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Ακροπατώντας στην Ερμούπολη 579 724 dancecenter

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
Between Arabic and Turco-Ottoman Art Music – Music workshop with Lamia Yared 1024 691 dancecenter

Between Arabic and Turco-Ottoman Art Music – Music workshop with Lamia Yared

April 29 – May 2, 2026
Wednesday, the 29th: 10:30–16:30
Thursday, the 30th: 10:30–16:30
Friday, May 1st: 10:00 – 13:00 and 17:00-20:00
Saturday, May 2nd: 15:00 – 22:00

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Info & registration: https://forms.gle/Zku4NUE3vfWa6qPMA

Between Arabic and Turco-Ottoman Art Music
Music workshop with Lamia Yared

Explore the musical heritage of the Levant in dialogue with the Turkish Ottoman repertoire in a workshop led by Lamia Yared, singer and oud player.
This workshop offers training in the repertoire of classical Arabic music from the Levant and Ottoman Türk Sanat Müziği, through the following genres:

  • The Muwashshaḥ
    A poetic genre of Arab art music originating in Syria, the muwashshaḥ developed in Aleppo from the 17th century onward. Its name derives from the word wishāḥ, meaning an ornamented shawl adorned with pearls. Like this ornament, the muwashshaḥ is distinguished by its rich and elaborate melodic aesthetics and its complex rhythmic cycles.
  • The Şarkı
    In the Ottoman context, the term şarkı refers to a specific genre of Ottoman classical music—an art song that formed one movement within a larger musical suite known as a fasıl. When examined alongside the Muwashshaḥ, both genres reveal shared aesthetic principles, including strophic form, modal development, and the close integration of poetic and musical structures.

Levels: Beginner and intermediate levels
Duration: 25 hours (including the final concert)

Workshop Objectives

Participants will engage with these repertoires through a practice combining voice and instruments, within an approach that integrates oral transmission and theoretical reference points.
The workshop aims to:
• Introduce the techniques of classical Arab and Turco-Ottoman singing
• Explore nuances of intonation between Arab and Turco-Ottoman traditions
• Become familiar with maqām-s (Arab musical modes) and their correspondences with certain Ottoman maqams
• Work on the interpretation of vocal pieces from the Syrian and Egyptian traditions, alongside Turco-Ottoman vocal repertoire

Two key figures are involved in this project:

Iyade Khalaf is the Artistic Director of La Corde Sensible Musique, an association founded in Greece in March 2022 and now based in Paris, France. An oud player himself, he leads the association’s mission to promote traditional Mediterranean music by fostering the mobility of young artists from this region, supporting their training through workshops and artistic residencies, facilitating the dissemination of their works, and encouraging encounters between diverse musical traditions.

Lamia Yared, who will lead the masterclass presented in this application, is a singer and oud player of Lebanese origin. She specializes in the repertoires of classical Arabic and Ottoman music and is deeply committed to projects aimed at preserving the musical heritage of the Eastern Mediterranean. Her past productions include Chants des Trois Cours (2019), acclaimed by Songlines magazine, and Ottoman Splendours (2022), released under the Analekta label. Her upcoming album, From Minho to Euphrates (2025), is a collaboration with Efrén López.
Together, they bring complementary expertise, combining artistic direction, oud performance, intercultural dialogue, and internationally recognized artistry to ensure the success and impact of the project.

Organized by La Corde Sensible Musique in partnership with Akropoditi Dance Centre

www.lamiayared.com/fr/projects
www.instagram.com/lacordesensiblemusique
www.facebook.com/LaCordeSensibleMusique

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    Masterclass by Mara Natterer

    Sunday March 8th 2026, 11:00 – 13:00
    Free submission

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    Apply: until Friday 6 March
    Monday-Friday 17:00-21:00, phone num.: +30 22810-80690

    shake the nice girl out! – dance & improvisation workshop around female socialized anger

    In this masterclass, participants will engage in physical research to uncover what lies beyond our social and gender-biased conditioning. We’ll work with shaking as a way of unlearning control and reconnecting with the authentic impulses of the body. As the body’s oldest response to stress and a means of self-regulation, shaking becomes a ritual of release and softening into our physical instincts. Drawing from the raw, expressive vocabularies and rituals of Krump and Butoh—forms that defy conventional aesthetics of beauty—we will investigate how the body can channel, transform, and reclaim suppressed emotion and our innate wilderness. The focus does not lie in reproducing a specific form, but in finding a potential movement vocabulary to embody an inner state. This practice is not only informed by my work WUTBRUST, but also by my professional background as a body therapist and my ongoing research into the human nervous system, exploring ways of un-numbing and un-taming. Through guided improvisation, movement tasks, and collective reflection, I aim to offer a safe and trauma-informed space for embodied exploration on both a personal and collective level.

    The masterclass is open to FINTA* people 

    Ages: 15+
    Level: open to all levels

    Mara Natterer

    Mara is a dancer and craniosacral therapist. She teaches contemporary dance, movement, and contact improvisation in Switzerland and internationally. She studied International Relations in Geneva and later worked in the field of human rights for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Brazil. Mara holds a Master’s degree in Community Dance from the Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and has led community dance projects in England, Brazil, Spain, and Switzerland, as well as with students from various universities in Germany and Switzerland. As a freelance dancer and co-choreographer, she has collaborated with numerous choreographers in Switzerland and abroad (e.g., Rahel Lopez de la Nieta, Heidi Rustgaard, Alexandra Prici, Elenita Queiroz). She also choreographs for large-scale theatre productions. In 2022, Mara received a Dance Grant from the Appenzell Ausserrhoden Cultural Foundation for her project BERÜHRBAR. Since 2023, she has been the director of Laboratoire Paul, a format for interdisciplinary collaboration as part of the Paula Interfestival (www.paula-interfestival.ch). In 2024, she received the Canton of St. Gallen’s Work Grant for her project Hauten Baby!, which explores trauma-sensitive practices in the performing arts.

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      R\ZA – Konstantina Thanasouli

      29-30 November 2025
      at 20:00 & 21:00 

      Entry with free contribution

      R\ZA
      Konstantina Thanasouli

      Dance performance

      /Borders/
      Lines that carve the Earth —
      continents from continents,
      countries from countries,
      the “developed” from the “forgotten,”
      humans into white and black,
      legal and illegal,
      native and foreign.

      Lines that bind those who share a tongue,
      a faith,a culture.
      A thread — red as the heart
      of those torn from their homeland.
      Like seeds scattered on barren soil,
      they struggle alone
      to take root again.

      Tangled skeins, the journeys of exile —
      yet the beginning of the thread
      always pulls you back
      to the soil that first held you.

      It takes only
      a melody,
      a rhythm,
      a powerful voice,
      to remember your roots.

      Concept & Choreography: Konstantina Thanasouli
      Dancers: Areti Alexandri, Anna Giannikopoulou, Dimitra Giannikopoulou, Ilektra Zamplakou-Korfiati, Katerina Konitopoulou, Myrsini Mari, Dimitra Perri, Danai Roussou, Zoe Taze

      Duration: 20 min

      Participation of students from Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre in the RYAN International Festival in India.

      The Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre will travel this year to Mumbai, India, with nine of its students to take part in the 21st Ryan International Children’s Festival, which will be held from December 9 to 19, 2025. The group will represent Greece, showcasing the culture of our island and, by extension, our country to a global audience — a first and historic participation.

      The open presentation is organized in support of this mission, aiming to help cover part of the travel expenses. To contribute to the fundraising effort, the students, together with their accompanying teachers, will hold an exhibition, while cards inspired by the rehearsal process will be available for purchase during the event.

      We warmly thank for their valuable support and generous sponsorship: Εκτυπωτική Ε.Ε., Τυποκυκλαδική Α.Ε.

      Media Sponsor:

      Konstantina Thanasouli
      She was born in Naoussa in 1995. She is a graduate of the Department of Chemical Engineering, AUTh. She also graduated from the Higher Professional Dance School of the Municipality of Thessaloniki in 2022. She has worked as a ballet and contemporary dance teacher in Naoussa and Thessaloniki. From 2020 onwards, she explores the combination of contemporary and traditional dance through teaching. She was a member of the company “L.Reducta dance project” from 2014 to 2019, taking part in various performances, at the Dimitria festival and at the festival of Greek choreographers in Thessaloniki. She directed and choreographed the TreeβιαL and No.39-41 video dance projects which have been screened at international festivals. She is the youngest member of the Akropoditi team joining it in 2022.

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      Open presentation by Stali Symeon (Artistic Residency program 2024) 1024 691 dancecenter

      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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      Open presentation by Apolvere (Artistic Residency program 2025) 1024 691 dancecenter

      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 1024 691 dancecenter

      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 1024 691 dancecenter

      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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