• PROGRAMME

FINGERSIX (GR, AR, ES/AT, US/DE, IT/DE)
The paradox of a future in the occidental paradigm

70΄//// 27 & 28 November, 20:30 /// Rabbithole Art & Performance Space

This is a performance about the obsession of western civilization with finding out what is going to happen in the future. Predictions, forecasts and estimations sound like contemporary oracles. What do we want to know? What would we be ready to sacrifice in order to get this information about our future? Is future a paradox in the occidental paradigm? A game of prediction seeking, with an unpredictable end....

Fingersix is a collective consisting of five choreographers, who after finishing their studies at ArtEZ/NL, created a structure for action aiming to combine their different artistic practices and cultural identities. They share a common vision towards collective creation and a continual need to explore performing arts methodologies. Fingersix is Dani Brown, Alessio Castellacci, Marta Navaridas, Melina Seldes and Sofia Mavragani. After 10 years of mutual collaborations, development of individual artistic practices, and international activities in professional contexts they are now aligning their experiences to create a common project.

Concept/Direction: Sofia Mavragani, Dani Brown, Alessio Castellacci, Marta Navaridas, Melina Seldes
Performance: Fingersix
Music: Alessio Castellacci
Light Design: Vassilis Klotsotiras
Costume/Set Design: Paul Thanopoulos + Fingersix

Production: Fingersix
/// Co-production: Ευρωπαϊκό δίκτυο Open Latitudes (3) (Latitudes Contemporaines (FR) Vooruit (BE) – L’Arsenic (CH) – Body/Mind (PL) – Teatro delle Moire (IT) – Sin Arts Culture (HU) – Le Phénix (FR) – MIR Festival (GR) – Materiais Diversos (PT) )with support from the European Union
/// Supported by: MIR Festival / Athens (GR), NAGIB Contemporary Dance Festival / Maribor (SL), Garage Performing Arts Centre / Kerkyra (GR), Isadora Duncan Dance Centre / Athens (GR)

/// Τickets: 12€, 10€ (student/unemployed)

 

DAVID WEBER-KREBS (BE)
Tonight, Lights Out!

70΄ or a bit more //// 29 Nov., 21:00 /// Rabbithole Art & Performance Space

There is a story about a boy who saw the light when he stayed in the darkness. Would you stay in the darkness in order to feel enlightened? Would you be part of a group of people who would turn off the lights to vanish darkness? A mesmerizing story telling turns into a surprising light and darkness game... An unforgettable performance.

David Weber-Krebs (Liège, 1974) is an artist living in Brussels and Amsterdam. He studied french literature and religion sciences in Fribourg (CH) and Berlin, and mime at the Theaterschool, Amsterdam. His work ranges from big projects involving large amounts of people to events for one spectator, lecture performances to films. His work is engaging the spectator in a complex game between getting absorbed or merging with an art piece, and keeping his distance towards it.

Concept, text, direction: David Weber-Krebs
Master of ceremony: Maarten Westra Hoekzema
Sound: Coordt Linke
Technique: Hans Westendorp
Tour manager: Martin Kaffarnik
Production & Assistance: Marie Urban
Management & Production: Klein Verzet
Tour Management: Ingrid Vranken
Distribution: Bold

Production: Stichting Infinite Endings /// Co-prodution: Frascati, STUK, Zeitraumexit και Theater Zeebelt.

/// The presentation of this performance in MIRfestival has been kindly supported by the Flemish Authorities.

/// Tickets: 12€ & 10€ (student/unemployed)

OTHER SPACES (FI)
Reindeer Safari

Sunday afternoon //// Nov. 30 /// ismos Art Venue & other visible places in the city ///
/// 13:00 - 14:30 introduction at ismos Art Venue
at Triptolemou st. / next to Keramikos Metro Station
/// 15:00-18:00 a walk in the city
/// 19:00 19:00 Open public presentation the same evening at the same place
(Entrance free at the presentation)

Other Spaces (Toisissa tiloissa) is a Helsinki based live arts collective. The aim of the collective is to create collective physical exercises through which people can visit “other spaces”. Reindeer Safari is a collective wayfaring performance in three phases. The performance takes place in a semi-urban landscape that authentic reindeer might conceivably visit. The participants of Reindeer Safari form a herd, that moves according to the natural rules that correspond to the group behavior of reindeer. The herd chooses its path collectively. One of the rules is that the participants are not allowed to chat – reindeer are very quiet animals.
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Concept: Other Spaces collective with Lauri Kontula, Kati Korosuo, Minja Mertanen & Veera Turunen.
Video: Jaakko Ruuska
Vest design: Katri Sipiläinen

/// Athenian Reindeer Safari is part of a project developed during SPACE 2: Destinations together with other European festivals and theatres. It is realized with kind support by SPACE (Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe) European platform.

/// Tickets: 8€
Tea/coffee and snack included.
Limited number of participants.

MEDIE MEGAS (GR)
Transforming Me: a bilingual solo

Nov. 30 & Dec. 1, 20:30 /// Rabbithole Art & Performance Space ///

When Greeks complain about anything in their country, this cliché phrase returns: «This place is never going to change». «People never change» is another cliché. And what if someone really wanted to change? To make his or her everyday life meaningful, to feel productive and efficient, to get away of the false dilemmas, to give one’s personal battle for change, to leave the familiar behind and walk towards the uncanny? If more people tried, would that finally change this place? How can transformation become a common project for a larger part of population?

Medie Megas was born in England in 1978. She studies at the State School of Dance in Athens and she did her postgraduate studies in LCDS/ Kent University in the UK. She founded Φora dance company in 2008 and she has choreographed three works for it. She was a founding member of Syndesmos Chorou, a network of Greek choreographers. She has participated in theatre performances as a comedian. She has choreographed theatre performances. She teaches dance history at the professional dance school Rallou Manou. She likes incorporating her philosophical and political discourse in her works in a very physical way, making her dance a reflection vehicle.

Choreography: Medie Megas
Dramaturgy: Kate Adams
Original music: Chrysanthos Christodoulou
Lighing: Tassos Paleoroutas Image procession: Sakis Stritsidis / Front

Production Φora
/// Co-production Open Latitudes (3) European Network (Latitudes Contemporaines (FR) Vooruit (BE) – L’Arsenic (CH) – Body/Mind (PL) – Teatro delle Moire (IT) – Sin Arts Culture (HU) – Le Phénix (FR) – MIR Festival (GR) – Materiais Diversos (PT) ) supported by the European Union.

/// Tickets: 10€, 8€ (student/unemployed)

Drawing by Medie Megas made during the process of the creation of the piece © Medie Megas.

SARAH VANHEE (BE)
Lecture for everyone

Dec. 1, 2 & 3 /// In secret places throughout the city
Open public presentation /// 60΄//// Dec. 3, 19:00 /// Rabbithole Art & Performance Space
Entrance free

Sarah Vanhee has been working on participative projects for quite a few years. Sarah Vanhee's artistic practice is linked to performance, visual art and literature. It uses different formats and is often (re)created in situ. She was an artist in residence at Frascati Productions (Amsterdam) and is currently in residency at CAMPO (Ghent). Lecture For Every One, initially created for KunsteFestivalDesArts in Brussels, became very fast one of the most invited works in European festivals.

Lecture For Every One is a short artistic intervention consisting of a text that Sarah Vanhee or another performer brings/performs at occasions where people are anyway already gathered in order to discuss/exchange/undertake something together. She intrudes into existent situations that are strange to her, and where she herself is a stranger. When the lecture is done, she leaves immediately. In the text, she tries to address citizens both collectively and individually, avoiding the rhetorics known from political messages, mass media, advertising, rules and laws, in an attempt to speak “freely”, in a gesture that addresses both the individual and the collective, and considers our contemporary (Western) society as a co-creation of “every-one”. What do we do altogether for ourselves and for the others? This project is an offer to the city, it exists invisibly during the festival, it goes to the audience instead of waiting for it in a theatre, and it advocates common benefit.

Concept & text: Sarah Vanhee
Created in collaboration with: Juan Dominguez Rojo, Berno Odo Polzer, Dirk Pauwels & Kristien Van den Brande  
Management host organisations & website: Linda Sepp
Production management in Athens: Chistina Zafeirouli
Performance English version: Sarah Vanhee
Performance Greek version: Matina Pergioudaki

Production: CAMPO (Ghent) //// Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts & Frascati Producties (Amsterdam)//// With the support of: STUK kunstencentrum (Λέβεν) //// Thanks to: KC BUDA (Kortrijk) Special thanks to everyone who helped us spread Lecture For Every One.

//// Lecture for Everyone Athens can be realized thanks to the support of Open Latitudes (3) European network, supported by the European Union

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ACHILLEAS CHARISKOS (GR)
Washing machine

45΄ //// Dec. 1 & 2, 22:00 /// ismos Χώρος Τέχνης ///

In Washing Machine - a white appliance-ceremony, Achilleas Chariskos, is inspired by the circular rotations, by the obsession with the minimal movement, by the everyday ceremony of cleaning ourselves.
In this performance, a man is watching a personal moment in a private environment, in the secure space of imagination. Washing Machine is inspired by circular rotations from left to right, inversely and circularly with the man’s ego in the center. It is the solo of a man who is looking for replies about before and after, about the need and the utopia, about time and patience, about substitutes, fading, rubbing, cleanness, clearness and finally catharsis.

Achilleas Chariskos studied at the I.P.A. (Intercultural Performance Academy) in Berlin and at SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam. Before that he studied theatre in Thessaloniki and did clown studies in Palermo and Milano. He has collaborated as a comedian and a dancer with companies in Greece, Germany, The Netherlands and Czech Republic. He lives in Athens but very often touring…

Production: Achilleas Chariskos //// /// Co-production: Ευρωπαϊκό δίκτυο Open Latitudes (3) (Latitudes Contemporaines (FR) Vooruit (BE) – L’Arsenic (CH) – Body/Mind (PL) – Teatro delle Moire (IT) – Sin Arts Culture (HU) – Le Phénix (FR) – MIR Festival (GR) – Materiais Diversos (PT) )with support from the European Union
/// Τickets: 10€, 8€ (student/unemployed)

© Achilleas Chariskos

AYELEN PAROLIN (BE)
Hérétiques

50΄ //// Dec 2, 20:30 /// Rabbithole Art & Performance Space

Ayelen Parolin is a choregrapher and dancer. Born in 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She studied at the National School of Dance and the San Martin Theatre in Buenos Aires. In Europe, she followed the e.x.e.r.c.e formation in Montpellier. As a performer she worked amongst others for Mathilde Monnier, Mossoux-Bonté and François Peyret. Since 2003, she’s been creating her own projects. Ayelen Parolin probes the human nature in a methodic, humourous and penetrating way. She loves to confront the animal that lies dormant in humans, and to deconstruct clichés, especially about masculinity and femininity.

Juggling between canon and unison, her choreographic project Hérétiques attempts to create a ritual based on five shaman steps repeated to the exhaustion. Working on duration and repetition, endurance and resistance, the Argentinean choreographer who lives in Brussels seeks to bring on surface the spontaneity and the essential force of the human being, the explosive and animal force which can subvert everything.

Concept & Choreography: Ayelen Parolin
Interpretation: Marc Iglesias & Gilles Fumba
Musical composition & live interpretation:: Lea
Dramaturgy: Olivier Hespel
Lighting design: Colin Legras
Costumes design: Stéphanie Croibien 
Technical manager and lighting operator: Claude Teymans
Tour management: Karin Vermeire

/// Production: RUDA asbl /// Coproduction: Charleroi Danses, Les Brigittines, Théâtre Marni Supported by: Ministère de la Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service de la Danse, Soutien Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, La Briqueterie, WBI, SACD, WBT/D /// Ayelen Parolin is accompanied by Grand Studio.

//// The presentation of Hérétiques at MIRfestival is kindly supported by WBTD (Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre/ Danse).

/// Tickets: 12€ & 10€ (student/unemployed)

ANA BORRALHO & JOÃO GALANTE (PT)
Atlas_Athina

70΄ //// Dec. 3, 21:00 /// Synchrono Theatro Athinas (Athens Contemporary Theatre) ///

Workshop /// about 3 hours per day //// Nov. 27-Dec. 2 /// Horos – Horos Theatre Company

In Greek Mythology Atlas was the one condemned to stand with the Earth and Heavens on his shoulders. The project Atlas brings on stage 100 people from every city where it is performed. It creates a landscape of people who hold the economic life of the country on their shoulders, with different kinds of professions, claiming their position on society, individually as well as in group, mapping a sort of “atlas” of the complex cohesion of a social tissue. A quiet revolution. A work motivated by the belief that art should play an active role in society. Aiming to turn the theater back into a political space.

Ana Borralho and João Galante met each other while they studied visual arts at AR.CO and worked together regularly in the nineties as actors/co-creators with the famous portuguese physical theater group Olho. They have been working together on projects of their own since 2002 on performance art, dance, installation, photography, sound and video art. 
Since 2004 their work has been shown in international festivals in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Borralho and Galante are co-founders of the non-musicians band Jimmie Durham and the casaBranca cultural association. They are also artistic directors/curators of the live art festival Verão Azul (Lagos/Portugal), and co-curators of the electronic music festival Electrolegos (Lagos/Portugal). They live and work in Lisbon and Lagos (Portugal).

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Performers: 100 people of different professions
Concept, lighting and artistic direction: Ana Borralho & João Galante
Lighting consultant: Thomas Walgrave
Sound: Coolgate
Artistic consultant: Fernando Ribeiro
Dramaturgy collaboration: Rui Catalão
Artistic collaboration and group coordination: André Uerba, Antonia Buresi, Catarina Gonçalves, Cátia Leitão, Tiago Gandra, (Marie Mignot in Lisbon premier)
Executive production: Andrea Sozzi (casaΒranca)

Production: casaBranca /// Co-production:: Maria Matos Municipal Theatre /// Artistic residency: Atelier real, alkantara /// With the support of: Junta Freguesia de Santos-o-Velho

/// The presentation of Atlas_Athina in MIRfestival is a result of the solidarity and support by Open Latitudes (3) European network, funded by the European Union.
//// We are infinitely grateful to Tiago Guedes and Materiais Diversos festival in Minde, Protugal..

/// Atlas Athina and MIRfestival are also infinitely grateful to Museum Best Western Hotel and Horos Theatre Company.

/// Tickets: 10€

THE MAN FROM MANAGRA (GR)

45΄ //// Nov. 28, 22:30 /// Rabbithole Art & Performance Space

“The Man came a long time ago from Managra island. It was a small forgotten isle in the backwaters of the Mediterranean – or was it somewhere in the Indian sea? No one seems to remember, or care.
Some say a nearby volcanic eruption wiped all traces of the man's homeland.”

The Man from Managra is the new song project by one of the best electronic and electroacoustic music composers in Greece, Coti K. Already in the 1980s Coti K. was part of some of the most pioneering bands of electronic music. Well known for his music for films, theatre and dance performances and for TV, he has other facets as well, creating as a sound and installation artist and working as a sound engineer and record producer.

The Man from Managra was released as a vinyl in February 2014 from Onefingermusic and was immediately acclaimed by press and listeners. This is the first live concert in Athens.

The songs of the Man from Managra will be interpreted by Coti K. [voice-bass], Christos Lainas [bass-voice] and Panos Galanis [percussions].

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/// Tickets: 8€