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“Milos International Dance & Theater Center” AMKE presents a show that runs through time, starting with the “Iketides” of Aeschylus and reaching the femicides of our days. Iconic but also everyday female figures cross the stage through the memory of the Narrator (Filio Louvari) who manages the dramatic material through speech and contemporary dance. The heroines speak with directness, emotion and humor about their own history, speaking, ultimately, about the history of Greece and the Woman in it. A show that promotes the dialogue about the position of women today and aspires to deconstruct her stereotypical gender role.

This play is performed in Greek

STAGE COMPOSITION FOR VOICE, BODY AND FLAG

A woman does housework. She spreads the laundry, sweeps, cooks. It may be from Argos, where the Danaids, chased by their cousins, arrived. She may once have been told a joke that offended her and never responded. She might have heard that she’s a badass because she can’t peel a potato or that she shouldn’t go to the beach with that body. But she knows. She knows within herself and realizes that she does not want to be what she is forced to be. Neither slave nor mistress.

SUMMARY

What does a throne represent? Why did the Danaids leave Egypt? What happened on the islet of Ro from 1927 to 1961? Who does the laundry? Who goes out to the mountain? How many ways are potatoes cooked? Who makes these jokes? Memory and oblivion, fragments of texts, women’s stories and historical documents compose the “Monument of Femininities” of yesterday that are ready to climb on its rocks here and now.

PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES
– 2022: 29th Festival of the Municipality of Milos and project “Pleureuses et Floraisons” / Newtopia 10.5 of the Omnivion group (short version, in French)

– 2023: Sifnos “Small Festival on the Pier”, Milos Festival “From the Sea”, Kimolos Municipal Cultural Events

– 2024: Nicosia Dance Roof, “Encounters” Festival of the “Incorporeal Forces” Group

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PIANO CITY ATHENS 2024 presents a music and dance performance

The award-winning pianist and composer
and Bob Wilson’s great dancer and choreographer
in an original collaboration.

What is the sound of stillness, what is the sound of vigorous movement?
A long performance (3 hours) where the viewer is free to exist and move in the space as he wants and feels and for as long as he wants, as he thus becomes part of the special action.
The music is written at that moment, as is the choreography.
A game with time, the relationship between movement and music, communication, existence. Light, sound and movement star in an autonomous, original, creative universe!

The first contact with movement is the stimulus of sound, whether external, from the rustling of a tree to a sonata, or internal, such as the sound of a heartbeat.
Listening to the piano I can only hear it with my whole body. It can sweep me into the torrent of its melody, move me rhythmically, or immobilize me. It can make me act and dance against what I hear, allowing the viewer to both hear and see.
The music and the dance create a space in which the viewer feels the movement through the music and the music through the movement. The body, as matter, affects the immaterial space created by the sound of the music written at that moment.

Biographies

MARIANNA KAVALLIERATOU | choreographer/dancer
Began dancing at the Carol Hanis Ballet School. She graduated from the London Contemporary Dance School, with studies in Contemporary Dance and Choreography. She continued her studies with the Onassis Foundation Scholarship, for one year, at SYNY Purchase College in New York. He then attended classes at Martha Graham’s school for three years.
From 1992 until today, she has been collaborating with Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center in New York as a dancer-choreographer-movement teacher coordinating and conducting the summer workshops.
In 2010 she formed her own group for which she choreographed many works participating in important festivals in Greece and abroad.
As a choreographer he collaborated with important artists, such as Stathis Livathinos, Dimitris Bogdanos, Yiannis Kalabrianos, Lydia Koniordou, Nikos Xydakis, etc.
He also collaborated in a choreographic project in presentations of the Hermes house in Athens.
Since 2016 he has been teaching choreography/improvisation at KSOT and at drama schools in Greece.
From 2001-2017 he has taught dance and improvisation workshops at the Watermill Center of Art and Humanities New York.

THODORIS ECONOMOU | piano, composition
He studied piano at the Athens Conservatory with Aliki Vatikiotis and completed his postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in London with teacher Irina Zaritskaja.
In 2004 he composed the music for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Athens after being commissioned by the French production company ECA2.
In the theater he collaborates with the National Theatre, the K.TH.BE, the Art Theatre, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the National Opera, the Piccolo Teatro, etc. He has written the music for over one hundred and fifty theatrical performances directed by Robert Wilson, Yiannis Houvardas, Yiannis Moskas, Sotiris Tsafoulias, Nikos Mastorakis, Stamatis Fasoulis, among others, as well as for important film productions.
He has collaborated with symphony orchestras and other smaller ensembles in Greece, Cyprus, Chicago, New York, Boston, Baltimore, London, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Alexandria, South Africa and Beijing.
In 2011, he was awarded the “Dimitris Mitropoulos” award from the Theater Museum of Greece, as well as being awarded for the composition of original music in the audience awards from Athinorama magazine (2010 – 2022-2023), while in 2023 he was also awarded by the Theater Critics Association and performing arts. He teaches at the Higher Drama School of the Art Theatre.

Boulevard Humaine takes as its starting point the piece Okho by Yannis Xenakis, a commissioned piece intended to celebrate 200 years since the French Revolution and written for a distinctively African instrumentation. Created for 3 female performers, it is a creative exploration of interculturalism and response through dance to Xenakis’ themes and rhythms, alongside notions of belonging and the core question of how we can be different together. Echoing the political tones of the music, the title Boulevard Humaine alludes on the ways humanity and various notions of its constitution are endorsed within specific boundaries. One only needs to remember that initially boulevard was a promenade taking the place of a demolished fortification, now planted with rows of trees, ‘… full with marks of the many names and the many stories hidden within them….’

Zoi Dimitriou graduated from the Greek National School of Dance, then studied under Trisha Brown (New York) and concluded her Master’s degree with distinctions in the Practice of the European Dance Theater at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (London). She has been choreographing since 2006 and her accolades include choreography awards such as: Robin Howard Foundation Award 2008, Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund Award 2009, Company of Angels CfC 2010, Sadler’s Wells and The Place. She has participated in Aerowaves and has received multiple commissions (e.g. Greek National Opera Ballet, The Place, Onassis STEGI, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, etc.). Her works have been presented in prominent stages such as: Fast Forward Festival 4 / Onassis STEGI, ROH2, Arnolfini, BE Festival, Lilian Baylis, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Kalamata International Dance Festival, Operaestate Veneto Festival, Teatro alla Scala – Milano, Europe in Motion Festival, Spring Loaded / The Place et al. She has participated in European research programs such as Choreoroam, Big intensive (Sadler’s Wells), Europe in Motion, and is supported by the Arts Council of England. She is a researcher/lecturer at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and has taught internationally in significant institutions such as: ImPulsTanz Festival, Sasha Waltz Company, National Academy of Dance in Rome, Central School of Speech and Drama, Independent Dance/UK, etc.

Supported using public funding by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, and the Arts Council of England. Supported by Dance Umbrella, Duncan Research Centre for Dance, The Hellenic Centre and TrinityLaban.

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LUNA PARK team returns to Athens with the performance “Another Place” (ALZHEIMAT) on November 04 & 05, 2023 at PLYFA. Free entry with pre-booked seat!

The group LUNA PARK presents the dance work “Another Place” (ALZHEIMAT). The project focuses on the small, but noticeable changes, the critical moments and the coping needs required by the loss of identity – both from the sufferers themselves and from their social environment.

With the project “Another Place” (ALZHEIMAT), the group tries to draw attention to a topic of high social and political importance. However, the work is not intended to be a complaint about the shortcomings of the system, nor is it a hymn, an appeal to emotion for the lost memory of a loved one. It is a journey of discovery, through which the viewer can briefly share the world of those wandering in oblivion. Those who wander to another place. It is a story with beautiful and sad moments, which leads us to awakened pasts, while reviving for a few minutes the dormant futures.

The project “Another Place” (ALZHEIMAT) challenges a society clinging to the fantasy of a better tomorrow and reminds us that in reality we only have the NOW. It shows us how fragile, vulnerable, interconnected and dependent on each other we are as humans and as social beings. It reminds us that this disease forces us to learn to live in the present. The show aims to give the necessary attention to all those who dedicate themselves daily to the difficult treatment of the disease. It seeks to initiate an open dialogue, which will allow the recognition and expression of pain, exhaustion, sadness.

The performance is the result of an open process, where the writer Kai Pichmann, the director Ron Rosenberg and the choreographers Nikos Kalivas and Kosmas Kosmopoulos, together with six young performers and one performer over 65 years of age, examined the characteristic coexistence of memory and forgetting, resistance, hope, resignation and acceptance, concepts closely linked to the disease. Testimonies from the lived experiences of relatives, caregivers and medical professionals played an important role in the creation of the project.

In Greece, 197,000 people suffer from dementia, mainly from the degenerative form of Alzheimer’s disease. By 2050, it is expected that the number of patients will have reached 354,000. At the moment, it does not seem possible to cure or completely successfully treat the symptoms. Even promising news about new treatments is contrasted with their extremely high costs. The difficulties faced by patients are multiplied by those of their relatives, while professional help is becoming increasingly difficult to find and to finance by those concerned, amid a prolonged period of economic and health crisis and a health system that remains understaffed and underfunded.

Production and support
ALZHEIMAT is a co-production of LUNA PARK, Kosmas Kosmopoulos and Kai Pichmann, funded by the German Foundation for the Performing Arts with funds from the Federal German Government’s Commissioner for Culture and Media, within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR. ALZHEIMAT was implemented in collaboration with Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. and the Gesundbrunnen-Grundschule Elementary School within the framework of the action “tanz(t)räume“ (dreams of dance/spaces) funded by the TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund program. The presentations of the work in Athens take place within the framework of the exchange program “How to dance in times of crisis?” in collaboration with the urban non-profit company LUNA PARK ERGA with the support of the Greek-German Youth Foundation

AMINATION PARK PROJECTS
The urban non-profit cultural activities company LOUNA PARK ERGA was founded in Athens in 2002, by Kosmas Kosmopoulos, choreographer, educator, performer and curator of contemporary art works. Luna Park team consists of a group of artists belonging to different nationalities, as well as people working in the wider social and educational field. The main purpose of the group is the planning, production, organization and presentation of contemporary dance works and at the same time educational programs through which artistic research in the choreographic process and practice is promoted, in collaboration with other artistic organizations, mainly from Germany. LUNA PARK PROJECTS is managed by its founding members: the artist Dr. Georgia (Maggy) Touliatou, Kosmas Kosmopoulos and the composer of contemporary electronic music Antonio Palaska. In 2003, Kosmas Kosmopoulos founded the non-profit organization Initiative LUNA PARK e.V., which has been operating as an independent organization since 2019, based at Gesundbrunnen Primary School, in the Wedding district of Berlin. From the beginning, the two organizations have been working closely together on many jointly designed or co-financed projects. Since 2016, LUNA PARK PROJECTS and the organization Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. organize a series of intensive workshops, with the title “How to dance in times of crisis?”, held in Athens and Berlin. About twenty young artists from Greece and Germany, graduates or students of performing arts, dance and theater in particular, participate in the workshops. Among the individual goals of
of workshops is the exploration of contemporary compositional methods guided by team members and invited choreographers and dance theorists. Through the experiential technical seminars
of contemporary dance and improvisation, the lectures and discussions between the participants encourage the exchange of ideas about the conceptual content of dance in today’s social reality. The individual and collective creations of the young artists have been presented either on theater stages or in alternative stage spaces in Athens and Berlin. The cultural exchange programs are subsidized by the Hellenic German Youth Foundation to cover air tickets, accommodation and production. *For more information about the activities of the LUNA PARK team, you can visit the websites:

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Event Category: Χορός

A ROCK IS BETTER THAN A THRONE

TOGETHER

BOULEVARD HUMAINE

ANOTHER PLACE (ALZHEIMAT)