Continuous Interruptions – Antigone Gyra and Aliki Avdelopoulou

A movement, breath, dance and voice workshop for older people

Kinitiras Omega is returning to Akropoditi Dance Festival with an intensive workshop of movement and voice research. The Movement of everyday is a very important element of contemporary choreographic creation. During the first part of the workshop, we will investigate the numerous possibilities that is given to us through this movement in order to develop dance composition. At the same time, we will focus on how this movement of everyday is interrupted-broken when something unexpected occurs. What changes in the quality of movement regarding the use of time, weight and flow? We will also work on the idea of our bodies as mental, spiritual, and physical material and what happens when this material is broken. Finally, we will share personal stories from our lives that we consider as “breaking news” and we will question the effect that these kinds of stories had /have on our kinetic and somatic behavior and being.

In the second part of the workshop based on the axis of the pair breath-voice we will explore if and how the continuous flow of the breath is affected by an unexpected event of everyday life. By questioning and working on exercises of vocal, rhythmical and music improvisation we will discover together what could cause the interruption of the rhythm of the breath in vocal expression, speech, song of each one and the group.

In the end of the workshop there is going to be a lecture-demonstration of Antigone Gyras’ research on Contemporary Dance and Dance Theatre in Older Age with sharing to the public short parts of the workshop discoveries.

Ages: 65+
Levels: All levels

Antigone Gyra

Antigone Gyra studied dance theatre at Laban Centre in London. She is the founder and artistic director of Kinitiras Network for Performing Arts (www.kinitiras.com). With Kinitiras she founded and directed the first residency centre for performing arts in Greece, from 2008 until 2019, Kinitiras Studio. Her works with Kinitiras have been commissioned many times from the Ministry of culture and other public and private organizations and have been performed in Greece and abroad. She is also designing and running community based, dance in education and elderly people programs. As a freelancer choreographer, she is working at the theatre with many directors in National and free theatre and she is teaching movement and choreography in professional drama and dance schools.

Aliki Avdelopoulou

Aliki Avdelopoulou was born and raised in Athens, Greece.
Fellow and graduate of the National Theatre, studied piano and music theory at the National Conservatory and voice with A. Leigh and M. Gementzaki and trained in theatre and music in various programs and seminars.
Founding member of the theatrical group “Viomichaniki” and “Theatre Lithografion” in Patras, Greece.
Since 2006, she is a member of the “Kinitiras Art Network” and has taught in Erasmus program (Crooked House Theatre Company – Kairos Youth Exchange – Ireland ’18) and seminars (Kinitiras studio).
Since 2017 she has been teaching voice and theatre in the “Kinitiras Ω” group (over 65) (stage festival – Germany ’18 / Seven to Seventh by Ana Sanchez – Colberg – Summer Nostos Festival – ISN ’19 / International Dance & Performing Arts Festival Akropoditi DanceFest – Syros ’21).
She was a member of the OTE (Organisation of Telecommunications of Greece) Athens Mixed Choir for a decade with participations and distinctions in Greek and International choir festivals and now she is a member of the Choir of the National Conservatory (Nea Smyrni branch).
Since 1995 she collaborates professionally with Athenian theatre companies and Municipal and Regional Theatres in repertoire plays, musicals and dance theatre, as an actress, assistant director, assistant music arrangement, in production management and in vocal teaching, with participations in Greek and international theatre festivals with important creators such as S. Evangelatos, A. Antipas, E. Karaindrou, S. Tsakiris, D. Avdeliodis, G. Theofanous, F. Evangelinos, K. Samara, A. Gyra, V. Myrianthopoulos, F. Diplas, V. Adamou and others.
As a front woman of the electro pop duo “Monitor” but also individually, she has discography participations, but also participations in music live concerts with various musical groups.
She directed the solo opera “La Voix Humain” and collaborated on TV talent shows (“Music School” and “Junior Music Stars”) as vocal coach.