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APOLLYMI

Through this solo we seek to negotiate loss as a fact of our times, as a political and social phenomenon that makes our existence a priori a condition of defeat, a condition where we have lost even our very selves.
The image that forms the starting point of the solo is a woman entering her home, while she has just been informed of a loss she has suffered. It is never clarified what is lost, what is mourned. As the solo progresses, the woman gradually experiences each of the five stages of grieving the loss (as formulated by psychologist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, which are denial, anger, bargaining, grief, and acceptance). For each stage she experiences, her realistic action transforms into a dance, while the space around her gradually deconstructs.

Ticket cost: Regular: 10 euros. Student, Unemployed, over 65, disability, “Companion” (professionals and students in the field of dance, theater, music, visual arts): 5 euros.
* Tickets can be booked by phone or email, and purchased directly at the theater, from 8pm until the start of the performance, on the days of the performance.
*Reservations, contact details: +30 6937179947, [email protected]

The project is implemented with the financial sponsorship of the Ministry of Education and Culture 2020, as a dance project.

Other collaborators: Psychotherapist Christos Karapiperis under whose supervision the physical research workshop on the subject of Loss was also held with the participation of A-year students of the Drama School of DIPETHE Patras, Paulina Yontsari, Thanos Triantafillou, Stavros Papadopoulos, Thanos Dimopoulos, Katerina Papandreou, Marialena Skaroni.

Warm thanks to: Christina Spiliotopoulou, Georgia Lebesi, Irini Apostolatu, Magda Korpi, Saltimbagos, Nikos Garozis, Costas Gougas, Savva Stroumbo, Parthenopi Bouzouri, Mavoli Peppa, Maria Kartavou, Sofia Mavridi.

WHO KILLED MY FATHER

The politically sharp and highly topical work of Edouard Louis, “Who Killed My Father”, returns to PLYFA with a new cycle of performances, from March 9 to April 2. The performance of the Little Things Orchestra directed by Christos Theodoridis, which reminded us how personal politics is, comes back at a critical moment for the entire artistic world, the who continues to fight against a political decision, PD 85/2022, which is not a “matter of aesthetics” but a “matter of life and death”.

This play is performed in Greek.

LUCID DREAM

The album “Lucid Dream” describes the dream world of a noma. The psychedelic hues of a futuristic metropolis where rhythms change and nothing stays the same for long, are mixed with the dreams of the prefect from a trip to a parallel world full of
tropical islands.

The official first live presentation of the album “Lucid Dream” will take place on Friday, March 3 at PLYFA. The melodic vein of Yiannis Cassetas is well known, as well as his comfort in supporting his melodies with inventive harmony. We meet both of these elements here, as well as a group of experienced and renowned musicians of the Greek jazz community who give
their best selves.

ΣTELLA LIVE

Stella will perform at PLYFA on Saturday, March 4, 2023, in her first long-awaited concert in Athens after the release of her fourth personal album “Up and Away” and after has completed her European tour, which starts on January 15th, with stops in Germany, France and the Netherlands.

The album “Up and Away” was recorded between London and Athens with the English producer Redinho and released in June 2022 on the historic American label Sub Pop! (Record umbrella of Beach House, Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, Iron & Wine, Washed Out, Weyes Blood among many others).

Known for her “catchy” melodies, with a continuous upward trajectory, rich in collaborations, concerts and festival appearances in Europe and America, following her first international release, with “The Break” (2020) on Canadian Arbutus Records ( TOPS, Sean Nicholas Savage, Grimes, et al.), and with the promising turn in her sound, Stella is now considered one of the most interesting names in the wider indie-pop international scene.

The concert opens with Westerman – born in South London and now a permanent resident of Athens – who was loved by Perfume Genius for his energetic yet mellow alt-pop.

FAMILY AFFAIR VOL II

For the second year we are joining forces with friends and partners to create an all-day special event.
Our family members are working hard to make this night special, with fantastic entries, mixing different art platforms that express us!
Live music, Dj sets, Beat sets, Live graffiti & Visual art, merch and vinyls and lots of friends!

LIVE ACTS

CosLee
Combining his great love for guitar and rap, coslee creates a uniquely fresh mix of his favorite genres: conscious hip-hop, lo-fi, jazz/blues. By his side are his super-talented friends and collaborators: Panagiotis Kostopoulos, Iasonas Oikonomou and Kostas Kalatzis.

Bhukhurah
Christos Bekiris aka bhukhurah is an artist / producer based in Athens. Genre bending, a mix of neo-psychedelia, bedroom pop and elements from the entire spectrum of hip hop, filtered through his own perspective.
Working towards his first release, he presents his live performances as a duo, with drummer Pantelis Karasevdas. Their shows are dynamic, interactive, awesomely dreamy and definitely very… cute!

Bangies
The Bangies are a 5-piece Greek hip-hop band that doesn’t sound like a Greek hip-hop band. Neo-soul, funk, jazz and dub are the foundations of their sound and approach. Visual art, physical and electronic instruments, rap, melody and dance beats make up the live experience. Having released their latest work “HOME”, the group has prepared a special audiovisual show!

GLOW

Spinball will perform at ΠΛΥΦΑ on Sunday, February 12th, 2023 in a live presentation of their third album “Glow” which was recently released on vinyl. They will be joined by Circus Caravan as guests in this presentation.

After a three-year absence, Spinball return to the stage to perform live “Glow” released in autumn 2022 on vinyl by B-Otherside records. In fact, this is the first time the band will play the album’s tracks live since the album’s recordings were completed in June 2021.

Floating in alternative-indie mood, with the psychedelic sound on a lot of parts of the album, the band from the suburbs of Athens is currently in its most conscious phase. The dynamic live performances of Spinball are one of the band’s main characteristics, as well as the choice of alternative venues for their implementation.

Circus Caravan, an alternative rock band from Athens, will perform as an acoustic trio. The band’s first album entitled “Scattered Sketches” was released on May 14th, 2020. A characteristic of the band is that they can change musical style, but with simplicity they keep their character always moving in the context of the alternative sound.

THOSE YOU DIDN’T CATCH

The theater group b.p.m. theater group presents for the first time the play by Danai Liodaki “Those you didn’t catch”

“Those you didn’t catch”, a feminist comedy about female friendship is presented for the first time by the group b.p.m. (beats per minute) in PLYFA. The project approaches issues such as gender violence, female oppression, sexual harassment, through the prism of female empowerment and the bond of female friendship.

The project “The ones you didn’t catch” follows four childhood friends who unexpectedly meet again. Without knowing what brought them together again and why, they decide to take action “so that our bosses don’t fall for us, we don’t get spat on in the street, we don’t have to be afraid to come home at night and in general you know, for all that” . We follow step by step their journey towards the creation of a secret feminist group, but also their reunion, the doubts and obstacles they encounter, in a story with humor and sensitivity, which oscillates between action and narrative, between realism and the imagination.

When the health minister of their country announces the ban on abortion, the four women decide to upgrade their action with a big business. What follows will reunite the four friends forever.

The b.p.m. team was founded in 2018 by graduates of the drama school of the Art Theater – Karolos Koon and quickly distinguished itself with awards and remarkable success in its performances. After the successful second year of performances of “Hyperspace or else..”, the group insists on taking a stand on contemporary political and social issues, keeping a humorous and fresh perspective. The original, contemporary play “Those you didn’t catch” is expected to be released immediately by Kappa Publishing.

This play is performed in Greek.

SOTIRIAS’S SONGS

“Sotiria’s Songs”, the musical show dedicated to the “Princess of Rebetiko” that stood out and was etched in the memory of those who watched it, is being staged again, in a special place! The show, a production of the Athens Festival, began its run in the summer of 2021 with four sold out nights at Stecki tou Ilia in Thissio and was repeated with similar success in November of the same year at the Hamam music stage in Petralona. This time, Christina Maxouri and four exceptional folk musicians set up their stage at PLYFA (Korytsas 39, Votanikos) and invite us on another journey through the life and songs of Sotiria Bellou, from February 6 and every Monday, for 10 performances.

“Sotiria’s Songs” go beyond the boundaries of the stage and stage and move between the theatrical performance and the musical evening. In an almost overwhelming atmosphere, Christina Maxouri, an actress and performer herself, introduces us to the world of Bellou with her characteristic, Doric voice. She performs favorite songs that Bellou stamped with her voice and between them she tells us short stories and short incidents from the life of the unsurpassed performer. The goals of Tsitsanis, Papaioannou, Mitsakis, Kaldaras, Savvopoulos, Moutsis, Andriopoulos and Lagios are intertwined with testimonies about Bellos’ life, through her own words and those of people who knew her. And yet the performance does not have the character or the purpose of biography, but the disposition to create an atmosphere of celebration. A shared experience where we all share stories and songs and come closer.

Christina Maxouri, one of the most characteristic and remarkable voices of the younger generation, breathes new life into the songs of Sotiria today. It has often been mentioned that Maxouri’s voice, her metal, but also the way she “presses” the words have something from Bellou. Nevertheless, she interprets the songs in her own way, since as she says, “in these songs my soul finds its center again”. Together with Dimitris Haliotis, they have done the research and signed the artistic supervision of the show.

Favorite songs performed by Bellou and etched in the history of Greek music, such as Wandering Life, You don’t talk, I turn 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, come alive again in the show, in a simple yet meaningful way. A wooden stage, a female voice and four musicians: Thodoris Xintaris (bouzouki, voice), Dimitris Koufogiorgos (bouzouki), Vassilis Prodromou (guitar, voice) and Dimitris Koustas (accordion).

TRIPTYCH, STUDY IN INACTIVITY

Based on the novel by Margarita Karapanou “The Sleepwalker” / Kastaniotis Publications.

In a world where every day ends, in a world where every day a new self-fulfilling prophecy is proclaimed, in a world where God seems absent or “tired”, one would say that people would reach their limits, meet the activated themselves. They would rush furiously to any solution that would secure their salvation.

In an informal antechamber of Paradise, in a modern Purgatory, a new Apocalypse takes place starring a group of artists looking for a new Messiah. And they find him. The problem is that the world will once again not end. They too will have to live with the Messiah. With a Messiah in the role of a policeman, who watches, punishes and redeems. “Everyone wished something would happen” say the protagonists. And their wishes are translated by “God” at will.

The show “Triptycho. Study in Inactivity” is a stage experiment. Its materials are Margarita Karapanou’s award-winning novel “The Sleepwalker”, adapted by Dimitra Dermitzaki, the visual work of Francis Bacon and digital media.

This play is performed in Greek.

ICHTHYOLATRY

A Hybrid Performance of Water Deities

A co-production between Greece, Portugal and Italy in the framework of the European project Stronger Peripheries, co-funded by the Creative Europe

Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative (PCAI) presents “ICHTHYOLATRY: A hybrid performance of Water Deities”, a performance conceived and directed by Eva Giannakopoulou at the PLYFA Industrial Park on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 January, in co-production with Artemrede (Portugal – in collaboration with the Municipality of Torres Vedras) and L’Arboreto (Italy).
Inspired by the theorist Astrida Neimanis’ book “Bodies of Water” (2017), which introduces for the first time the concept of Hydrofeminism, according to which water, femininities, embodied practices and ecology are interconnected creating “new” future synergies, ICHTHYOLATRY is a hybrid performance with confessional elements about elderly, floods, fluids and menopause. It is based on research conducted in communities linked to rivers, lakes, torrents and groups of women, during the course of two research and two creative residency programmes carried out in Greece, Portugal and Italy, in the framework of the European project Stronger Peripheries: a Southern Coalition. The visual artist-director and the creative community jointly developed the dramaturgy and texts through personal confessions and interviews with individuals from the local communities of Piraeus, Torres Vedras, Portugal and Mondaino, Italy, in such a way that their content is an intellectual co-creation of all participants.
If water is the element from which all organisms originate, how could we possibly return to this original state of existence, removing the boundaries between evolution, genes, history, culture and nature? The answer to this question is what ICHTHYOLATRY attempts to answer, bridging the “gap” between past, present and future, between human and non-human forms of existence, jellyfishes and dogs.
The eccentric creatures of ICHTHYOLATRY – a warrior, a post-human creature, a female phenomenon and a fish – will inhabit the stage of the Plyfa Industrial Park and the stage of the Teatro Cine in Portugal to take a dive into a dreamy ocean of fluid possibilities. This is a performance that “dives” into an immersive universe of emotional and underwater coalitions.

Are you ready to swim?
* The performance is a new co-production of PCAI (Greece), Artemrede (Portugal – in collaboration with the Municipality of Torres Vedras) and L’Arboreto (Italy) in the framework of the European project Stronger Peripheries: a Southern Coalition, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. In 2023, ICHTHYOLATRY will also be presented in Portugal.

** The material of some costumes was created during a creative workshop with the audience attending the open rehearsal during the artist’s artistic residency at Teatro Dimora L’Arboreto (IT).

*** The performance will be presented in Greek with English surtitles. It contains scenes of nudity and is recommended for those over 16 years old.