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Day out of Time

“The dancing bear rises…to reincarnate society.” Tyrone O’Ros

From sunrise to sunset, a number of dancers devote the day to being in a state of dance. Each of them do so individually in selected public spaces in the centre of a city.
This practice originated as a personal need, as a way of seeking and testing the perception of dance on a personal, social, and environmental perspective. An act dedicated to the union of dance and life, an opportunity for tracing the poetry that exists both inside us and around us. A dialogue with limits and nature, calling into question the various ways in which dance emerges.
The body in dance opens out a multiplicity of meaning – its generosity offers a different kind of awareness. The dancer is within the action of his own practice inscribing new possibilities of presence. As with the qualities of ‘a gift’ the dancer demands nothing, seeks not to gain praise, but makes an embodied offer that generates reflection. This reflection implicates the body and presence of the spectator / passerby, the landscape, and the wider context of movement we are contained in.
The audience is invited to visit the dancers using an uploaded/printed map. They may visit the dancers throughout the whole day, and stay with them for however long they wish, witnessing the event.
An integral part of the practice is that there is a support team composed of volunteers (not necessarily dancers), who individually visit the dancers throughout the day, offering water, fruits, and support.

Workshop – Process
The proposed workshop will introduce students to the research and ideas behind Day Out of Time, prepare and guide them through 3 hour and 6 hour ‘Day Out of Time’ trials, and finish with a ‘Day Out of Time’ performance, in which participants will go into ‘Day Out of Time’ for the duration of a whole day, with the possibility of inviting an audience.
At the research level, ‘Day out of Time’ is a practice that can be experienced by anyone interested. The preparation includes discussion and assimilation of the philosophical as well as practical research and approach, introducing some practices that which are crucial for endurance and the handling of experience in such a dense environment as the center of a city and how to tackle the performance aspect while remaining honestly within a practice.
The overall preparation process will be adapted to the program and needs of the dancers and the allocated time.

Dance never stops, and we dancers go on in and out of his melody and expression. Perhaps our deeper ability as dancers is to receive dance, not to create it.

Day out of Time so far
Day out of Time took place for the first time on the island of Hydra in the summer of 2014 during the R.I.C.E. (www.riceonhydra.org). Since then, Vitoria Kotsalou has performed Day Out of Time, either alone or with other dancers seven times, in public places, within the framework of the Akropoditi DanceFest in Syros, at the RICEAN School of Dance in Hydra (2015-2018), in public places in Athens and during Vitoria’s residency at La Caldera in Barcelona in 2018. In summer 2017 ‘Day Out of Time’ was performed at the Athens Festival with 21 dancers taking part in the center of Athens.

Ages: Adults
Level: Open

Photo credit: Kiranna Gkioka, Eleanna Kotsikou

Vasiliki Tsagkari

Vasiliki Tsagkari has studied education at the University of Athens and dance at city of Bristol college in the UK. Then, from 2005 to 2010, she traveled in Europe and the U.S, attending classes and intensive workshops, designing, and following her own nomadic dance study program.  She has trained in contemporary dance, and she has studied somatics, improvisation and instant composition with many different international teachers.
She works as an independent dance artist for almost twenty years. She has performed with improvisation groups in the Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany, and Greece. From 2006 to 2009 she has been living and working with the artists’ collective ARM in Maastricht, in the Netherlands. She has created five solo projects and has done a series of collaborations as well as group projects that have been presented in festivals, theatres, and performance spaces but also in public space, in Greece, the Netherlands, Germany. She has ongoing and long-term collaborations with Vittoria Kotsalou, Dafni Stefanou, Iris Nikolaou, Aggeliki Papadatou. She has collaborated with musicians Kaspar Koenig, Cyrille Flamment and Michalis Siganidis.
She is a certified Skinner Releasing teacher since 2016. She teaches contemporary dance, improvisation and Skinner Releasing to children and adults.
Recently she lives in Messinia, southwest Greece, where she takes care of an olive grove. Physical work close to the earth and the observation of natural elements throughout the cultivating process, have opened up a field of research that informs and influences a lot her approach to dance.

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Pre-event – Opening of the Festival

To The Left of Center – Red Desert Dance

USA

“To The Left of Center” celebrates our quirks. In a series of four sections the dance explores individuality along with community playfulness and support. It is a witty display of experimentation within time and space. We are reminded not to take ourselves to seriously but to make it fun along the way.

Credits:
Choreographers: Cathy Allen, Lexee Howes and Keely Drace
Music: Sophie Cheeseman, Max Richter (Vivaldi), Sebastien Roux (Quatuor: III. Presto), Climbing Poe Tree (Breath Box), Ola Szmidt (Road Less Traveled)
Dancers: Sophie Camp, Keely Drace, Kristina Hakobyan, Lexee Howes, Mayra Munos, Niyah Pratt, Teddy Richard, Nadia Roberts

Duration: 15 min.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/D-HAtUrRWBQ




 

los tre live

Greece

Ο καινούργιος δίσκος των los tre με τίτλο “Free spirit” μόλις κυκλοφόρησε.
Οι Los Tre μετράνε 11 χρόνια ζωής και μετά από 6 κυκλοφορίες και πάρα πολλές εμφανίσεις ανά την Ελλάδα θεωρούνται πλέον ένα από τα πιο hot ονόματα της instrumental αθηναϊκής σκηνής. Η μουσική τους είναι μια μίξη από ήχους της δυτικής Αφρικής, της λατινικής Αμερικής, της παραδοσιακής μας μουσικής, της funk, τoυ jazz αυτοσχεδιασμού και της ψυχεδέλειας των 70’s. Το live των Los Tre χαρακτηρίζεται από την εκρηκτικότητά του, την ελευθερία του.

Founded in 2012, Los tre, started as a jazz-funk guitar trio, but the direction of their music shifted through the years. Los tre’s music is a combination of music traditions around the globe such as West-African, Cuban, Ethiopian, Arabian and Greek played with electric sound, combined with the psychedelia of the 70’s and the power and freedom of improvisation music.

Angelos Angelides: guitar
Vassilis Papastamopoulos: bass
Leandros Fratnik: drums

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WKK5pic5iE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2OLS6qtdE







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Open Jam – Dance and Music Free Improvisation

We invite you to an improv jam – an open space for practice, exploration and experimentation – to move and converse through dance and music.
The jam is open to everyone, regardless of movement experience, and to musicians, to create a musical-kinetic improvisation together.
The open jam will be led by Konstantinos Gerardos.

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(SWEET) (BITTER) – Thomas Hauert

Switzerland

Thomas Hauert is a dancer and choreographer whose sophisticated, improvisation-based research on movement has a strong relation to music – either actual music or the musicality of the movement itself. In his solo, his dance interacts with the baroque madrigal Si dolce è’l tormento composed by Claudio Monteverdi on a text by Carlo Milanuzzi. Hauert interprets this musica l poem of impossible love as the expression of a conflict between the bliss of pursuing an ideal and the torment of knowing that this ideal will stay unreachable – a tension which is a universal motor of life but takes as many forms, as many interpretations, as there are individual visions of this “perfect country”. In German, an untranslatable word exists to describe this exquisitely painful feeling of inextinguishable longing: Sehnsucht.

Credits
Concept, choreography & dance: Thomas Hauert
Light: Bert Van Dijck
Costume: Chevalier-Masson
Music; Claudio Monteverdi Si dolce è’l tormento, Salvatore Sciarrino 12 Madrigali
Production: ZOO/Thomas Hauert
Coproduction: Charleroi danse – Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE)
With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service de la danse / Pro Helvetia – Fondation suisse pour les arts / Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie / Ein Kulturengagement des Lotterie-Fonds des Kantons Solothurn / Wallonie-Bruxelles International

Duration: 30 min.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/236393563




 

 

THOMAS HAUERT

Having worked as a dancer with a.o. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, David Zambrano and Pierre Droulers, Thomas Hauert (CH) founded his company ZOO in Brussels in 1998. Cows in Space, his first piece was immediately awarded at Rencontres de Seine-Saint-Denis/Bagnolet. The company has since created more than 20 works, which have been performed all over the world. In addition to his work for ZOO, Thomas was also commissioned to create work for other companies including Zurich Ballet, Toronto Dance Theatre, Candoco Dance Company and Ballet de Lorraine. Complementing his choreographic work, Hauert has developed an internationally recognized teaching method based on the movement research conducted with his company. He regularly teaches workshops worldwide. In 2012-13, he was a guest professor for dance and performance at Institute for Theater Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2013 he is the artistic director of the new bachelor degree in contemporary dance at the Manufacture/University of Performing Arts in Lausanne.

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Day out of Time – Vasiliki Tsagkari

“The dancing bear rises…to reincarnate society.” Tyrone O’Ros

From sunrise to sunset, a number of dancers devote the day to being in a state of dance. Each of them do so individually in selected public spaces in the centre of a city.
This practice originated as a personal need, as a way of seeking and testing the perception of dance on a personal, social, and environmental perspective. An act dedicated to the union of dance and life, an opportunity for tracing the poetry that exists both inside us and around us. A dialogue with limits and nature, calling into question the various ways in which dance emerges.
The body in dance opens out a multiplicity of meaning – its generosity offers a different kind of awareness. The dancer is within the action of his own practice inscribing new possibilities of presence. As with the qualities of ‘a gift’ the dancer demands nothing, seeks not to gain praise, but makes an embodied offer that generates reflection. This reflection implicates the body and presence of the spectator / passerby, the landscape, and the wider context of movement we are contained in.
The audience is invited to visit the dancers using an uploaded/printed map. They may visit the dancers throughout the whole day, and stay with them for however long they wish, witnessing the event.
An integral part of the practice is that there is a support team composed of volunteers (not necessarily dancers), who individually visit the dancers throughout the day, offering water, fruits, and support.

Workshop – Process
The proposed workshop will introduce students to the research and ideas behind Day Out of Time, prepare and guide them through 3 hour and 6 hour ‘Day Out of Time’ trials, and finish with a ‘Day Out of Time’ performance, in which participants will go into ‘Day Out of Time’ for the duration of a whole day, with the possibility of inviting an audience.
At the research level, ‘Day out of Time’ is a practice that can be experienced by anyone interested. The preparation includes discussion and assimilation of the philosophical as well as practical research and approach, introducing some practices that which are crucial for endurance and the handling of experience in such a dense environment as the center of a city and how to tackle the performance aspect while remaining honestly within a practice.
The overall preparation process will be adapted to the program and needs of the dancers and the allocated time.

Dance never stops, and we dancers go on in and out of his melody and expression. Perhaps our deeper ability as dancers is to receive dance, not to create it.

Day out of Time so far
Day out of Time took place for the first time on the island of Hydra in the summer of 2014 during the R.I.C.E. (www.riceonhydra.org). Since then, Vitoria Kotsalou has performed Day Out of Time, either alone or with other dancers seven times, in public places, within the framework of the Akropoditi DanceFest in Syros, at the RICEAN School of Dance in Hydra (2015-2018), in public places in Athens and during Vitoria’s residency at La Caldera in Barcelona in 2018. In summer 2017 ‘Day Out of Time’ was performed at the Athens Festival with 21 dancers taking part in the center of Athens.

Ages: Adults
Level: Open

Photo credit: Kiranna Gkioka, Eleanna Kotsikou

Vasiliki Tsagkari

Vasiliki Tsagkari has studied education at the University of Athens and dance at city of Bristol college in the UK. Then, from 2005 to 2010, she traveled in Europe and the U.S, attending classes and intensive workshops, designing, and following her own nomadic dance study program.  She has trained in contemporary dance, and she has studied somatics, improvisation and instant composition with many different international teachers.
She works as an independent dance artist for almost twenty years. She has performed with improvisation groups in the Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany, and Greece. From 2006 to 2009 she has been living and working with the artists’ collective ARM in Maastricht, in the Netherlands. She has created five solo projects and has done a series of collaborations as well as group projects that have been presented in festivals, theatres, and performance spaces but also in public space, in Greece, the Netherlands, Germany. She has ongoing and long-term collaborations with Vittoria Kotsalou, Dafni Stefanou, Iris Nikolaou, Aggeliki Papadatou. She has collaborated with musicians Kaspar Koenig, Cyrille Flamment and Michalis Siganidis.
She is a certified Skinner Releasing teacher since 2016. She teaches contemporary dance, improvisation and Skinner Releasing to children and adults.
Recently she lives in Messinia, southwest Greece, where she takes care of an olive grove. Physical work close to the earth and the observation of natural elements throughout the cultivating process, have opened up a field of research that informs and influences a lot her approach to dance.

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Contemporary dance masterclass, from 4 elements – Claudio Scalia

Contemporary Dance Masterclass

My class is based on the development of communicative skills.
A new inner journey among senses and harmony through 4 elements. The language of the body can express any and every feeling, the body becomes the fire, water, air, earth. A technical and physical approach jam-packed with improvisation and set material.
These tools are designed to develop clarity of mind to connect with the body in a more sensitive way.
Be yourself and give yourself!

Ages: 15+
Level: Professional and non-professional dancers

Photo credit: Eros Brancaleon




Claudio Scalia

Claudio Scalia was born in Catania.
He deepened his studies by traveling in Italy and abroad, coming into contact with different artistic realities. From 2019, he directs the “ocram dance movement company”. For ocram he created Africa in 2018, H(and)s and Placebo in 2021, Espresso in 2022.
From 2022 he is an associated artist for the three-year period 2022/24 of the Scenario Pubblico National Choreographic Dance Center. As a choreographer, he participated in the SzòlòDuo Festival in Budapest, the Black Box Festival in Plovdiv, the Florence Dance Festival, the Gdansk Festival Tanca in Gdańsk, Blois Danse Festival in Blois, SoloCoreografico in Frankfurt.In 2021, he won the choreographic prize at the International Solo Dance Competition Italy in collaboration with the Solo Tanz Theater festival in Stuttgart.
Since 2019 he is the choreographer for the Narnia Festival and the artistic director of the training project for young dancers “Evergreen”.
He took part in the 2020 edition of NuoveTraiettorie XL – training courses for young authors | Anticorpi XL Network action coordinated by the Cantieri Danza Association.

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Movement Waves – Vivian Triantafyllopoulou

We would like to inform you that MOVEMENT WAVES – VIVIAN TRIANTAFYLLOPOULOU workshop, from today 14/7 (+the next days) will be held 18:30-20:30 due to heat. Our meeting is at 18:20 outside the Iliovasilema tavern in Galissa. Thank you!

Improvisational Movement Workshop by the sea

Movement Waves is a workshop of structured improvisational movement. By following specific tasks, we move with different qualities, speeds, and energy. Taking inspiration from the environment and the group, and power from the breathing and internal energy of the body, we create together movement that focuses on the here and now.
Building on our revitalization, our senses and their contact with the natural environment, this workshop aims to free us from psychosomatic limitations and us a give a chance for creative expression. An open space of exploration where, through instructions, everyone is free to follow their own pathway and connect with the group.
Movement waves is for any ability and age, takes place mainly in an open environment such like the sea but also in closed places, and can be accompanied by music, or just the natural sounds!

Participants comments: “Freeing, joyful, relaxing, peaceful, air, breath, summer”

Level: Open
Ages: All

Photo credit: Eleni Elfe, Konstantinos Milas

Vivian Triantafyllopoulou

Vivian Triantafyllopoulou comes from Greece and studied contemporary dance at Trinity Laban (London). She continued as a chosen member of the ‘Akram Khan Experiment’ and then joined Jasmin Vardimon 2. She has performed with Bittersuite,Vinicius Salles, Fernanda Prata, Ben Judd and Dionysios Tsaftaridis, Emily Robinson Dance, Olga Spyraki, Melanie Lomoff (Lowry and Rambert choreographic project) and others. Vivian was also a dancer and choreographer’s assistant for Hagit Yakira’s projects and a rehearsal director for Hagit’s work at Royal Albert Hall. She has also curated, choreographed, and performed for Museum of London. She works as a Dance Captain for Alleyne Dance. She has performed in theatres such as Royal Opera House, Richmix, Sadler’s Wells- Lilian Baylis, Nothern Ballet, Edinburgh Fringe and others. She passionately teaches young people, adults, and professionals. She has taught for Trinity Laban, Rambert, The Place, City Lit, Greenwich Dance, Royal Academy of Dance, NDC Wales, Dancce Athens and others. She has choreographed for many groups and commissions. She has her own company work and her pieces have been supported by Tripspace, Laban, Arts Council England, Dance Cultural Center, and others.

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Tools for Dance Improvisations – Thomas Hauert

Monday 17 – Friday 21: Workshop will be held at Sports Center Dimitrios Bikelas (Ir. Politechniou 72, Ermoupoli)

Every joint of our body has its range of movement and there are countless combinations possible. The body possesses a great practical knowledge, that goes way beyond what the mind’s consciousness is able to process, about its anatomy and its mechanics, their actions and reactions, and their interactions with external forces (gravity, centrifugal- and centripetal force, another body etc.).
In a progressive series of improvisational tasks with one or more partners, exchanging information sensorially, in touch or at a distance, we will take advantage of this phenomenon to create forms, rhythms, movement qualities and trajectories far more sophisticated than the ones our conscious mind could invent. We will be guided away from our habitual tracks, patterns will be distorted or overridden.
While in the first part of the day we will practice to multiply and disconnect actions within our own individual body to create a sense of polyphony within it, we will, in a second chapter of the day, improvise the composition of the movement of a group, in the attempt to create one single organism out of a group of individual bodies.
We’ll be tapping into swarm intelligence/collective intelligence, swopping constantly between leading and following or doing both at the same time, taking the responsibility to initiate as well as the responsibility to play your part in the development of other people’s proposals or of unconsciously emerging structures, keeping an overview over the group composition while assuming your role within it.
No specific background requested but people who are interested by the movement body and enjoying it.

Ages: All ages
Levels: All levels

Photo credit: Tristán Pérez-Martín, Lida Touloumakou

Thomas Hauert

Having worked as a dancer with a.o. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, David Zambrano and Pierre Droulers, Thomas Hauert (CH) founded his company ZOO in Brussels in 1998. Cows in Space, his first piece was immediately awarded at Rencontres de Seine-Saint-Denis/Bagnolet. The company has since created more than 20 works, which have been performed all over the world. In addition to his work for ZOO, Thomas was also commissioned to create work for other companies including Zurich Ballet, Toronto Dance Theatre, Candoco Dance Company and Ballet de Lorraine. Complementing his choreographic work, Hauert has developed an internationally recognized teaching method based on the movement research conducted with his company. He regularly teaches workshops worldwide. In 2012-13, he was a guest professor for dance and performance at Institute for Theater Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2013 he is the artistic director of the new bachelor degree in contemporary dance at the Manufacture/University of Performing Arts in Lausanne.

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The Attentive Act – Clémentine Télesfort & Lisard Tranis

Since 2017 Lisard (CAT) and Clémentine (FR) have been developing a shared practice influenced by their encounters and common experiences in leading international companies and projects such as Guy Nader & Maria Campos or Lali Ayguadé Company. From there, they began to share their practice facilitating workshops to movers and professional artists from a wide range background and are regularly invited to lead seminars in professional training institutions and programs internationally. Since 2020 they began co-creating as a company.
The workshop is aimed at people from all disciplines interested in expanding their creative tools and refining their quality of movement both improvising alone or with a partner. We invite the participants to investigate four main aspects we consider essential in our practice as artists: the sensitivity of being, control of restrictions, availability to the unknown, and creative adaptation to challenges.
The class will address movement efficiency and explore the range of creativity given by a better understanding of our movements’ physical boundaries. – Playfulness – will be the main tool for discovery and exploration both in our movement improvisations and in our interactions. We will seek greater awareness of our structure’s patterns through games tackling stability and accuracy helping our decision making both in improvisation and in partner work. We will play with the plasticity of our imagination through physical and creative challenges and use it as a source for instant composition. Training these principles will allow an articulated and expansive movement to be deployed in space.
We are keen to share tools that allow participants to investigate their original movement and challenge their practice beyond technical constraints. We are interested in the quality of the relationships we cultivate with ourselves and others, forming a sensitive and responsive body that can unleash our imagination and support our performance state.

Ages: 17+
Levels: advanced / professional

Photo credit: Maria Alzamora, Faye Tan




Supported by a grant from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)

Lisard Tranis

Lisard Tranis studied at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona and won first prize at the International Dance Competition, which awarded him a scholarship to the Peridance Capezio Center in New York. He later joined Verve, a graduate of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in England where he received the Outstanding Postgraduate Achievement Award. Lisard has worked and performed internationally with companies such as Guy Nader & Maria Campos, Lali Ayguadé Company, Phoenix Dance Theater, Hagit Yakira Dance, James Wilton Dance and José Besprosvany, among others. Lisard also teaches at various festivals and centers around the world and has a keen interest in continuing to develop his own language as a choreographer.

Clémentine Télesfort

Clémentine Telesfort is an award-winning dancer who performs and teaches internationally. Trained at TrinityLaban in London and later at the Verve Company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, she has worked with companies such as Guy Nader and Maria Campos Company, Lali Ayguadé Company, Anton Lachky, Jamaal Burkmar and Gecko in England. Alongside acting, Clémentine has been developing her own choreographic language over the years and her works have been performed at various festivals throughout Europe. Since 2015 she has been invited to teach at different festivals and institutions. He also continues to train in different disciplines such as physical theatre and clown, contact-Improvisation or studying somatic practices and martial arts such as Systema (Russian Martial Art) and Play-fight with Bruno Caverna. In 2019 she curated and directed the first edition of an International Rural Cultural Festival, the PinkHouse Festival in the north of France.

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A Performer’s Craft – Maria Doulgeri

In this workshop we are focusing on the performance and the creative process. The main goal is to discover the performer’s craft and to practice the action of creation. We look into ways to move, create and express with consciousness, with our full capacity and by using all our expressive tools. We set off with tasks and exercises about preparation, awakening and dedication. Then, through improvisation, we explore the space, the time, the rhythm, the volume and the layers for building a character or a physical state. This is a workshop where the performer seeks to learn, to reconsider and to enrich his own unique way of approaching their performance. The performer learns how to find and enter into his own cycle of supply where their inner workings and the outside stimuli interact constantly providing a continuous flow of creation.

Ages: 16+
Levels: People with previous experience in movement, students or professionals

* Please bring your light sneakers for this workshop

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Maria Doulgeri

Maria was born and raised in Chalkidiki. She studied dance at the Greek National School of Dance where she graduated with distinction. She continued her journey in England where she collaborated with the choreographer Jasmin Vardimon for the productions ‘Yesterday’, ‘Park’, ‘Maze’ and ‘Pinocchio’ as ‘Pinocchio’. She has joined companies such as Jukstapoz as an assistant choreographer while developing her own work with presence in Greece, England and Cyprus. She is delivering classes and the workshop titled ‘A Performer’s Craft’ at universities, dance studios and festivals in Europe.

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