Kinitiras

The lifelong learning group Kinitiras (Dance Theatre) with choreographer Antigone Gyra as its main coordinator and guests from the wider Kinitiras network, opens its doors again this year. This time in a new venue, Main Point (24 Patission Street, Athens), in the heart of Athens, in Omonia, on the first floor of a building opposite the legendary Minion. The nomadic identity of Kinitiras gives us the opportunity to try out the different opportunities offered by each space we work with.

This year, our goal is to bring a breath of peace and tranquility, a small oasis of beauty and connection with our bodies and other bodies where what you see around you is mostly a grey landscape, unattended, lonely people and a fountain.

The dance practice in the meetings of Kinitiras will focus on:

• gentle physical strengthening through exercises for each body part activating the muscular and bony system gently,
• physical endurance through endurance movement games that increase rhythm and heart rate by blushing the cheeks,
• improvisational practices exploring the space inside and outside our bodies, time and rhythm, physical contact and the relationships it creates,
• the inspiration provided by other art forms such as music, painting, photography, literature, poetry,
• combined practices of automatic writing and movement, painting and movement, meditative movement.

There, in Omonia, all together we will create a group of moving bodies and spirits that will act as a “balm in our daily life”.

Each meeting will be autonomous until January. From February the group will close down to create a short site specific performance action in the area in order to open up Kinitiras’ work in the community of downtown residents.

Professionals and lovers of the art of movement are welcome.

We START on Wednesday 9/10/24, 18.45-20.45

Cost

60 euros/month plus 24%VAT, 20 euros drop in plus 24% VAT (until January)

50 euros/month plus 24%VAT, 15 euros drop in plus 24% VAT (until January) for people 65+, unemployed and students

(in case of a trial, people pay drop in and if they decide to continue then the amount is deducted from the cost of the month)

LIMITED places available

Information / reservations: info@kinitiras.com and +30 69 40 576461 every Tuesday & Friday 11.00-13.00 and Thursday 18.00-20.00.

Antigone Gyra created the company KINITIRAS dance spectacle in 1996 with which she has choreographed dozens of works to date, with grants from the Ministry of Culture and other institutions or independently, which have been presented in Greece and abroad. From 2008 to 2019 she coordinated the first residency centre for performing arts in Greece, which offered on the cultural map of Athens research events, artists’ exchanges and artistic hospitality (www.kinitiras.com). With Kinitiras she brings dance and physical theatre to primary and secondary education while organizing Erasmus+ youth exchange programs with the aim of social awareness (lgbtq+, refugees, hate speech etc.). In the last two years, she carried out two choreographic researches (Femininity in transition, Contemporary Dance and Third Age) with the support of foreign bodies and the Ministry of Culture. She has collaborated with important directors and groups at the National Theatre and the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. She teaches movement and choreography in vocational schools.