2018

Participatory Presentation
DMo culminates her residency in this participatory art playground style presentation, setting up the spaces of Akropoditi into creative stations for playing with and moving through different levels of awareness. The spaces will contain diverse inputs such as moving bodies, vibrational sounds, and symbols with corresponding exercise experiments.

DMo is an Australian artist and writer creating in film, music, the visual arts and other literary avenues. She is a produced scriptwriter and writer/director, and has also undertaken roles as producer, development writer, researcher and concept creator. Her painting and video art has been exhibited internationally. DMo develops creative projects for public involvement. She also writes and records as part of the music experiment Cityless. In 2018 she started The Art Playground aka TAP, an independent art production label, to release her creative work across platforms.
www.signeddmo.com

20 Οκτωβρίου 2018
Σάββατο 20:00
Διάρκεια: 1,5 ώρα
Είσοδος Ελεύθερη

The history of music videos reaches back to the beginning of the 20th century and connects from then on visual artists, filmmakers, musicians and producers. After a short time travel through the history of music videos Marlene Bart (visual artist) and Thore Yåw (sound artist) are going to speak about their artistic practice in the medium of music videos and the connection of image and sound.

21 Οκτωβρίου 2018
Κυριακή 11:00-13:00
Διάρκεια: 2 ώρες
Ελεύθερη Συμμετοχή

Is there a connection between natural sounds and contemporary music?
What makes a good composition for film?
And how do we use our sourrounding to achieve that?
To analyize and discuss these questions, we will record our own sounds & samples from different objects and nature. The participants will go outside and capture noises & soundscapes, which we will use for a composition or a beat afterwards. We will go into the sounddesign and find out about different stages of composing, arranging and producing for film.

Marlene Bart (*1991) is a visual artist and curator living and working in Berlin. She studied under Professor Wolfgang Ellenrieder at the University of Arts in Brunswick (HBK), the Villa Arson (École nationale supérieure d’art) in Nice and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. She has been a docent at the University of Arts in Brunswick (HBK) since 2017 and started her PhD in fine art at Bauhaus University, Weimar in 2018.
marlenebart.com

Thore Yåw (*1992) is a guitarist, pianist and music producer living and working in Berlin. He studies sound engineering at the HdpK school, and guitar under Johannes Feige and Prof. Robert Kessler. He learned arrangement and composition under Stefan Behrisch and Prof. Bene Apperdennier. Since 2017 he works as an independent record producer, working for german Artist’s such as Sido, Mike Singer and many more. Also he composes music for film, some of them which have been shown on international film festivals, such as the Glasgow Short Film Festival and Cine-Music Berlin.
thoreyaw.com

ΠΟΛΥΡΥΘΜΙΑ
Ανοιχτή πρόβα μετά την πρώτη εβδομάδα residency
Μια έρευνα του διαλόγου ανάμεσα στη μουσική και το κινούμενο σώμα

Ιδέα/σύλληψη: Francesca Pedullà και Lorenzo Gasperoni
Χορογραφία:  Francesca Pedullà και Κωνσταντίνος Κατσαμάκης
Μουσική: Lorenzo Gasperoni

Το έργο ΠΟΛΥΡΥΘΜΙΑ προέρχεται από την επιθυμία να συνδέσουμε την ενυπάρχουσα σοφία της παράδοσης με τις πρόσφατες μελέτες στη σωματική πρακτική, την ανατομία και την εμβιομηχανική τα παραδοσιακά κρουστά και τις σύγχρονες τεχνικές της ηλεκτρονικής μουσικής, πιστεύοντας ότι οι αρχαίες και οι σύγχρονες παραστατικές πρακτικές μπορούν να επικοινωνήσουν και να εμπλουτίσουν οι μεν τις δε.
Η μουσική, ακουστική από τη φύση της, μπορεί να λειτουργήσει αυθύπαρκτα. Σε συμφωνία με τους χορευτές η μουσική συνυπάρχει με την εικόνα. Μπορεί να δημιουργήσει εσωτερικές αντιθέσεις στις αισθήσεις ή να δονηθεί μαζί της ακυρώνοντας ή ενισχύοντας τη δράση τους. Μπορεί να αντικατοπτρίζει σωματικές κινήσεις περισσότερο ή λιγότερο φανερά. Μαζί, η μουσική και η κίνηση δημιουργούν μια μεταμορφωτική γλώσσα, η οποία αποτελεί βασικό στοιχείο της μεταξύ τους σχέσης, παίρνοντας το ρόλο ενός τρίτου performer. Η εμφανής ένταση ή σύγκρουση μεταξύ της αναλογικής και ψηφιακής μουσικής ανοίγει προοπτικές και ορίζοντες.

Lorenzo Gasperoni
He is graduated in 1989 in classical percussion in Conservatorio di Verona and Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan. The same year following his inclination towards being an “eternal student”, he started his trips to discover the ethnical rhythms, going several times to Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Benin, Southern India, Morocco, and to Cuba. Now Lorenzo is a well known composer and percussionist actually performing with several band such as Mamud Band, La Frontera, Artchipel Orchestra all over Europe. During his career he wrote music for important dance- theater shows. Fundamental aspect of his research is the relation with dance, to find a way to talk and play the same language of the body in movement. Lorenzo has been playing with prestigious world-renowned musician and dancer such as Lester Bowie, Fred Wesley, Brian Auger, Paco Sery, Famoudou Konate, Herns Duplan, Frey Faust, Mama Adama Camara, Francesca Pedullà
More on: http://www.lorenzogasperoni.it/

Francesca Pedullà
Dance artist, independent researcher and curator, dance teacher . She holds a masters in History of Theatre and Performing Arts, a diploma as professor of African Dance Expression – FEIDA Bordeaux. She is certified to teach the Axis Syllabus. Since 1998 she spends several months a year living in Benin, who’s culture has been a profound influence.
As choreographer and artistic director she develops artistic works and cultural cooperation projects both in Europe and Benin (West Africa). From 2008 to 2012 she  co-curated  together with Eric Acakpo the intercultural / international project Dialogues Inévitables   Since 2011 she is the artistic director of TRACES –   produced by the Association Sonagnon and the  Axis Syllabus Research Community in collaboration with the Centre Choréographique Multicorps. Since 2014  she curates in Berlin together with Kira Kirsch, the dance festival Sensing in, in the same year she initiated together with Elisa Ricci the modular project On how we see – Questioning the curatorial gaze.
Her latest choreographies were presented at Insitute Français de Cotonou, FITHEB (Benin), Teatro della Tosse (Genova), Teatro dell’Archivolto,  Teatro Akropolis, Hangart Festival (Italy), TroisC L (Luxembourg), Centre Culturel Cité Culture (Brussels),  festival the Biennale Passage 012 Bielefeld, TFK Berlin , Haus of the Berliner Festspiele (Germany) among others.
Currently based in Berlin, she choreographs, performs and teaches throughout Europe, Israel, Brazil the USA, Canada and Benin.
www.francescapedulla.org

Konstantinos Katsamakis
Konstantinos Katsamakis studied dance in the Professional Dance School of Thessaloniki municipality and acquired a dance teacher’s degree from the Greek Ministry of Culture.
Since 2006 he teaches contemporary dance and improvisation to adults, as well as kinesiology and choreography to actors.
In 2012 he co-created KINOYME dance studio, where he works, teaching and choreographing for kids and adults.
As a dancer, he has worked with the companies OKTANA dancetheater, xsoma, L Reducta, National Theater of Northern Greece danctheater, Persa Stamatopoulou, technientos, Silvia Katsarou, balletan, inertia dancetheater etc. Also, with the artists Lilibeth Cuenca, Christodoulos Panagiotou and Rania Mpellou in videodances and live performances. He has worked as a dancer, choreographer and movement consulter in theater productions for the National Theater of Northern Greece, experimental stage of ‘Techni’, Akropol theater and Papalangi theater company, with directors Ersi Vasilikioti, Sotiris Hatzakis, Tasos Aggelopoulos, Nikolas Raptis, Efi Gousi etc.
The past six years, he also collaborates with Gestalt psychotherapists, in psychotherapy and movement workshops.

Παρουσίαση Artistic Residency
Εβίτα Πιταρά & Cédric Gagneur (Ελλάδα – Γαλλία–Ελβετία)
Σάββατο 21 Απριλίου 2018, στις 20:30
Ελεύθερη είσοδος

116th Dream

“I am about t’ sketch You a picture of what goes on around here some- times. though I don’t understand too well myself what’s really happening. my poems are written in a rhythm of unpoetic distortion/ divided by pierced ears (…) with a melodic purring line of descriptive hollowness — seen at times through dark sunglasses an’ other forms of psychic explosion.”
Bob Dylan

Η πρόθεση αυτής της δημιουργίας είναι να μεταδώσει μ’ έναν χορό και μια πρωτότυπη μουσική τέσσερα κομμάτια του Bob Dylan: Motorpsycho Nightmare, Bob Dylan’s 115th dream, Subterranean Homesick Blues και Love Minus Zero/No Limit. Αυτά αποκαλύπτουν μια πληθώρα χαρακτήρων που αναμειγνύονται σε παράλογες καταστάσεις. Με μια σουρεαλιστική διάθεση, το 116ο όνειρο είναι σαν όνειρο που ψάχνει να βρει εξήγηση, μια ανοιχτή πόρτα σε πολλαπλές ερμηνείες.

Χορογραφία: Εβίτα Πιταρά & Cédric Gagneur

Evita began ballet in a very young age and after graduating from the Central School of Ballet in London, she joined the Ballet Junior de Genève for two seasons. Cédric practiced Breakdancing for a few years and then joined the Ballet Junior at the same time. After the Ballet Junior, Evita dances in Geneva for Foofwa d’Immobilité, Perrine Valli, Cie Alias and in Athens for Giorgos Panteleakis. Meanwhile, Cédric entered the Bachelor in Contemporary Dance directed by Thomas Hauert at La Manufacture in Lausanne, continued to tour with the Cie Tenseï and created his first solo Labyrinthum. Over the last three years, Evita and Cédric have danced together in several projects, notably for the Festival Antigel and the Fête de la danse in Geneva. 116th dream is their first choreographic piece.

Παρουσίαση Artistic Residency
Anis Ouazzani & Ainara Lopez (Γαλλία – Ισπανία)
Σάββατο 10 Μαρτίου 2018, στις 20:30
Ελεύθερη είσοδος

Moving Landscapes I
Dancing the elemental body: The body that measures the landscape, the body in intercourse with weather, the body kissing mass of peat, the body in love-death relation to the day…

The Moonwalk Lab is a itinerant dance research duo (or group) that works mainly outside the studio, in contact with nature.Through observing and meeting different landscapes and its elements, we collect images, sounds, stories and explore how to put them into motion.
The Moonwalk Lab is a work in progress project coming from the Moonwalk Experience, an itinerant dance laboratory in nature aimed at exploring the meeting between body and landscape.
Moonwalk is meant to become a danced reflection on the world and its natural, human-built, symbolic, energetic, psychological or legal borders. It is an opportunity to question, through the body, our way of perceiving, of relating to the earth, to nature, to human constructions, to the group.
During this last month we have travelled around the island of Syros diving into the local landscape, encountering people, words, sounds, stories, myths. In this occasion we have given ourselves a little challenge bringing our experiences into the studio and see what happens when we reconnect with the souvenirs of landscapes, with memory and oblivion.
We would like to share with you some of these images through a short performance and a projection on Saturday 10th, at 20.30h.

Anis Ouazzani and Ainara Lopez come from several backgrounds in dance and movement practices and are organizers of The Moonwalk Project, an itinerant dance project in nature within a moon cycle. They are currently on residency at the Akropoditi Dance Theatre.
More info: www.moonwalkexperience.wixsite.com/moonwalk

Παρουσίαση Artistic Residency
Eve Ganneau & Αντώνης Νικηφόρος (Γαλλία – Ελλάδα)
Σάββατο 20 Ιανουαρίου 2018, στις 20:30
Ελεύθερη είσοδος
Διάρκεια: 20 λεπτά

An Imaginary Country

Οι χάρτες είναι αποδεδειγμένα ένα ευέλικτο μέσο για να εκφράσουμε την περιέργειά μας για τη φύση και την κατανόηση του φυσικού τοπίου γύρω μας.
Όποιο κι αν είναι το θέμα τους, ακόμα και οι πιο στοιχειώδεις, έχουν μια εγγενή ομορφιά, κάτι ελκυστικό στο πώς ταξινομούν τα πράγματα. Θέτουν τα όρια μεταξύ τέχνης και επιστήμης, γνωστού και άγνωστου, καλού και κακού.
Ελπίζοντας να δημιουργήσει έναν “βαθιά προσωπικό χάρτη” η παράσταση “An Imaginary Country” είναι μια εξερεύνηση στις προοπτικές της μεταφορικής χαρτογράφησης, δίνοντας χώρο στη φαντασία.

Eve Ganneau
Η Eve Ganneau είναι χορεύτρια και περφόρμερ από τη Γαλλία. Έχει συνεργαστεί με διάφορες ομάδες ανά την Ευρώπη (Scottish Dance Theater, Joan Cleville Dance, Orjan Andersson Dance, κ.ά.). Βασισμένη στην εμπειρία της σαν χορεύτρια έχει αρχίσει να χτίζει τις δικές της δουλειές σε συνεργασία με ηθοποιούς και χορευτές. Από τον Νοέμβριο του 2016 εκπαιδεύεται στη μέθοδο Feldenkrais, με σκοπό να γίνει practitioner.

Αντώνης Νικηφόρος
Ο Αντώνης Νικηφόρος ασχολείται με τον ήχο από τα γεννοφάσκια του. Τα τελευταία 20 χρόνια έχει συνεργαστεί σαν τεχνικός ήχου και ηχολήπτης με διάφορους καλλιτέχνες και παραγωγές εντός και εκτός Ελλάδος, κάνοντας παράλληλα και “τα δικά του”.