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Creative - NOMINEE: Sona Andreasyan
The Mountain Dance
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The dance is a movement, and the movement itself is the visual and tangible manifestation of the worldview and thinking of the nations. For centuries, traditional dances have ensured community cohesion and awareness of the importance of each member of society, as well as equality and respect among people. The dancers hold hands, they form a unity during the dance. The dances come from different valleys, spatially separated from each other by the mountains, but brought together by the togetherness of the people. The mountains symbolize the beginning of everything, the beginning of the universe, the beginning from which modern man has departed. The traditional dances are an important way to preserve the knowledge inherited from ancestral human beings. When people dance, the mountains dance too.
The all photos are hand printed with gum bichromate technique.
About author:
SONA ANDREASYAN
Biography
Sona Andreasyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, in 1991. She graduated from the Yerevan State conservatory after Komitas both as musicologist (MA, 2014) and composer (BA, 2013). She studied photography at the photoschool of Armenian famous photographer Suren Manvelyan.
From 2013-2015 she was the official photographer of Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the official photographer of the Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan (2014). In summer 2015 she was invited from Schlern 13th International Music Festival in South Tyrol (Italy) as a cameraman. She had also an experience of working both as a musical journalist and photographer at Yerevan Productions’ www.imyerevan.com website.
In 2014 Sona was the musical coordinator at Musicology in the Current Stage International Conference of Young Scientists in Yerevan and an Armenian coordinator at Perform ME! Armenian-Georgian International Music Festival. She has worked as an official photographer of the Swiss Embassy in Armenia (2016-2019) as well as a photography trainer at the KASA Swiss Humanitarian Foundation in Gyumri, Armenia (2017-2018).
Sona is the author of scientific articles on the academic music of XXI century. She took part in several musicological conferences in Armenia as well as abroad: The 4th International Musicological Student Conference-Competition in Tbilisi (2013), The Seventh International Conference on Music Theory in Tallinn/Pärnu (2014), The 5th International Musicological Student Conference-Competition in Tbilisi (2014), Musicology in the Current Stage International Conference of the Young Scientists in Yerevan (2014).
During the last 3 years the main field of her scientific interests is traditional Armenian dance: she studies the question of Armenian traditional dances and national identity. Besides she teaches Armenian traditional dances within a project organized by KASA Swiss Humanitarian Foundation with support of UNHCR for refuges in Armenia. Armenian traditional dances are presented in her photographic works either, that is why as a participant of Artist in Residence 2019 project in Schruns, Austria, she worked on the project called vorTANZberg presenting her own perception of transformation of traditional dances in non-Armenian environment and teaching Armenian dances to Austrians.
During last years she uses alternative photo print techniques as method to express her photographic ideas. Sona had a participation in group and solo exhibitions in Armenia as well as abroad.
The all photos are hand printed with gum bichromate technique.
About author:
SONA ANDREASYAN
Biography
Sona Andreasyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, in 1991. She graduated from the Yerevan State conservatory after Komitas both as musicologist (MA, 2014) and composer (BA, 2013). She studied photography at the photoschool of Armenian famous photographer Suren Manvelyan.
From 2013-2015 she was the official photographer of Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the official photographer of the Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan (2014). In summer 2015 she was invited from Schlern 13th International Music Festival in South Tyrol (Italy) as a cameraman. She had also an experience of working both as a musical journalist and photographer at Yerevan Productions’ www.imyerevan.com website.
In 2014 Sona was the musical coordinator at Musicology in the Current Stage International Conference of Young Scientists in Yerevan and an Armenian coordinator at Perform ME! Armenian-Georgian International Music Festival. She has worked as an official photographer of the Swiss Embassy in Armenia (2016-2019) as well as a photography trainer at the KASA Swiss Humanitarian Foundation in Gyumri, Armenia (2017-2018).
Sona is the author of scientific articles on the academic music of XXI century. She took part in several musicological conferences in Armenia as well as abroad: The 4th International Musicological Student Conference-Competition in Tbilisi (2013), The Seventh International Conference on Music Theory in Tallinn/Pärnu (2014), The 5th International Musicological Student Conference-Competition in Tbilisi (2014), Musicology in the Current Stage International Conference of the Young Scientists in Yerevan (2014).
During the last 3 years the main field of her scientific interests is traditional Armenian dance: she studies the question of Armenian traditional dances and national identity. Besides she teaches Armenian traditional dances within a project organized by KASA Swiss Humanitarian Foundation with support of UNHCR for refuges in Armenia. Armenian traditional dances are presented in her photographic works either, that is why as a participant of Artist in Residence 2019 project in Schruns, Austria, she worked on the project called vorTANZberg presenting her own perception of transformation of traditional dances in non-Armenian environment and teaching Armenian dances to Austrians.
During last years she uses alternative photo print techniques as method to express her photographic ideas. Sona had a participation in group and solo exhibitions in Armenia as well as abroad.