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Pireos 260 Program
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Pireos 260
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Performance
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June
01-06-07
21:00
Inferno (inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy) by the Societas Raffaello Sanzio directed by Romeo Castellucci
“The people”: Alessandro Cafiso, Maria Luisa Cantarelli, Elia Corbara, Silvia Costa, Sara Dal Corso, Manola Maiani, Luca Nava, Gianni Plazzi, Stefano Questorio, Silvano Voltolina and all the extras from Athens who will join “the people”.
Romeo Castellucci and the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio have been questing for an anti-naturalistic theatre since the early nineteen eighties, which breaks with theatrical conventions and redefines the role of the audience. Working in a zone between the performing and the plastic arts and influenced by Renaissance painting and philosophy, the company has tackled the epic form as well as Greek and Shakespearean tragedy. Inferno is the first part of a trilogy inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. Eschewing mere illustration, Castellucci drags the poem’s dark core to the surface; in making it his own, he brings a sense of danger back to the stage.
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
Phaedra
Directed and music by Dimitris Lignadis
With: Karyofyllia Karambeti and Aris Papadimitriou
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
When the stranger comes
Directed by: Victor Ardittis
With: Akillas Karazissis, Victor Ardittis and the voice of Chrysa Prokopaki
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
When the stranger comes
Directed by: Victor Ardittis
With: Akillas Karazissis, Victor Ardittis and the voice of Chrysa Prokopaki
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
The Moonlight Sonata
Directed by Roula Pateraki
With: Roula Pateraki and Dionyssis Malouchos (piano)
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
Paradiso (freely inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy) by Societas Raffaello Sanzio directed by Romeo Castellucci
Featuring: Dario Boldrini, Michelangelo Miccolis
Romeo Castellucci’s static conception of the final part of the trilogy as an audio-visual installation is a far cry from the relentless movement of Dante’s Paradiso. Exploiting the potential of this flexible form, Castellucci condenses Paradiso into a single, blindingly-bright image from which he has banished the human form. A revelational vision beyond time and place which the viewer can enter for only a few minutes at a time.
Admission free
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03-06-09
19:00
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
Phaedra
Directed and music by Dimitris Lignadis
With: Karyofyllia Karambeti and Aris Papadimitriou
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
When the stranger comes
Directed by: Victor Ardittis
With: Akillas Karazissis, Victor Ardittis and the voice of Chrysa Prokopaki
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
Inferno (inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy) by the Societas Raffaello Sanzio directed by Romeo Castellucci
“The people”: Alessandro Cafiso, Maria Luisa Cantarelli, Elia Corbara, Silvia Costa, Sara Dal Corso, Manola Maiani, Luca Nava, Gianni Plazzi, Stefano Questorio, Silvano Voltolina and all the extras from Athens who will join “the people”.
Romeo Castellucci and the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio have been questing for an anti-naturalistic theatre since the early nineteen eighties, which breaks with theatrical conventions and redefines the role of the audience. Working in a zone between the performing and the plastic arts and influenced by Renaissance painting and philosophy, the company has tackled the epic form as well as Greek and Shakespearean tragedy. Inferno is the first part of a trilogy inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. Eschewing mere illustration, Castellucci drags the poem’s dark core to the surface; in making it his own, he brings a sense of danger back to the stage.
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
The Moonlight Sonata
Directed by Roula Pateraki
With: Roula Pateraki and Dionyssis Malouchos (piano)
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
The Moonlight Sonata
Directed by Roula Pateraki
With: Roula Pateraki and Dionyssis Malouchos (piano)
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
Phaedra
Directed and music by Dimitris Lignadis
With: Karyofyllia Karambeti and Aris Papadimitriou
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
The Moonlight Sonata
Directed by Roula Pateraki
With: Roula Pateraki and Dionyssis Malouchos (piano)
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
When the stranger comes
Directed by: Victor Ardittis
With: Akillas Karazissis, Victor Ardittis and the voice of Chrysa Prokopaki
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
Phaedra
Directed and music by Dimitris Lignadis
With: Karyofyllia Karambeti and Aris Papadimitriou
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
A tribute to Yannis Ritsos
The Moonlight Sonata
Directed by Roula Pateraki
With: Roula Pateraki and Dionyssis Malouchos (piano)
Tickets: for three monologues: 50 € - for two monologues: 35 € - for one monogue: 20 € - concessions for one monologue: 10 €
Paradiso (freely inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy) by Societas Raffaello Sanzio directed by Romeo Castellucci
Featuring: Dario Boldrini, Michelangelo Miccolis
Romeo Castellucci’s static conception of the final part of the trilogy as an audio-visual installation is a far cry from the relentless movement of Dante’s Paradiso. Exploiting the potential of this flexible form, Castellucci condenses Paradiso into a single, blindingly-bright image from which he has banished the human form. A revelational vision beyond time and place which the viewer can enter for only a few minutes at a time.
Admission free
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09-06-09
21:00
Sinfonia Eroica
Dance performance with choreography by Michele Anne De Mey.
Performers: Ilse Ghekiere, Eléonore Valère, Gabriella Iacono, Kyung Hee Woo, Lief Federico Firnhaber, Grégory Grosjean, Adrien Lequinquis
Michèle Anne De Mey – a dancer closely linked with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s early days in Belgium – makes her Greek debut as the choreographer Sinfonia Eroica, the work which, choreographed in 1990 and revived in 2006, introduced De Mey’s own company to the world. Inspired by music as monumental as Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica), Sinfonia Eroica infuses both stage and dancers with the joy of dance and physicality as it alternates playful with serious, movement with contemplation, and combines febrile energy with emotion.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 20 minutes without interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
The rats (Gerhart Hauptmann) by the Deutsches Theater Berlin directed by Michael Thalheimer
Cast:
Harro Hassenreuter: Horst Lebinsky
Mrs. Hassenreuter: Barbara Schnitzler
Walburga, their daughter: Lotte Ohm
Erich Spitta: Mathis Reinhardt
Alice Ruetterbusch: Isabel Schosnig
John: Sven Lehmann
Mrs. John: Constanze Becker
Bruno Mechelke: Niklas Kohrt
Pauline Pipercarcka: Regine Zimmermann
Sidonie Knobbe: Katrin Klein / Kathrin Wehlisch
Selma: Henrike Johanna Jörissen
Quaquaro: Michael Benthin
The latest in a series of celebrated Berlin theatre companies invited to perform at the Athens Festival, the Deutsches Theater was founded in 1884. Under the guidance of Bernd Wilms (its director from 2001-2008) and Michael Thalheimer (former head of its team of directors) and with Oliver Reese (as director from 2008-2009), the theatre has remained true to its long tradition of excellence.
In Rats (1911), a pregnant maid agrees to sell her unwanted child to a woman who has just lost her own infant, but then changes her mind and demands her child back. In the play, Gerhard Hauptmann, a major exponent of German naturalist drama, dared to pen a relentless critique of the social conditions that oppress Man. The direction, performances and astonishing set propel this “Berlin tragicomedy” into the sphere of great theatre.
In German with Greek surtitles
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Sinfonia Eroica
Dance performance with choreography by Michele Anne De Mey.
Performers: Ilse Ghekiere, Eléonore Valère, Gabriella Iacono, Kyung Hee Woo, Lief Federico Firnhaber, Grégory Grosjean, Adrien Lequinquis
Michèle Anne De Mey – a dancer closely linked with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s early days in Belgium – makes her Greek debut as the choreographer Sinfonia Eroica, the work which, choreographed in 1990 and revived in 2006, introduced De Mey’s own company to the world. Inspired by music as monumental as Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica), Sinfonia Eroica infuses both stage and dancers with the joy of dance and physicality as it alternates playful with serious, movement with contemplation, and combines febrile energy with emotion.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 20 minutes without interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
The rats (Gerhart Hauptmann) by the Deutsches Theater Berlin directed by Michael Thalheimer
Cast:
Harro Hassenreuter: Horst Lebinsky
Mrs. Hassenreuter: Barbara Schnitzler
Walburga, their daughter: Lotte Ohm
Erich Spitta: Mathis Reinhardt
Alice Ruetterbusch: Isabel Schosnig
John: Sven Lehmann
Mrs. John: Constanze Becker
Bruno Mechelke: Niklas Kohrt
Pauline Pipercarcka: Regine Zimmermann
Sidonie Knobbe: Katrin Klein / Kathrin Wehlisch
Selma: Henrike Johanna Jörissen
Quaquaro: Michael Benthin
The latest in a series of celebrated Berlin theatre companies invited to perform at the Athens Festival, the Deutsches Theater was founded in 1884. Under the guidance of Bernd Wilms (its director from 2001-2008) and Michael Thalheimer (former head of its team of directors) and with Oliver Reese (as director from 2008-2009), the theatre has remained true to its long tradition of excellence.
In Rats (1911), a pregnant maid agrees to sell her unwanted child to a woman who has just lost her own infant, but then changes her mind and demands her child back. In the play, Gerhard Hauptmann, a major exponent of German naturalist drama, dared to pen a relentless critique of the social conditions that oppress Man. The direction, performances and astonishing set propel this “Berlin tragicomedy” into the sphere of great theatre.
In German with Greek surtitles
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Sinfonia Eroica
Dance performance with choreography by Michele Anne De Mey.
Performers: Ilse Ghekiere, Eléonore Valère, Gabriella Iacono, Kyung Hee Woo, Lief Federico Firnhaber, Grégory Grosjean, Adrien Lequinquis
Michèle Anne De Mey – a dancer closely linked with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s early days in Belgium – makes her Greek debut as the choreographer Sinfonia Eroica, the work which, choreographed in 1990 and revived in 2006, introduced De Mey’s own company to the world. Inspired by music as monumental as Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica), Sinfonia Eroica infuses both stage and dancers with the joy of dance and physicality as it alternates playful with serious, movement with contemplation, and combines febrile energy with emotion.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 20 minutes without interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Loin… by Rachid Ouramdane
Rachid Ouramdane returns to the Athens Festival with another autobiographical solo: Loin... [Far, 2008], a piece in which he re-examines issues of identity. Focusing this time round on the past and his dual heritage, he traces the footsteps of his Algerian father, who fought in Indochina as a member of the French expeditionary corps.
A dancer, choreographer and video artist with a unique gift for incorporating new media into his performances without this predetermining his dramaturgy, Rachid Ouramdane is inspired by reality and puts reality on stage with a poetic touch all of his own.
The Coctail Party (T.S. Eliot) directed by Varvara Mavromati
Cast:
Edward Chamberlayne: Lazaros Georgakopoulos
Unidentified Guest / Psychiatrist: Aris Lempesopoulos
Julia (Mrs Shuttlethwaite): Maya Limberopoulou
Peter Quilpe: Omiros Poulakis
Lavinia Chamberlayne: Alexandra Sakellaropoulou
Alexander McColgie Gibbs: Christos Stergioglou
Celia Coplestone: Marisha Triantafillidou
“Something deeper than in their faces and their actions” is hidden within the Cocktail Party (1949) by the Nobel prize-winner poet.
The play starts and ends with a party. In the first one, the wife has just abandoned the family home; in the second, she has just returned. Using elements from what appears at first glance to be boulevard comedy, the creator of The Waste Land is seeking a universal aspect to relationship gridlock. “Nobody realised that Euripides’ Alcestis was at the root of my story”, comments the writer. Sixty years later, a group of notable actors transfers these questions to the present day.
The Coctail Party (T.S. Eliot) directed by Varvara Mavromati
Cast:
Edward Chamberlayne: Lazaros Georgakopoulos
Unidentified Guest / Psychiatrist: Aris Lempesopoulos
Julia (Mrs Shuttlethwaite): Maya Limberopoulou
Peter Quilpe: Omiros Poulakis
Lavinia Chamberlayne: Alexandra Sakellaropoulou
Alexander McColgie Gibbs: Christos Stergioglou
Celia Coplestone: Marisha Triantafillidou
“Something deeper than in their faces and their actions” is hidden within the Cocktail Party (1949) by the Nobel prize-winner poet.
The play starts and ends with a party. In the first one, the wife has just abandoned the family home; in the second, she has just returned. Using elements from what appears at first glance to be boulevard comedy, the creator of The Waste Land is seeking a universal aspect to relationship gridlock. “Nobody realised that Euripides’ Alcestis was at the root of my story”, comments the writer. Sixty years later, a group of notable actors transfers these questions to the present day.
Des temoins ordinaires - Dance performance by Rachid Ouramdane
With: Lora Juodkaite, Mille Lundt, Wagner Schwartz, Georgina Vila Bruch, Yeojin Yun
“What caught my attention wasn’t the actual historical facts, but each person’s attitude to their own past, and the way that History affects the formation of each person’s identity.”
For his new production, Des témoins ordinaires, Rachid Ouramdane filmed members of associations for survivors of torture, amassing expressions, accounts, gestures, images that document the ways in which these people deal with the memory of the horrors inflicted on them. Having “excavated” this often painful material, he puts it on stage in his choreography.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 15 minutes with no interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
The Coctail Party (T.S. Eliot) directed by Varvara Mavromati
Cast:
Edward Chamberlayne: Lazaros Georgakopoulos
Unidentified Guest / Psychiatrist: Aris Lempesopoulos
Julia (Mrs Shuttlethwaite): Maya Limberopoulou
Peter Quilpe: Omiros Poulakis
Lavinia Chamberlayne: Alexandra Sakellaropoulou
Alexander McColgie Gibbs: Christos Stergioglou
Celia Coplestone: Marisha Triantafillidou
“Something deeper than in their faces and their actions” is hidden within the Cocktail Party (1949) by the Nobel prize-winner poet.
The play starts and ends with a party. In the first one, the wife has just abandoned the family home; in the second, she has just returned. Using elements from what appears at first glance to be boulevard comedy, the creator of The Waste Land is seeking a universal aspect to relationship gridlock. “Nobody realised that Euripides’ Alcestis was at the root of my story”, comments the writer. Sixty years later, a group of notable actors transfers these questions to the present day.
Des temoins ordinaires - Dance performance by Rachid Ouramdane
With: Lora Juodkaite, Mille Lundt, Wagner Schwartz, Georgina Vila Bruch, Yeojin Yun
“What caught my attention wasn’t the actual historical facts, but each person’s attitude to their own past, and the way that History affects the formation of each person’s identity.”
For his new production, Des témoins ordinaires, Rachid Ouramdane filmed members of associations for survivors of torture, amassing expressions, accounts, gestures, images that document the ways in which these people deal with the memory of the horrors inflicted on them. Having “excavated” this often painful material, he puts it on stage in his choreography.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 15 minutes with no interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Boris Godunov by La Fura dels Baus directed by Alex Olle
With:
Pere Eugeni Font, Pedro Gutiérrez, Juan Olivares, Francesca Piñón, Carme Poll, Albert Prat, Jordi Puig “Kai”, Sara Rosa Losilla, Manel Sans
Boris Godunov is the new production from La Fura dels Baus, the Catalan company that has been at the heart of the theatrical avant-garde in Spain for the last 25 years. Remaining true to its quest for a “total spectacle” incorporating new technologies and involving the audience in the theatrical process, the company turned to the seizure of Moscow’s Dubrovka Theatre in 2002 and its tragic aftermath in a production which assigns the role of spectators/hostages to the audience. By bringing us face to face with violence and the dead-lock to which it leads, Boris Godunov adds a new dimension to the play-within-a-play with its “theatre within a theatre”.
The performance contains violent scenes and is not intended for children.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 40 minutes with no interval.
In spanish with Greek surtitles.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Le Cirque Invisible by Victoria Chaplin and Jean-Baptiste Thierree
A clown-magician and an acrobat-fairy take us into a whirlwind of surreal transformations. A world full of miracles presented by two artists alone. It is a project “linked with alchemy: the search for the philosopher’s stone”. But “never forgetting that this is, above all, entertainment”, says Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée who, together with Victoria Chaplin – Charlie Chaplin’s daughter – have toured their strange circus around the globe for thirty years, celebrating the continuity of an ancient art form.
The performance lasts 2 hours with one interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Boris Godunov by La Fura dels Baus directed by Alex Olle
With:
Pere Eugeni Font, Pedro Gutiérrez, Juan Olivares, Francesca Piñón, Carme Poll, Albert Prat, Jordi Puig “Kai”, Sara Rosa Losilla, Manel Sans
Boris Godunov is the new production from La Fura dels Baus, the Catalan company that has been at the heart of the theatrical avant-garde in Spain for the last 25 years. Remaining true to its quest for a “total spectacle” incorporating new technologies and involving the audience in the theatrical process, the company turned to the seizure of Moscow’s Dubrovka Theatre in 2002 and its tragic aftermath in a production which assigns the role of spectators/hostages to the audience. By bringing us face to face with violence and the dead-lock to which it leads, Boris Godunov adds a new dimension to the play-within-a-play with its “theatre within a theatre”.
The performance contains violent scenes and is not intended for children.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 40 minutes with no interval.
In spanish with Greek surtitles.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Le Cirque Invisible by Victoria Chaplin and Jean-Baptiste Thierree
A clown-magician and an acrobat-fairy take us into a whirlwind of surreal transformations. A world full of miracles presented by two artists alone. It is a project “linked with alchemy: the search for the philosopher’s stone”. But “never forgetting that this is, above all, entertainment”, says Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée who, together with Victoria Chaplin – Charlie Chaplin’s daughter – have toured their strange circus around the globe for thirty years, celebrating the continuity of an ancient art form.
The performance lasts 2 hours with one interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Boris Godunov by La Fura dels Baus directed by Alex Olle
With:
Pere Eugeni Font, Pedro Gutiérrez, Juan Olivares, Francesca Piñón, Carme Poll, Albert Prat, Jordi Puig “Kai”, Sara Rosa Losilla, Manel Sans
Boris Godunov is the new production from La Fura dels Baus, the Catalan company that has been at the heart of the theatrical avant-garde in Spain for the last 25 years. Remaining true to its quest for a “total spectacle” incorporating new technologies and involving the audience in the theatrical process, the company turned to the seizure of Moscow’s Dubrovka Theatre in 2002 and its tragic aftermath in a production which assigns the role of spectators/hostages to the audience. By bringing us face to face with violence and the dead-lock to which it leads, Boris Godunov adds a new dimension to the play-within-a-play with its “theatre within a theatre”.
The performance contains violent scenes and is not intended for children.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 40 minutes with no interval.
In spanish with Greek surtitles.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Le Cirque Invisible by Victoria Chaplin and Jean-Baptiste Thierree
A clown-magician and an acrobat-fairy take us into a whirlwind of surreal transformations. A world full of miracles presented by two artists alone. It is a project “linked with alchemy: the search for the philosopher’s stone”. But “never forgetting that this is, above all, entertainment”, says Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée who, together with Victoria Chaplin – Charlie Chaplin’s daughter – have toured their strange circus around the globe for thirty years, celebrating the continuity of an ancient art form.
The performance lasts 2 hours with one interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Boris Godunov by La Fura dels Baus directed by Alex Olle
With:
Pere Eugeni Font, Pedro Gutiérrez, Juan Olivares, Francesca Piñón, Carme Poll, Albert Prat, Jordi Puig “Kai”, Sara Rosa Losilla, Manel Sans
Boris Godunov is the new production from La Fura dels Baus, the Catalan company that has been at the heart of the theatrical avant-garde in Spain for the last 25 years. Remaining true to its quest for a “total spectacle” incorporating new technologies and involving the audience in the theatrical process, the company turned to the seizure of Moscow’s Dubrovka Theatre in 2002 and its tragic aftermath in a production which assigns the role of spectators/hostages to the audience. By bringing us face to face with violence and the dead-lock to which it leads, Boris Godunov adds a new dimension to the play-within-a-play with its “theatre within a theatre”.
The performance contains violent scenes and is not intended for children.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 40 minutes with no interval.
In spanish with Greek surtitles.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Le Cirque Invisible by Victoria Chaplin and Jean-Baptiste Thierree
A clown-magician and an acrobat-fairy take us into a whirlwind of surreal transformations. A world full of miracles presented by two artists alone. It is a project “linked with alchemy: the search for the philosopher’s stone”. But “never forgetting that this is, above all, entertainment”, says Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée who, together with Victoria Chaplin – Charlie Chaplin’s daughter – have toured their strange circus around the globe for thirty years, celebrating the continuity of an ancient art form.
The performance lasts 2 hours with one interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Boris Godunov by La Fura dels Baus directed by Alex Olle
With:
Pere Eugeni Font, Pedro Gutiérrez, Juan Olivares, Francesca Piñón, Carme Poll, Albert Prat, Jordi Puig “Kai”, Sara Rosa Losilla, Manel Sans
Boris Godunov is the new production from La Fura dels Baus, the Catalan company that has been at the heart of the theatrical avant-garde in Spain for the last 25 years. Remaining true to its quest for a “total spectacle” incorporating new technologies and involving the audience in the theatrical process, the company turned to the seizure of Moscow’s Dubrovka Theatre in 2002 and its tragic aftermath in a production which assigns the role of spectators/hostages to the audience. By bringing us face to face with violence and the dead-lock to which it leads, Boris Godunov adds a new dimension to the play-within-a-play with its “theatre within a theatre”.
The performance contains violent scenes and is not intended for children.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 40 minutes with no interval.
In spanish with Greek surtitles.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Le Cirque Invisible by Victoria Chaplin and Jean-Baptiste Thierree
A clown-magician and an acrobat-fairy take us into a whirlwind of surreal transformations. A world full of miracles presented by two artists alone. It is a project “linked with alchemy: the search for the philosopher’s stone”. But “never forgetting that this is, above all, entertainment”, says Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée who, together with Victoria Chaplin – Charlie Chaplin’s daughter – have toured their strange circus around the globe for thirty years, celebrating the continuity of an ancient art form.
The performance lasts 2 hours with one interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Shapes and shadows from the theater by Kostas ordolis (only on performance days)
Kostas Ordolis’ theatre-oriented photographs are imbued with the poetic dimension of his chosen medium.
Quoting Dimitris Dimitriadis. “In the beginning, therefore, there was shadow: this is the starting point of Kostas Ordolis’ pictorial world”.
If theatre actuality consists of glamour and poses struck in the limelight, Ordolis’ gaze transcends the window-dressing and sensationalism. Bodies and objects are shot overlapping and from distorting perspectives; light struggles with shadow; back-stage and the work-in-progress exert their allure in a freeze-frame that reveals a different reading
Admisson free
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16-06-09
till
12-07-09
Still(s) - Photo exhibiton by Yannis Bournias (only on performance days)
Though photography captures a moment by freezing it in time, Giannis Bournias attempts to introduce the flow of time into his photographic images in a game played about between the real and the imaginary.
His photographic show Still(s) is not anthropocentric, though it does impart a powerful sense of human presence, as though someone has just left or will be arriving in moments. It’s the eternal game between artist, light and shadows that makes Bournias’ images look like stills from a movie that keeps playing in the viewer’s head.
Admission free
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July
01-07-09
21:00
Yelp/Pelma - Conemporary Greek Dnce
Yelp danceco - 'Das (ist) ein...' I like a sugar cube in water.
With: Timos Zehas, Sania Stribakou
What we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence
The motto and ulterior motive for Mariela Nestora’s latest work is provided by the Austrian thinker, Ludwig Wittgenstein. In highlighting the words of a great philosopher, the choreographer and founder of the YELP danceco is manifesting her generation’s interest in incorporating aspects of academic thought into dance.
Two solos merge into a duet in which the body language and stage environment bring dichotomies to the surface, which document the passage from the narcissistic “ego” to Otherness.
.pelna.lia.haraki - Patry Animals
For over a decade now, Lia Haraki and her company, Pelma, have left their mark on Cypriot contemporary dance. A courageous and radical performer and choreographer, Haraki remains open to experimentation and artistic exchange; just one thing remains sacrosanct: the ‘corporality’ of dance. Her new work, Party animals, remains emotionally direct and moving, drawing on Pop music whose words and sounds we simply cannot get out of our heads.
Last Touch First by Michael Schumacher, Natasha Novotna, Jiri Kylian and the Holland Dance Festival
With:
Nataša Novotná, Michael Schumacher, Cora Bos-Kroese, Elke Schepers, David Krugel, Václav Kuneš.
If Jirií Kylián embodies the emotive and the fragile, Michael Schumacher brings a unique improvisatory ability to their timeless collaboration. In Last Touch First, a cast of six fine dancers throw themselves into the game of enacting everything grotesque in the human soul against a Chekhovian backdrop. The flow of time slows as emotionally-charged moments flare in the darkness, as a strange sequence of images invite us to sink into their beauty in a sort of silent theatre.
Habemus Papem, Walter by the Nova Melancholia Group Directed by Manolis Tsipos
With:Vicky Kyriakoulakou, Mary Lousi, Maria Maganari, Nikos Sabalis, Ioanna Toubakari, Yorgos Frintzilas, Despina Hatzipavlidou, Michalis Fotopoulos
“A whirlwind. Walter Benjamin thinking out loud. Everything’s a matter of editing. The Pope is dead. Long live the Pope. The automaton of History throwing out phrases”: the Nova Melancholía experimental theatre company seeking to redefine writing for the stage. How can the political and religious issues of History inject vigour into the present? Seven performers attempt to rouse our hearts and minds with Habemus Papam, Walter , a “hybrid” text / collage.
The performance lasts 1 hours and 30 minutes with no interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Habemus Papem, Walter by the Nova Melancholia Group Directed by Manolis Tsipos
With:Vicky Kyriakoulakou, Mary Lousi, Maria Maganari, Nikos Sabalis, Ioanna Toubakari, Yorgos Frintzilas, Despina Hatzipavlidou, Michalis Fotopoulos
“A whirlwind. Walter Benjamin thinking out loud. Everything’s a matter of editing. The Pope is dead. Long live the Pope. The automaton of History throwing out phrases”: the Nova Melancholía experimental theatre company seeking to redefine writing for the stage. How can the political and religious issues of History inject vigour into the present? Seven performers attempt to rouse our hearts and minds with Habemus Papam, Walter , a “hybrid” text / collage.
The performance lasts 1 hours and 30 minutes with no interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Last Touch First by Michael Schumacher, Natasha Novotna, Jiri Kylian and the Holland Dance Festival
With:
Nataša Novotná, Michael Schumacher, Cora Bos-Kroese, Elke Schepers, David Krugel, Václav Kuneš.
If Jiri Kylián embodies the emotive and the fragile, Michael Schumacher brings a unique improvisatory ability to their timeless collaboration. In Last Touch First, a cast of six fine dancers throw themselves into the game of enacting everything grotesque in the human soul against a Chekhovian backdrop. The flow of time slows as emotionally-charged moments flare in the darkness, as a strange sequence of images invite us to sink into their beauty in a sort of silent theatre.
Rosas danst Rosas - Dance performance by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
With: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Cynthia Loemij, Sara Ludi, Samantha Van Wissen
The celebrated Flemish choreographer wanted to wind the thread right back to the beginning for her Athens première. In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker launched the ‘Rosas’ style – a recognizable idiom in its own right now for a quarter century across Europe – with the founding act of the Rosas company: her emblematic Rosas danst Rosas. The word-play of the work’s tautological title is also illustrative of the choreographer’s aesthetic in which spirals and repetition are the dominant elements in a performance whose momentum and energy draw more on everyday life than they do on the dance tradition.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Parades & changes, replays (Ane Halprin and Morton Subotrick)
Dance performance by Anne Collod and guests.
Re-interpretation & performance: Boaz K. Barkan, Nuno Bizarro, Alain Buffard, Anne Collod, DD Dorvillier, Fabrice Ramalingom
Here is an opportunity for Greek audiences to discover the work of the American pioneer of post-modern dance, Anna Halprin, 89 this year, through the re-creation of Parades & Changes by Anne Collod, member of the Albrecht Knust Quartet, with “co-conspirators” in this performance the well known choreographers, like Alain Buffard and DD Dorvillier.
This extremely modern work – even though it was first performed in 1965 – transports us to the beginnings of performance art and the experimental workshops of California, at a time when the inclusion of everyday movement – “tasks” – in the dance vocabulary was a revolutionary act.
Rosas danst Rosas - Dance performance by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
With: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Cynthia Loemij, Sara Ludi, Samantha Van Wissen
The celebrated Flemish choreographer wanted to wind the thread right back to the beginning for her Athens première. In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker launched the ‘Rosas’ style – a recognizable idiom in its own right now for a quarter century across Europe – with the founding act of the Rosas company: her emblematic Rosas danst Rosas. The word-play of the work’s tautological title is also illustrative of the choreographer’s aesthetic in which spirals and repetition are the dominant elements in a performance whose momentum and energy draw more on everyday life than they do on the dance tradition.
The performance lasts 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Parades & changes, replays (Ane Halprin and Morton Subotrick)
Dance performance by Anne Collod and guests.
Re-interpretation & performance: Boaz K. Barkan, Nuno Bizarro, Alain Buffard, Anne Collod, DD Dorvillier, Fabrice Ramalingom
Here is an opportunity for Greek audiences to discover the work of the American pioneer of post-modern dance, Anna Halprin, 89 this year, through the re-creation of Parades & Changes by Anne Collod, member of the Albrecht Knust Quartet, with “co-conspirators” in this performance the well known choreographers, like Alain Buffard and DD Dorvillier.
This extremely modern work – even though it was first performed in 1965 – transports us to the beginnings of performance art and the experimental workshops of California, at a time when the inclusion of everyday movement – “tasks” – in the dance vocabulary was a revolutionary act.
Peiraios 260 provided the inspiration for this debut production from The Plant, a dance collective. Three exceptional dancers – Greece’s Panagiota Kallimani, Canada’s Laurie Young and Filipe Lourenco, a Portuguese national born and bred in Paris – who have followed parallel career paths gleaning priceless experience alongside celebrated choreographers of the stature of Joseph Nadj, Sasha Waltz, Joëlle Bouvier and Catherine Diverres, accept the challenge of co-creation. In their dance installation Trente, they play with ambivalence and reveal selective affinities as they alternate between the roles of dancer and choreographer.
A member of the Berlin-based directorial group, Rimini Protokoll, Stefan Kaegi proposes a new form of documentary theatre rooted in the researching of social and political conditions. Kaegi’s use of non-professional actors heightens his anti-psychological approach and breaks down the barriers between reality and fiction. In Radio Muezzin, four muezzins from Cairo recreate their everyday life on stage just months before they are replaced by a single muezzin whose call to prayer will be relayed live to the 30,000 state mosques in the Egyptian capital.
A member of the Berlin-based directorial group, Rimini Protokoll, Stefan Kaegi proposes a new form of documentary theatre rooted in the researching of social and political conditions. Kaegi’s use of non-professional actors heightens his anti-psychological approach and breaks down the barriers between reality and fiction. In Radio Muezzin, four muezzins from Cairo recreate their everyday life on stage just months before they are replaced by a single muezzin whose call to prayer will be relayed live to the 30,000 state mosques in the Egyptian capital.
Peiraios 260 provided the inspiration for this debut production from The Plant, a dance collective. Three exceptional dancers – Greece’s Panagiota Kallimani, Canada’s Laurie Young and Filipe Lourenco, a Portuguese national born and bred in Paris – who have followed parallel career paths gleaning priceless experience alongside celebrated choreographers of the stature of Joseph Nadj, Sasha Waltz, Joëlle Bouvier and Catherine Diverres, accept the challenge of co-creation. In their dance installation Trente, they play with ambivalence and reveal selective affinities as they alternate between the roles of dancer and choreographer.
In his first ever visit to Greece, Alain Platel, the inspiration behind the collective les ballets C de la B, celebrates the 25th anniversary of this extraordinary venture, which shook the stereotypes of the dance world, with his latest work pitié! (2008).
Using J.S. Bach’s masterpiece St Matthew Passion as their starting point, Platel and his musical accomplice, Fabrizio Cassol, have created a choreographed poem that celebrates love.
On stage, ten dancers, four singers and seven musicians weave a series of colourful tableaux vivants oscillating between sensuality and contemplation, desire and compassion.
The performance lasts 2 hours with no interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Into the forest is an existential fairytale. Two boys and a girl in a foreign land. With no baggage. All alone. The talented young director Angelos Frantzis places his protagonists in Nature on an inner journey far from roles, genders and identities on which anything can happen. A cinematic installation; a collective viewing experience in which film is combined with live performance and music; a movie-as-lived-experience receiving its première at Peiraios 260.
Into the forest is an existential fairytale. Two boys and a girl in a foreign land. With no baggage. All alone. The talented young director Angelos Frantzis places his protagonists in Nature on an inner journey far from roles, genders and identities on which anything can happen. A cinematic installation; a collective viewing experience in which film is combined with live performance and music; a movie-as-lived-experience receiving its première at Peiraios 260.
In his first ever visit to Greece, Alain Platel, the inspiration behind the collective les ballets C de la B, celebrates the 25th anniversary of this extraordinary venture, which shook the stereotypes of the dance world, with his latest work pitié! (2008).
Using J.S. Bach’s masterpiece St Matthew Passion as their starting point, Platel and his musical accomplice, Fabrizio Cassol, have created a choreographed poem that celebrates love.
On stage, ten dancers, four singers and seven musicians weave a series of colourful tableaux vivants oscillating between sensuality and contemplation, desire and compassion.
The performance lasts 2 hours with no interval.
Tickets: general: 30 € - concessions: 20 € - students: 15 €
Shapes and shadows from the theater by Kostas ordolis (only on performance days)
Kostas Ordolis’ theatre-oriented photographs are imbued with the poetic dimension of his chosen medium.
Quoting Dimitris Dimitriadis. “In the beginning, therefore, there was shadow: this is the starting point of Kostas Ordolis’ pictorial world”.
If theatre actuality consists of glamour and poses struck in the limelight, Ordolis’ gaze transcends the window-dressing and sensationalism. Bodies and objects are shot overlapping and from distorting perspectives; light struggles with shadow; back-stage and the work-in-progress exert their allure in a freeze-frame that reveals a different reading
Admisson free
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16-06-09
till
12-07-09
20:00
Still(s) - Photo exhibiton by Yannis Bournias (only on performance days)
Though photography captures a moment by freezing it in time, Giannis Bournias attempts to introduce the flow of time into his photographic images in a game played about between the real and the imaginary.
His photographic show Still(s) is not anthropocentric, though it does impart a powerful sense of human presence, as though someone has just left or will be arriving in moments. It’s the eternal game between artist, light and shadows that makes Bournias’ images look like stills from a movie that keeps playing in the viewer’s head.
Admission free
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