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Pestus studio records was created by a group of people sharing a common vision in music and art!
A philosophy based on freedom of expression, overcoming the stereotypical structures of any kind and searching for the truth inside.
Sometimes it leads to a protest, dancing, screaming, sometimes it leads to beautiful soundscapes or weird, dark paintings.
A dot on the pavement! what else?
We are so proud to announce our first festival in Athens!!!
It takes place to ΠΛΥΦΑ and our favorite music will happen in front of us! IDIOK, TEETO, AMKA will be there to share their life experience each one with a different story but the same love about art!!
Dj sets by Iro and G.Vourou.
It is our dream and we would be glad to share it with you!

Teeto was born in 2019 when four people took the decision of marriage under the holy roof of Pestus studio. Their first ep “Teeeto is dead” was released in 2019. Quite briefly the second EP named “noby” saw light as an improvisational live performance. Last but not least, their full lengthed album “TEETO” is now alive on vinyl, released on may through Pestus Studio records. Teeto’s music is based on experimentations with various musical elements such as: ambience, noise and more… Live performances combined pure feelings of love and despair, all portraited inside the improvisational madness. The journey of ups and downs lingers… We will continue until death tears us apart. See you!

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AMKA: a band of 4 musical humans of various flavours playing mutant disco
MEMBERS: Kalamaras\Koulentianos\Oikonomou\Scott
KURRENTLY: Releasing their album ‘On Patrol’ with Pestus Studio Records. Playing at PLYFA Athens on December 23rd. Writing and experimenting with more sounds.

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Idiok is no Idiot. This is why it is Busy. As long as people hesitate to relieve the agony and ignore the depth of the existential perceptions that traumatise their souls, the uncommon priest from the fabulous, secret space of Popel-Gabon, will be forced to act upon the faithful and let the water slide into the fog of Miyura for the discrete celebration of Mai Mai Mai, the logical way to be alive. This ceremonial act that remains passionate and utterly sexual throughout its course, is committed to the force of sound and builds a world of splinters bonding in an alleviating ensemble of colours, ideas and actions. Tengu Ni Naru and Mr. Clarinet join forces for this exhilarating show to provide and deprive, using the elements of the nature and abusing the creations of mankind, thus enabling an unbalanced relation to thrive but in a good way. Fatsiolade…

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IRO (half of the DJ duo Express Skopelitis) has been listening to and selecting music since she can remember. A devoted enthusiast of Disco, Italo, and House, she loves urban spaces and spins tunes in them. She is a co-organizer of the successful Saristra Festival and an active collaborator with the music platform Needless. For three years, she held a weekly spot behind the microphone at Avopolis Radio on the show “Music to Make Love to Your Wife.” Now, you can find her alongside Express Skopelitis in the radio family of Fade Radio, hosting the show Cafe Iguana.

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“This is not Medea”
(excerpt from the Medea Material,
by H. Miller, mtf. E. Varopoulou).

INVITATION TO TEA

As a modern female being, Medea invites us to a tea ceremony to tell us her own story of grief and liberation.

If Medea were a place, what place would it be? What does Jason carry with him? What do Medea’s children drink? Where does Medea dwell within us? Does love pass? How is the past exorcised? And after all, what shoes are suitable for a climb in the sun?

Please be open to revising what you take for granted about the mythical figure of Medea. It is a cry for survival, an ode to motherhood, an appeal to tenderness, an ecstatic dance of liberation, where Medea, light in a crumbling world, calls for rebellion against the socio-political dictates of her gender.

Dresscode: Wear something in shades of croc or something that evokes natural or primitive materials, or whatever makes you feel your deepest self.

The solo show is made possible thanks to the financial contribution of many unique people and thanks to the undivided research and dedication of the team members.

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EDIT. arvan (girl, daughter)

directed by Christina Matthaiou

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Extension of performances thanks to the warm response of the audience! “vaiza” will return to PLYFA for 3 more performances on January 18, 24 & 25.

The show that thrilled the audience and critics and stood out at last year’s Epi Colonos Off-Off Festival, returns for the second year, from December 4 and for only 10 performances, at the “PLYFA” theater in Votanikos.

Christina Matthaiou, in her first directorial venture, brings on stage the original work “vaiza” {ETYM. arvan “My speechless apple” and “Christ in the snow” and inspired by the myth of La Loba, as he is captured in Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s book “Women Who Run With the Wolves”, he composes a performance that speaks of the power of femininity. The power to break, to expose, to be imperfect, to differ, to define yourself, to feel, to express, to live!

Mani, mid 19th century.

A young woman, Milia, is murdered by her father and brothers to wash away the shame of the family, after she was found “broken” on the first night of her wedding. She is buried alive in a stone pit at the entrance of the village. Only her head remains out of the soil until she dies. Now Milia has a voice. Now La Loba is giving her the chance to tell her story. To be reborn.

Without limiting itself to describing yet another femicide, the play explores the perspective of each of those involved. Six persons who have never spoken, captive to social dictates and formality, now speak.

Drawing material from the Greek tradition and the overall European and Balkan history, the show speaks about today.

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Remember that sound you hear when you’re under the surface of the sea? And as your oxygen runs out, and the force of the water pulls you out, you struggle to hold on. There. Inside her. Listen for a little while longer, this primitive sound that brings you back. In the womb of life.
They say that tears are made of sea water, so that when people cry, they can bring the sea closer to them. And let her, the great mother, come like this to accompany them when they need her.
When they are in pain, when they mourn but also when their happiness is so great that it causes the water in their body to rise, so much so that they are in danger of drowning. And they cry. To get the excess sea out of them.

“Don’t let sorrow become a tear, Don’t let pain become a cry…”

Have you ever noticed the cheeks of women who have lost children? It’s as if the sea cursed them to never dry up. To keep her there to keep them company.

“Not a drop will escape you for the dishonorable! He embarrassed us and he will pay. She should go unscathed.”

And the sweat? What is sweat?
Water too. Seafood. Because when the sea and the fire of love meet, they become sweat. Which comes out of the bodies in love, so that one of the other can know the sea. The sea that swells inside them.
But man is not only made of water.
It is also soil. Earth. Who expects you to return her children to her, when the sea dries up in them. And when she closes them in her bowels, again, by watering them with sea, she gives birth to them again.

“You have to listen to the soil. Smell it. Taste it.”

And the ashes? What is ash?
She is also a lover’s dust. Burned bodies, before the sea touched them to cool them. Voices. Where they don’t run out of air. And they are silent.
Losses. And presences that “exist in absence”.
“Have you ever seen the fire forbid the coals?”
And the ending? Death;
“The end does not recognize death”
Why “are you killed, lost, if you are thought of by a myriad of names?”
Water, earth and fire meet on stage. In a ritual of mourning and rebirth. A performance made with materials of land and tradition. A project entangled in roots that pull it to the past. And four voices. Air. Which carries the dusty memories of all our bloody history to the water. Which will wash them away and lead them to purification. Water will make them again.
“Because time is water. Water that sculpts the stone like the sea the rocks
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And richer water than tears, none.”
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Kostas Siderokastritis and Thanasis Tsakirakis join forces and present in a concert-celebration their first album on Friday December 01, 2023 at PLYFA.

Kostas Sidirokastritis Group – First Colour
Kostas Siderokastritis is a singer-songwriter and street musician based in Athens. His personal work is an unpretentious mix of song-oriented musical genres and improvisation. Together with his dear friends and collaborators Haris Charalambous (bass), Pantelis Takis (drums) and Andreas Polyzogopoulos (trumpet), and with the help of Grigoris Kollias in sound engineering, they recorded the first album of the Kostas Sidirokastritis Group, “First Color’ The disc is a collection of 10 of the first songs of the format, just one of the points of reference in a journey and a trigger for more beautiful things.

Thanasis Tsakirakis – Scent Remains
Thanasis Tsakirakis is a musician based in Athens. Although more widely known in the music world as a drummer, in October 2023 he released “Scent Remains”, his first record as a songwriter, for which he wrote the music, lyrics, sang and played most of the instruments. The recording and production was undertaken by Fotis Papatheodorou and Page Blank. Artists such as Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith (and of course many more) have had a characteristic influence on the style of the album. These songs are an open dialogue with our nostalgic instincts, a mantra to avoid beautifying passion and an attempt to analyse, understand and accept the page changes that arise in life. The entire “Scent Remains”, as well as a small selection of tracks that influenced its creation, will be presented live by Thanasis Tsakirakis, who will be accompanied by an excellent band, especially creative collaborators.

A show about gambling Greece by the team Who Am I To

Since when is gambling our national sport? Do deflated bubbles re-inflate?

5 actors of the late 90’s generation re-visit on stage the great memory stations of her childhood, adolescence and post-adolescence that outline the course of the Greek reality of the last 2 decades. Stops on this nostalgic journey are the most important moments of Greek sports, moments of national pride and national panic.
A pop generation grows up dancing, singing and scoring goals and baskets with blue and white water tattoos on their arms until they grow up and wonder today what exactly winning and losing means.
Now that our winnings are deconstructed and undermined, all we have left to hope for is the 5+1 numbers of the Joker?A show about gambling Greece by the Who Am I To team
Since when is gambling our national sport? Do deflated bubbles re-inflate?

5 actors of the late 90’s generation re-visit on stage the great memory stations of her childhood, adolescence and post-adolescence that outline the course of the Greek reality of the last 2 decades. Stops on this nostalgic journey are the most important moments of Greek sports, moments of national pride and national panic.
A pop generation grows up dancing, singing and scoring goals and baskets with blue and white water tattoos on their arms until they grow up and wonder today what exactly winning and losing means.
Now that our wins are deconstructed and undermined, all we have left to hope for is the 5+1 Joker numbers?

The choreographer Spyros Kouvaras and the Greek-French contemporary dance group, Synthesis 748 Dance Co, after being hosted by the Center National de la Danse in Paris as part of the creation of their new work, return to PLYFA in Votanikos and sign the work, NATURA MORTA (a dance less), for five performances from November 24 to 28. Honoring the memory of the composer Giorgos Kouvaras, a constant collaborator of the group, who passed away prematurely, Synthesis 748 presents a work about loss and “lost natures”, a choreography that acts as a reminder of time for the inescapability of human nature and the vulnerability of the material world. NATURA MORTA (a dance less) introduces an intermediate space-time in which a dance ritual unfolds that sometimes develops as a modern doomsday and sometimes as an archaic rave, following an increasing escalation of kinetic intensity. In a post-apocalyptic stage environment, two meteoric dancers in mourning and ecstasy, in the intimate and the unfamiliar, in trauma and healing, like modern shamans, take a final joy in search of a moment of eclipse for possible other worlds.

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Synthesis 748 Dance Co. was founded in 2010 in Paris by the choreographer, dancer Spyros Kouvaras, with the support of the French National Dance Center. Since then, she has developed an international career and her works and site specific projects have been presented in theaters, galleries, museums, archaeological sites and contemporary dance festivals in European countries and recently at the CICA Museum in South Korea. Since 2017, Athens and Synthesis 748 Dance Co. have been the base and headquarters of Spyros Kouvaras. is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and the Ioannou F. Kostopoulos Foundation. The group’s works approach utopian worlds that look to the future while using myth as a tool to create contemporary choreographic rituals. Focusing around the relationship of body, sound and image, the kinetic vocabulary focuses on the development of a dance language that deviates from the recognizable forms of contemporary dance with the stage installations of the works, which are often the starting point of the whole composition, characterized from the creation of timeless and out of place spaces.

The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture for 2021-2023 and was created with the support of the CND – French National Dance Center in Paris and the Center Culturel Hellénique.

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by Tasos Theofilou

The show “Goodbye Batman” is based on the crime novel of the same name by Tasos Theofilos, which was written a few months before his arrest and published while he was a prisoner in Domokos prison in 2013. The three actors alternate endlessly in strange characters and they constantly transport us to paradoxical situations that develop in Gotham City. The electronic music that permeates the entire play focuses on distorted sounds and the distorted voices of the characters, while the aesthetic of the performance varies between comics, pop art, surrealism and contemporary art. Yiannis Angelakis attempts, both with his direction and his music, to illuminate this strongly political and satirical text, to highlight in a humorous way the absurdity in which the heroes of the city are trapped and, finally, to deconstruct Batman as a superhero of the comics and Hollywood tradition along with all that he symbolizes.

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The story unfolds through the eyes of D., a girl, who was born and raised in a Gotham City slum, worked many odd jobs, was arrested and imprisoned for her political views, and was recruited by Mafia and organized crime gangs. . Through this path of her life, where she interacts with otherworldly characters from the basement of society to the highest social strata, D. is constantly confronted with the parastatal mechanisms of Gotham City. He realizes the true role of Batman, who is revealed, no longer as a superhero who saves humanity or a saint of the modern metropolis, but as a postmodern version of the parastate that enjoys prominent social and political legitimacy. D. is planning an ambitious venture…

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What is the most beautiful story in the world?
Does it exist?

Six additional performances until December 14, 2023

Due to the increased public interest in the performance “Amazing” by Ioanna Portolou and the Griffon dance group, six additional performances are added on 29, 30 November and 6, 7, 13, 14 December 2023 at the PLYFA theater (every Wednesday and Thursday, at 9:30 p.m.) Tickets are sold in advance exclusively through Ticket Services at ticketservices.gr

The Griffón dance group and choreographer Ioanna Portolou return with the explosive performance “Amazing”, a ground-breaking and highly topical work about the wonderful but also self-destructive nature of human nature, which will be presented at the PLYFA Theater for nine unique performances on the 8th, 9th 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 24 November 2023, at 21.30. The successful show was presented for the first time as part of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival in 2022, creating a sensation.

Starting from the famous fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel” by the Brothers Grimm, the Griffón dance group and Ioanna Portolou create a subversive work, commenting in an orgy way on the contradictions of the human species, which, no matter how much it evolves, remains violent and voracious. In “Amazing”, the dark world that hides the forest of the children’s fairy tale becomes the backbone of the unlikely human story, with the audience transported to an atmospheric, otherworldly cabaret, where the adrenaline of the dancers turns into a tangible smell.

“We are capable of the greatest and the worst. We destroy each other mercilessly, we explore with undiminished interest our world and those beyond ours, we write and create masterpieces, we analyze, we search, we invent, we destroy, we love and we hate with passion”, notes Ioanna Portolou.

Through a delirium of adrenaline, intense images, narratives and stormy music, the show “Amazing” makes us wonder how we can be both man-eaters and creators.

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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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The LUNA PARK group presents, on November 02 & 03, 2023 at PLYFA, the series of performances LUNAPARK.works 04, consisting of solo and group dance pieces, as they were created in the context of the 7th International Meeting for Young Dancers in Athens. Free entry with advance reservation The 7th International Meeting for Young Dancers How to dance in times of crisis? takes place in Athens from October 21 to November 6, 2023 and includes lectures, seminars, discussions and practical choreographic workshops. During it, the participants collaborate to create their own, short-term performances, some of which are works in progress, and which will be presented to the public at PLYFA on November 2 and 3, 2023. Some of the works that will be hosted in the PLYFA industrial area are the following:

• Unbound (solo, work in progress, choreography/performance: Angeliki Anargyrou, original music: Antonios Palaskas – 40 minutes)
The work is a contemplative wandering in the present and the past. An associative return to fleeting mnemonic traces of the experiences that shape the human condition. The project is an open self-narrative process that seeks answers to the questions: “Is this a body that adapts to its external environment?” Is it a body overwhelmed by emotions, that touches and is touched, that sees and is seen?”

• Mellem (group work, work in progress, choreography/performance: Evangelia Damianou, Michael LogothetisAlafragkis, Evita Manou, Evi Symeonidou, music: Manos Nazlis – 20 minutes)
Mellem means between. Between two points, at two poles which constantly redefine man’s relationship with himself and his relationship with others. The personal becomes collective – and vice versa – with the bodies entering into a dynamic interaction, in constant regressions and in the end, echoing a common question: “How do we experience the transition, the uncertainty, the in-between?”

• Kῆδος (lamentation) (group work, work in progress, concept and choreography: Anna-Maria Karounou, Panagiota Bafounis, Anji Sarigeorgiou, Anthi Stassinou, interpretation: Anna – Maria Karounou, Panagiota Bafounis, Anthi Stassinou – 20 minutes)
The project is an attempt to approach the church. A multifaceted concept, connected to the idea of care, mourning, open accounts, maturation and the transition from one era to another. LUNAPARK.works 04 is directed by choreographers and educators Kosmas Kosmopoulos (Berlin), Nikos Kalyva (Athens), and Dr. Maria Tsouvala (Athens). The project takes place within the framework of the program How to dance in times of crisis? and is funded by the German-Hellenic Youth Office (DGJW) and within the framework of the ERASMUS+ “Stronger Together” program. From 2023, How to dance in times of crisis? it is also co-organized and supported by the recognized professional dance school AKTINA, in Athens.

The meeting program of young dancers How to dance in times of crisis? is organized by Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. in collaboration with LUNA PARK ERGA since 2016 with annual meetings in Berlin and Athens. How does our understanding of art change in times of serious social unrest, in times of local and global crises? How is our artistic expression changing? Do we dance differently in times of crisis? Can dance move anything – even outside the theatre? These are some of the questions sought by young dancers who participate in lectures, seminars and discussions, approaching the concept and evaluation of contemporary dance and performing arts with choreographic and philosophical approaches. Participants are supported and guided by experienced choreographers and dance artists, who conduct practical workshops on choreography and improvisation, as well as joint dance rehearsals, where young artists have the opportunity to focus on creating their own works, which will be presented as part of LUNAPARK.works 04.

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PESTUS STUDIO/RECORDS ATHENS LIVE

MEDEA LOADING

VAIZA

ALBUM PRESENTATION—FIRST COLOUR & SCENT REMAINS

LET’S BET?

NATURA MORTA—a dance less

GOODBYE BATMAN

AMAZING

ANOTHER PLACE (ALZHEIMAT)

LUNAPARK.WORKS 04