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, Katerina Konitopoulou, Ilektra Korfiati, Myrsini Mari, Dimitra Perri, Danai Roussou, Zoe Taze

Duration: 20 min

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

The Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre travels this year to Mumbai, India, with 9 of its students, to participate in the 21^st Ryan International Children’s Festival, to be held from 9 to 19 December 2025. Thus, it will represent Greece in this institution, highlighting the culture of our country and by extension Syros Island to a global audience — in a first historical participation.

The open presentation is made in the context of strengthening this mission to cover part of the expenses of the trip. To strengthen the project, the children, in collaboration with their companions, will hold an exhibition as well as designed cards, drawing material from the process, which will be available on the day of the event.

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.