FOR AN INTEGRAL PERFORMANCE – Eleana Georgouli

from the individual to the collective landscape and vice versa

The workshop will be structured in two parts:

In the first part, we will focus on a comprehensive training on psychophysical techniques allowing us to explore our personal capabilities and helping our bodies dispose of automatic, daily habits. More specifically, we will focus on strengthening our centre, opening our physical axes, enhancing our diaphragm and respiratory muscles, releasing our spine, releasing breath, sound, voice and physical and vocal rhythmic pluralism.

In the second part, we will focus on creating a collective workspace that combines physicality, musicality and speech, where the training toolkit is transformed into action. We will travel from body to sound, from sound to musicality and from there to speech. How do we follow and codify psychophysical impulses? How do we listen to the rhythmic pluralism that is inherent in our body? The participants will be invited to collaborate -each through their own expressiveness- in the creation of a collective score. The group / ensemble will compose its own unique narrative that will emerge through the energy of the ensemble, structuring an original chorus.

* Participants will be asked -prior to the workshop- to know a small text that will be sent to them by the coordinator. Participants are kindly requested to wear comfortable clothes and carry with them trainers and water.

The workshop can be attended by actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, students of drama schools and professional dance schools as well as artists who already have an experience in physical expression.

Ages: All ages
Levels: All levels

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Eleana Georgouli

Eleana Georgouli works as a director, performer and theatre teacher. She studied at the Department of Theater Studies, in the University of Athens and graduated from the Drama School Art Theater of Karolos Koun (2008). She continued her postgraduate studies (MA in Physical Performance & Intercultural Actors Training) with Phillip Zarrilli as a mentor, at the University of Exeter in Great Britain and graduated with DISTINCTION (2009). As an actress Eleana has been honored with the AWARD FOR YOUNG THEATER ARTIST from the Hellenic Association of Theater Critics at the KAROLOS KOUN AWARDS 2016 for her performance as “Maria” in Georg Buchner’s “Woyzeck” and as “I-330” in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s “We”. Eleana has participated in productions in Greece and abroad and played leading roles in plays of classical and modern repertoire such as MEDEAMATERIAL by H. Muller (Medea), AJAX by Sophocles (Tekmissa), JULIUS CAESAR by W. Shakespeare (Calpurnia) etc. She has been a founding member of ZERO POINT Theater Group, during her collaboration with the company (from 2008 to 2017) she played the leading roles in the plays: THE MISSION by H.Muller, WE by Y. Zamyatin, IN THE PENAL COLONY by F. Kafka, WOYZECK by G. Buchner, METAMORPHOSIS by F. Kafka, THE JUSTS by A. Camus, AS YOU LIKE IT by W. Shakespeare, TO HAVE DONE WITH THE JUDGMENT OF GOD by A. Artaud. In the field of artistic education Eleana has been coordinating workshops at institutions such as EPIDAURUS LYCEUM | International Summer School on Ancient Drama which operates under the Athens & Epidaurus Festival. She is a member of the teaching staff at the professional drama school of ART THEATER – KAROLOS KOUN (from 2017). Eleana is the artistic director of RETRꝊSPECTIVA company, that focuses on performance creation, psychophysical performer’s training, original dramaturgy exploring the continuous interconnection and dialectic relation between past & present.