and the Megaron-Athens Concert Hall and as a costume assistant for the Opera Festival of Rome.
He is also a guest lecturer and workshop leader at the Romanian National University of Arts in Bucharest, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (where he led the Theatre Design Summer Course ’06-‘08), the London College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins, the Lyric Hammersmith/Lyric Young Company and the International Youth and Culture Centre Kiebitz in Duisburg, Germany where in 2002, takis did his European Voluntary Service.
From 2007-2011 as Designer in residence for HighTide takis built the visual identity of the company, designing diverse productions to great acclaim including the very successful STOVEPIPE in collaboration with the National Theatre (Off West End Design nomination), DITCH with Old Vic and Lidless (Fringe First Award winner in Edinburgh Festival 2010).
His work has been seen in around eighty productions worldwide in various indoor and outdoor venues. He is also the artistic director of his own company called ARTLUXE, which produces installation and performance art.
Theatre includes: His Teeth (Only Connect), As You Like It & Merlin (Chester Open Air Theatre); Nicked, Midnight Your Time & Dusk Rings a Bell (HightTide/Edinburgh Festival); Measure for Measure (Sherman Theatre); Oh What a Lovely War (RADA); Much Ado About Nothing & Hercules (Chester Open Air Theatre); Ditch (Old Vic/HighTide), Lidless (HighTide & Edinburgh Festival), The Early Bird (Finborough Theatre/ Project Art Centre-Dublin), Signs of a Star Shaped Diva (Theatre Royal Stratford East & National Tour), Stovepipe (National Theatre/HighTide), The Marriage Bed (Hong Kong/ NY); Invasion (Soho Theatre); I caught Crabs in Walberswick (Bush Theate & Edinburgh Festival); Scenes from the Big Picture (RADA); Crazy Lady (Drill Hall & Contact Theatre Manchester)…
Installations include: Forgotten Peacock (Design Museum/The Brunswick); Installation 496 (RADA), Goldfish (Paris Fashion Week); Mythological Installation Oedipus (Bucharest Museum of Contemporary Art); Visual Performance in Baroque Spirit (Venice Carnival)…
Music Performances includes: Dick Whittington (Gatehouse Theatre), Nicked (HighTide Festival), A Tale of Two Cities (Theatre Royal Brighton), Bloodbath (Edinburgh Festival), Maria Callas - Vissi D'arte, Vissi D'amore (Barbican); Choruses (Ancient Epidaurus/ Frankfurt); The Words of Love (Athens); In the Light of the Night (Ancient Epidaurus); Nikos Skalkotas (Queen Elizabeth Hall)…
Film includes: Junk (feature film), Half Light (short film), Eve (short film)…
