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Charlie – Adrienn Hód / HODWORKS

Hungary

The performance will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.

Charlie is a solo performance emerging from collective experimentation and in-depth research, following the trajectory of Adrienn Hód’s previous works, Idol and Harmonia. At its center is wheelchair-using dancer Károly Tóth, whose unique presence shapes the work.
Hód’s intention is simple yet profound: to highlight Károly’s personality on stage. His non-normative body offers a groundbreaking perspective on patience, openness, and lived experience. The performance is intimate, free of taboos, and invites audiences into his everyday world.
Charlie challenges the conventions of contemporary dance, foregrounding inclusion while questioning normative expectations, social norms, and the role of art. It aims to raise awareness of inclusive performing arts and foster a more open, diverse cultural environment. Physically, the piece navigates the boundary between function and expression, exploring how limitations can be transformed into movement. It balances reality and artificiality, action and sensation, creating a rich, unpredictable physicality. Movement is driven by purpose, attention, and imagination, cultivating a sustained presence on stage.
Through its innovative approach, Charlie invites audiences to reflect on the body, perception, and presence, redefining what dance can be while celebrating diversity, inclusion, and human expression.

Credits
Performer: Károly Tóth
Choreographer: Adrienn Hód
Sociologist, consultant: Judit Surányi
Music: Rozália Mákó
Light: Kata Dézsi
Supported by: OFF Alapítvány, Eötvös10, NKA
Co-producer: DansiT Choreographic Center
Special thanks to: Ádám Czirák, Ágnes Gyulavári, Ármin Szabó-Székely, Csaba Molnár, Eszter Gál, Imola Kacsó, Imre Vass, Katalin Erdődi, Marcio Kerber Canabarro, Márton Gláser, Natália Nagy, Szilvia Artner, Veronika Szabó, Viktor Szeri
Photos: Dániel Dömölky, Kincső Bede, Máté Kalicz
Video: Gergely Ofner, Tamás Szabó Sipos

Duration: 70 min.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1057464646

 

The piece has been presented:
February 2025, Eötvös10, Budapest
May 2025, Eötvös10, Budapest
August 2025, Tanečno Festival, Námestovo
January 2026, EN-KNAP, Ljubljana
April 2026, Multiplié Dance Festival / DansiT, Trondheim

Adrienn Hód

Adrienn Hód is an internationally recognized choreographer whose work spans contemporary dance, experimental movement, and applied choreography for theatre, film, and commercial projects. Since founding HODWORKS in 2007, she has served as the company’s artistic and production director, while also collaborating widely with Hungarian and international artists. She regularly teaches workshops, focusing on improvisational tools often connected to HODWORKS’ creative processes.
Hód’s artistic approach centers on the human body in motion, stripped of cultural expectations, taboos, and fixed meanings. In the studio, she fosters sensitive, trust-based environments where dancers, musicians, and collaborators contribute their personal experiences and creative responses. Her pieces sit at the crossroads of dance, theatre, and performance: although rooted in extensive improvisation, they are ultimately presented in rigorously structured forms.
Her work challenges clichés, expands stage-audience relations, and foregrounds raw physicality — often through minimal or naked bodies — supported by precise sound and light design. Hód continually pushes the boundaries of contemporary dance, exploring radical personal expression and multilayered identities.
https://hodworks.hu/hod-adrienn/

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Syndesi (Connection) – Douglas Comley

Malta

The performance will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.

Syndesi is an exploratory, interdisciplinary performance. It is led by Angela Bettoni, a performer and writer with Down Syndrome, together with Kaylie Magri, Luke Bugeja Gauci and Douglas Comley. The initial research stage in Malta included the participation of musician Noah Fabri as collaborator and was funded by Arts Council Malta.

The piece is based on writing by Angela and collaborators and explores intimacy in platonic friendships through dance and physical theatre, and audience response – especially to interactions between disabled and non-disabled performers. Research suggests attitudes are shaped by individual and societal values, and Syndesi aims to explore how Greek/international audiences perceive this through a site-responsive work. The work combines music, movement, dance, and physical theatre. The performance looks at how gesture, touch, and movement can communicate platonic affection on stage, and how audiences engage with these expressions.

Credits
Douglas Comley – choreographer
Angela Bettoni – writer and dancer
Luke Bugeja Gauci – dancer
Kaylie Magri – writer and music/physical theatre
The Malta project prior to the festival includes musician Noah Fabri.

Duration: 25 min.
Trailer: 

Douglas Comley

Douglas Comley is an experienced performer, director, and choreographer whose career spans three decades across Malta, the UK, and Europe. As a performer, he has worked with a wide range of contemporary dance companies, including Theatre Anon Malta (2024), Bodies in Urban Spaces under Austrian director Willi Dorner (2012), Carlson Dance Company in Wales (2006), Welsh Independent Dance with Charlotte Vincent (2005), X-CELL Dance Company (2003), Vincent Dance Theatre (2000), Daghdha Dance Company in Ireland (1998), Diversions Dance Company for the television film Trodio Mesur Amser (1996), Attik Dance Company (1995), and Nexus Dance Company with choreographer Nigel Charnock (1995).
As a director and choreographer, Comley has led numerous long-term projects. He directed and choreographed integrated theatre productions for ŻiguŻajg in collaboration with Opening Doors between 2020 and 2025. He was the founding director of Dynion Male Dance (1996–2016) and led Fractal Dance Company (1996–2000), creating work for BBC Television with the National Orchestra of Wales and performing at Portugal’s Evento 98 festival. He also directed the County Youth Dance Company Wales from 2000 to 2015.
His large-scale choreography includes opening ceremonies for CHOGM Malta (2015), the World Gymnaestrada in Austria (2007), the Commonwealth Games in Manchester (2002), and the Rugby World Cup (1999).

Kaylie Magri

Kaylie Magri is a versatile Maltese performer whose work spans theatre, production management, and vocal performance. She developed her artistic practice through an Erasmus+ exchange at the University of Exeter, where she studied Drama and gained experience in contemporary theatre-making. During her time there, she served as Stage Manager for We Are Off to Find a Fairy, a puppetry production created within the Puppetry and Object Theatre module and assisted in production management for Kif Tgħallimt Insuq. She later continued this role with Dù Theatre’s 2025 staging of the same work.
Her training includes Studio18’s Acting Programme, Contemporary Theatre Making, and a Stanislavski workshop with Julian Jones. Alongside her theatre background, Kaylie has cultivated strong vocal foundations. She holds a Rockschool Trinity College Theory of Music Grade 3 (Distinction) and has studied singing since 2011, including ensemble work with Kor Għanja tal-Poplu, VocalBooth Choir, and harmony training with Joshua Alamu.
Her performance experience includes international competitions in Romania and Switzerland, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, and the Ultimate Artists Gala Night in London. Most recently, she appeared as an ensemble member in Musical Matchup: The Who’s Who Cabaret?, continuing to expand her presence in Malta’s performance scene.

Angela Bettoni

Angela Bettoni is a performer, writer and advocate with Down Syndrome, whose work bridges artistic practice, disability advocacy, and international collaboration. She holds a BA in Creative Arts, where her dissertation examined how people with learning disabilities are represented within Malta’s performing arts landscape. She has an Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts (MCAST, Malta) and Diploma in Community Access for Disabled People (University of Malta). Her artistic development has been shaped by involvement with Opening Doors Association Malta, an organization that provides training in arts to disabled adults, and international training opportunities, including a five-week danceWEB scholarship to the ImpulsTanz Festival in Vienna, residencies and Erasmus programmes in Venice, London, Sweden and Greece, including with Skanes Dansteatre, and inclusive companies Chickenshed Theatre and Stopgap Dance Company, UK. Angela has performed in mixed-ability work across Malta, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Sri Lanka, appearing solo/duet/trio performances, and has performed at Dance Festival Malta and Venere in Teatro Dance Festival Italy. She received a University of Malta Social Commitment Award for contribution to the arts industry (2024) and a JCI Malta (Junior Chamber International) Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) Award for her advocacy work on inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities (2022).
www.angelabettoni.net

Luke Bugeja Gauci

Luke Bugeja Gauci is a Maltese contemporary dance artist whose work spans international companies, festivals, and emerging choreographic platforms. He is currently performing with ŻfinMalta, the National Dance Company of Malta (2024–2025), working with choreographers including Sita Ostheimer, Korsia, Liliana Barros, Simone Riccardi Zani, Thick & Tight, and Tara Dall. His previous seasons include engagements with Moveo Dance Company, Zugraga Dance Company, and Marchepied Cie, collaborating with artists such as Diane Portelli, Nunzio Impellizzeri, Corinne Rochet, Nicholas Pettit, and Tabea Martin.
Luke has also performed with JV2 (Jasmin Vardimon Company), working under Jasmin Vardimon, Andre Rebelo, and Vinicius Salles, and has contributed to projects for Notte Bianca Malta with choreographers Chakib Zidi and Deborah Falzon. Earlier work includes performances at the Malta Dance Festival, the Malta International Arts Festival Opening, and collaborations with Lisa Colette Bysheim, Sarah Vella, Pamela Kerr, Oded Ronen, Zoe Camilleri, and Gil Kerer.
He trained at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) from 2020 to 2023, working with choreographers Ihsan Rustem, Oded Ronen, Gil Kerer, Mohammed Kaltuk, Joost Vrounraets, Antonin Rioche, Bryan Arias, Nadav Zelner, Ravid Abarbanel, and Dunja Jocic. His earlier education includes The Evening Space with Francesca Tranter and DIP in Livorno, Italy.

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Levitate – Petros Nikolidis & Stefanos Giakoumakis

Greece

Levitate is a hybrid dance performance that combines live sound with physical expression, through the collaboration between choreographer–dancer Petros Nikolides and musician-composer Stefanos Giakoumakis. Based on a movement vocabulary that draws from street dance, contemporary dance, and live music production, the performance explores desire, inner conflict, obsession, and the moment of transcendence.
What is it that lifts us off the ground—and what pulls us back down again?
Through raw energy and sensitivity, the work invites the audience into an experience between collision and elevation—a ritual suspended between light and shadow.

Credits
Choreography, Concept & Performance: Petros Nikolides
Music Composition and Live Performance: Stefanos Giakoumakis
Dramaturgy: Andi Xhuma
Lighting Design: Maria Athanasopoulou

Duration: 17 min.
Trailer:

Petros Nikolidis

Petros Nikolidis is a dancer, choreographer, and performer based in Greece. He was born in 1997 in Thessaloniki and studied dance in Paris, where he primarily focused on street styles. He graduated from Juste Debout School in 2019 and returned to Athens due to the pandemic. Since then, among other projects, he has participated for four consecutive years in the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, collaborating with various choreographers and directors such as Dimitris Papaioannou, Antonis Foniadakis, Giannis Kakleas, Andi Xhuma, Anastasia Valsamaki, and Ilias Chatzigeorgiou. At the same time, he has created his own works, including the short dance film “AGKATHI”, which has competed in various festivals worldwide; the dance performance Levitate (2025, Dance Laboratory Rhodes, Embros Theatre, Roes Theatre); and the dance performance Kinèpha, which premiered at the 1st Urban Forest Jazz Festival (2025). He is also assistant choreographer and co-creator of the performance “CHRYSI EPOHI” by Konstantinos Rigos (2025). Throughout his career, he has received distinctions in Street Dance Battles in Greece and abroad. Petros strives to remain multidimensional and to expand his horizons across all aspects of art.

Stefanos Giakoumakis

Stefanos Giakoumakis is a musician, composer, and producer born in Athens in 1998. He studied at the Department of International, European and Regional Studies at Panteion University. In parallel, he completed his studies in modern jazz music and electric guitar, while also attending thematic courses in art history, music history, and composition. In recent years, he has been exploring the role of music as a narrative tool. He has composed original music for theatre performances, contemporary dance productions, and art installations, frequently performing his own works live. He has also served as Production Director of the contemporary dance festival Dance Laboratory Rhodes (2023, 2024, 2025), while participating as a producer in film shoots and live performances. His works have been presented, among others, at: Kalamata Dance Festival, Fringe Istanbul Festival, Patras Art Festival, Dance Laboratory Rhodes, Our Festival, Buzau International Arts Festival, Duets and others.

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Solar – En Dynamei Ensemble

Greece

The performance will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.

A meditation on the things that keep us on our feet, addressing the sublime feeling that the “real” movement of different bodies can convey in a state of transcendence.
“Solar” is air, it’s the here-and-now (in other words, the future), it’s a feast, the earthly touches that are nothing but accidental. “Solar” is joyful; a sun that can light up everything; something you’re doing for the first time.
“Solar” opens up a space for the collective and individual quest for common ground, fostering coexistence and the acceptance of the other, the different, the uncanny, and the incomprehensible. It is a collaborative, hands-on “study” of how acceptance affects our lives, relationships, and happiness – and vice versa.
Drawing material from the thirty members of the En Dynamei Ensemble, we create a score of movement. Building on the specificity of each participant and their diverse perceptions, we create a performance dedicated to existence, an awakening of the deepest life drive.
What is it that allows us to seek, claim, or offer in life?
Each existence has the need to interact, create relationships, move, or connect through a continuous rhythmic process. The world is organized as a complex nervous system with undivided qualities and textures. Every part of this nervous system stretches out toward more life. The world is in constant flux. The world is being created as we speak.

Credits
On Stage:
Stefanos Lentzis, Panos Mantziris, Michalis Dolopoulos, Alekos Hatsios
Artistic Direction: Eleni Dimopoulou
Concept: Vitoria Kotsalou
Texts Creation / Writing: En Dynamei Ensemble
Choreography: Vitoria Kotsalou
Music: Anargyros Deniozos
Set Design: Richard Anthony
Lighting Design: Nysos Vassilopoulos
Text Editing: Vitoria Kotsalou, Sofia Bletsou, Eleni Dimopoulou
Assistant Choreographer: Aris Papadopoulos
Sound Design / Audio Editing: Tanya Jones
With the voices of :
Maria Dachlythra, Eleni Dimopoulos, Margarita Kainada, Theano Konta, Nikos Kyparissis, Dimitris Lyras, Thanos Nanasis, Panos Matziris, Giorgos-Zisis Bilionis, Theano Papavasileiou, Haris Serdari
Production: Onassis Stegi

Duration: 50 min.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/840379796/1f2534edd2 

 

Το έργο παρουσιάστηκε στο πλαίσιο Μ power festival του ιδρύματος Ωνάση το 2023.

En Dynamei Ensemble

En Dynamei Ensemble is a theater group comprised of young artists with and without disabilities, operating since 2008 as a non-profit entity led by artistic director Eleni Dimopoulou. The purpose of the group is to support and facilitate its members to join society as equals, using art as a means of integration. Using the research of new methods of communication as their main tool, the group organizes and presents fully developed artistic proposals in the fields of visual and media arts, theater, dance, and music. En Dynamei Ensemble maintains a collaboration with renowned art professionals and leading institutions in Greece and abroad. The group’s performances have received rave reviews from audiences and critics alike, claiming a spot next to the most groundbreaking works of the Greek artistic production.
https://endynamei-ensemble.gr/

Vitoria Kotsalou

Vitoria Kotsalou is a psychologist, and a self-trained dancer, performer and choreographer based in Athens. Her eclectic training, not bound by one tradition, and constant research on many different disciplines carve out new fields of engagement for dance mediation. As a choreographer and artist, she perceives dance as a way of being, a means of thinking and interacting with the world, and as a tool of connection to the intelligence that governs nature. Vitoria is one of the founding members of the non-profit organization R.I.C.E. and the RSOD Dance School on the island of Hydra. She is a close collaborator of choreographer Michael Klien and a member of En Dynamei Ensemble since 2014. As a choreographer she has composed the works Day out of Time (2017), Mount (2019), Rite of Spring – A Map (2021), Solar (with the En Dynamei Ensemble – 2023), and Bare (2023). As a dancer she has made important collaborations with Androniki Marathaki, Mariella Nestora and Agni Papadeli Rossetou. She teaches dance to children, adults and mixed ability groups, and also choreographs theatre performances. Vitoria approaches dance as a phenomenon that is directly connected to every aspect of society. Her devotion to the possibility of dance as a force for change extends to thinking through movement and coming into contact with an intelligence that exists in (and connects) all living organisms. Drawing inspiration from the study of different artistic practices, philosophical approaches and collaborations, her thinking extends to social choreography through which she simultaneously observes the world and designs works that convey the possibility of changing or expanding our perception.

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Edipo. Tragedy of the senses for one spectator – Teatro del Lemming

Italy

For ancient Greeks to see and to know were the same thing. Peaceful, also if sadder than anyone, the one who could recognize himself blinded. Edipo’s blindness concerns the inscrutability of the future and the inability to domain his past. Edipo blinds himself because he reveals to the world his inner blindness, because he gets a deeper consciousness.
Everyone wants to work out the Enigma. But the Enigma remains unsolved, is shifty as our mirror image. Who am I? How could I live all this? The most important problem of Edipo is identity. My identity. The other problem is free willing: are my actions free or am I moved by something that is choosing my life in place of me?
In Edipo I reveal my blindness. Perception is enlarged. All my senses are directly involved. In a dramaturgic reversal of traditional roles, I/the spectator become the actor of the action. I find myself in Edipo.
Time for reflections come after, NOW we have to live.

Credits
Music and direction: Massimo Munaro
Collaboration at the dramaturgy: Roberto Domeneghetti

Duration: 30 min.
Trailer:

Already performed in Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, and Poland.

Teatro del Lemming

Teatro del Lemming is an experimental theatre company founded in 1987 by Massimo Munaro and Martino Ferrari. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture since 1997 the company has won many awards including Prize Totola, Prize Piccoli Palcoscenici, the UBU prize, Giuseppe Bartolucci and Silver Snowflake at the Sarajevo Winter Festival. Teatro del Lemming is recognized as one of the leading companies of the new Italian and European theatre.
More info about the company at www.teatrodellemming.it

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GOLEM – Compagnie Abis

Belgium

The performance will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.

GOLEM is the extension of the encounter between the dancer/choreographer Julien Carlier and the 75-year-old sculptor Mike Sprogis.
Through this dialogue between two artists of different disciplines and ages, the performance is constructed as the distorting mirror of their journeys, delving into the analogies between their respective practices of sculpture and dance.
One sees dance as ephemeral, moving sculpture; the other sees in the sculptor’s movements and material a dance to be inspired by. Between the two men on stage, there is clay. Manipulated, this material blurs the line between the inert and the living, with the earth becoming human and the human at times becoming lifeless matter.
The title is chosen as a symbol of the concept of duality and to draw a parallel between the creature shaped in the image of its creator and the artistic creation process. It’s a way to represent oneself or the other facing oneself.
In the artistic fusion of these two intense physical gestures, the piece speaks to the passage of time and its challenges on the body and mind. Organic, sensitive, and beautiful.

Credits
Choreographer: Julien Carlier
Performers: Julien Carlier, Mike Sprogis
Dramaturgy: Fanny Brouyaux, Simon Carlier
Music Design: Simon Carlier
Drums: Tom Malmendier
Light Design: Frédéric Vannes
Set Design: Justine Bougerol
Costumes: Marine Stevens

Duration: 50 min.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/308690127

 

A production of Compagnie Abis created with the support of “Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service de la Danse”. Also, with the support of: Charleroi danse, Ultima-Vez, KVS, Centre Culturel Jacques Franck, Centre Culturel de Namur, the TROIS C-L, the Grand Luxe network and Le Grand Studio.
The show has been performed at Dance Base during the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK), Network Internazionale Danza Puglia in 2023 (IT), the Festival CaféKultour in Timișoara (RO) in 2021, and Trois C-L in Luxembourg in 2020. In Belgium, it has been performed in stages such as the Centre Culturel Jacques Franck (2019) and the Namur Theatre (2022). The piece has also received recognition with the AEROWAVES Spring Forward Twenty20 mention.

Julien Carlier

Julien Carlier is a dancer and choreographer with a background in urban culture and breakdance. His creative work, which he has been developing for over ten years, is inspired by artistic encounters and dialogue on stage between different practices and modes of expression. His recent works include GOLEM (2019), DRESS CODE (2021), COLLAPSE (2021), and PAYSAGE (2024). He is one of the artists selected by the prestigious Aerowaves platform in 2020. After being resident artist at Charleroi Danse between 2020 and 2022, he is actually associated with the Théâtre de Liège until 2028. He founded ABIS company in 2017, and ever since, it embraces an experimental approach that constantly blends disciplines and claims a hybrid aspect, situated between multiple forms of aesthetics.
https://www.juliencarlier.be/

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Freedom, at Last – Iraqi Bodies

Iraq – Sweden

Freedom at Last embraces the ultimate. Looming before us, action, and life veiled by stillness. As we sit, silent, anticipating our last freedom, we find that our quest for freedom demands that we endure ourselves, the others, the State, the war, and ultimately the revolution.
The work of Iraqi Bodies explores the link between movement and gesture, between dance and theatre. The development of their artistic practice has been deeply influenced by the likes of Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, Jacques Copeau and Tatsumi Hijikata while retaining a constant dialogue with thinkers, writers and poets such as Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Charles Baudelaire, Le Comte de Lautréamont, William Shakespeare, Henri Bergson, Krishnamurti and many others.
The poetics of awareness is an absolute given in their continued search for a radical scenic language.
Freedom, at Last was first created for an industrial venue in Gothenburg during the winter of 2022. Since then the piece has found new reiterations with a varying cast of performers and has been presented in Sweden and Italy. For the performance at Akropoditi DanceFest we will be inviting two of  Akropoditi Dance Theatre’s performers, Ariadni Kitsou and Angeliki Ageletaki, to join the rehearsal process and performance of the piece as it finds itself in yet another reiteration in Syros.

Credits
Director: Anmar Taha
Dramaturge: Josephine Gray
With: Maria Freire, Josephine Gray, Ariadni Kitsou, Angeliki Ageletaki
Set design/light/sound/costume/props: Anmar Taha & Josephine Gray
Production: Iraqi Bodies

Duration: 40 min.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/774895928

Anmar Taha

Artistic director of Iraqi Bodies. Graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts–Theater Department in Baghdad Iraq 2005. He holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Contemporary Performing Arts from The University of Gothenburg. An experienced director, actor, and light designer, he has brought his remarkable visions to life for the past 12 years. His works have been presented in festivals around Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Josephine Gray

Artistic director of Iraqi Bodies. She is a graduate of L’ÉcoleInternationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq and holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Sheffield. In 2022 she published the anthology Second Nature: Comic Performance and Philosophy together with Dr Lisa Trahair (UNSW, Australia) with Rowman and Littlefield International, London, UK. In 2022 she initiated and directed the studium RADIX which continues on into 2024.

Ariadni Kitsou

She was born in Athens in 1993. She studied in the Department of Education and Early Childhood Education at the University of Patras. She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance in 2016 and since then she has worked as a classical and contemporary dance teacher at various dance schools in Athens.
She has also worked as an animator in creative activities for children, as well as a teacher in children’s camps and a yoga teacher for children.
Since 2014 she has collaborated with the Hellenic Dance Company under various performances presented at the Concert Hall, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, and has participated in performances at the Benaki Museum and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.
She lives in Syros. She works as a kindergarten teacher and since 2021 is a member of the Akropoditi group and teaches classical and contemporary dance at the Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre.

Maria Freire

Maria Freire is a performer from Porto, Portugal. She is currently based in Copenhagen where she is completing her 3-year BA in Contemporary Method Acting at CISPA– Copenhagen International School of Performing Arts. In 2023 she is part of the choreographic research-project Prosopon and performed in the piece TERAS and Freedom at Last.

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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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Intimate Bodies – Kinitiras Ω (Omega)

Greece

This Summer Kinitiras Ω (Omega) company returns to Syros Island for the 10th Akropoditi Dance Festival in July. The company is going to re-create the site-specific performance “Intimate Bodies” that will be presented in Athens earlier this summer, co-ordinated by Antigone Gyra and Ioanna Kampylafka, A performance of movement and speech that deals with the concept of intimacy and re-familiarization of body and public space, opening the dialogue regarding social visibility of older people and their bodies. At the same time the performance will work as an intervention to the public space of the centre of Ermoupolis where Kinitiras Ω (Omega) will transform into an intimate place.
This act aims to contribute to the creative growth of humanity in which moving and dancing expression could lead the way to freedom. That kind of freedom deriving from people who have bodies that love, recognize and take care of. Bodies that are open to new ideas no matter their date of birth.
In order to continue the “conversation” between Kinitiras Ω (Omega) and Syros’s island residents, a repertoire workshop will take place, during which participants will join the performance. In this workshop the participants will have the opportunity to put themselves in the procedure of physical and spiritual preparation in order to be able to transform their intimate bodies to performance bodies.

Credits:
Companys’ coordination: Antigone Gyra, Ioanna Kampylafka
Texts where written under the guidance of Christos Polymenakos
Acting coaching: Aliki Avdelopoulou
Pefromed by: Pia Avdelopoulou, Souzi Arkouli, Depi Aslanidou, Efrosini Vasilopoulou, Eleni Gyra, Sofia Kalantzopoulou, Maria Kanellopoulou, Ioannis Lambakis, Rita Makari, Efrosini Marda, Argyro Papastergiou, Pinelopi Pyrrou, Eleni Sakellariou

Duration:  min.
Trailer: https://www.facebook.com/kinitirasnomad/videos/817779829697232

 

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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.