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Choreographers at Work! – Documentary

Switzerland

The projection will be followed by a discussion with the choreographer.

A documentary series about creation processes in the field of contemporary dance.
By Michelle Ettlin & Mona De Weerdt

The project Choreographers at Work! by Michelle Ettlin and Mona De Weerdt is devoted to key individuals in the current Swiss dance landscape and their various choreographic methods and approaches. A number of choreographers living and working in various parts of Switzerland will be accompanied through a creative process and asked about themselves and their working practices, while scenes from rehearsals will be filmed. The results will be compiled into short individual film portraits. The idea is to offer insights into the everyday work of individual choreographers, document their methods, and shed light on creative and rehearsal processes that are normally hidden from public view.

Elenita Queiroz: Warning for Contemplation Sections

Portrait No.7 follows the creative process behind Elenita Queiróz’s Warning for Contemplation Sections. The film documents the rehearsal process with the dancers Léa Thomen, Charlotte Mathiessen and Mara Natterer under the guidance of the St Gall-based choreographer. Through improvisation tasks and playful settings, they generate new ideas and movement material together. The audience witnesses how the rather abstract topic of female exhaustion and resistance is translated into choreographic sequences and monumental, opulent pictures. Elenita Queiróz’s declarations make it very clear that this piece is both deeply personal and bears significant social urgency.

Duration: 21 min.

 

Credits
Concept: Mona De Weerdt, Michelle Ettlin
Camera, editing, post-production: Michelle Ettlin
Dramaturgy: Mona De Weerdt, Michelle Ettlin
Production: echolot films / mdw Kulturproduktionen
with:
Elenita Queiróz (concept, choreography, dance)
Léa Thomen, Charlotte Mathiessen, Mara Natterer (co-choreography, dance)
Raoul Alain Nagel (music composition)
Locations: Rösslisaal Trogen, Pool – Raum für Kultur St. Gallen, Tanzhaus Zürich
Supported by: the Federal Office of Culture / Dance as Cultural Heritage, Amt für Kultur St. Gallen, City of St. Gallen, the Steinegg, Arnold Billwiller, Ernst Göhner, Corymbo, Alexis Victor Thalberg and Sophie and Karl Binding Foundations and TKB Jubiläums Stiftung.
The translation is financed by: Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and the Oertli Foundation
Partners: Reso – Dance Network Switzerland, SAPA Foundation – Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts

https://choreographersatwork.ch/

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Choreographing a Life Through Art and Instinct – Julyen Hamilton

Greece

Julyen Hamilton – Interview – AVDP | Direction & Choreography: AVDP | GR | 25′ | AUDIO: EN | SUBS: GR

For more than forty years, Julyen Hamilton has been creating performances, directing and teaching throughout Europe and beyond. Born in England, he has lived in Amsterdam, Girona in Spain and Athens, shaping a path that bridges places, time and modes of presence. His artistic practice is deeply rooted in improvisation. He composes live on stage, collaborating with dancers, musicians and artists from other fields, creating works that are born in the moment.
As he says, “I have constantly made work from a radical point of view.” This approach runs through not only the form but also the philosophy of his creative process. In this interview, he speaks about his life in relation to art and how this relationship evolves, shaping both his own path and his social surroundings. He shares thoughts on human connection, aging, life and death, and reflects on his role in a world that is constantly changing, inviting us to actively take part in the flow of this transformation.

Duration: 25 min. (greek subtitles)

 

ATHENS VIDEO DANCE PROJECT (AVDP)

ATHENS VIDEO DANCE PROJECT (AVDP) is an initiative founded in 2010 in Athens and has been organized by the Non Profit Organisation BelleVille. AVDP offers the ground for fruitful meetings and dialogue among artists from all over the world. It enhances not only the visibility of the art of videodance, but also the diversity of new media and technologies, the art of contemporary dance and multimedia dance performances, the performance and the cinema.
For the above reasons, there are five programs that reflect the idea of AVDP: the annual AVDP Festival – International Dance Film Festival, AVDP edu – Educational Program, AVDP on TouR and AVDP in Community and AVDP tv.

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Documentary Kin.Ω – Kinitiras Ω

Greece

The documentary Kin.Ω, by choreographer and filmmaker Chrysanthi Badeka, presents the first steps of the group Kinitiras Ω (Mature Age). The women of Kinitiras Ω are an inspiration for life, for dance and for the power of collectivity. Kinitiras Ω began in 2014 with a vision that mature adults have access to dance and theatre through a creative community where they can activate body and soul and unfold their rich artistic voice. Working with professional Kinitiras’ partners, the group gained experience in co-creation, rehearsal and production by participating in artistic events and performances. In the 2023-24 season the Kinitiras Ω group celebrated 10 years of existence and is still dancing!

Duration: 35 min. (English subtitles)

Trailer: https://youtu.be/lS9hHpjHW-4 

 

 

Kinitiras Ω (Omega)

Kinitiras Ω (Omega) was founded in 2014 to offer mature adults access to dance and theatre through a vibrant, creative community. Participants engage both physically and artistically, enhancing expression and co-creation. Guided by professionals from the Kinitiras company, the group has taken part in numerous rehearsals, performances, and artistic events. Highlights include inspiring the documentary KIN.Ω by Chrysanthi Badeka, traveling to Esslingen, Germany, to perform Eros and Psychi at the stAGE festival, and participating in Ana Sánchez-Colberg’s Seven to Seventh Project at the Summer Nostos Festival (SNF). From 2021 to 2023, Kinitiras Ω collaborated with the Acropoditi DanceFest. During the 2020–21 pandemic, artistic director Antigone Gyra developed a study on “Contemporary Dance and Dance Theatre in the Third Age,” supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture, which was presented in Athens and Syros in 2022. In 2023–24, the group joined the Erasmus+ KA2 programme Maturing Korai, engaging with women 50+ from Greece, Cyprus, and Italy to explore aging, creativity, and empowerment. They also attended a movement and singing workshop in Vamvakou. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Kinitiras Ω joined the rest lifelong learning groups of Kinitiras for a special performance on June 26, 2024, at the Duncan Dance Centre.

Chrysanthi Badeka

Chrysanthi Badeka is choreographer, cinematographer, editor and videodance trainer, with M.F.A in dance (NYU, New York). For 10 consecutive years, she dedicated herself to the promotion of the videodance, co-directing Athens Video Dance Project festival (2010-2020). From 2019 to 2022, she implemented mAPs Creative Europe program in collaboration with France, Germany, Finland and Italy. Since 2020, he has been collaborating with Dance House Lemesos as a Dance Film Mentor, while since 2024 she has been working as a Media Supervisor for b12 Dance & Performing Arts Festival (Berlin).
Her transmedia choreographic practice merges movement with XR technology, nature and sciences. Propelling dance, she explores different mediums, presenting her works on or off theatrical stage, at cinema screens, as installations or in synthetic environments. As an interdisciplinary artist she has been supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture, Greek Opera House, NEON Foundation, ONASSIS Stegi, Athens Epidaurus Festival and others. In 2020 she received the AUDIENCE AWARD at the Polish Dance Theatre’s “1 page – 1 view – 180 seconds 2020” Competition for the videodance WOMEN, while in 2022 she received the BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD from the InShadow Dance Film Festival for the short videodance Battle of Fishes. [ www.chrysanthibadeka.com ]

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Projection Night – Films by Norma Marcos

Palestine – France

Film projection by Norma Marcos
* The projection will be followed by a discussion with the director

A long hot summer in Palestine (2018)

I was shooting a film on women with my niece Yara who was in my previous film and the “normal ” daily life in the West Bank before the war on Gaza in June 2014. “I’m 16 and I’ve already been through three wars” said Farah Baker, a Palestinian girl in a tweet read by 70,000 people after the bombing of her house in Gaza. Shocked by this tweet, I knew that my film would take another direction.
My film juxtaposes images of this war, the colonies, and the wall, to the beauty and peace of nature. Despite having endured endless oppression and successive wars, the Palestinians have always tried to rebuild their society from the rubble.
An artist, baker, farmer, florist, banker, women race driver, and woman mayor from the West Bank, illuminate this situation with a fresh look.
My camera encountered Palestinians in the West Bank. Through an artist, a banker, a florist, a woman race driver, a woman mayor… we discover how they are affected by this conflict in their daily life, their solidarity towards Gaza and how they rebuild their society despite the Israeli oppression and violence.

Credits
Genre: Documentary
Run. Time: 74min
Director: Norma Marcos
Camera: Norma Marcos
Sound: Norma Marcos
Producers: Norma Marcos and Marie-Clémence Paes
Voice over registration: Philippe Fabbri
Music: Agnès Vincent and Aramaic music
Editing: Cesar Paes, Catherine D’hoir, Théo Carrere
Executive producer: Xavier Decraenne
Sound editing: Catherine d’Hoir, Adam Wolny
Sound mixing: Adam Wolny,  Adrien Ingelbert
Color Grading: Kevin Stragliati
Voice over recording: Philippe Fabbri
Calligraphy: Ahmed Dari
Subtitles: Norma Marcos, Théo Carrere
Translation: Norma Marcos & Richard Howard
Laboratory Post production: Polyson , Patrick Long
Shooting locations: Palestine

Director’s statement
Filming locations: The region of Bethlehem, East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley.
I am Palestinian and have lived in France for over twenty-five years. My work always combines my Arab origin and the culture of my adopted country. Oppression and the love of beauty are two themes that have always fascinated me and gave me the desire to do films. They have guided my work as a filmmaker. I wanted to make a film about the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and how strongly they are connected despite everything and everyone who tries to separate them. The backbone of the film is the solidarity of the Palestinians for each other. Living in Gaza or the West Bank, they are faced with the same tragic occupation. In this quest, I have given the testimonies of Palestinian women an important place. My film A long hot summer in Palestine takes us into the world of art, sounds, political life, and the colors of everyday life, while remaining close to an almost wild nature. There is a mystical atmosphere in the nature of Palestine, portrayed by its monasteries, its wilderness, its gardens and hills, all of which transport us to very ancient times. Throughout my film I juxtapose beauty, violence, and misunderstanding. On World Peace Day, I shot a sequence in the Carmelite monastery in Bethlehem, where we see a cat quietly nursing her kittens under the deafening sound of Israeli warplanes. A stark contrast to the quiet beauty of the monastery… Similarly, I wanted the music and sounds of this film, to be characters in themselves. Sometimes they jostle us with sorrow and pain, and sometimes they fill us with joy. Palestinian society continues to demand freedom, desiring simply to live normally. The Israeli authorities from all parties as well as the Palestinian fundamentalists (though few live in Palestine) continue to disregard this incredible thirst for life and freedom. Neither one, have completely managed to turn the Palestinian people into slaves…
As Reverend Mitri Raheb: «The Palestinian people (Muslims, Christians, and Palestinian Jews) are a critical and dynamic continuum from Canaan to biblical times, from the Greek, Roman, Arab, and Turkish eras up to the present day. They are the native peoples, who survived those empires and occupations. They changed their language, from Aramaic and Greek to Arabic, while their identity shifted from Canaanite, to Hittite, to Hivite, to Perizzite, to Girgasite, to Amorite, to Jebusite, to Philistine, Israelite, Judaic/Samaritan, to Hasmonaic, to Jewish, to Byzantine, to Arab, to Ottoman and to Palestinian. My film shows four months in the life of the people in the West Bank, who face economic and political crisis caused by the massive bombardment in Gaza. Far from the clichés we see on the news, my film reminds us that the Palestinian people continue to create art, develop culture, do sport, and simply live.
Norma Marcos
Director

Fragments of a lost Palestine (2010)

This film is a subjective journey, filmed as fragments of memories in exile from my country of birth, Palestine.
Most of the time, art comes from the roots. Palestinian artists in exile always return to the theme of Palestine as well as writers or artists such as James Joyce and Picasso who wrote or painted on the subject of their country of origin (Ulysses and bullfights).
The filmmaker relives the desert, the birds, the flora, the fauna, the butterflies, the 2000-year-old olive trees, the Dead Sea, the traditional geometric architectural patterns of the windows and doors, the different skies of Palestine, the minarets, the bells.

Press reviews:
FRAGMENTS OF A LOST PALESTINE: Set in an elusive space between normalcy and nowhere, this very personal film journal records the dilemma of filmmaker Marcos, who holds both a French and a Palestinian passport, but is recognized as neither nationality by Israeli authorities.  Initially trapped in a bureaucratic limbo when denied entry to Palestine to visit her ailing mother, she ultimately sees her victory in shaping a film around images of ordinary life as it is lived in its fullness by family and friends.
USA. Arabs.com. Barbara Scharres

Palestinian film maker Norma Marcos has a French passport yet finds herself a citizen of nowhere. Denied entry to Palestine by the Israeli authorities, she is unable to visit her ailing mother, and spends much of her time on the phone being given the runaround by civil servants. When she is finally allowed home to visit, she is keen to show her friend Stefan how people try to live normal lives outside of the occupation and that there is a vibrant side of Palestine that exists outside of grim reports of violence and war. Marcos demonstrates that despite the inescapably tense political environment, life goes on.
The New York Times, online

Credits
Genre: Documentary
Run. Time: 74min
Director: Norma Marcos
Camera: Norma Marcos
Sound: Norma Marcos
Producers: Norma Marcos and Fernand Garcia
Sound mixing: Simon Apostolou
Editing: Manu Bodin
Recording of Voice Over: Xavier Griette
Subtitles: Isabelle Erchoff
Translation: Norma Marcos & Richard Howard
Calligraphy: Ahmed Dari
Shooting locations: Palestine

Trailer:

Norma Marcos

Norma Marcos is a Palestinian filmmaker and scriptwriter. In 1989 she was assistant on a film on Yasser Arafat produced by ARTE. She co-directed Bethlehem at Christmas produced by Canal+.
She directed: The Veiled Hope, produced by France3. It was broadcast on more than ten European TV channels: distributed by Women Make Movies.
Waiting for Ben Gurion,
Fragments of a Lost Palestine,
Wahdon a short feature film broadcast by France3 Corse
A Long Hot Summer in Palestine: screened in France in 44 movie theaters and was awarded a Special Mention at the International Festival, Italy):
Her films have participated in many international festivals: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Keswick film festival, and are distributed by ESC distribution.
She won Grand Prize, for Best Screenplay among 357 feature scripts for: Nouzha
She recently wrote a new feature script: Sami, Like Dew Drops on thorns.
Winner of several international awards:
Laureate of Villa Medicis Hors Les Murs for: “Retrouvez Jerusalem”, Knightfellowship at Stanford University.
Publishing a book at the French Editing House Riveneuve and bought in French by Princeton university: The Veil of Despair, Women, Sexuality and Feminism of Palestine.
Laureate of Stiftung Umverteilen, Germany.
Laureate of a European competition Mediscript.
Laureate of Sources 2.
Laureate of Reuters Knight fellowships at Stanford University California, where she was chosen from among 185 international journalists.

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Closing Party of the Festival – Celebration of the 10 year’s anniversary

Closing night of the Festival, dedicated to the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Akropoditi DanceFest 2023.
Will include:
Film-tribute to the 9th Festival, enriched with interviews from the participants and contributors by Vangelis Jannis.
Dance – a way to exist
33 people of dance, talk to us about dance.

 

 

Audiovisual Material from previous festivals.
The evening will end with a party with plenty of music and dancing.
Music selections SERATONIA

Tour Offer
HISTORICAL TOUR OF THE ERMOUPOLIS TEXTILE MUSEUM
Located in a narrow street in the old industrial zone of Ermoupolis is hidden one between the 68 factories that the capital of the Cyclades had during its glorious industrial past.
It’s the “Zisimatos Bros” textile factory, remained as it was on the day it stopped its production; a unique sample of the industrial heritage of Syros.
The “Hermoupolis Heritage” is proud to help the restoration and the real resurrection of this fantastic place.
The old factory, after several years of hard works, has been restored, and actually is offered to the visitor for a short imaginary travel through the time. Passing through the old main entrance door, we can “discover” the traces of the workers life, all the commercial activities in the factory which developed, produced and manufactured material, and finally learn about the miracle of the textile industry that flourished in Ermoupolis in the end of 19th century and in the begging of the 20th century.
The learning, through reflection on doing, begins with a strange way: we enter to the factory with a lantern in hand as they did the workers, many years ago every morning in order to start their working day. The guide welcomes the visitors wearing the typical worker uniform and he makes an introduction to the past based on oral and written memories of 40 employees, till 1986, the date that the factory ceased its operation.
Then, the visitors they wear also the typical worker uniform, they fill in the work card, as the workers did in the past, and they taste the traditional workers packed lunch brought from home. During the tour, the senses are activated through the sound, as the old diesel engine in the paint shop starts to operate, they are listened to the sewing machines gasping, and they even smell everywhere the “scent” of time passed by seeing the threads “frozen” in the looms!
All the above contribute to approaching by a pleasant way history and culture through an entertaining process that ends up gathering all the “visitors-workers” around a wooden table where they taste the packed lunch made by traditional local products.

Starting time: 19:30
Duration of the tour: 60′
Book a tour: https://www.ticketservices.gr/event/hermoupolis-heritage/

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NETTE – A kinesic experiment – Artemis Pyrpilis

Greece

The project “ΝΕΤΤΕ: a kinesic experiment” is the result of the Artistic Residency of the photographer Artemis Pyrpili under the Artistic Residency Program of the Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre (2022-2023) with the topic: Covid-19: Our silence, our voice
It is based on the homonymous photo book of the creator.
Is an attempt to record a kinetic improvisation with a starting point and in interaction with archival images of Nette, in motion. The kinetic expression will be structured in the natural landscape of Syros (in coherence with nature as a background in the archival images) allowing any result that can arise through this internal “fermentation” of experimentation/improvisation based on the interaction with the kinetic expression of her grandmother.
The aim is to further connect the personal relationship between granddaughter and grandmother, but also to explore the broader connection between photography and dance.
The final result will be a video that includes both the archival images and the recording of the kinetic experimentation as through this it will apprehend the expression and physicality of Nette while exploring the movement through its recording.

Description:
In 2019, seven years after her grandmother’s passing, Artemis Pyrpilis went for the first time to the house where her grandmother was born and spent her childhood. Searching through the rooms, drawers and boxes she discovered previously unseen pictures of her when she was a young girl in the 40s. A dancer, a gymnast, a restless girl whom her closed ones called Nette. Who was Nette really and what was her connection to her?
Artemis Pyrpilis decided to interact with these archival images through her body.
The shared silence, from the inevitability of her death, slowly became a reason to find their common voice for all the things she did not know united them.

Credits
Montage, Production: Artemis Pyrpilis

Duration: 11 min.
Treiler:https://vimeo.com/796606180

 

 

Artemis Pyrpilis

Artemis Pyrpilis (1987) is a French-Greek photographer.
She studied photography in Paris and after working as a photographer in France, the UK, Germany and the United States she decided to return to Greece in 2013.
She has participated in various group exhibitions, at C / O Berlin in Germany, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Photobiennale in Thessaloniki, but also at the Host Gallery in London.
She has also presented her work in 2 solo exhibitions in Greece.
In September 2021, her first photo book “NETTE” was published by punto e basta editions and launched at the Polka Factory in Paris.
Today she lives in Thessaloniki where she teaches at the Stereosis School of Photography and at the MOMus-Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki while at the same time working on personal projects experimenting with various artistic fields.