portfolio

 

Project: Ritual For Pharma Body
Role: Concept, Performer, Scenographer
Short Description: a performance installation 
tracing the journey of expired medicines
Premiere: Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 2016
Photo: Thomas Lenden

In September 2015 Ira enrolled to Amsterdam 
University of the Arts as part of 
DasArts- Masters of Theatre, 
an international laboratory for professionals 
working in the contemporary performing arts.
Image features an element of installation 
by Ira Melkonyan "I am in control: self-experiment"
Photo: Thomas Lenden

Project: The Pill
Role:  Researcher, Writer and Performer
Short Description: a solo performance 
based on a research of medicalisation
Premiere: Malta, March 2014
Image Credit: Liza Koval

 

Project: Grandma, Temi and the Crimean Fever
Role:  Researcher, Writer and Performer
Short Description: a guided tour around the Malta 
Ministry for Health based on a semi-fictional story
Premiere: Malta, October 2013
Image: Alexander Sobolla

Project: -hEx: Inverting Geometry
Role: Performer, Choreographer
Short Description: a performance installation 
based on a physical chemistry scientific research
Premiere: Malta, September 2012
Image Credit: Darrin Zammit-Lupi

Project: Old Salt
Role: Performer
Short Description: an open-air visual theatre performance 
based on the stories of the Grand Harbour
Premiere: Malta, July 2012
Image Credit: Darrin Zammit-Lupi




Project: Lore of the Sea
Role: Performer
Short Description: a stylized theatre-cum-mime performance 
created in collaboration with Heritage Malta at the Malta Maritime Museum. 
A project merging art, history, and site.
Premiere: Malta, September 2011
Image Credit: Darrin Zammit-Lupi

Project: White Sea:Baħar Abjad
Role: Performer
Short Description: a devised non-verbal visual theatre performance 
on gender and maritime poetics
Premiere: Malta, June 2011
Image Credit: Darrin Zammit-Lupi

Project: 100: Ave- Eva- Summer- Winter
Role: Performer
Short Description: a non-verbal visual site-specific 
theatre performance exploring the subjects of love 
and gender at Dock 1, Dry Docks
Premiere: Malta, November 2010
Image Credit: Darrin Zammit-Lupi

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