b(l)alloon
Group: Blip | inclusive multisensory project
Performance title: b(l)alloon
Conception, Choreography: Yiota Peklari, Vassia Zorbali
Visual installation: Vassia Zorbali
Sonic design: Yiota Peklari
Assistant Choreographer: Natasha Chanta-Martin
Performed by: Vassia Zorbali, Yiota Peklari, Christos Koutsovasilis, Olga Dalekou, Thanos Daskalopoulos
Project managers: PLAYGROUND for the arts
b(l)alloon is a choreographic performance by Blip | inclusive multisensory project, a mixed ensemble of disabled and non-disabled performers. The work explores sound, movement, and vibration as shared perceptual fields, creating a non-verbal, multisensory language accessible to diverse audiences.
The piece is grounded in the concept of aesthetics of access, where accessibility functions as the artistic core rather than an addition. Performers generate a dynamic sonic environment in which music becomes visible and dance audible. Working with sounding and silent movement, breath, and voice, they use body music to collectively produce and organize rhythm. Through repetition, layering, and subtle shifts in intensity, tactile rhythmic patterns emerge that can be perceived through vibration and proximity, extending beyond fixed or metronomic structures.
Tools of deep listening guide the process, directing attention to timing, spatial orientation, and the presence of others. Performers continuously attune to one another, shaping the work in real time. Communication unfolds through breath, vibration, and collective timing rather than spoken language, allowing a shared sensory field to emerge across different perceptual abilities.
The performance takes place in an intimate, in-the-round setting, inviting the audience into a shared space of attention. It is particularly attentive to blind, visually impaired, deaf, and hard-of-hearing audiences, without separating them from the general public. A central element is a fragile installation of suspended balloons, functioning as resonant bodies that amplify vibration and mark the passage of time, always on the verge of disappearance.
