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for a dancer and a musician

From April 1st and for 4 unique performances returns to PLYFA, the performance “A Man and His Double”, an original composition for a dancer (Alexandros Vardaxoglou) and a musician (Yiannis Angelakis)

It is an exercise in man’s irrational, persistent effort to resist the inevitable fall and brutality of the forces of power and oppression upon him.

A body falls continuously. Through repetition, obsession and violence, the stage action is pushed to the extreme limit of its expression, in order to release the lyricism and beauty of the body fighting with forces greater than itself.

A microphone is the only object standing out in front of an empty circular arena. It is the starting point, of the body’s last effort to stand, but also a promise that there is a way out, redemption.

The dancer and the musician share the roles of the perpetrator and the victim, the authority and the governed, the conformer and the conformed.

There is no way out for either of them. The body will rise and fall again. The sounds will stop and start again. One again that constantly reminds us of the existential position of the absurd, as described by Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus.

On Sunday 31/03, at the very beautiful and special place of PLYFA (Koritsas 39, Votanikos), 3 new bands of the independent scene will meet on stage. With a common denominator of their powerful riffs and penetrating lyrics, Floudes Erpides, Drifting Clouds and Stavros Allos, invite us on a unique musical journey, using poetry and good music as a vehicle.

Drifting Clouds
Drifting Clouds was formed in 2019 and has been acrobating between Athens and Berlin ever since. Their sound combines elements of alternative rock with post-punk and garage influences. Sometimes with a dreamy atmosphere and sometimes full of storms, but always overflowing with sensitivity, their songs try to approach everything human. On Sunday March 31, taking a break from recording their first album, they return for a spring live at PLYFA.

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Stavros Allos
Stavros Allos is a musician and songwriter, who makes a living as a sound engineer and music producer in Athens. A year after the presentation of his first album “For Nora”, he returns to the pop scene with the support of “super producer” Sergios Voudris and the multi-instrumentalist Kostas Stergiou. For Nora, for new songs and a cover.

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Less Thought
Three Corinthians, two Athenians and an exotic Agrinesian who, based in Athens, are trying to decide if they play pop, soft or indie rock. They don’t know if they’ve made it so far. What they have managed to do, however, is to record their upcoming EP, all this time away from live performances. They feel ready for live and are excited to present you their very powerful tracks, some time before the release of their first complete musical work”

We are pleased to inform you that the multimedia site-specific performance WALKING IN LIGHT, conceived and directed by Elena Zervopoulou and produced by Diversity United, under the auspices and with the support of the Ministry of Culture, will appear for the first time to the public on March 17 at 19.00 – 20.00 at the Plyfa theater.

WALKING IN LIGHT

It is an interactive performance with the audience, a site specific performance inspired by the testimonies of young refugees that is combined with video projection and live music and reveals their inner journey highlighting their resilience.

Starting from their arrival from the sea at the first door of Europe, Greece, it traces their emotional path as it emerged from experiential workshops of video, physical theater, dance and music.

Guided by Mustafa’s poetic narrative in the video-dance (filmed in Southern Italy in the first part of the triptych), the performers embody their experiences and allow us to penetrate their inner journey, where with a beacon their resilience, the human connection and solidarity, they discover the path that will lead them to the light. Will the local community become a fellow traveler? By placing the audience at the center of an experience of welcome and acceptance, we challenge them to take a stand, raise awareness and find different solutions.

“Walking in Light” trusts human potential by shedding light on the values of tolerance, respect and social justice. Overcoming their difficulties symbolically through the “Mysteries of Passage”, the refugees share with the public extroversion and optimism. Highlighting and recognizing the resilience of those who have suffered is cathartic for the wider society as well.

Free contribution on the ground to support the project will be greatly appreciated!

Diversity United
Through art and social innovation we promote equal opportunities inclusively and march together.

Our goal, the empowerment and social integration of mainly women and young refugees, through experiential art therapy workshops with an ethno-psychological approach, for a better, more inclusive world.

With the resulting participatory cultural projects (interdisciplinary performances, video-dance, VR films, documentaries, cross-media platforms) we raise awareness and mobilize the rest of society around social and climate justice, focusing on human rights, intercultural dialogue and solidarity. We create digital platforms and applications promoting inclusive social and environmental solutions.

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Founder: Elena Zervopoulou (ethno-psychologist, director of the show)

Greek-French with studies in Paris in ethno-psychology and directing (postgraduate degrees in Clinical Intercultural Psychology and visual anthropology), she provided systemic psychological support to immigrant families in Paris and to unaccompanied refugee minors in Southern Italy. He was a UNESCO consultant in Paris for the socio-economic integration of “street children” in Madagascar. He founded the production company One Vibe Films based in Italy, with which he wrote, directed and produced social documentaries for international television stations (BBC, ORF 3, RTE, NRK, SKAI, Catalan TV) and NGOs. Stand out are “Sea Gypsies” (part of the BBC’s “Why Poverty?” TV campaign that was shown in 200 countries), “Greece: Days of Change” (nominated for two awards at international festivals, distribution on European channels and in 60 cinemas of Spain), “BeLeaf” (virtual reality film for the European Capital of Culture Matera 2019), “VoiceUP”, “SolidViews” (cross-media platform), “Walking in Light” (site-specific performance). Mostly shot by herself in marginalized indigenous communities in Southeast Asia, Africa or Europe, she captures stories that restore the dignity of “forgotten” people, seeking to break down any stereotypes and bridge worlds through cross-cultural empathy and the promotion of human rights. Founded Diversity United in Athens in 2021 to empower vulnerable groups through art and co

Workshop fee: €120
A non-refundable reservation fee of €40 should be made during inscription and payment made within the next 10 days, or optionally full payment made in one go. Deadline for inscriptions end on the 25th February 2024.
Applications by email: [email protected]
For more info about Ditte’s work visit www.ditteberkeley.com

Every voice has a tale to tell. In fact, the voice has a million tales to tell, depending on the song it’s singing, the experiences it goes through, the person who is listening, the sounds surrounding it, the state I, who am singing, am in.

As an actress I enter into a dialogue with my voice every time I sing a song. I ask: How are we going to sing this today? What about this sound? How does it feel? What does it say? What tale does it tell? The exploration takes me further and brings more questions. This is the work of the performer that wishes to make the song a tool for a very deep exchange of experience between the singer and the listener. The voice is naked, and allows us to share on a level that we are not used to and often feel unsure of. The exploration of its borders and its connections through a deep physical experience, with images, with associations, makes our tools richer for communication and allows for a space of discovery.

The work session focuses on an exploration into our own voices and our voices reflected and fused in the voices of others; on the strength of standing confident with the sound of our own voice, exploring its richness and building the foundation to support it, through breath, physical support, imagination. Discovering its strength when appearing singly, and power when it adds to the richness of a common sound created by other voices.

More and more, the performing arts are blending in with each other, requiring dancers to be actors as well as singers, or actors and singers to be movers.

This work session is directed specifically to performers and students of performance arts, including dance, theatre and music and those specifically interested in the process of performing through song. It builds on the support of the ensemble, helping us to work as a team as we grow as individuals. A work much needed in today’sworld based on individuality and, very often, competitiveness. Polyphonic singing tradition brings people together in the joy of creating beautiful sounding music together and teaches us endless lessons on how to exist and work together.

This work takes you on a very different journey of awareness and empowerment through the voice and leaks into areas of how we use our voices to coexist as human beings and particularly as performers when we look to communicate something that is important to us, and perhaps the rest of the world, vocally.

DITTE BERKELEY- SCHULTZ
Ditte Berkeley is a co- founder and actress in Teatr ZAR, the resident theatre company at the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, Poland. She has co-created and performed in most of their performances. She is a collaborator of Source materiał and is currently engaged as a performer in The co-production with The Pina Bausch Center in Wuppertal.

She is an active independent performer and well respected theatre pedagogue teaching widely around the globe both in higher education and theatre festivals and events, as well as at the Grotowski Institute. Amongst others, she has shared her work at CALARTS, UCLA, the University of Exeter, Kent University, Rose Bruford College, Central School of Speech and Drama, Italia Conti, National School of Drama in New Delhi, RESAD in Madrid, the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, Norwegian Theatre Academy Khio and Norwegian Theatre Academy, as well as theatre academies around Poland (Warsaw, Wroclaw, Krakow), to mention a few. Ditte is currently collaborating as a performer and vocal coach with Source Material and the Pina Bausch Zentrum.

“The atmosphere that is created in Ditte’s workshops is hard to describe. It is an emotional vibration that will resonate with you for days after you leave the studio. Her attention, care and presence is contagious and unifying. The work targets the ensemble, allowing you to connect with your peers in a way that creates the feeling of family.

Every time I work with Ditte, I change, learn and grow as an artist and a human. Her expertise and energy shines through as you are guided through this growth.

The focus of song is not on the precision of notes and theoretical technicality; it is placed on the intention of the voice and the expression of humanity through singing.”

Kim Whatmore – workshop participant
“Teatr Zar are expert trainers and teachers, drawing on years of extraordinary performances. Their vocal training is exceptional. Zar is consummate ensemble with extensive international practical experience. As someone who knows their practice well, I affirm that they always operate with the highest pedagogical standards, bringing out students’ creativity in a tight and precise technical framework.”
Paul Allain, Professor of Theatre and Performance University of Kent

On Sunday, March 10, debutant progressive rock band Somewhere in the Sky will take us into the magical world of their first self-titled concept album. Companions are Moon Moth and Marva Von Theo who will confide their own dream stories in an unexpectedly exciting evening of musical revelations at PLYFA.

Somewhere in the Sky
Somewhere In The Sky, the new progressive rock band, present their first self-titled album live. An original concept album, which in a multi-faceted, musical theater way, deals with the instincts of the signs. It aspires to take listeners on a journey through the inspiring journey of the first man. Urged by his mother, the Moon Goddess, he goes through the transformations of the Four Elements to reach completion. A journey of self-awareness in a magical setting.
In music, lyrics and direction by Nikos Kassis and Giorgos Kalyvas, the band with an expanded seven-member composition, attempts to bring the listeners in contact with the artistic orchestrations of the album, making them participants in its unique world.

MOONMOTI
Moonmoth formed in 2022 and their music, full of strange dark sounds with emotional interludes, can be described as theatrical dark pop. They combine the acoustic sound of classical guitar with the electronic soundscapes of synths to create an ambient and dreamlike atmosphere. The lyricism of the double female vocals, in a primal harmony with the evocative minimal beats and the ritualistic harmonies of the guitar, seduce the listener to a sonic place of sacrifice and rebirth.

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MARVA VON THEO
Dark and rhythmic, but at the same time introspective, dreamy and emotional, Marva Von Theo find their way through the darkness of darksynth music to bright electropop. They were formed in 2017 by Marva Voulgari (vocals, songwriting) and Teos Foinidis (synths, composition, production) and have released two albums (“Dream within a Dream” 2018, and “Afterglow” 2021) that stood out for their special aesthetic , their multi-dimensional, inventive compositions, expressive, captivating vocals and particularly melancholic lyrics over danceable beats.

Every live performance of Marva Von Theo is a unique, almost ritualistic experience for the listener who, after being immersed in their eerie, poetic atmospheres, finally emerges into the light dancing redemptively to the electronic pulses of their music.
They have appeared on several stages and festivals in Greece and abroad, most importantly the Release Athens Festival (opening act for Leftfield (UK), Stereo Nova (GR) and Boy Harsher (US)), Athens Music Week, TedEx, Athens Digital Arts Festival , Nocturnal Cultural Nights (DE), while they have opened the concerts of Trentemøller (DK), Motorama (RU), Molly Nillson (DE), Hooverphonic (BE).
This period finds Marva Von Theo working on new tracks for their upcoming 3rd album.

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A performance of physical theater in the concept & conception of the JEUDi team
Directed by: Korina Kokkali – Simon Gleave

The performance ROBA is about two human figures traveling through time. A strange game of hide and seek, through the multiplicity of different faces and forms, they move back and forth in time, on and off, in a space that is composed and decomposed with the help of a third mysterious creator.

A leak. A song. A disease.

ROBA is a Physical Theater performance that plays with image, sound, light and darkness, exploring the world of “care” and the possibility of finding redemption through illness. If we lose everything when we get sick, then can illness itself become an example of freedom?

The show is based on a record of gestures, sounds, images and experiences of caring for someone very close to us. ROBA “translates” these fragments into a ceremony of play and freedom.

The project is the result of four years of research and the collaboration of a wonderful group of artists, friends, care experts and “hidden” forces. The wider research, entitled ‘Parea’, around Parkinson’s and Dementia, includes a series of workshops for patient carers, professional and non-professional, and their family members. The research involves artists, therapists and neuroscientists. Collaborators: Clod Ensemble-Suzy Wilson, David Glass Ensemble-David Glass, Stephen Lenzi, Louisa White, Chrysoula Tsipa.

We are grateful for the support of Arts Council England, the Elizabeth Georgoudis Ballet School, the Clod Ensemble and all the donors who helped us make this project happen.

William Shakespeare’s grand and cheerful dream drama confronts the viewer with the question of believing in the impossible, the musical soundscapes of nature, the dream world of everyday life and the poetry that fills people’s lives with love.

*The performance is under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and is subsidized.

Director’s Note
Shakespeare’s writing is an inexhaustible source of mystery, as you work on this work, you see more and more doors, you are called to choose this one time which one to open.

Two worlds, one on the surface, the other very internal, untransmitted, where pure poetry is.

Shakespeare has created something innocent and dreamy, like children who make exotic worlds under the table in the living room, bring chairs for walls, pillows, a cloth to hide.

He doesn’t explain, he doesn’t rationalize, you just feel and create with him and with the actors, that’s the magic of the play.

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Third round of performances

“Songs of Salvation”, one of the most beloved shows of recent years, are returning once again to the artistic life of Athens! Christina Maksouri and four exceptional folk musicians set up their stage again and invite us on a journey through the life and songs of Sotiria Bellou. From Thursday March 7th and every Thursday at 21:00, a great celebration dedicated to the “Princess of Rebetiko” awaits us at PLYFA.

The actress Christina Maksouri, one of the remarkable voices of the younger generation, having to her credit, particularly successful musical performances, personal albums and participations in third party albums and concerts, with the characteristic metal and the distinctive interpretation, gives new life to the songs of Sotiria to today. Along with the songs, Maksouri narrates short stories and short incidents from the life of the unsurpassed performer, through words of Bellou herself, but also of people who knew her.
Favorite songs performed by Bellou and etched in the history of Greek music, such as Wandering Life, You don’t talk, I walk like an outcast, Don’t cry, I said to erase the old ones, The mountains are chanting, Don’t run away from me anymore, With planes and steamships , and many more, are brought back to life in the show in a simple yet meaningful way. It is no coincidence that it is often mentioned that Maksouri’s voice and the way she “presses” the words have something from Bellou. And yet, those who have already watched the show, talk about a purely her own way of interpreting these songs.

Together with Dimitris Haliotis, they have done the research and signed the artistic supervision of the show, which started its course in the summer of 2021 in the context of the Athens Epidaurus Festival with four sold out nights at the “Stecki tou Ilias” in Thisio, it was repeated a little later at the Hamam music scene in Petralona and last winter with consecutive sold outs in the special PLYFA venue, while he has toured inside and outside of Athens (Tino Festival, Zakynthos, Syros – Documenting Heritage Festival, Mykonos Art Festival, Routes in Marpissa, Ag. Friday – Cultural Meetings at the Municipal Library).

They said about the show:
It is like setting up a small celebration with friends, who after a long time meet again and share moments, feelings and songs. They become a company again, a hug with things in common, which bring us all together and make us love the people around us more. Everything in this celebration is simple, simple, that’s why it’s magical. – George Mitropoulos – Euronews
On a stage, four musicians and Christina Maksouri in the center remind us why the great Sotiria Bellou still moves. This is the magic of this job. It puts you in the world of Bellou and together in the world of another Greece and lets you wander freely. Christina Maksouri’s bone-shattering voice, modest and Doric presence. Just like Belle was. – Natasha Mastorakou – in.gr

Christina Maksouri and Dimitris Haliotis made a poem performance. We laughed, we sang, we were moved, we cried… The songs of Salvation were one of the performances that I will remember forever in my life. – Christos Papamichalis – Athens 984

The modesty with which Christina Maksouri and her four musicians present Bellou’s life and approach her songs make the spectators, regardless of age, feel comfortable singing along. – Ioanna Sotirchou – The Journal of Editors

There is something handmade about this work, each time it is not quite the same as the last. Christina, sitting on the stage and flanked by four excellent musicians, addresses the audience as if she were in a company. The show premiered at the Athens Epidaurus Festival in the summer of 2021 and has since won many “lives” – not without reason. -Xenia Georgiadou – Daily

A wonderful musical performance with songs and stories from the fictional life of the unpilgrimaged rebbe Sotiria Bellou. When you hear “Raise my soul, give me power” you shudder even today. – Electra Zargani – Documento

Ecstatic gnawa music from Morocco meets British jazz psychedelia with this six-piece from London in a rousing influence groove.

Warm-up DJ set: Adamantios Cafetzis (Teranga Beat)
Support: Kugaya live
Clubnight by Cosmic Bordello DJs

Electric Jalaba effortlessly balance progressive world music, avant-funk, electronic music influences, doses of Jamaican dub and psychedelic jazz.

“Frenetic Anglo-Moroccan sextet infuse gnawa trance rituals with Comet Is Coming-style synth-jazz prophecies. Good attitude!” Uncut

“Une fusion hypnotique qui puise autant dans le mystère de traditions rituelles nord-
africaines que dans des arrangements dignes des meilleurs dancefloors contemporains.” FIP Radio

The Berber musical tradition of gnawa is their firm foundation with frontman Simo Lagnawi guiding this ritualistic musical expression with the primitive guimbri trichord and accompanied by brothers Oliver, Nathaniel, Barnaby and Henry Keen on keyboards, bass, guitar, percussion, FX consoles as well as, Kypseliotis now, Dave de Rose on drums. Together they create an ecstatic sonic environment expanding gnawa into a solid volume of melody and rhythm that has you flying between Marrakech and London. This music is only played by them, it is not classified! Their latest album El Hal (The Feeling) was released by the UK Strut Records of Sun Ra Arkestra, Mulatu Astatke and Ebo Taylor among others.

The five-piece Athenian outfit Kugaya is a recent addition to the local scene. They compose rhythmic orchestral melodies in the footsteps of afrojazz with clear influences of classic favorite afrobeat while the addition of strong guitar elements results in a particularly exciting authentic sound.

The immovable Adamantios Kafetzis founded the internationally acclaimed independent record label Teranga Beat specializing in the African continent while curates records and audio systems on the Eligo Audio Culture platform. Adamantios offers a musical experience that opens your mind while keeping the dancefloor in the air with exotically exciting selections!

The music celebration will continue after midnight curated by Cosmic Bordello and resident djs Eisenblut and Cest Pagrav in a global rave where traveling souls and open-hearted night owls coexist.

The doors open at 20:00 with Adamantio Cafe
Kugaya starts at 21:15
Electric Jalaba take the stage at 22:30
The clubnight starts after the live

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BLUE by Anna Lemonaki comes for the third year from Geneva to PLYFA for a few performances.

It is a contemporary performative work where language is mixed with music. An actress and a musician tune in and bring the viewer to the heart of the personal truth hidden behind anxiety.

Man has always felt stress. However, we notice the generative causes of stress changing over the years. It’s different to be anxious because you learn that the Earth is not flat but round and afraid of falling into space, than to hear your heart beating faster and faster thinking you’re going to go into cardiac arrest.

Contrary to earlier times, where ignorance was what threatened man by causing him fear and anxiety, today it is over-information. BLUE is a performance that deals with endogenous and exogenous stress, its psychosomatic symptoms and the vulnerability of the individual . With a text as raw as poetic but also through the energy of rock and roll, the author of the play and actress on stage, Anna Lemonaki, exposes herself with disarming honesty, claiming to share universal but often unacknowledged questions .

The dominant element of the show is water which nourishes everything and forever. A source of life and rejuvenation for nature and man, a symbol of purification and purification, water in continuous flow preserves and cleans the environment inside and around us, mobilizes the body and benefits the soul in many ways.

BLUE is the first part of a theatrical color pentalogy created by the theater group “Bleu en Haut Bleu en Bas” (Blue Above Blue Below) based in Switzerland and first presented in 2016 in Geneva. Since then, he has been hosted on theater stages in Greece, Cyprus, Switzerland, France, Lebanon, and at major international festivals (Festival La Bâtie, Festival Plein Tube, etc.). and will be performed at the Teatro de Barrio, in Madrid, in 2024.

After the success of her last project G.O.L.D. premiered at the Festival de la Bâtie in August 2022, Anna returns to Greece with Blue for a few performances only

In Switzerland, after Blue, Anna uploaded Bloody Fuchsia, White, G.O.L.D. (Glory or Little Dreams) and is now preparing Black – What a Beaty-Full Catastrophe which will be staged at the Comédie de Genève in 2025.

At the same time, she is preparing her first choreographic project and film Kiss and Fly.

Excerpt from the text

“Who’s afraid to swim over seaweed? Who is afraid of his tears? or smile more than he should? Old age? The aging dreams? Unemployment? And of course I’m talking about emotional unemployment. Responsibility; Bringing a child into the world? tell your child the truth? Open your palm and let your child fly wherever his appetite takes him? Do you forget the child you once were? Say No and support it? Say yes to risk. Say sorry when you’ve messed up. Sorry, I was bullshitting. WHO IS AFRAID TO OPEN THEIR EYES AND LOOK AROUND? To experience the happiness that knocks on your door? To open the door, to live a passionate love, do you remember when you were fifteen years old how you blushed in seconds on the cheeks, chest and hell?
WHO IS AFRAID OF LIVING A HORMONICALLY ALIVE LIFE?”

Anna Lemonaki’s note

40 million European adults aged 18 to 54 suffer from anxiety disorders. What happens when we suddenly become cautious about life and instead of living it we become mere spectators? Our first urge is to dive into the sea, but the water is cold. And we don’t want to take the risk of an ocean flu. We are careful and deprived of the ocean. I feel the need to state that anxiety disorders in any form should be a public issue and that is why I decided to do this project. The more and openly we talk about the faces of anxiety (panic attacks, phobias, post-traumatic stress…) the easier we will understand that this black surface at the bottom of the sea is nothing but seaweed and nothing else. BLUE is a manifesto of words and sounds against the stigma that accompanies mental illness.

Every creation is for me an opportunity to take a risk. I take risks by choosing subjects that scare me. These are topics that I find dizzying. In my work as a director, writer and actor I always work focusing on contrasts. Passing from certainty to uncertainty, from tenderness to cruelty, from a narrow passage to a vast space, from romance to vulgarity, from silence to scream, from tension

BIOGRAPHY OF ANNA LEMONAKI

Anna was born in Athens. It grows in Panama, Crete and Athens. He obtained a degree in Political Science in Athens and Bergen in 2006 and a master’s degree in Sociology and Media from the University of Friborg. He studied at the Serge Martin Theater School (Geneva) and graduated in 2013. He attends workshops with Susan Batson at Interkunst (Berlin, 2014 and 2017), with Andreas Manolikakis (President of the Actors Studio, New York) in Athens and with Damian De Schrijver (TgStan, Belgium) in Geneva in 2018. Followed by CAS in Acting and Text Dramaturgy at HETSR and the University of Lausanne (2018-2020).

Anna performs roles for Lena Kitsopoulou in Haire Nymfi (2013), Red Riding Hood – First Blood (2015) and Cry (2018-2021) at the Saint-Gervais Theater in Geneva and at the Techni Theater. He collaborates with, among others, Philippe Quesne, Nikos Karathanos, Adina Secretan, the theater company Cie Daniel Blake for the theater venture Opa (2nd prize – PREMIO 2017). In the cinema he plays the lead role in the film La nuit est encore jeune [The night is still long], directed by Sri Lankan native Indika Udugampola (Promising Director Award at the Colombo International Festival, 2015). She founded the experimental theater and music company Cie Bleu en Haut Bleu en Bas together with the musician Samuel Schmidiger (2015) and presented the first two parts of her quintet, BLEU and FUCHSIA SAIGNANT at the La Bâtie festival in 2019 and the third part BLANC ( SSA Prize, 2020) in Le Grütli (2021). Presents the show P.E.T.U.L.A. bye bye (2017) at the Saint-Gervais theater and at KET in Athens. She is invited by Le Poche theater and directs the play SAPPHOx, written by Sarah-Jane Moloney (2020). In 2002 he presents the G.O.L.D. at the La Bâtie festival. He works as a writer and dramaturg for the dance work Bis N.S (as usual) by the choreographer Ioannis Mantafounis at the Lyon Opera (2021) and the work A la carte at the Frankfurt Dresden Ballet Company (2023). In 2023/2024 he makes the dance-climbing performance and film Kiss and Fly in Leonidio and Tarifa and prepares the play Black : What a Beauty-Full Catastrophe (2025, Comédie de Genève, Geneva).

Interviews

LIFO
She writes and directs her plays herself, but the process that makes her happy is the second one, being able to compose her performances collectively and on stage. She is the only Greek woman active in the theater this side of Switzerland and I ask to know what this means for a foreigner, how she approaches the system.

EDITORS’ NEWSPAPER
For those of you wondering why the name is unfamiliar to us, the reason is simple: Anna has been based in Geneva for many years. There, in the context of the historic La Bâtie Festival, she presented her new work “G.O.L.D.”, a study of failure with poetry, humor and sensitivity, and a brilliant group of performers – we hope to see it in Athens.
Immediately after the last performance, in the heat of the moment, in the courtyard of a wonderful theater by the river, we talked about its progress. Here is Anna Lemonaki, a charismatic artist of the diaspora.

Critique

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Although the description of the – indeed bleak – theme of “Blue” could lead one to expect an almost unpleasant sight, this is not the case at all. This very closeness that its creator establishes between us and herself, leads to a redemptive condition. Like our fears, placed through her touch next to the fears of others, but also our own us, to be eased. As if the very democratization of trauma exorcises it. As if this moisture flooding the scene creates a matrix within which we can safely expose ourselves. And if the tension still brings a tear to our eyes, the most likely thing is that we will leave the room with a smile.

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A MAN & HIS DOUBLE

CONCERT

WALKING IN LIGHT— DIVERSITY UNITED

VOICE TALE SPEAKING SONG

LIVE EXPERIENCE

ROBA

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

SOTIRIAS’S SONGS

ELECTRIC JALABA

BLUE