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Ακροπατώντας στην Ερμούπολη

18 Ιουνίου 2023
Σημείο έναρξης: Πλατεία Αγνώστου Ναύτη

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Ακροπατώντας στην Ερμούπολη
Μια αλλιώτικη βόλτα στην πόλη μας, μέσα από τις χορευτικές διαδρομές των μικρών και μεγάλων μαθητών και μαθητριών μας

Η διαδρομή που θα ακολουθήσουμε απεικονίζεται στον παρακάτω χάρτη
Ακροπατώντας στην Ερμούπολη

Διδασκαλία: Μαίρη Βαρθαλίτου, Κωνσταντίνα Θανασούλη, Αριάδνη Κίτσου, Μαρία Μεντή-Μερμίγκη, Δημήτρης Μπαλτάς, Ευτυχία Πανοπούλου, Μάντη Παπανδρέου, Ανθούλα Χαιροπούλου
Σχεδιασμός αφίσας και προγράμματος: Βιβή Σκλιά

Φωτογραφία: Δημήτρης Γκούβης, Μυρτώ Γκίκα, Γιάννης Γιαννούλης
Βίντεο: Μυρτώ Γκίκα, Γιάννης Γιαννούλης

Χορευτική σύμπραξη Κυκλάδων 579 723 dancecenter

Χορευτική σύμπραξη Κυκλάδων

4-5 Ιουλίου 2019
Δημοτικό Θέατρο Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλης

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Χορευτική σύμπραξη Κυκλάδων

Έξι αναγνωρισμένες σχολές χορού από πέντε νησιά των Κυκλάδων ενώνουν για πρώτη φορά τις δυνάμεις τους σε μια κοινή παράσταση!

Διδασκαλία: Αριάδνη Ψυχογιοπούλου

Χορευτική Σύμπραξη - Official Promo Video #naxos2019 #togetherWeDance #DanceYourLimits #CycladesDancing

Gepostet von Χορευτική Σύμπραξη Κυκλάδων am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019
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Open presentation by Stali Symeon (Artistic Residency program 2024)

Saturday December 07th 2024
20:30, Free Entrance

Open presentation by Stali Symeon (Artistic Residency program 2024)

“Did the rain dances ever cause any rain?”

This dance performance is a lonely attempt to connect with memory, community and hope in a world that drowns in individualism, productivity and hopelessness. It’s an ecstatic dance that wanders between plastic garbage, emergencies, dreams, glitter, hangovers, concrete buildings, memories, deep darkness, sea waves, social movements, herbs, words, candies, cigarettes and a human body stumbling on threads and searching for meanings.

Duration: 30΄

Stali Symeon
Artist in Residency
02 – 08/12/24
Performing arts: Dance
Title of the project: “This Dance Is Not For You”
Greece/Belgium

 

Stali Simeon studied Political Science at university of Athens and Dance at Aktina Higher Professional School of Dance. She continues with post-graduate studies in Dance at the Antwerp Conservatory doing research on the corporeality and rituals of the social fringe. As part of her postgraduate research “This Dance Is Not For You” she participated in the residency 10 days to 10′, in the summer residencies at P.A.R.T.S. and DeSingel. Her work Eternally Alive, participated in the Container Festival in Thessaloniki, was presented in Athens at M54, and later a second version of the work Eternally Alive- A2 at the “On Bodies” Festival at the Dance House Nicosia. Since 2020 she collaborates with the BPM theater group as a choreographer (Rematia Festival, Mavromichali Theatre, PLYFA, Neos Kosmos Theatre, All Greece one Culture). In recent years she has participated as a dancer-performer in the creations of: La Coja Dansa, Belleville collective, Kiki Baka, Vaso Giannakopoulou, Sandra Grimma, Elisavet Pliakostathi, Hara Kassaraki, Varvara Bardaka, Anthi Drilia, Sofia Kouloukouri. She teaches dance and yoga.

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Two-Matters of existence – Athanasia Kanellopoulou

15-16 November 2025
at 21:00 

Ticket Presale: November 3rd 2025
Akropoditi Dance & Performing Arts Centre
Monday – Friday: 17:00 – 21:00
Phone number: 22810-80690, E-mail: akropoditidancecentre@gmail.com

Two – Matters of existence
Athanasia Kanellopoulou

Dance performance

“Two – Matters of Existence” is the second instalment of Athanasia Kanellopoulou’s choreographic trilogy, “A few moments of gaze” which focuses on the female gaze. A gaze that is confessional and introspective, that serves as a “beacon” to document an intensely personal and silent state of being.
A dual female figure, two sacred yet perishable forms, merging into one character, one “persona” – indirect reference to Ingmar Bergman’s film – but in essence, they portray a dual nature with distinct and contrasting concerns. Two powerful performers intertwine and coexist, whispering incomprehensible words in a profound existential relationship of harmony, companionship, authority and imposition.
The piece is a poetic transition from the subconscious to the conscious part of existence, depicting, through a cinematic and at times abstract narrative, the deepest reflection of desires and impulses that are rooted in the memory of the body, the dreams, and all that constitutes the human body.

Credits
Concept & Choreography: Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Original Music Composition: Konstantina Polychronopoulou
Performers: Lia Chamilothori, Maria Fountouli
Scenography & Lighting Design: Tzanos Mazis
Costumes: Eating +he Goober & Vassiana Skopetea
Production Organization: Gina Benou
Assistant Choreographer (for the world premiere on 12/7/2024): Vassiana Skopetea
Photography: Albert Vidal
Photography/Video: Xenia Tsilochristou
Production: Athanasia Kanellopoulou Performing Arts



Duration: 50 min

ticket prices: 12 normal, 10 reduced*
* Students / Holders of Unemployment Card & Multi – child family Card & European Youth Card & Culture Card (Ministry of Culture) / Disabled People

The tour of “Two – Matters of Existence” is supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

The work had its world premiere at the Kalamata International Dance Festival in July 2024.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1008345661


Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Athanasia Kanellopoulou is an Athens-based choreographer, dance performing artist and pedagogue, who owns a very rich history of collaborations with acclaimed choreographers and Dance Institutions around the globe. She creates her own methods from teaching into choreographing, filming, writing and collaborating with various artists from different disciplines. She is the founder of the multi-disciplinary platform and project-based Company ‘‘Athanasia Kanellopoulou Performing Arts’’, which has been supported and funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. She has lived in Europe for over 18 years where she collaborated with prestigious Choreographers and Companies worldwide. Among others are: the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, where she toured with the company as a guest dancer, Les Ballets C de la B/ Koen Augustijnen, Jasmin Vardimon Company, Gregor Zoellig/Stadttheater Osnabruc, Rafaelle Giovanola- Cocoondance, Alexandra Waierstall and many others. She has choreographed more than 25 works, presenting them in festivals around the globe, and has created commission works for companies and Dance Institutions in Europe and the Middle East. She is currently living in Athens, and she is teaching Improvisation, Choreography and Repertoire Works at the School of the Greek National Opera and at the National School of Dance (KSOT).
www.athanasiakanellopoulou.com

Maria Fountouli
Maria Fountouli is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance and the Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education, Kapodistrian University of Athens. As a performer, she has collaborated with Athanasia Kanellopoulou, Teti Nikolopoulou, Tzeni Argyriou, Aria Boubaki, Ermira Goro, Agni Papadeli-Rossetou, Nick Kalivas, Iris Karayan, Sinequanon, Dancers, Hellenic dance company and many others. She has been teaching contemporary dance and improvisation since 2008. She has also been teaching at Aktina Professional Dance School since 2019 and at the State School of Dance in Athens since 2024.

Lia Chamilothori
Lia Chamilothori was born in Athens. After completing her studies in Marketing and Communication at the University of Economics and Business in Athens, she earned an honors degree in Dance from “Rallou Manou” Superior Dance School in 2010. In 2011, she gained a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation for technique improvement in Brussels, Belgium (Danscentrum Jette), where she attended several masterclasses and collaborated with various dance companies. As a dancer, she has collaborated with various companies in Greece and abroad (Cie la ignorancia, Carmen Blanco Principal, Ki omos kineitai, Athanasia Kanellopoulou dance company, Proschima, Ermira Goro, Creo dance company, Kinitiras dance, 58plus3danceco, Krama, Transito etc.). She was a core member of the Greek participation in the European programme Homme @ home (choreographer Polina Kremasta) through the dance centre I. R. Duncan and the choreographer´s assistant in the Φora etc group (Menti Mega). Currently, Lia is teaching movement, dance and acrobatics at the Athens Conservatory of Drama and at the Professional Dance School Horohronos and has been coordinating the Kinitiras Youth Programme for the past four years.

Κonstantina Polychronopoulou
Κonstantina Polychronopoulou’s artistic journey is characterised by flexibility, skill, and a deep understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of the arts, particularly the connection between dance and music. She is a PhD candidate at Anton Private Bruckner University in Austria, on “Visible Music: between dance, choreography and composition. Εxploring meaningful bonds between the composer and the choreographer”. In 2022, she published her innovative book Music and Body from Nassos Publications. Her compositions for choreographies and dance videos by acclaimed choreographers have been presented at international festivals and performed by renowned ensembles such as the woodwind quintet Aeolos, the string quartet L’anima, and the Greek Contemporary Music Ensemble. The trilogy Affection, Three Minimalistic Piano Pieces, was published by Nakas Editions in 2025.

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Open presentation by Apolvere (Artistic Residency program 2025)

Saturday October 4th 2025
20:00, Free Entrance

Open presentation by Apolvere (Artistic Residency program 2025)

“Sull’uscio”

Sull’uscio is the title of an ongoing research project by Apolvere, developed within the framework of performing arts. The collective began this exploration during a brief one-week residency in May 2025, where they initiated work on physical movement, soundscapes, musical composition, and text. Currently, in collaboration with Svesda (Santi Perez), the company is continuing its research with a two-week residency at Akropoditi Dance & Performing Arts Centre.
At the core of this new work lies an interest in the principles of recycling, resisting, and insisting. These concepts serve as guiding coordinates across multiple layers of the process. They shape the company’s approach to movement, spoken and recorded text, and musical composition. Conceptually, they also frame the project’s engagement with the theme of resistance in the context of contemporary European politics and broader Western policy.

Duration: 20-30΄

Apolvere
Artist in Residency
21/09/25 – 05/10/25
Performing arts
Title of the project: “Sull’uscio”
Italy/Spain

 

Apolvere is an emerging dance/performance duo created and co-directed by Arianna Bonacina and Martí Ramis Muñoz. They are coming respectively from Italy and Spain and they met in their education in Salzburg. During their staying in Austria, they started creating together after realising they shared a common vision for scenic art. Their work is centred on creating fragmented realities where detailed dynamics of human actions and interactions are analysed and portrayed through the use of different medias. They mainly treat topics that have solid connection with the socio-political context they come from. This starting point generates a base for transversal reflections as they believe that art forms are deeply interconnected with societies and politics. Their long-term goal as a duo would be to be able to bring their work in different contexts as a way to open up spaces of confronting and discussing about cultural baggage and its implications in ones’ approach to collectivity.

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SKINFLICK – arisandmartha

Sunday June 8th 2025
at 21:00 

Ticket Presale: June 2nd 2025
Akropoditi Dance & Performing Arts Centre
Monday – Friday: 16:00 – 21:00 (Tuesday 18:00-21:00, Wednesday until 20:15), Saturday 11:00 – 13:00
Phone number: 22810-80690, E-mail: akropoditidancecentre@gmail.com

SKINFLICK
arisandmartha

Dance performance

SKINFLICK reflects the consumerist, pornographic culture of our time. It explores the complex and triply reciprocal relationship between object, observer, and screen. In SKINFLICK, we expanded our study of visual mechanisms, examining the repetitive production of imagery to shift focus from representation and content to the dynamics of consumption. Consumption itself, of course, is a highly ambiguous act: it can excite, but only briefly, it can satisfy, yet it also fuels a lingering boredom that drives the viewer to seek it repeatedly — a self-consuming cycle of embodied, acquired identities and layered interpretations.

What does it mean to inhabit one’s own body while simultaneously observing it from afar?

CREDITS
Concept: arisandmartha | Aris Papadopoulos & Martha Pasakopoulou
Artistic Collaborator: Anastasios Koukoutas
Material development & Performance: Christina Karagianni, Aris Papadopoulos, Martha Pasakopoulou
Sound Editing, design/ Composition: Jeph Vanger
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Costume & Objects: Pierre Magendie
Video Score: arisandmartha
Photography: Myrto Apostolidou
Camera / Video Editing/ Trailer: Gabriella Gerolemou | Ivan Ziogas
Production: arisandmartha

Duration: 37΄

ticket prices: 12 normal, 10 reduced*
* Students / Holders of Unemployment Card & Multi – child family Card & European Youth Card & Culture Card (Ministry of Culture) / Disabled People

The production of SKINFLICK was financially supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (2023-24).
The research for SKINFLICK was supported by Onassis AiR, Athens.
The international tour of SKINFLICK is financially supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (2024-25).

TRAILER LINK: https://vimeo.com/990919411

arisandmartha is a creative duo based in Athens, Greece, formed by Aris Papadopoulos and Martha Pasakopoulou. Their work blends staged and site-specific dance performances, combining movement, text, and conceptual ideas to explore identity, togetherness, body-as-archive, and ritualistic practices. Known for their use of rhythm, absurd imagery, and re-enactments, they craft unique live experiences. Since 2016, they have created works like SKINFLICK (2024) and ALL THAT MATTER (2021-22), earning recognition as Aerowaves 2018 Artists with touching.just. Their performances have been featured at festivals, including the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Kalamata International Dance Festival, Zürcher Theater Spektakel and other touring venues in Europe. Both are Stavros Niarchos Foundation ARTWORKS Fellows, with Aris also an Onassis AiR Fellow (2020).
https://arisandmartha.org/skinflick/

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La Soirée – Collective Spine

Saturday January 18th 2025
at 21:00 

Ticket Presale: January 13th 2025
Akropoditi Dance & Performing Arts Centre
Monday – Friday: 16:00 – 21:00 (Wednesday until 20:15), Saturday 11:00 – 13:00
Phone number: 22810-80690, E-mail: akropoditidancecentre@gmail.com

La Soirée
Collective Spine

Dance performance

Three Greek women in Luxembourg in the 90s-00s meet at a soiree. They socialize and dance by their warm fireplace. But there is neither a fireplace, nor Central European wealth, nor the affluence of the 90s-00s, nor are we our parents. So, what’s going on?
“La Soirée” is a dance performance, based on one hand on a movement research in Greek traditional dances tsifteteli and zeimbekiko, through a contemporary dance filter, on the other hand in the conditions of social gathering – party – entertainment.

Choreographer: Malvina Nikoletta Androni
Dancers/co-creators: Olga Kalantzi, Anna Maria Karounou, Anthi Stasinou
Assistant Choreographer – Lighting: Rafailia Bampasidou
Music selection: Malvina Nikoletta Androni
Visuals: CVP

Duration: 35΄

Ticket: 10 euro

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Open presentation by the composer Egid Joechl (Artistic Residency program 2024) and performance by Konstantina Thanasouli and Dimitris Baltas

Friday 18 October 2024
21:30, Free Entrance

Open presentation by the composer Egid Joechl (Artistic Residency program 2024) and performance by Konstantina Thanasouli and Dimitris Baltas

Project: RANGE

The color palette of today’s composers is no longer limited to the classical range of musical instruments. All sounds can become music. In his music, Egid Joechl often works with sounds from the environment and nature and combines them with traditional instruments. During his residency in Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre in Syros, the composer tried to capture some of these sounds and use them in his new music piece.
The presentation will be held in English.

Les Willis* | Act 2

Starting from the musical piece “Fort-Schreiten” by Egid Joechl, the performance focuses on the theme of self-determination of the individual both in relation to other individuals but also in terms of contemporary social conditions. Are we really free to follow the paths we choose? Does the (co)existence of the individual within a broader collective allow for self-definition? Can we resist the flow of the masses in modern society, even in a utopian state where love appears to guide; how much freedom can be accommodated in the expanse of free existence?

The performance, borrowing elements from the world of fashion, a field that acts mainly with following trends and imposing standards, looks at the existence of a person through various master-and-slave relationships, obedience and disobedience, love and hate.

* Les Wilis, female creatures from the underworld, return every now and then for one night only, to restore balance against those who were restricted, wronged, oppressed.

Choreography/Performance: Konstantina Thanasouli, Dimitris Baltas
Music: Egid Joechl
Duration: 11.20΄

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Dance and movement research workshop by Stali Symeon

Sunday December 08th, 12:00-14:00
Free submission

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Απαραίτητη δήλωση συμμετοχής: έως το Σάββατο 07 Δεκεμβρίου
Δευτέρα-Παρασκευή 16:00-21:00 και Σάββατο 11:00-13:00, τηλέφωνο: 22810-80690

Dance and movement research workshop

The workshop starts with a score of movement improvisation in an atmospheric soundscape. Through this soundscape-score the participants are guided in a half-hour physical, imaginative and mental warm-up in a “ritual” that combines elements from somatic practices and from collective rituals that contain dance (concerts, celebrations, etc.), it focuses on relaxing the neck and cultivates a different perception of space, gravity and the body. At the same time, it cultivates relationships of collectivity and community in the group, while giving space to each one individually. Finally, in combination with the sound atmosphere, it activates imagination and memory.
Then with a series of movement and verbal tools, exercises and games the participants will explore the state of trance. Repetitive movements, rhythm, trust, “letting go” will be the main axes of the workshop.
Overall, the workshop invites participants to seek and practice those moments of flow and balance between individual and group, inner grounding and openness to the world.

Stali Symeon

Stali Simeon studied Political Science at university of Athens and Dance at Aktina Higher Professional School of Dance. She continues with post-graduate studies in Dance at the Antwerp Conservatory doing research on the corporeality and rituals of the social fringe. As part of her postgraduate research “This Dance Is Not For You” she participated in the residency 10 days to 10′, in the summer residencies at P.A.R.T.S. and DeSingel. Her work Eternally Alive, participated in the Container Festival in Thessaloniki, was presented in Athens at M54, and later a second version of the work Eternally Alive- A2 at the “On Bodies” Festival at the Dance House Nicosia. Since 2020 she collaborates with the BPM theater group as a choreographer (Rematia Festival, Mavromichali Theatre, PLYFA, Neos Kosmos Theatre, All Greece one Culture). In recent years she has participated as a dancer-performer in the creations of: La Coja Dansa, Belleville collective, Kiki Baka, Vaso Giannakopoulou, Sandra Grimma, Elisavet Pliakostathi, Hara Kassaraki, Varvara Bardaka, Anthi Drilia, Sofia Kouloukouri. She teaches dance and yoga.

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    The dynamics of movement: Masterclass with Athanasia Kanellopoulou

    16 November 2025
    Sunday, 11:00-13:00

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    Monday-Friday 17:00-21:00, phone num.: +30 22810-80690

    The dynamics of movement
    Masterclass with Athanasia Kanellopoulou

    An integral part of any form of art is personal exploration, the diversity of each person’s perception and physical limitations. The body breathes, transforms, communicates, moves, feels, trusts, questions. An ambiguous universe is created, where movement and stillness, sound and silence, individuality and collectivity mix and coexist. The masterclass focuses on the musicality of the body, on the coordination and limitation of movement possibilities, in order to find new qualities and dynamics. Using personal movement and through improvisational instructions and choreographed compositions, we redefine the physicality and natural momentum of movement, discovering the freedom and different qualities that lead us to a clear perception of internal and external space.

    Level: Intermediate-Advanced
    Ages: 16+

    Fee: 15 euro / 12 euro *
    * for Akropoditi Dance & Performing Arts Centre’s students, students, unemployed

    Duration: 2 hours

    Athanasia Kanellopoulou is an Athens-based choreographer, dance performing artist and pedagogue, who owns a very rich history of collaborations with acclaimed choreographers and Dance Institutions around the globe. She creates her own methods from teaching into choreographing, filming, writing and collaborating with various artists from different disciplines. She is the founder of the multi-disciplinary platform and project-based Company “Athanasia Kanellopoulou Performing Arts’’, which has been supported and funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. She has lived and worked across Europe for over 18 years and has collaborated with prestigious Choreographers and Companies worldwide. Among others are: the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, where she toured with the company as a guest dancer, Les Ballets C de la B/ Koen Augustijnen, Jasmin Vardimon Company, Gregor Zoellig/Stadttheater Osnabruc, Rafaelle Giovanola- Cocoondance, Alexandra Waierstall and many others. She has choreographed more than 25 works, presenting them in festivals around the globe, and has created commission works for companies and Dance Institutions in Europe and the Middle East. She is currently living in Athens, and she is teaching Improvisation, Choreography and Repertoire Works at the School of the Greek National Opera and at the National School of Dance (KSOT).
    www.athanasiakanellopoulou.com
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