Terezakis works and projects in Art and Technology including Sacred Sky Sacred Earth, Healing Light, All the Names of God, and other works of art from 1974 until....

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"... Terezakis' light installation powerfully suggests heat lightning fragmenting the desert's night air..."
— New York Times, 2000


   
Selected Performances
  2018


SHIVOHAM Desert installation of Heart Beats Light used in Chandrika Tandon's Shivoham. Film Direction Allyson Green, Produced by Allyson Green & Peter Terezakis. Camera Denns Keely and Peter Terezakis, Choreography by Allyson Green, Edited by Allyson Green and Peter Terezakis Shivoham .  Shot on location at White Sands, New Mexico.
  2010

AN ARCHIVE OF HAPPINESS Created sound and light sculptures most of which were based on the Steamed Light geometry.  Wagner Theatre, UCSD Allyson Green, choreographer
    ARTS IN ACTION FESTIVAL ‘Real Art for Real Change’: UC San Diego Celebrates Art Activism  Premiered SHEPARD'S CROSS, an audio kinetic sculpture created in the memory of Matthew Shepard and The Wheel of Sharp Weapons
    LETTERS/WORDS LOST/FOUND, Created eleven electro-acoustic instruments from found objects for a dance choreographed by Betzi Roe, Vine Theater, Rancho Bernardo
  2009




THE CAL-LABORATORY KITCHEN PROJECT Collaborator and Web Designer of a two week festival and process laboratory for international choreographers, composers, artists and writers from Great Britain, Latvia, Mexico, Macedonia, Romania, and US. Over 100 participants. Supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Suitcase Fund, and the Romanian Cultural Institute.  
Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
   

INTA'S DREAM Video, photographed in Riga, Latvia, created for Blurred Borders Festival, San Diego Press Review  Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer

    DRYADS Video, Video photographed by Peter Terezakis, created for Blurred Borders Festival, San Diego Press Review   Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
  2008


SACRED SKY, SACRED EARTH Video, Site Specific collaboration with light/sound/video installation , Commission for Riga Contemporary Art  Museum, Riga City Festival, Score Alan Stones Latvia Press Review. Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer,
    ZALA ZEME; INTA'S DREAM Group work 6, Site Specific collaboration with light/sound/video installation by Peter Terezakis, Commission for Riga Contemporary Art Museum, Riga City Festival, Latvia Press Review Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
    LIGUA Group work 5, Visual Design by Peter Terezakis Wagner Theatre, San Diego, California, Press Review Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
    SACRED SKY, SACRED EARTH Coronado Beach Coronado School of the Arts, Benefit event. Betzi Roe, Direction and Choreography. Included three violinists from the San Diego Symphony, professional drummers working with student musicians; and a student chorus with a professional choral conductor. Produced with the support of the Coronado School of the Arts Foundation
 

2007


ABANDON Allyson Green Solo, Video and Light Installation by Peter Terezakis, Commissioned for The American College Dance Festival Association, University of Montana, Missoula Press Review 2007
Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer

    HEART BEATS LIGHT, La Costa Canyon High School, Betzi Roe Choreographer.
Dancer-choreographer Betzi Roe made 8 visits to high school dance classes working with 45 students in technique, improvisation and composition. The focus of this 5 week workshop was to engage students in 1.) thinking about the environments they live in 2.) developing greater awareness (sacred nature) of the outside spaces around them, 3.) identifying outside locations for improvisation and art making, 4.) developing dances for performance in several site-specific locations 5.) working along side professional practicing artists. A culminating performance was created on the school campus that included 4 site dances choreographed by the students, ending with a light installation by artist Peter Terezakis that illuminated columns along a walkway with dancers moving in and around them. Students from the digital media classes photographed and created their own video montages of the project. 150 people attended. Supported in part through the San Dieguito Union High School District and the Torrey Pines Ch. Liberal Arts Foundation
    SACRED SKY, SACRED EARTH Coronado Beach, Coronado High School, Betzi Roe Choreographer
Peter Terezakis and Betzi Roe engaged students in the 5 disciplines (Visual Art, Technical Theater, Dance, Instrumental Music, and Theater) from Coronado School of the Arts - Coronado High in the process of creating a multi-discipline, interdepartmental installation on the Coronado Beach. Both artist made multiple visits to the different classrooms and guided the students through creative process work. Each art discipline contributed some part to the whole installation. A large bamboo gate, tripods with gongs, flag poles, and artistic lights were installed by the Technical Theater students. Dance students identified 3 areas and created choreography that was appropriate to those sites. Theater students found text to memorize and recite during the performance. Instrumental music students were responsible for the accompaniment that included classical music, environmental sounds and drumming. Visual Art students designed and created banners depicting endangered species from the region. The project included 7 installations with 3 dance-music-text performance sites. 200 people of all ages were in attendance. Supported in part by CoSA Foundation.
  2006


HEART BEATS LIGHT, Latvia Group work 13 dancers, New Site Specific collaboration with light installation by Peter Terezakis, Dzintari Beach, Jurmala, Latvia, and Cesis, 12th Century Castle, Latvia Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer

    ABANDON Final Duet with Video/Light Installation by Peter Terezakis, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, NYC and the International Arts and Ideas Festival, New Haven CT Press Review
Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
    ELEGY SNOW IN JUNE Video by Peter Terezakis, Commissioned work for La Jolla Music Society Summerfest, North Park Theatre, San Diego, CA Press Review Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
    HEART BEATS LIGHT Torrey Pines High School, Betzi Roe Choreographer.
As part of a semester-long Mira Costa College dance class for high school students at Torrey Pines High, Betzi Roe directed an evening of 7 site-specific dances (created by students) in the quad and garden areas on the high school campus. The closing piece, on a high hill overlooking the campus, had 10 students performing in a light installation by artist Peter Terezakis. The class extended to the Digital photography class and included a lecture by Peter Terezakis (photographic montages and short film-making). These students photographed the dancers in various settings and created their own short video movies. Terezakis posted a selection of these on his website. Funding: Mira Costa College and a private foundation
    HEART BEATS LIGHT Students from Coronado School of the Arts, Mira Costa College and the professional San Diego dance community joined with choreographer Betzi Roe and artist Peter Terezakis for a 20 minute structured improvisation on the beach on Coronado Island.
Free to the public
 

2005

ABANDON Duet Preview with Video by Peter Terezakis , San Diego Museum of Art Press Review
Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
    HEART BEATS LIGHT Group work 8, Site Specific collaboration with light/sound installation by Peter Terezakis, Commission for San Diego Museum of Art Press Review
Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
  2004

MEMORIES OF AN EXHIBITION  Group 20, Visual Design by Peter Terezakis, Commission of San Diego Museum of Art Press Review 2004  Allyson Green Director and Choreographer
    HEART BEATS LIGHT Solo, La Galleria Noua , Bucharest, Romania.
Allyson Green Director and Choreographer
    CATALINA'S DREAM Group 7, La Galleria Noua, Bucharest Romania Press Review
Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
    HEART BEATS LIGHT 10, Castle Ruins Site-Specific collaboration with light installation Palatul Voievodal Curtea Veche Museum , Bucharest Romania Press Review    
Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
    BLUE MOON, BLACK SEA Group 8, Out door Site-Specific collaboration with light installation, Constanta, Romania Press Review  Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
  2003

INTERIM  Allyson Green and Ben Wright Duet, , Danspace Project, NYC and Greenwich Dance Agency, Great Britain Press Review 2003  Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
   

I WISH g Group 8 - Site-Specific Work for San Diego Dance Theater Trolley Dances, CA
Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer

   

CONNECTING BEACHES Site-Specific Work for 30 dancers live music and light installation as part of Central Station, East European Dance/Theater Festival Torrey Pines State Beach, La Jolla, CA . Press Preview Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer

    GHOST OF THE GODS Evening Dance Theater Event, Group 24, San Diego State University,
Arts un plugged Festival, Don Powell Theater, CA.  Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
  2000

PARAGRAPHS ON WIND Group 7, Visual Design by Peter Terezakis, Danspace Project, NYC chosen for Bagnolet Platform Press Review 2000  Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
  1998


DOUBLE MEANING Duet, Collaboration with Dominique Porte, Visual Design by Peter Terezakis, Co-commission of Tangente, Montreal CA and Danspace Project, NYC Press Review
Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
  1997

NO HOW ON Group 12 dancers and actors Interactive Video, Bucknell University, PA
Allyson Green, Director and Choreographer
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