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 21^st 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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/

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