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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.

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.

BLUE is the first part of a theatrical color pentalogy created by the theater group “Bleu en Haut Bleu en Bas” 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.).

After the success of her last project G.O.L.D. which premiered at the Festival de la Bâtie in August 2022 and which will be staged in 2023 in Paris, Anna comes for once again in Greece with Blue only for a few shows.

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.

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

This performance is in Greek.

Cold. Night.
The first. Cold, which screams warmth.
The power of moments.
// a primitive performance from the future //
Raw Memories.
// eerie live synths and electronics //
Vibration of the Senses.
// reflections and visuals //
of an inner reality,
that draws momentum,
from the collision of shadow and light.
One, or none, world.

Line up:

9.30 p.m. | Ghone & Quantum Body Athens Butoh Dance Group | Performance “Future Primitives”

Ghone, is the sound exploration vehicle of Yiannis Kontandreopoulos (Afformance, Coherent States, Catch The Soap Productions etc.), together with the performing arts and Butoh dance group, Quantum Body, under the direction of the teacher of the genre, choreographer and performer Vicky Philippa, will present the performance “Future Primitives”.

10 p.m. | Kalte Nacht

The dark wave duo of Nikos and Myrtos lends its name to this evening. Fanatics of the genre know very well what they will hear, since they will hardly have attended one of their live shows in the past.

11 p.m. | Lip Forensics

The electronic group Lip Forensics was created in Athens by Zade and Ekelon, two active members of the Athenian alternative scene. They will present a dance electronic set framed by strong melodic elements and will play live for the first time, their new single, Rorschach from their third album “Apophenia”, which will be released by Veego Records.

12 am | Serafim Tsotsonis

Pianist, music producer, sound designer and ½ of the band Ocean Hope. Serafim Tsotsonis has just released his new single, Dear Fear on Hatsuyume Records. He will present a versatile set with live synths and drummachine as its main component.

2 am | Morah

Known for his long and highly danceable and at the same time dark sets, music producer and dj, Morah (Phormix Label) will close the night.

Choreographer Iris Karayan returns with her new production My Mind Like The Sky, a solo personal and existential quasi-psychoanalytic presented Monday-Tuesday 19, 20 & 26, 27 December 2022, Tuesday-Wednesday 3 & 4 January 2023 at PLYFA Industrial Park . The solo is performed by Ioanna Paraskevopoulou and the music is by Nikos Veliotis, her constant collaborators for over ten years.

The project dives into the archive of their collaboration, revisits past works and renegotiates embodied memories. It begins as an attempt to map the thoughts, sensations and images that appear and disappear when we turn our attention to the present. It is the result of the practice developed during research and rehearsals, a practice of collecting and quoting materials and references, recording and articulating questions and expressing thought and imagination.

The show is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Not suitable for under 16s
(performance includes nudity)

THE BOX stands. It opens. It transforms.
THE BOX reveals the body, swallows it.
It sets limits for the body to exceed.
Inside the BOX, time expands, space fluctuates.
Inside the BOX, encounters arise.
Redefining physical interaction under a suspended regime.
GET IN.

THE BOX || that dead space between us takes us on an underground journey between the real and digital, light and shadow, our deepest desires and our worst fears. Between memory and oblivion, this show is one search for self-definition and a recovery of a sense of purpose, of time, of human nature through tangible communication.

The project THE BOX || that dead space between us has been financed by the Ministry of Culture and of Sports for 2021-2022.

In 2021, Penelope Morout founded the Cross iMPact group, an organization that emerged from the deep conviction that artistic avant-garde can be found at the meeting points between multiple artistic expressions and techniques and that art is capable of producing meaning impact, both individually and collectively.

The choreographer Spyros Kouvaras and the contemporary dance group, Synthesis 748 Dance Co., after the residencies in Paris and Montpellier and the first, open studio, presentation of the work, “COYOTE, we used to be humans”, at the International Choreographic Center AGORA of Montpellier Danse, return to Athens for the premiere and four more performances, at PLYFA Industrial Park.

Post-anthropocentrism negates the hierarchy of species and the idea of an intentional and sovereign creature. Into the ontological void thus opened, other species gallop in… (Rosi Braidotti)

Starting from the philosophical, transhumanist, considerations of Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, the choreographer creates a (meta)mythological, performative, environment, within which the individual is no longer considered as an anthropomorphic entity, but as a relationship and as an articulation between humanity and animality, between culture and nature. The work visualizes a hagiographed ecosystem, between archetype, memory and utopian impulse and invites us to imagine the world as the temporary result of the gradual integration of its heterogeneous elements, as a “pluriverse”. On stage, a coming community seems to emerge, a community that does not exist according to any clear temporality but emerges as a choreographic fantasy upon which bodies, as exposed singularities, are “connected” together by an invisible thread, beginning a final dance, a little before man turned into a multiplanetary being.

The performance is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Sports for 2021-2023, is a co-production of AGORA-International Choreographic Center of Montpellier Danse and was created with the support of CND-French National Dance Center in Paris and Center Culturel Hellénique.

Animals close to humans, but also far away. Animals with frightening instincts, as well as naive, irrational animals, without awareness of death.

A cat and a fly of the same size, three hens like swans of a lesser god, a parrot and an octopus scurry on the ground, but also strange chimeras that set up a fantastic dance.

A way of seeing the world and a way of studying it, outside the bounds of scientific rigor. A different painting guided by the movements of animals, but also by how they have inspired many creators. Swan Lake, Simon Forti’s Zoo-mantras, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Leonardo Da Vinci’s zoology, Agaben’s philosophy of “openness” to the animal, are just a few examples.

A choreography of approaching animal life. Their movement in contact with the present and the infinite or the universe. From imitation to transformation, recognition will not be easy.

Stefania Mylona is a dance artist, choreographer and independent researcher of dance and performance. She has a PhD in Dancing Sculptures from the University of Surrey (2012) in which she studied visual dramaturgy in dance as well as a master’s degree in European dance theater from Laban (2005) which she completed as a scholarship holder of the I.K.Y. She has received the SDHS and Glynne Wickham awards from SCUUD and is a Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy. She has choreographed and taught dance in Athens and London. She is a member of the international Performance Philosophy network in collaboration with which she has twice organised the Performance Philosophy School of Athens (2014, E.D.O. and 2017, EMST). Her articles have been published in Performance Research Journal and Theater Topics, among others.

After two unique performances, one at the outdoor sculpture gallery of Zongolopoulos in December 2021 and one at the Municipal Slaughterhouses of Tavros in May 2022, the “Witches” meet their audience again reformed and with new content. This time at PLYFA for only 10 performances.

This play is performed in Greek.

The project

“The Witches” is a performance in progress, which acrobats between stage composition and lyrical performance. It is based on the play by Natasa Sideri, which was written on the occasion of the events of violence against women. With material from historical records of gender-based violence in Europe, but also from the Greek oral tradition, as well as the contemporary paradoxical “Greekness”, the work highlights the timelessness of women’s issues, already present in narratives of the past, but still alive as demands to this day.

The performance is under the auspices of the General Secretariat of Family Policy and Gender Equality and is part of UNESCO’s actions to combat gender-based violence, “Orange the World”.

Archives: Events

TRIPTYCH, STUDY IN INACTIVITY

ICHTHYOLATRY

BLUE

BOOBS ALLOWED VIII

KALTE NACHT

MY MIND LIKE THE SKY

THE BOX || that dead space between us

COYOTE, WE USED TO BE HUMANS

ZOOGRAPHY

WITCHES PART 3: DESSERT