Theatre-performance-video projects
Repose pieces I,III,IV,V
Description
Ανάπαυση Ι
Το σώμα ακουμπά στο λόφο και αναπαύεται, όπως το θέατρο-αχιβάδα του Ζενέτου* προοριζόταν να ακουμπήσει στο κενό του λατομείου.
Στον αρχικό σχεδιασμό του θεάτρου του Λυκαβηττού-πέρα από την ποιητικότητα στη μορφή-αποτυπώνεται πρόταση για ελάχιστη δυνατή παρέμβαση στον περιβάλλοντα χώρο, απόθεση του αντικειμένου-ιδέας και τελειοποίησή του σε αρμονία με το σκοπό, τη χρηση και το μέρος. Με αφορμή αυτήν την οπτική, θα μπορούσε το σώμα να μην ενοχλεί το χώρο; Είναι η ανάπαυση ένας τρόπος επαφής/απόθεσης/υλοποίησης/τελειοποίησης; Επιθυμεί ο δημόσιος χώρος την ανάπαυση ή προϋποθέτει την εγκατάλειψη για να την επιτρέψει;
Μια άσκηση αυτο-εναπόθεσης στο δημόσιο χώρο του Λυκαβηττού. 15 δοκιμες ανάπαυσης σε περίπου 15 λεπτά.
Από τις Αγγελική Χατζή, Βασια Πασπάλη, Αλεξία Καραβελα.
Φεστιβαλ Λυκαβητού Ι
Οκτώβριος 2020
*Τάκης Ζενέτος (1926-1977), σημαντικός αρχιτέκτονας, του ανατέθηκε ο σχεδιασμός του υπαιθριου θεάτρου του Λυκαβηττού
Ανάπαυση ΙΙΙ
τα λασπόλουτρα
Πηλοθεραπευτήρια και πρώην νταμάρια ενώνονται σε ένα λασπόλουτρο αυτό-εναπόθεσης στο λόφο του Στρέφη. Ένα απαλό ακούμπημα στο φυσικό τοπίο, καμία επιβολή, μία ένωση σώματος τόπου μέσω του πηλού. Μικρο-αντιστάσεις στις απώλειες δημόσιου λόγου και χώρου. Στο νταμάρι που έγινε δάσος, κάπου ανάμεσα στην εγκατάλειψη, την εξαφάνιση, τον πηλό και το χώμα επαναορίζουμε την επαφή.
Με τις Αγγελική Χατζή και Βάσια Πασπάλη
Φεστιβάλ Λυκαβηττού ΙΙ
Λόφος Στρέφη
Μάϊος 2021
Ανάπαυση 4
Σε ποιον ανήκει ο δημόσιος χώρος; Μέσα του υπάρχει χώρος για ανάπαυση; Σε μια 4η δοκιμή αυτο - εναπόθεσης ψάχνουμε τις προϋποθέσεις της ανάπαυσης στο δημόσιο χώρο. Κοιτάμε την πόλη για να δούμε αν ανήκουμε σε αυτήν. Βρισκόμαστε στη συμβολή των οδών Πατησίων και Πολυτεχνείου. Μια μικρο-αντίσταση στη διερχόμενη κίνηση αναλογίζεται τις διεκδικήσεις: αγώνες και στοχασμοί της νύχτας.
3 οχτάλεπτα εφήμερων καταλήψεων στο χρόνο και το χώρο μπροστά στο Οχτώ στο τρίπτυχο αντίσταση - ματαιότητα - πτώση.
Φεστιβάλ Λόφοι και Πεδία
Το Οχτώ, Πολυτεχνείου 8
Μάϊος 2022
Ανάπαυση V
Περφόρμανς (20’)
Μια άσκηση αυτό εναπόθεσης κάτω απ' τον ήλιο.
Στο πετρόχτιστο οχυρό των Τρουπάκηδων λάσπη, πέτρες και σώματα αναπαύονται σε αρμονία.
Ένα άχρονο σημείο συνεύρεσης της καθημερινής ζωής, της ιστορίας, των στοχασμών, των συναισθημάτων,
της δουλειάς, της τέχνης, των αγώνων των ανθρώπων. Μια μικροαντίσταση στη φθορά, στο ξεθώριασμα,
στο ξάσπρισμα, μια περιπλάνηση στη μνήμη πλάι στις πέτρες.
Μια πράξη συμφιλίωσης με τη φθορά.
Δημιουργία/ερμηνεία: Βάσια Πασπάλη και Αγγελική Χατζή
Η αναβίωση των Λίθων, Έικαστική έκθεση, Οχυρό Τρουπάκηδων, Καρδαμύλη, Αυγουστος 2022
Messenger
Description
messenger
A letter is written by an unborn child; it is a message to her mother and the world; during her journey towards existence, the child reflects upon and expresses her idea of the world. As a messenger, she will take a long journey: a marathon of imagery, emotion and experience.
An existential journey right before existence.
written and directed by Angeliki Hatzi
narrated and performed by Vasia Paspali
part of an ongoing process by Angeliki, Vasia and Alexia Karavela
audio mix by Andreas Lemis
2019
Now here // Nowhere
video dance - Video Art Miden 2020 | 10th Athens video dance project
Description
now here // nowhere
concept-idea: Anastasia Diga (with the priceless help of Vasia Paspali and Vasilis Paspalis) performers: Anastasia Diga - Vasia Paspali camera: Vasilis Paspalis edit: Anastasia Diga music: Franz Schubert - Piano Trio in E flat, op. 100
The endless effort of the human existence in life - just like Sisyphus - with or without the certainty of the expected aim. The end is the beginning, without although the beginning to entail a certain ending. After all, the value of the effort lies in the movement itself.
text_ anastasia gkitsi
2019
The rosetta mission vol. 1
video dance - WomenCinemakers Biennale 2018 | Avayava contemporary dance festival 2017 | 7th Athens video dance project | Moving body 17 (Varna) | Pool 17 - Internationales TanzFilmFestival Berlin
Description
the rosetta mission vol.1
The corner of the room remains microscopic moving as much as human construction is directed to the beginning of the birth of everything. Rosette crosses for 12 years the eternal loneliness of the universe to end up to the errant comet... 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.There will be a crash there as the human body is retracted and expanded emitting gravitational waves in other words space whispers of a solitary orbit as solitary is almost always the route to an uncharted body.-
Inspired by: Untitled L, Vasilis Paspalis Concept - Choreography: Anastasia Diga Performers: Anastasia Diga - Vasia Paspali Music: Andreas Lemis Camera: Vasilis Paspalis Edit: Anastasia Diga
2016
Nekropoleis
performance by V. Paspali, sound by RedEyeSyndrome for Nomadic / topos / Αthina, organized by Ε. Tzirtzilaki - Kerameikos cemetery and Athens' center | 2017
Description
Nekropoleis*
On the Kerameikos tombstones and at selected points of the route, improvised funerary monuments and a minute of silence. A tribute for the dead citizens of Athens, the human presence that has passed and the cohabitation of dead and living in the building and development of each city.
Kerameikos cemetery and Athens' center: May 2017
creator / performer: Vasia Paspali
sound: RedEyeSyndrome
artistic support: Alexia Karavela
excerpts from: Andreas Embirikos
* funerary fields or clusters that resemble cities' structure
Absence
performance by M. Zacharogianni and collaborators - Cabaret Voltaire | 2016 - Rooms Kappatos | 2017
Description
Absence
The experience of love and debris.
Love and death, war and love for war are explored through an endless project.
In a dystopic space three performers are in a constant struggle with each other, facing themselves, realizing their fragility, desperately looking for a way out, trying to build a new structure that will reduce the pain. Victory is doubtful. Love is a condition deeply revolutionary that makes us political subjects towards complicity and / or beauty.
Cabaret Voltaire : first performance 23 December 2016
St George Lycabettus : first performance 19 January 2017
curator: Antigoni Pogiatzi
direction: Maria Zacharogianni
costumes: Alexia Karavela
text: Maria Zacharogianni / Giannos Danakos
excerpts from: Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes, Anton Chekhov, Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos
performers: Giannos Danakos, Vasia Paspali, Bella Abartzaki
Pro-tomes
performance by V. Paspali - Chimeres | 2016
Description
Pro-tomes
a dialogue
between two heads
We convey the ideas of a bust usage and the public nature of the external communal space in the shared areas of an apartment building.
A conversation between two heads takes place.
Excerpts from poems about the concept of shared, common phrases, thoughts about the passage from a living person's state into the one of a material, references to depersonalization.
In a footsteps' sound background, the crosstalk refers to the reflection on the animate and inanimate that surrounds us.
Chimeres : first performance 28 November 2016
work in progress, duration 15'
head/voice: Vasia Paspali / deer/voice: Lysimachos Polichronidis / support in stage design: Alexia Karavela / sound: Andreas Lemis
Line Athina - Athina
a performance by V. Paspali, A. Hatzi, A. Karavela - Green park: Performance biennial / first edition 'No future', Kourdisto mantarini, Chimeres | 2016 SURFACES - ITS LIQUID International Art and Architecture Festival - Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi (Venice) | 2018
Description
Line Athina - Athina
by V. Paspali, A. Hatzi, A. Karavela
sound: A. Lemis
Performance biennial / first edition 'No future' - Green Park: first performance 24 June 2016
art festival Kourdisto mantarini: 16 September 2016
On a ferry going nowhere, two passengers are standing on the wale.. It is hot .. a voice reminds everyone the continuous wind flow.
In a static route from Athens to Athens, naval imagery, inspired by Camus’ The summer, forms an irrational present.
Ferry announcements accompany the meaningless journey. The announcements derive from the phrase of the Ecclesiastes “wind blow, wind blow, all is blow of the wind”, the accurate rendition of the phrase “vanity of vanities, all is vanity”. Athens is both departure and destination, in an exercise of drifting.
Little prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , coordinated by V. Paspali - 'Mporo', Municipality of Peristeri | 2016
Description
Little prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Coordination: V. Paspali
Sound: A. Lemis
Stage objects: A. Karavela
special thanks to A. Tsousis, A. Hatzi, S. Giasemi, fellow workers and the volunteers
Mporo: first performance 27 May 2016
Municipality of Peristeri: 21 september 2016
A performance by teens and adults with disabilities, as an outcome of annual theatre group meetings.
Though based on the story of the little prince, the texts on the performance derived from the participants themselves, who accomplished significant progress in every aspect concerning social skills, speech and movement expression, concentration, control, confidence, autonomy, imagination, creativity. They also managed to perform without external assistance on stage.
O simadiakos
by Alexandros Papadiamantis, directed by E. Spanou - Oikia Katakouzenou | 2016
Description
O simadiakos
Alexandros Papadiamantis
Direction: E. Spanou
Cast: M. Zacharopoulou, E. Spanou
understudy: V. Paspali
Oikia Katakouzenou: first performance 7 February 2016
Truth may seem, but cannot be:Beauty brag, but 'tis not she
William Shakespeare
A short episode among two cousins - Sotiros and Alekos - while chanting carols at Skiathos island on Epiphany eve. An unexpected meeting with Simadiakos, a person they fear, who wants them to deliver a letter to the girl he is in love with. The content of this letter is never revealed.
Presented in the form of a small parable, the text of the composition absorbs the short story of Al. Papadiamantis and combines it with the obituary he wrote himself for his beloved cousin Sotiris Oikonomou along with 'Rodina Akrogialia'. They all become a metaphor for life and love.
Dourgouti island hotel
by Ohi paizoume, directed by G. Sachinis - Dourgouti | 2015
Description
Dourgouti island hotel
ohi paizoume
Direction: G. Sachinis, E. Alexiou
Dourgouti: first performance 23 October 2015
A three routes' walking performance in Dourgouti neighborhood, revealing historical and cultural aspects of the particular area. One of ohi paizoume urban dig projects, which result from community activities, historical research, technology usage and performative approaches, all combined creatively.
My participation was voluntary, as a guide to the audience towards the performances taking place.
The dead house
from “The Fourth Dimension” by G. Ritsos, directed by V. Vasilakis - Aeschyleia, Bios | 2015
Description
Giannis Ritsos
The dead house
Direction: Vasilis Vasilakis
Stage design: Vasilis Vasilakis / Alexia Karavela
Costume design: Gioula Zoiopoulou
Assistant director: Mina Alexaki-Kougioumtzi
Video: Ilenia Lekka / Giorgos Apostolopoulos
Photo credits: Christina Sarlami
Cast: Vasilis Vasilakis, Maria Georgopoulou, Melina Zacharopoulou, Irini Karaoglou,
Vasia Paspali
Special thanks to: Eri Ritsou, Giorgos Karvelas, Kiki Mpaka, Margarita Xanthaki,
Anna Harkoutsaki, Violetta Paraskevopoulou, Vasiliki Spyrou, Afroditi Vafeiadou,
“Helios”
Bios: 11 February – 1 April 2015
Aischyleia 2015: 24 July
In the Dead House there is a combination of mythology, recent history of Greece,
auto biographical elements, cultural and existential aspects, terrifying memories
and comforting hopes all harmonically tied together in a magical realism
atmosphere. In a half destroyed house a woman remembers and narrates her life.
Constructing a figure - Part III
Unworthy - Green park occupation | 2015
Description
UNWORTHY
An opportunity to present personal and collective works, collections, designs, projects that failed, were postponed or cancelled, or were once considered unworthy.
Tuesday 23/6/2015
Green park occupation 19-29/6/2015
Manifesto
Today on the 19th of June, 2015 we are occupying Green Park cafe in the Pedion tou Areos, one the the two central parks of Athens. Almost 4 years after the occupation of the Empros theatre in 2011 we are activating with our own means a space deserted and left empty for years by the Greek state and propose a 10 day program of cultural and political intervention in the here and now of Athens. This activation refuses a particular temporal horizon and understands itself outside of the logics of ownership. The occupation is not defined by a particular ideology or interest but rather comes about as a result of the encounters born out the experiments and struggles of the last few years. Thus, we look to, rebuild modes of collectivity and solidarity and reclaim friendship for its political importance. We propose friendship as a model for organizational formations and autonomous instituting that exceeds neo-liberal calls to order.
Made up of fluid and flexible methods that refuse the enclosures of formal political representation this action attempts to collectively explore forms of critical artistic, political and theoretical production and their relationship to the public and dominant social narratives. It seeks to rethink the need for and nature of participation. It seeks to remain imperfect and incomplete. It seeks to recuperate lightness, humor, self-depreciation and joyous critique as the foundations of an open process.
The activation of the abandoned public building in Green Park, Athens desires politics and joy to emerge in a shared fight for, and from within, marginalised, forgotten and unexpected places. Deploying friendship as a political relationship in a struggle against cultural and artistic monopolies, “creative cities” and their production lines of co-optation, through this ephemeral collective experiment we aim to co-imagine with fellow city dwellers, the here and now of Green Park and our city.
An opportunity to present personal and collective works, collections, designs, projects that failed, were postponed or cancelled, or were once considered unworthy.
Tuesday 23/6/2015
Green park occupation 19-29/6/2015
Manifesto
Today on the 19th of June, 2015 we are occupying Green Park cafe in the Pedion tou Areos, one the the two central parks of Athens. Almost 4 years after the occupation of the Empros theatre in 2011 we are activating with our own means a space deserted and left empty for years by the Greek state and propose a 10 day program of cultural and political intervention in the here and now of Athens. This activation refuses a particular temporal horizon and understands itself outside of the logics of ownership. The occupation is not defined by a particular ideology or interest but rather comes about as a result of the encounters born out the experiments and struggles of the last few years. Thus, we look to, rebuild modes of collectivity and solidarity and reclaim friendship for its political importance. We propose friendship as a model for organizational formations and autonomous instituting that exceeds neo-liberal calls to order.
Made up of fluid and flexible methods that refuse the enclosures of formal political representation this action attempts to collectively explore forms of critical artistic, political and theoretical production and their relationship to the public and dominant social narratives. It seeks to rethink the need for and nature of participation. It seeks to remain imperfect and incomplete. It seeks to recuperate lightness, humor, self-depreciation and joyous critique as the foundations of an open process.
The activation of the abandoned public building in Green Park, Athens desires politics and joy to emerge in a shared fight for, and from within, marginalised, forgotten and unexpected places. Deploying friendship as a political relationship in a struggle against cultural and artistic monopolies, “creative cities” and their production lines of co-optation, through this ephemeral collective experiment we aim to co-imagine with fellow city dwellers, the here and now of Green Park and our city.
Pool no water
By M. Ravenhill, directed by M. Palilis - 104 Theatre | 2014 15
Description
Translated by Dafni Larouni
Directed by Michalis Palilis
Stage design: Konstandinos Zamanis
Lighting design: Dinos Nikolaou
Kinesiology: Mariza Tsiga
Cast: Emilia Vasilakaki, Manos Kannavos, Depy Panga, Vasia Paspali
104 theatre – First performance November 10, 2014
Directed by Michalis Palilis
Stage design: Konstandinos Zamanis
Lighting design: Dinos Nikolaou
Kinesiology: Mariza Tsiga
Cast: Emilia Vasilakaki, Manos Kannavos, Depy Panga, Vasia Paspali
104 theatre – First performance November 10, 2014
Odes to the Prince
based on the same-titled poetry of Nikos Alexis Aslanoglou by Nova melancholia
friendly reading poetry participation - Bangladesh | 2014
Description
The performance "Odes to the Prince" is based on the same-titled poetry of Nikos Alexis Aslanoglou (Ypsilon publishing house, 1981). It is an elegy on loss (or the impossibility) of love. Also, and elegy for the melancholy of our times, for the city of Athens, for anything that is relevant to us. "Odes" deal with the faces of amorous desire; the limits between desire, fantasy, cancellation, longing and memory.
The performance attempts to construct a temporary living monument for the lost or the regained loves of our lives, paying a tribute to one of our most erotic poets of our youth, Nikos Alexis Aslanoglou.
Performers: Andonis Gritsis, Leda Dallas, Athanasios Kouvousis, Alexia Sarandopoulou, Costas Tzimoulis, Despina Hatzipavlidou
Direction: Vassilis Noulas
Set design - Costumes: Nova Melancholia
Assistant director: Elisaveth Xanthopoulou
Each night our friends participate with reciting the poems.
BANGLADESH
Oct - Nov 2014, première: Sunday, 19 October 2014
The performance attempts to construct a temporary living monument for the lost or the regained loves of our lives, paying a tribute to one of our most erotic poets of our youth, Nikos Alexis Aslanoglou.
Performers: Andonis Gritsis, Leda Dallas, Athanasios Kouvousis, Alexia Sarandopoulou, Costas Tzimoulis, Despina Hatzipavlidou
Direction: Vassilis Noulas
Set design - Costumes: Nova Melancholia
Assistant director: Elisaveth Xanthopoulou
Each night our friends participate with reciting the poems.
BANGLADESH
Oct - Nov 2014, première: Sunday, 19 October 2014
Scenes
By E. Filippou, directed by M. Labrakis - The Art Theatre (Theatro Technis) | 2014
Description
"Scenes"
by Efthimis Philippou
Direction: Manos Lambrakis in collaboration with Zoe Chatziantoniou
Stage design: Daphni Koutra
Cast: Ioanna Tsirigkouli, Elias Panagiotakopoulos, Nana Papadaki, Babis Galiatsatos, Dora Stylianesi, Tzeni Kolia, Manos Karatzogiannis, Theano Vasileiou, Panagiotis Katsolis, Sivi Sideri, Dimosthenis Eleftheriadis, Aris Tsampalikas, Rita Litou, Haris Simeonidis and 50 more actors and amateurs.
The "Scenes" are extracts that either work as individual stand-alone short stories, either as pieces of some other larger stories, in which one must add information about what happened before, after or both. Their main purpose is to describe asituation or a thought, not to say something specific. With simplistic structure and no apparent connection between them, they are presenting a set in which people live, speak, sleep, are born and die.
The Art Theatre "Karolos Koun"
Art Direction: Sissy Papathanasiou
Friday, October 3, 2014
by Efthimis Philippou
Direction: Manos Lambrakis in collaboration with Zoe Chatziantoniou
Stage design: Daphni Koutra
Cast: Ioanna Tsirigkouli, Elias Panagiotakopoulos, Nana Papadaki, Babis Galiatsatos, Dora Stylianesi, Tzeni Kolia, Manos Karatzogiannis, Theano Vasileiou, Panagiotis Katsolis, Sivi Sideri, Dimosthenis Eleftheriadis, Aris Tsampalikas, Rita Litou, Haris Simeonidis and 50 more actors and amateurs.
The "Scenes" are extracts that either work as individual stand-alone short stories, either as pieces of some other larger stories, in which one must add information about what happened before, after or both. Their main purpose is to describe asituation or a thought, not to say something specific. With simplistic structure and no apparent connection between them, they are presenting a set in which people live, speak, sleep, are born and die.
The Art Theatre "Karolos Koun"
Art Direction: Sissy Papathanasiou
Friday, October 3, 2014
Parliament
By M. Klien - Benaki Museum | 2014
Description
Parliament
A choreographic site for citizens
Choreography: Michael Kliën
Sound: Volkmar Klien
Artistic collaboration: Jeffrey Gormly, Vitoria Kotsalou
Dramaturgy: Steve Valk
Participants: 12—48 citizens as well as some from the audience
Location: Large indoor or outdoor space
Duration: 5—14 days / 6—10 hours per day
We might think of choreography in terms of ‘rehearsal’; that is, as the working out and working through of utopian, nevertheless ‘real’, social relations.
Andrew Hewitt
Project description
This project is based on an extended, interdisciplinary understanding of choreography, concerned with embodied social and political relations and movements.
Concept
A Parliament is a discussion; in its modern meaning it has come to be used for a body of people (in an institutional sense) meeting to discuss matters of state. This new adaption of the word Parliament aims to get the body politic into a state of dance: ‘In truth, the right way to begin to think about the pattern which connects is to think of it as primarily a dance of interacting parts.’ (Bateson—Mind and Nature) Parliament enables communal situations in which the depth and workings of human relations can be sensed and made palpable to participants and audience alike. In this instance the aims to act as catalysts and amplifier for embodied knowledge to formulate, for mammalian intelligence to unfold, specifically in respect to recursive, inter-personal/social relations and their governance. Fundamental to these processes is choreography’s unique position in its regard of the body being simultaneously subject, theme, material, tool and terrain (Colberg). As in Kliën’s previous works, choreography is approached as a discipline developing into a cultural practice that contributes to the creation of original politics as well as a social- political consciousness. In fact, Parliament reveals the necessity of embodied aesthetics in the process and evolution of ethics.
A choreographic site for citizens
Choreography: Michael Kliën
Sound: Volkmar Klien
Artistic collaboration: Jeffrey Gormly, Vitoria Kotsalou
Dramaturgy: Steve Valk
Participants: 12—48 citizens as well as some from the audience
Location: Large indoor or outdoor space
Duration: 5—14 days / 6—10 hours per day
We might think of choreography in terms of ‘rehearsal’; that is, as the working out and working through of utopian, nevertheless ‘real’, social relations.
Andrew Hewitt
Project description
This project is based on an extended, interdisciplinary understanding of choreography, concerned with embodied social and political relations and movements.
Concept
A Parliament is a discussion; in its modern meaning it has come to be used for a body of people (in an institutional sense) meeting to discuss matters of state. This new adaption of the word Parliament aims to get the body politic into a state of dance: ‘In truth, the right way to begin to think about the pattern which connects is to think of it as primarily a dance of interacting parts.’ (Bateson—Mind and Nature) Parliament enables communal situations in which the depth and workings of human relations can be sensed and made palpable to participants and audience alike. In this instance the aims to act as catalysts and amplifier for embodied knowledge to formulate, for mammalian intelligence to unfold, specifically in respect to recursive, inter-personal/social relations and their governance. Fundamental to these processes is choreography’s unique position in its regard of the body being simultaneously subject, theme, material, tool and terrain (Colberg). As in Kliën’s previous works, choreography is approached as a discipline developing into a cultural practice that contributes to the creation of original politics as well as a social- political consciousness. In fact, Parliament reveals the necessity of embodied aesthetics in the process and evolution of ethics.
open presentations
based on the workshops organized by G. Skourletis and V. Noulas - Romantso | 2014
Description
Six young directors delivered a circle of workshops at Romantso, in research of the function of the actor in the contemporary theatre practice.
Vasilis Noulas, Live theatre and still life (or vice versa) on an Unpublished text by Manolis Tsipos
Romantso (first floor)
Monday, April 7, 2014
Workshop presentation with Katerina Alexi, Antonis Gritsis, Yannis Konstantinidis, Vasia Paspali, Myrto Strampi, Dimitra Tampasi, Costas Tzimoulis, Nicoletta Chardalia
Giannis Skourletis, infancy
Romantso (ground floor)
Monday, April 7, 2014
A number of undelivered letters, seeking for their recipients, looking for a response, travelling through bodies and mouths, words and gestures. Senders looking for a way to meet.
Texts: Irini Sourgiadaki
with: Asimis Alexiou, Eleftheria Vlachou, Danae Vouzala, Maria Georgopoulou, Evgenia Deliali, Apostolos Malempitzis, Konstantinos Margaritis, Alexandros Mitropoulos, Foteini Baklatzioglou, Thalia Bitouni, Christos Pappas, Vasia Paspali, Tasos Pyrgieris, Giorgos Spiliotopoulos, Dimitra Tampasi, Yota Tselenti
Vasilis Noulas, Live theatre and still life (or vice versa) on an Unpublished text by Manolis Tsipos
Romantso (first floor)
Monday, April 7, 2014
Workshop presentation with Katerina Alexi, Antonis Gritsis, Yannis Konstantinidis, Vasia Paspali, Myrto Strampi, Dimitra Tampasi, Costas Tzimoulis, Nicoletta Chardalia
Giannis Skourletis, infancy
Romantso (ground floor)
Monday, April 7, 2014
A number of undelivered letters, seeking for their recipients, looking for a response, travelling through bodies and mouths, words and gestures. Senders looking for a way to meet.
Texts: Irini Sourgiadaki
with: Asimis Alexiou, Eleftheria Vlachou, Danae Vouzala, Maria Georgopoulou, Evgenia Deliali, Apostolos Malempitzis, Konstantinos Margaritis, Alexandros Mitropoulos, Foteini Baklatzioglou, Thalia Bitouni, Christos Pappas, Vasia Paspali, Tasos Pyrgieris, Giorgos Spiliotopoulos, Dimitra Tampasi, Yota Tselenti
α’
Performance based on research on the psychotherapeutic technique of Focusing and its application in art. Text by N.G. Pentzikis, directed by I. Konstantinidou, Focusing by E. Xanthopoulou, supported by the Hellenic Focusing Center (HFC), participation in “ekfrasi Athina festival” organized by the Hellenic Center of International Theatre Institute & the Municipality of Athens | 2014
Description
Author: Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis (extract from Architecture of a dissolute life, ed. Agra, 2008, pp. 9 to 11)
Director: Isabella Konstantinidou
Focusing: Irini Xanthopoulou
Sound: Andreas Lemis
Stage design: Isabella Konstantinidou / Alexia Karavela
Voice: Michalis Paspalis
Poster design: Electra Galani
Performer: Vasia Paspali
Thanks to: Gabriel N. Pentzikis, Xenia Themeli, Vaggelis Doumas, Angelos Mantzios, Angeliki Hatzi, Vasilis Paspalis, Anastasia Digga
First performance: March 16, 2014
In the performance "a" logic and intelligence step back. The body becomes the "thinking" mean, that expresses perception. Emerging sensations and images compose a narrative focused on the breath, using the "intelligence" of the body that highlights the focusing psychotherapeutic technique.
The body acts in a simple environment, surrounded by a soundscape, a chair, a ribbon and a pair of eyes.
The performance resulted from a research project on how the specific psychotherapeutic technique can be used as an artistic frame.
About focusing:
The focusing procedure is an experiential focus process on the body, in order to decode the messages and information which it carries in relation to an issue. The theoretical bases of focusing raised by Eugene Gendlin in the 60s.
Director: Isabella Konstantinidou
Focusing: Irini Xanthopoulou
Sound: Andreas Lemis
Stage design: Isabella Konstantinidou / Alexia Karavela
Voice: Michalis Paspalis
Poster design: Electra Galani
Performer: Vasia Paspali
Thanks to: Gabriel N. Pentzikis, Xenia Themeli, Vaggelis Doumas, Angelos Mantzios, Angeliki Hatzi, Vasilis Paspalis, Anastasia Digga
First performance: March 16, 2014
In the performance "a" logic and intelligence step back. The body becomes the "thinking" mean, that expresses perception. Emerging sensations and images compose a narrative focused on the breath, using the "intelligence" of the body that highlights the focusing psychotherapeutic technique.
The body acts in a simple environment, surrounded by a soundscape, a chair, a ribbon and a pair of eyes.
The performance resulted from a research project on how the specific psychotherapeutic technique can be used as an artistic frame.
About focusing:
The focusing procedure is an experiential focus process on the body, in order to decode the messages and information which it carries in relation to an issue. The theoretical bases of focusing raised by Eugene Gendlin in the 60s.
P.I.G.S. / Sotiria
Conceived, curated and directed by M. Mastrantoni - Teatro Potlach (Fara Sabina - Italy), Monty (Antwerp - Belgium) [Residencies and participation at the project Invisible Cities], Roes theatre | 2013
Description
«P.I.G.S. / Sotiria» is an international project by Theatre ENTROPIA, developed through research laboratories and residencies in Ireland, Portugal, Denmark, Italy, Belgium and Greece, in collaboration with local organizations and artists.
The acronym Ρ.Ι.G.S. (Portugal - Ireland - Greece - Spain), used as a concise manner of reference to the economically weaker countries of Eurozone, serves as a pretext in an attempt to raise reasonable questions about the maturity of Europe's political civilization, to investigate the current financial, political and social crisis, to debate the stereotypes of the past and to reflect on our vision for the future, in a playful and humorous manner.
Concept - Director: Marilli Mastrantoni
Stage and costume design: Telis Karananos, Alexandra Siafkou
Music and video: Aris Zaglis
Kinesiology: Christina Katsiki-Sachtouri
Assistant director: Maria Partsiliva
Production assistant: Thanasis Vlachopoulos
Performers: Dimitris Drosos, Vasia Paspali, Theodosia Savvaki, Tsambika Fesaki, Don Christodoulou
Performances 15-21 October 2013 at Theatre ROES
The acronym Ρ.Ι.G.S. (Portugal - Ireland - Greece - Spain), used as a concise manner of reference to the economically weaker countries of Eurozone, serves as a pretext in an attempt to raise reasonable questions about the maturity of Europe's political civilization, to investigate the current financial, political and social crisis, to debate the stereotypes of the past and to reflect on our vision for the future, in a playful and humorous manner.
Concept - Director: Marilli Mastrantoni
Stage and costume design: Telis Karananos, Alexandra Siafkou
Music and video: Aris Zaglis
Kinesiology: Christina Katsiki-Sachtouri
Assistant director: Maria Partsiliva
Production assistant: Thanasis Vlachopoulos
Performers: Dimitris Drosos, Vasia Paspali, Theodosia Savvaki, Tsambika Fesaki, Don Christodoulou
Performances 15-21 October 2013 at Theatre ROES
Violence & Violence 2
conceived and directed by V. Skarmoutsos - Vyrsodepseio | 2013
Description
violence /: violence
Vasilis Skarmoutsos - AleaJactaEst
Director / Kinesiology: Vasilis Skarmoutsos
With: Marilou Andrikou, Jenny Vagkopoulou, Giorgos Kastellis, Eva Michailidou, Vasia Paspali, Vasilis Skarmoutsos, Christina Tsatsou
Trailer / Poster design: Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
Photos: George Dimopoulos
First performance: July 14, 2013, Vyrsodepseio , 1st site specific festival
Violence is expressed in different actions of aggression, which cause or intend to cause (physical) injury to the self or others. Violence is a reality which we all understand, reproduce or experience.
The performance / installation ": violence" is the first part of the Project Museum, which attempts to create and depict portraits of people.
Violence 2
Vasilis Skarmoutsos - AleaJactaEst
Director / Kinesiology: Vasilis Skarmoutsos
With: Marilou Andrikou, Jenny Vagkopoulou, Eva Michailidou, Vasia Paspali, Vasilis Skarmoutsos, Christina Tsatsou
Trailer / Poster design: Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
Photos: George Dimopoulos
first performance: October 4th, 2013, Vyrsodepseio, 2nd site specific festival
The performance / installation Via 2 based on the previous performance ": violence" has developed into a durational, interactive performance focusing on portraits of people whose lives are directly or indirectly linked to violence.
violence /: violence
Vasilis Skarmoutsos - AleaJactaEst
Director / Kinesiology: Vasilis Skarmoutsos
With: Marilou Andrikou, Jenny Vagkopoulou, Giorgos Kastellis, Eva Michailidou, Vasia Paspali, Vasilis Skarmoutsos, Christina Tsatsou
Trailer / Poster design: Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
Photos: George Dimopoulos
First performance: July 14, 2013, Vyrsodepseio , 1st site specific festival
Violence is expressed in different actions of aggression, which cause or intend to cause (physical) injury to the self or others. Violence is a reality which we all understand, reproduce or experience.
The performance / installation ": violence" is the first part of the Project Museum, which attempts to create and depict portraits of people.
Violence 2
Vasilis Skarmoutsos - AleaJactaEst
Director / Kinesiology: Vasilis Skarmoutsos
With: Marilou Andrikou, Jenny Vagkopoulou, Eva Michailidou, Vasia Paspali, Vasilis Skarmoutsos, Christina Tsatsou
Trailer / Poster design: Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
Photos: George Dimopoulos
first performance: October 4th, 2013, Vyrsodepseio, 2nd site specific festival
The performance / installation Via 2 based on the previous performance ": violence" has developed into a durational, interactive performance focusing on portraits of people whose lives are directly or indirectly linked to violence.
Hosts and guests
conceived by Bright Red Tongue - Kinitiras studio | 2013
Description
Hosts and Guests by bright red tongue
Participants: Zoe Tsavdarides, Vasia Paspali, Thalia Ditsa / Irini Vasilatou
Kinitiras studio - First performance March 28, 2013
3rd performance contest, 28-31 March, 2013, with performances that stood out from the initial call for the creation of a trio (duration 5'-15').The performance contest is part of the "Artists in crisis", encouraging the artistic community to continue creating and recognizing that mutual support is the only way out of the crisis.
Snow
Written and directed by M. Palilis - Simeio theatre | 2012 13
Description
Snow
by Michalis Palilis
Director: Michalis Palilis
Costumes: Sonia Bloom
Stage design: Michalis Palilis
Lighting: Sofia Alexiadou
Photos: Christos Stavros-Vlachakis
Cast: Dimitris Goutzamanis, Depy Panga, Nikos Pantelidis, Vasia Paspali
Simeio theatre - first performance November 30, 2012
Barcelona, Mapa de Sombras
written by L. Cunille, directed by M. Palilis - Altera Pars theatre, coordinated by Teatro Pasión | 2012
Description
Barcelona, Mapa de Sombras
Written by L. Cunille
Direction: Michael Palilis
Cast: Depy Panga, Nikos Pantelidis, Vasia Paspali, Loizos Kambouris, Zoe Xanthopoulou, Lefteris Zampetakis
Altera Pars Theatre - 8 April 2012
Against democracy
written by Esteve Soler, directed by M. Palilis - Black box - Epi Kolono theatre, Avaton theatre | 2012
Description
"Against democracy" of Esteve Soler
Do you believe in democracy?
Seven one - act plays, which Soler calls "Grand Guignol". [Definition of Grand Guignol: "theatrical kind of French origin, that was created in the late 19th century and aimed,to show the brutality of the current era, with short-term projects through horror and surreal farce"]. By main components surprise and humor, as a "modern Ionesco", he denies the only thing which cannot be questioned, perhaps, in this world: democracy.
Translation: Maria Hadtziemmanouil / Dimitris Psaras
Directed by Michalis Palilis
Stage design: Sophia Vasileiou
Costumes: Sonia Bloom
Assistant director: Loizos Kambouris
Lighting: Michalis Palilis
Visuals: Konstantinos Carpathiou
Photos: Christos Stavros Vlachakis
Cast: Giannis Diamantis, Loizos Kambouris, Zoe Xanthopoulou, Michalis Palilis, Vasia Paspali
Black box – Epi Kolono - First performance: February 18, 2012
2nd year
Directed by: Michael Palilis
Costumes: Sonia Bloom
Stage design: Sophia Vasileiou
Visuals: Konstantinos Carpathiou
Lighting: Michael Palilis
Public relations: Marcella Kazamia
Cast: Zoe Xanthopoulou, Michalis Palilis, Vasia Paspali, Panos Rokidis, Nikitas Chologgitas
Avaton Theatre - first performance November 5, 2012
Home
written by D. Storey. directed by S. Pavlides - Vryssaki (Athens), Gramma (Aegina) | 2011
Description
Home
by David Storey
Four characters * two women and two men * in a place like nowhere * Guests hoping to escape from their broken lives, to avoid the terror of failure *.
Director: Stelios Pavlidis
Costumes: Giorgina Germanou
Cast: Eleanna Panagoulea, Vasia Paspali, Stelios Tsekeris, Aggelos Kalinoglou
Production: Free Shape-Critical Mass
Gramma - first performance September 3, 2011
Vrysaki - first performance September 23, 2011
Overdose of happiness
written and directed by Wooden Frog - Kinitiras studio (In Progress festival), Six D.O.G.S (Artogether festival) | 2011
Description
Idea, concept, direction, text, performance by Wooden Frog:
Michalis Kaliotsos, Loizos Kambouris, Erika Mitrou, Nefeli Papaderou and Vasia Paspali.
The group is experimenting on storytelling, with or without words and uses the narration to respond to the stimuli it receives.
Kinitiras studio - first performance July 14, 2011
in Progress Festival (14-15-16/7/2011)
The distinguished artists involved come from the fields of theater and dance (Mariela Nestora, Elena Penga, Patrick Morris (GB), Stefanie Muller (SWTZ), Vicky Spanovangeli, Antigoni Gyra, Vicky Adamou, Loizos Kambouris, Violetta Gyra, Mary Kolonia and many others.
Tonight We Improvise
written by L. Pirandello, directed by P. Moustakis - Askisis Theatre | 2011
Description
TONIGHT WE IMPROVISE
Luigi Pirandello
Production based on the theatrical version of Luigi's Pirandello TONIGHT WE IMPROVISE, directed by Periklis Moustakis.
Translation from Italian: Mimis Augoustidis and Periklis Moustakis.
Sets and costumes by Angelos Angelis.
Music by Marios Tsaggaris.
Lighting by Panagiotis Manousis.
Video art by Zisis Kokkinidis and Ion Papaspyrou.
Cast: Vasia Paspali, Alkis Zoupas, Irini Karaoglou, Irini Korologou, Vicky Kyriakidi, Yannis Bogris, Giorgos Sapountzoglou, Dina Stamatopoulou, Effie Tsarouha and Nicolas Chanakoulas.
Piano: Alexandros Kouros.
Askisis Theatre - First performance November 26, 2010
Chez Alba
written by A. Katsarou, based on «The House of Bernarda Alba» by Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by E. Gousi - Chora Theatre (Athens), National Theatre of Northern Greece / Action Venue / Lazaristes Monastery Studio Theatre (Thessaloniki) | 2010 11
Description
Homeriad
work in progress research material presentation based on «Homeriad» by D. Dimitriades and Odyssey by Homer, directed by Esther Andre Gonzalez | 2010
Eating the apple
Site-specific performance Directed by A. Tobouli Cultural Centre - Municipality of Athens | 2010
Description
The unsaid fairy tale and the four seasons
Written by G. Kalatzopoulos, directed by O. Goniadis - Municipal Regional Theatre of Veria | 2009 10
Description
Dying as a country
Written by D. Dimitriades, directed by M. Marmarinos - Théâtre de l'Odéon - Ateliers Berthier (Paris) (Voluntary participation) | 2009
Description
The fabulous case of the bat
installation, site-specific performance directed by V. Sachpazi, presented by Free Fall company - Epi Kolono theatre (Off-Off festival), The Art Foundation | 2009
Description
52’
compilation of work by Büchner, Kane, Bernhard and Fassbinder, adapted and directed by S. Pavlides - Theseum Theatre (Athens), EKPAZ - Hellenic Wildlife Hospital (Aegina) | 2009
Description
Two steps forward, one step backwards
Commedia dell’ arte Adapted and directed by A. Kefala - Vasilis’s Bar theatre, N. Smyrni’s Municipality festival (Athens) | 2008
Description
The frogs
Written by Aristophanes, adapted by G. Kalatzopoulos, directed by O. Goniadis - Municipal Regional Theatre of Veria | 2007 08
Description
Thieves and policemen
Commedia dell’ arte Adapted and directed by A. Kefala - Oropos’s Municipality festival | 2007
Mayakovsky through centuries
Adapted and directed by A. Kefala - Count’s Bar theatre, Vasilis’s Bar theatre (Athens) | 2006 07
Description
Mowgli
Written by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by A. Papaspiros, directed by D. Vasileiadou - Theatre of the Sun (Athens) | 2004 05
Description
Cinema
Senses
short film directed by E. Balasi | 2014
Description
Matriarchy
a film by N. Kornilios | 39th São Paulo International Film Festival, Barcelona & Buenos Aires (guided by Amnesty International), 20th Athens International Film Festival (AIFF 2014), 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF 2014)
Description
Ceremony 273.749
Video art against sex trafficking directed by P. Mavros, C. Krekoukiotis | 2009
Description
Picking Margarita
Margarita short film directed by I. Konstantinidou | 2007
Cooking dangerously & Breathlessness
directed by V. Tselemengos & A. Bafaloukas (Participation) | 2009
Feminine conspiracies
directed by V. Vafeas (Participation) | 2007
Voice over
Voice over - Sweetspot productions | 2013
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Greek voice at the colournamer, an online colour naming model created by Dimitris Mylonas, as part of his research project.
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Teaching & social work
Theatre group facilitator:
2017 18 Summer Education Programmes organized by Municipality of Drapetsona for children with disabilities
2017 18 Ergomilo - center of speech development, learning, writing
2016 17 18 Playskool
2016 DI.KE.PS.Y.(Interdisciplinary Research & Psychosocial Support for children and adults)
2015 16 'Mporo' association supporting children with disabilities
2013 14 15 16 17 Drasis Camp (Summer Education Programmes organized by Municipality of Agios Dimitrios)
2011 Pan-Hellenic Association for Psychological Rehabilitation and Work Integration
[for teaching ideas feel free to visit my site created during my pedagogical studies]
Social work:
2017 18 Social worker - Primary school