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Hellenic
Festival
2009
Scholeion Program
Please
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Scholeion 52, Pireos street, Moschato
June
Date
Time
Performance
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Tickets
09-06-09
21:30
A Seminar on Stupidity (or The Malign Effects of Stupidity) by Sakis Serefas
The Municipal and Regional Theatre of Corfu - Commedia Theatre Company directed by Katerina Polychronopoulou.
Tickets: general: 25 € - students: 10 €
A Seminar on Stupidity (or The Malign Effects of Stupidity) by Sakis Serefas
The Municipal and Regional Theatre of Corfu - Commedia Theatre Company directed by Katerina Polychronopoulou.
Tickets: general: 25 € - students: 10 €
Arden from Feversam
Directed by Maximos Moumouris
Wtih: Dimitris Kouroubalis, Giannis Anastasakis, Djini Papadopoulou, Promytheas Aliferopoulos, Christodoulos Stylianos, Giannis Stefopoulos, Nikos Stathopoulos.
This Elizabethan tragedy (1592) by an anonymous playwright deals with the events surrounding the murder of Thomas Arden, which shocked England in 1551.
Arden from Feversam
Directed by Maximos Moumouris
Wtih: Dimitris Kouroubalis, Giannis Anastasakis, Djini Papadopoulou, Promytheas Aliferopoulos, Christodoulos Stylianos, Giannis Stefopoulos, Nikos Stathopoulos.
This Elizabethan tragedy (1592) by an anonymous playwright deals with the events surrounding the murder of Thomas Arden, which shocked England in 1551.
Aspasia Papathanasiou - Theatrical Readings
Text from Aeschylus and Agamemnon.
The award-winning tragédienne returns to read us Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and transport us into the world of usurpation and revenge described in the first part of the Oresteia trilogy (458 BC), as Agamemnon, the conqueror of Troy, returns to Argos
Civil War - drog_A_tek in concert
With: Electroware, S.t.m.c., Monochrome, Voltnoi brege, Bombie baumann, Koke nunu fossa, Paranormale.
Civil War, an audio-visual performance from drog_A_tek, draws on the landscape of everyday life as it is scanned, mapped and recorded by public security systems and cameras.
Corridor Einz - Coti K., Nikos Veliotis and Lee Paterson in concert
Performative Installations abolishes the audience / performer dichotomy by using a single, continuous space in which the audio installation, audience and performers co-exist. Sound as vibration, oscillation and movement serving, too, as a wordless narration which exhorts us to explore its potential as a medium while allowing us to physically connect with its audio-visual experience.
Lura: voice and movement as one, the music of Cape Verde in sensual, vibrant, expressive form. Sweet, melancholic melodies that send the soul soaring out over the African waves. Erotic, untamed rhythms borne of the primeval African earth. Songs that, singing of today’s Africa and of a brighter future slow in coming, are laden, too, with traditions and customs. Lura, a Lisbon-born daughter of the Cape Verdean diaspora, is the most contemporary and – after Cesária Évora – the best-loved voice of her homeland.
Word of Mouth & Sanades in concert
World music by Word of mouth, Apostolis Pantoulas Bitman Vasilis Papoulias and El Pap Chico
Sanades
Mata Kourti, Maria Koti, Maria Melachroinou, Spyridoula Baka, Sofia Sarri, Maria Stavraka, Mariastella Tzanoudaki
Nine wide-open mouths, hungry for sounds! Nine unaccompanied mouths producing everything a band could, with a drum machine or two, a scratch deck and a female-voice choir thrown in for good measure. Word of Mouth, the human beatbox duo, join Sanades’ seven female voices for a whirlwind cover-tour of songs from around the world. A contracting, expanding musical universe in which polyphonic traditions, contemporary experiments and hip hop culture are condensed into a single instrument: the human voice.
Ivo Papasov, clarinet
Maria Karafizieva, vocals
Ali Salif, drums
Vasil Denev, keyboards, gadulka
Nesho Neshev, accordion
Matio Dobrev, kaval
Ateshkhan Yousseinov, guitar
Breathless music from the best clarinet in the Balkans. In this corner of the world where we prefer our music to come to us by way of Dionysus, virtuosi like Ivo Papasov shrug off any attempt at pigeonholing them into one genre or another. The airs and melodies of the Balkans, from Greece to Hungary and from Turkey to… Austria, are the raw material for the greatest celebration of the sounds a little instrument of wood and wind can make. The most exhilarating and innovative gift of music Bulgaria has ever made to the world.
The music of the greatest virtuoso of the traditional Malian harp, the kora, is nothing short of revelational. But what does “revelational” mean here? It means discovering the staggering wealth of sounds encompassed by the musical tradition of one of the world’s poorest countries; it means marveling at its ability to incorporate musical references from blues, jazz, rock, Soul, West African traditions… But when Toumani Diabate’s fingers begin to glide over the strings of his harp, when his fellow musicians add their own accompaniments to his melodic tales, discovery and revelation are transformed into authentic experience.
Lenio Kaklea, the 24 year-old graduate of the Greek State School of Dance who has been living and working in France for the last four years, transforms her generation’s concerns and questions about the function of art today into dance.
In matter-of-act (a project for a festival and ten festival-goers), she questions the logic of the fabricated spectacle and the easy answers it provides, proposing a living, open form in its place which explores the relationship between the Athens Festival and its audience, arousing the mind and the emotions in the process.
Rue Lepsius - Nikos Xydakis and Dionysis Kapsalis
Music by Nikos Xydakis
Poetry by Dionysis Kapsalis
With: Tassis Christoyannis, Nikos Xydakis
Narrators: Dimitris Maronitis, Dionysis Kapsalis
With seven cellos from the Cairo Opera
and the Al Mahabba classical Arabic music ensemble
Nikos Xydakis embarks on a quest for traces of Constantine Cavafy. Which he has every right to do, seeing as the director – like the poet – was born in Egypt and because the Greek East is a theme he has addressed frequently in his work. Cavafy’s old age, infirmity and final trip to Greece provide a context in which elective affinities can be picked out, and in which myth can play hide and seek with the reality, and the echoes of a city that is no more with the soundtrack of the present.
Lenio Kaklea, the 24 year-old graduate of the Greek State School of Dance who has been living and working in France for the last four years, transforms her generation’s concerns and questions about the function of art today into dance.
In matter-of-act (a project for a festival and ten festival-goers), she questions the logic of the fabricated spectacle and the easy answers it provides, proposing a living, open form in its place which explores the relationship between the Athens Festival and its audience, arousing the mind and the emotions in the process.
Rue Lepsius - Nikos Xydakis and Dionysis Kapsalis
Music by Nikos Xydakis
Poetry by Dionysis Kapsalis
With: Tassis Christoyannis, Nikos Xydakis
Narrators: Dimitris Maronitis, Dionysis Kapsalis
With seven cellos from the Cairo Opera
and the Al Mahabba classical Arabic music ensemble
Nikos Xydakis embarks on a quest for traces of Constantine Cavafy. Which he has every right to do, seeing as the director – like the poet – was born in Egypt and because the Greek East is a theme he has addressed frequently in his work. Cavafy’s old age, infirmity and final trip to Greece provide a context in which elective affinities can be picked out, and in which myth can play hide and seek with the reality, and the echoes of a city that is no more with the soundtrack of the present.
There are three way you can
book you tickets for Festival events:
Online, using your credit or debit card
By telephone, using your credit or debit card
In person, at Festival Box Office
Advance booking begins three weeks prior to each event.
1. Book online
Credit card bookings entail
ticket purchases and not ticket reservations.
Tickets can be purchased on-line until 2 pm on the day
of the performance.
Buying your tickets online allows you to select your seats,
according to price and availability. You may also buy season
tickets, where available. Tickets can be collected from
Festival Box Offices, or directly from event venues. A
courier service is also available (at a charge of 4€ per
call out).
To book tickets online, click
on the online link next to the event .
You will be guided step by step through the process of
selecting the event you require and booking your tickets.
2. TELEPHONE BOOKINGS
Tickets can be purchased over the telephone using a credit
card.
A. Call Centre Sales Personnel
Tickets can be purchased from call centre sales personnel
until 2 pm on the day of the performance.
Telephone Booking
Centre: +30 210 - 32 72 000
Opening Hours: Through a telephone operator: 09:00-21:00
daily
B. Using the Interactive Voice Response (IVR):
Advance booking by IVR ends one day prior to the performance.
Telephone
Booking Centre: +30 210 - 32 72 000
Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In both cases, tickets can
be collected from the Festival Box Offices or directly
from the event venues. A courier service is also available
(at a charge of € 4 per call out).
3. 'IN-PERSON' BOOKINGS: BOX OFFICES
Addresses and Opening Hours:
Central Athens
39, Panepistimiou Street, inside the Pesmazoglou Arcade
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday: 08:30-16:00, Saturday 09:00-14:00
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Dionysiou Aeropagitou Street (pedestrianised) -
Makriyianni
Opening Hours: 09:00-14:00 and 17:00-20:00 Daily
Ancient Epidaurus Theatre
Argolis Prefecture, Peloponnesus
Opening Hours: Monday - Thursday 09:00-14:00 and 17:00-20:00,
Friday - Saturday 09:30-21:30
Other Venues
Tickets may be purchased
at all Festival venues with ticket booths, opening two
hours before the start of performances.
Useful
information: 1.
It is not allowed:
•
To enter the theatre after the beginning of the performance
except during the
intermission if there is one.
• To smoke and to consume food and drink in the theatre.
• To take photographs with or without flash, to audio-
or video-record the performance.
• To wear shoes with pointed heels.
• To bring children younger than six to the theatre.
• To tip the ushers.
• To return tickets.
2.
During the performance cellular phones must be turned off.
3. If a performance is cancelled, there will be an announcement
regarding the refund.
4. Ticket sales are computerized. Therefore there can be no
double bookings.
5. The program of the performances may change. Any changes
will be announced in time by the
press.
