Maturing Korai: Meeting in Italy
22-29/3/2024
Artemista, Italy
Maturing Korai is a KA2 small scale Erasmus+ program that gives the opportunity to women 50+ to develop and be in charge of their lives through the performing arts. It reintroduces them to the learning process, to meet new methods, new educators and women from other countries through which they will develop their potential to be engaged in the society and to claim their visibility.
From 22 to 29 of March 2024, the groups from the 3 partners of the program, Kinitiras, Fresh Target and Calypso, will meet for a week in Artemista, Cultural Centre, Italy to exchange knowledge and good practices and also to show the work they are already doing in their countries with their coordinators. All participants will then create a manifesto about the aging female body and its place in society.
WORKSHOPS
Exploring my textures – Antigone Gyra
This is going to be a movement improvisation workshop. We are going to explore the movement qualities that are created in our bodies through various visualisations of textures and materials.We will focus specifically on the movement that develops through the image of the marble and as a contradiction through the image of our skin. Through the workshop the participants will develop intimacy within them and between them.
Antigone Gyra is the artistic director of Kinitiras Network for Performing Arts .She is a choreographer and movement instructor. Her work has been performed in Greece and abroad.
Yoga for mature persons – Ioanna Kampylafka
Yoga sessions adjusted to the needs of a maturing body.
Ioanna Kampylafka is a performer, choreographer and teacher. She graduated from the London Laban Center (Bachelor of Arts in Dance Theatre) and Middlesex University (Diploma in Interior Design). She has been a core member of the Kinitiras Artistic Network since 1998.
BODY – Francesca Colli
In the body and through the body the world comes into the world. We are bodies: let’s start from contact, from relying on the intelligence of feeling, a natural resource and also the first guiding light towards all understanding. The body-memory becomes the starting point: it resonates within traces, gestures, signs, images, words, echoes towards a narrative that is built as a constellation of experiences connected to each other.
Francesca Colli is a trainer, performer and philosophical counselor. She has been working as a dramaturg and director since 2007. She is among the founders of Alaska APS, a cultural center and a collective group (and now an ngo) created with the aim to work about art as a way of learning, and to involve the community.
Listen – Maria Philippou
Taking advantage of what we don’t know, we focus on what we can learn. The limitations in verbal communication offer us a unique opportunity to move away from our preconceived beliefs and really listen to each other through movement, sound, intention, rather than our preconfigured, loaded language. An almost spiritual journey into one’s older self, trying to know and understand those around us.
Maria Philippou is an actress, based in Cyprus working mostly in theatre but also in film and TV. She has worked with numerous theatre companies, directors and choreographers/movement directors, gaining a variety of knowledge on theatre practices. She holds great interest in the power of the arts on societal change. She has also collaborated with Dance House Lemesos as a Project Manager and currently works as a Funds & Programs Officer at MeMeraki Artist Residency.
Questioning lines – Eleftheria Sokratous
The world is structured based on lines. Lines that we follow every day to get to work, lines that history is written, lines that music is noted, lines that dictate the logic of time and age, and in general lines that construct the narratives we believe in. This workshop offers an embodied investigation of lines and linearity with the aim to open up the potential of claiming authorship over the narratives as well as the relations they create between human and more than human bodies (objects,space,animals).
Eleftheria Sokratous is a performer, a performance maker and an inclusive dance pedagogue based in Limassol Cyprus. She is interested in using movement to build a common ground between diverse social groups. Since 2020 up to date, she is working as a project manager at Ipogia Skini NGO where she runs and curates various artistic projects. She is one of the three co-founders of KOULLOU|MAKKA collective, an inclusive theatre-dance collective that was formed in December 2022 in Limassol which aims to create accessible and inclusive performances.
SHARINGS IN ITALY
Beauti-Full
Choreography: Antigone Gyra and the performers / Music: Billie Kark / Costumes: Evdokia Veropoulou / Performed by Souzy Arkouli, Ntepy Aslanidou, Pia Avdelopoulou, Sofia Kalantzopoulou, Maria Kanellopoulou, Pinelopi Pyrrou, Efrosini Vasilopoulou
Unite in difference
Improvisation based sharing ~ Choreographed/directed by Maria Philippou and Eleftheria Sokratous ~ Performers: Froso Andreou, Christina Pitsillou, Fytoula Georgiou, Danae Elia, Irma Tsikouri, Sofronia Stylianou, Maria Panayiotou Kazepi
The dark side of the moon
Concept by Alice Bescapé and the performers: Giovanna Alessandrini, Francesca Bonelli, Sabrina Cavestro, Maria Elisa Calderoni, Roberta Crubellati, Katia Di Garbo, Lucia Dorigo, Lina Fortunato, Caterina Mamini, Silvia Petrella, Marilù Paladino, Livia Sguben