Kinitiras’ lineup from February to April 2023
In the 2.5 years of the pandemic, Kinitiras’ “engines” have never stopped working and taking us on new adventures every time. With a new thematic umbrella, this of Intimacy, and targeted actions, performances and workshops, Kinitiras invites us in 2023 to feel intimate again, intimate in the public space, in our bodies and in the theatre.
Kinitiras Artistic Network for Performing Arts was, is and will remain a deeply human-centered network. Once again, we emphasize in our human resources, with the aim of creating as many jobs as possible this year, reducing the costs for materials to the minimum possible. Our nomadic nature offers flexibility for new synergies: since 2022, we have been collaborating with Technourgeio, a new space in Metaxourgeio, while in 2023 we return to Roes, we organize workshops at PLYFA and at the Isadora & Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center and we open our rehearsal space in public.
At the same time, the Erasmus+ program for young people, H.A.T., continues vigorously, while we are preparing many more performances, workshops, residencies, Erasmus+ programs in and outside Athens, but also outside Greece, for Summer 2023.
Kinitiras’ actions until Spring 2023 in detail:
Archaeology of a Relationship (What Remains, What Endures) – Performance
The Cypriot director Paris Erotokritou, member of Kinitiras network since 2007, returns to Athens for a revealing collaboration with the couple backbone of Kinitiras. Together they study, envision and dream of companionship on planet Earth.
In the first stage of the performance Archeology of a Relationship the group works with what remains and what endures. What stays and what endures in the field of a long-term relationship? And how is what remains and endures shaped by the past but also by the environment in which such a relationship evolves? In a world that changes at lightning speed, with stereotypes being broken every day and with many models of relationships (long-term or short) beyond the “traditional”, the performers trace their personal path up to the present day. And they leave to the “archaeologist of the future” fragments of themselves and their relationship (material and not) in the hope that one day what we today call a long-term relationship will be given a meaning.
It is a project that started in September 2022 and will be presented in three stages.
Directed by: Paris Erotokritou
Movement: Katerina Gevetzi
Music: Christos Theodorou (in the performance we listen to his new album “Isidora”)
Performed by: Dimitris Agoras, Antigone Gyra
When: Sundays 5, 12, 19 March 2023 double performances at 12.00 and 14.00, Mondays 6, 13, 20, 27 March 2023 at 17.45
Where: Kinitiras Lab rehearsal space (Fotomara 16, Neos Kosmos)
Duration: 50 minutes
Entrance: 10 euros
Fantastic Women – Dance
After three years of choreographic research on femininity and femininity in transition, in collaboration with important institutions and studios, the group KINITIRAS HOROTHEAMA presents the show Fantastic Women, with the aim of celebrating the female existence and femininity of people.
The research was carried out in Greece and abroad – Switzerland, Israel, UK – in seas, mountains, living rooms, studios, airplanes and the routes in between. In 2019, Antigone Gyra launched a series of solos, which she co-created together with some of her constant collaborators-muses.
Aphrodite, Ioanna, Eugenia, Anthi, Artemis and Aura worked before, during and after the quarantine. Some of them were presented to a limited audience and some were not. The joy of being a woman, the strength with which your nature has endowed you, resilience, humor and the female body as a vessel for people, emotions, thoughts and dreams were explored in this process. Meanwhile, in 2022, Antigone Gyra returned to the stage after twenty-six years with the solo “ehS came from another planet” in collaboration with Amalia Bennett, a solo that connects to all her previous work. The material from these solos is reworked by the choreographer, in close collaboration with the dancers, additionally inviting Penelope Pyrrou from the group Kinitiras Ω (Omega) and Christos Polymenakos as a dramaturgy consultant, so that a new project is being created.
On the last day of the performances, Kinitiras together with the NGO Gender Alliance Initiative, will co-organize a discussion inspired by the Erasmus+ SEX Educ’Accion program that took place in Spain and in which members of the Kinitiras network participated.
Choreography: Antigone Gyra in collaboration with the performers
Dramaturgy Consultant: Christos Polymenakos
Soundscape and original music: Orestis Tanis
Lighting: Anti Steve
Costumes: Ioanna Kampylafka
Texts: Christos Polymenakos, Dimitra Zagora
Song: Aliki Avdelopoulou
Assistant Choreographers: Alexis Vidalakis, Dorothea Mavrommati
Props: Aristotelis-Georgios Zogas
Photos: Eleni Taxeri
Antigone Gyra co-created her solo with Amalia Bennett and her costume was created by Evdokia Veropoulou
Performers (alphabetically): Avra Agora, Antigone Gyra, Ioanna Kampylafka, Penelope Pyrrou, Eugenia Sigalou, Anthi Theofilidi, Aphrodite Vervenioti
When: 21, 22/4/2023 at 21.00 & 23/4/2023 at 20.00
Where: Roes Theatre, Iakhou 16, Kerameikos
Duration: 60 minutes
Tickets: 15 euros / 12 euros reduced (student, disabled, 65+) / unemployed free if seats are available at the theatre box office on the day of the performance
Buy your tickets: here
European programs / International collaborations
Here and There (H.A.T.), performing ecologies is an original inclusive Erasmus+ program, designed and implemented by Kinitiras, on the topic of ecology, climate change and raising awareness of society through the performing arts.
Launched in May 2022, in collaboration with the Irish Crooked House Theater Company (Newbridge, Ireland). Two groups of young people in Greece and Ireland, through theatre and dance workshops, discussions and artistic research, explore the role of ecology in our lives and how art can empower young people so they don’t feel weak and they take action against climate change. At this time, the groups are in an extensive evaluation process, which will last until the end of April 2023. The results of the process will be announced through the official channels of the HAT program, in order to inspire other artistic and educational programs to awaken the community regarding the so critical issue of climate change and ecology.
Workshops
Kinitiras “becomes intimate” with the Technourgeio (Psaron 63, Metaxourgeio 104 39, texnourgeio@gmail.com, FB page: Technourgeio) and organizes two new workshops, open and inclusive for everyone.
The Kinitiras A (Acting) workshop opens its doors to welcome new students who wish to become masters of the art of acting. The actor and director Dimitris Agoras is creating a group of beginners, who will travel together in the world of theater. The new Movement and Voice Workshop for people 65+, coordinated by Antigone Gyra and Aliki Avdelopoulou, is both for men and women and aims to find new members for the stable Kinitiras Ω (Mature Age) group.
At the end of January, the Performance Writing workshop “Do You Speak Dance?,verbal communication of choreographic research, creation and education” with Christos Polymenakos (MA Performance Writing), is being co-organized by Kinitiras and the Isadora & Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center. It is addressed to professionals, educators, students and amateurs in the wider field of dance and the body, choreographers, dramaturgs, dancers, dance therapists, theorists, doctors, physical education teachers, curators, journalists, programmers, performance artists and writers.
From February 8, Antigone Gyra will coordinate the “Inhabitants of bodies” workshop, consisting of 10 meetings at PLYFA, in Botanikos. These meetings aim to bring us close to our bodies and to the bodies of other people again. Adults of all ages, performing arts’ professionals and amateurs with more or less experience in movement are welcome to attend.
More information at www.kinitiras.com and +30 69 40 576461 (hours 11.00-14.00) or info@kinitiras.com.
Photos from Fantastic Women: Eleni Taxeri, from the Archaeology of a Relationship: Christina Papadaki, from the Erasmus+ program H.A.T.: Fanis Pavlopoulos