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The Art of Impossible – Free screening 22/03/2023

The Art of Impossible

Open screening of the film “The Art of the Impossible” at the Fabrica Artspace.

On March 22, 2023 at 19:30 there will be a free and open to the public screening of the film “The Art of the Impossible”. The screening takes place on the occasion of the three-day seminar “Dance of Intentions” with the great actress and theater teacher, Roberta Carreri of the historic Odin Teatret, which will take place on March 20, 21, 22 at Fabrika Artspace. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the actress.

A few words about the film:

In 1964, the Italian immigrant Eugenio Barba started Odin Teatret in an air-raid shelter in Oslo. Two years later, his company was invited to settle in Holstebro, then known as “the most boring city in Denmark”. Today, Holstebro is known as ”the city of culture”. Odin Teatret is one of the world’s oldest and most famous theatre companies. It has altered established ideas about where and how theatre is performed, and how performances may emerge out of the actors’ craft and creativity.

Elsa Kvamme’s documentary The Art of the Impossible deals with the unique story of Eugenio Barba, who came to Norway as an immigrant before anyone had heard the word ”pizza”. Today Barba is known as one of the main innovators within modern performing arts. He has conceived unforgettable performances, as well as concepts like “potlach” and “the third theatre”. He also has a special method to make the group renew itself by regularly initiating “earthquakes” which change the rules within the troupe. And one year he left the group himself, in order to live on a dollar a day.

Information about the film

Director: Elsa Kvamme
Screenplay: Elsa Kvamme
DoP: Tore Vollan, Nils-Petter Lotherington
Editor: Claire Coriat, Erik Thorvald Aster
Composer: Henning Sommerro
Producer: Alert Film
Co-producer: NRK
Release Date: 2018-11-03
Type: Documentary

Information about the event

Where: Fabrica Artspace (125 Megalou Alexandrou Street, 10435, Athens)
When: 22 March 2023
Starting time: 19:30
Inquiries: 6949409474
Subtitles: English
Film duration: 60 minutes

No Me Mires, Lee me – Photography

No Me Mires, Lee Me – Μη με Κοιτάς, Διάβασέ με

The global exhibition against gender violence of the global photographic movement No Me Mires, Lee Me, directed and created by Camila Puerto at Fabrica Artspace in Athens, Greece.

#NoMeMiresLeeme
Created and directed by Camila Puerto

#NoMeMiresLeeme 2023 is a Photographic Movement against genre violence in the world. This has been possible thanks to the collaboration of women artists from different disciplines (actresses, directors, playwrights, activists, and theater investigators) and nationalities (Kurdistan, Morocco, Taiwan, Argentina, Colombia, Germany, UK, Romania, and others). It is made of a collection of 30 photographs in which each artist expresses her discourse by writing it in their body. The speech is based in the story of each of these 30 women with genre violence and/or in what they want to communicate about being a woman in their context (nationality, tradition, religion, migration, family, etc.). Each one will create the words, in their mother language and will decide how to take her photo, it all is part of the speech.

Why is it a movement?

Βecause I would like that every woman who sees this collection gets inspired to make her own, with her voice, with her story, and share it with me using the hashtag in social networks.

This movement was born on March 8th, 2020 at midday, when a collection of 33 photographs were shared on social networks (Instagram and Facebook) in protest against genre violence in México, where 10 women are murdered every day. Created by Mexican actresses, photographers and make-up artists, and titled #NoMeMiresLeeme. The Movement spread and reached many women from different states in Mexico, who also joined the movement in social networks by using the hashtag. In June 2022, 10 photos from 2020’s collection were shared at Transit Festival X in Holstebro, Denmark; and in September, a selection of 20 photos at Frauen Theater Festival in Frankfurt, Germany. After sharing the project at Frauen I noticed the potential for representing women all around the world.

During March, 2023 we will have the exhibition of the 30 photographies and a Video Performance derivative from the collection en different countries of the world: Lalish Theaterlabor, in Viena, Austria; Fabrica Athens, in Athens, Greece; Antagon TheaterAktion, in Frankfurt, Germany; Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México.

Conception of idea – director: Camila Puerto
Production of Greek exhibition: Multi-active Group of Art Fabrica Athens
Coordinator: Giovanna Michaliadi Sarti
Consultants: Evangelos Karalis, Fanis Katechos

Πληροφορίες

Where: Fabrica Artspace (125 Megalou Alexandrou, 10435, Athens)
When: 18 March 2023
Starting time: 18:30
Information: +306949409474

Dance of Intentions

Theater workshop with Roberta Carreri in Athens.

The Multiactive group of art Fabrica Athens hosts the great actress and theater teacher Roberta Carreri for a three day theater workshop in Athens.

The workshop “Dance of Intentions” with Roberta Carreri is divided into two parts. The first part will concentrate on the actor’s physical training — on the awakening of the actor’s presence. The second part will focus on the work with the voice, comprising exercises that awaken the sonority of the voice and develop the capacity to make vocal actions in the space.

The aim of the workshop is to transmit, in a relatively short period of time, the basis of an actor’s training that can helpthe young actors to discover their scenic presence through the exploration of a formalized scenic behavior and the experienced actors to provide a way to free themselves of their performing automatism, their own clichés.

The workshop will focus on the perception of your own presence in relation to the space and to the other actors on stage and find ways of how one can be present in the action one is doing and at the same time be ready to react. The workshop will also focus on how to find the centre line of your body, how to work with the “in-tensions” and in which way we achieve a dynamic immobility. We will explore different qualities of energy of the gaze and learn how to identify different points of the body where the impulse that will lead one in space starts. We will work with the creation of physical and vocal actions, and how to realize them with different qualities of energy – e.g. slow motion. And finally the workshop will also focus on the aspect of vocal training with several body resonators and the relations between vocal and physical actions.

Each participant is required to come to the workshop with a text of at least 20 lines.

Roberta Carreri

Roberta Carreri is an actor, teacher, writer and organiser. She was born in 1953 in Milan, Italy, where she graduated in Advertising Design and studied Art History at the Milan State University. She joined Odin Teatret in 1974 during the group’s stay in Carpignano, Italy. Roberta Carreri has taken part in ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) since its beginning in 1980, coming into contact with performing techniques from Japan, India, Bali and China. This has influenced her work as an actress and teacher. From 1980 to 1986 she studied with Japanese masters such as Katsuko Azuma (Nihon Buyo dancer), NatsuNakajima and Kazuo Ohno (Butoh dancers). She gives workshops for actors all over the world and presents, as a work demonstration, her professional autobiography, Traces in the Snow. She organises and leads the annual international workshop Odin Week Festival in Holstebro and abroad. In 2009 she directed Rumor with Cinzia Ciaramicoli for Masakini Theatre Company (Malaysia). Her professional experiences are presented in The Actor’s Way, edited by Erik Exe Christoffersen. Roberta Carreri has written her own book Tracce (published in 2007 by Edizioni Il Principe Costante, Milano and by Editora Perspectiva, Brazil in 2011), in which she relives the most relevant aspects of her theatre life – her training, pedagogy and her story as an actress of Odin Teatret. Her articles have been published in journals such as New Theatre Quarterly, Teatro e Storia, Máscara, The Open Page and Performance Research.

Performances: The Book of Dances, Come! And the Day will be Ours, Anabasis, The Million, Brecht’s Ashes, The Gospel According to Oxyrhincus, Judith, Kaosmos, Inside the Skeleton of the Whale, Ode to Progress, Mythos, Salt, Great Cities under the Moon, Andersen’s Dream, Don Giovanni all’Inferno, Ur-Hamlet, The Chronic Life.

Performance Demonstrations: Traces in the Snow, Whispering Winds, Dialogue between two Actors, Letter to the Wind.

Inquires / Applications

Workshop title: Dance of Intentions

Teacher: Roberta Carreri (Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium)

Dates & hours:
20, 21, 22 March 2023, 11:00 – 16:00

Participation fees:
– Early bird: 170 euros (until the 20th of February 2023)
– Discount fee for students and unemployed: 180 euros
– Full fee: 200 euros

Applications received via email: researchtheater@gmail.com
– Theme: Dance of Intentions
– Contact details: Full name, telephone number, email address
– CV
– For the discount fee it is necessery to additionally send a valid document (student or unemployment card)

Information contact: +30 69 818 716 69 (Monday to Saturday: 12:00 – 17:00 CET)

The Actor’s Dramaturgy – Sara Cisneros, Jonas Gomez (Catabasis Teatro, Mexico)

The Actor’s Drama with Sara Cisneros and Jonas Gomez

Fabrica Athens is pleased to host Catabasis Teatro from Mexico, for a pioneering workshop – research on the practical dramaturgy of the actor.

Brief description of the workshop

The workshop “The Actor’s Dramaturgy” is addressed to performers and lovers of the performing arts (theater, dance, circus, performance) who seek to discover new ways of connecting body, mind and soul for stage creation. The workshop is a branch of a long-term theatrical research, which finds its roots in:

Luisa’s Josefina Hernández “The Theory of Dramatic Gernes” and its practical application on stage and
“Dance of Intentions” by the actress and theater educator Roberta Carreri from Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium.

A few words about the instructors

Sara Cisneros – PRODUCER, ACTRESS AND CO-FOUNDER OF CATABASIS THEATER.

Graduated from the diploma in acting at Ápeiron Teatro. Company of which she was part from 2015 to 2019.

Specialized in the study of the theory of dramatic genres and theater anthropology, as well as the vast study of Greek theater and the study of the complete work of Shakespeare.

She has prepared in acting techniques, delving into the study of the master Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret, where he held an intensive artistic meeting in 2019.

She is currently carrying out a theoretical-practical investigation, linking drama´s theory with theatrical anthropology and thus developing a body-mind acting method. Thus founding the company CATÁBASIS TEATRO, by the hand of Jonás Gómez with whom he has won state theater competitions for the development of workshops and functions for Mexico City during the years 2019, 2020 and 2021.

It is developing two international productions Mexico-New York and Mexico-Chile, as well as since 2020, it has been developing this investigation based in “The dance of intentions” of Roberta Carreri.

She has shared his research in different states of Mexico, as well as in Spain and for the first time in Greece.

In 2020, she was recognized by UNAM within the framework of FITU 27, as one of the 25 young Mexican women making up the current scene at the national level.

Jonás Gómez – ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CO-FOUNDER OF CATÁBASIS TEATRO.

Actor, improviser, playwright, director and teacher: He has a bachelor’s degree in dramatic literature and theater from UNAM, and a diploma in cinematography with a specialty in art direction, from the Mexican Association of Independent Filmmakers (AMCI). He is the co-founder and director of the company Catábasis Teatro. From 2010 to 2019 he worked with the Ápeiron Teatro company. He has participated in more than 20 productions with directors such as Fernando Martínez Monroy, Pilar Villanueva, Jorge A. Caballero, and Cecilia Savoia, among others. He has specialized in the technique of theatrical improvisation, as well as in the study and analysis of dramatic theory.

He has experience as a teacher teaching classes and workshops, referring to literature, Spanish, theater, and cinema, to people of different ages and professions. He participated in the international improvisation meeting: Impro RAYMI 2015, held in the city of Cusco, obtaining second place in the improvisation tournament in Latin America. In the 2016 Ascent Cup, Impro Tournament ”; Organized by Hondom Internacional and Grupo Rompepié, it was a semifinalist with the “Cariátides” team, it also won the awards for “Best improviser” and “The most poetic”, and was nominated for “Best Setter”.

Information ǀ Reservations

Email: researchtheater@gmail.com
– Enter Subject: Theater & Folk Song
– Contact details: Telephone, Email Adress
Telephone: 210 3411651 (Monday – Friday: 13.00 – 18.00)

Summary Information

Title: The Actor’s Dramaturgy
Instructors: Sara Cisneros, Jonas Gomez (Catabasis Teatro, Mexico)
Dates & Hours: 18 -22 July 2022, 17:00-21:00
Participation cost: 90 euros
Conducting language: English

Dancing spheres – 10/04/2022

Dancing spheres at Fabrica Artspace

An evening dedicated to classical Indian dance within contemporary spectrum

The living traditions of classical Indian dance “spoke” in our hearts in such a way that we enter so multiple and different spheres. Dancing on a tightrope in this modern world, we invite you to share our experience and love for dance.

Bharatanatyam as well as Kathak are two of the main genres of classical Indian dance. Their origins are ancient and their deep symbolism and beauty have travelled all over the world, inspiring so many people, leaving a trace of something “timeless” that breaks the borders of a specific culture or dance code.

Justine Goussot (Kathak & contemporary dance)

Christina Markopoulou (Bharatanatyam & contemporary dance)

Guest dancers: Lydia Bendali, Xrysa Lytra

Summary information

When: April 10, 2022

Time: 20:30

Location: Fabrica Artspace

Duration: 60 minutes

Reservations – information:6949251100 & 6982992123/limorart@gmail.com & justinegoussot@hotmail.fr

Entrance: 9 euros

Fascism SA – 10/04/2014

Fabrica Artspace and the Multiactive Art Group Fabrica Athens, invite you on Thursday 10/04/2014 to its ground floor, in order to hold the public screening of the documentary Fascism SA.

* Because fascism is not only the Golden Dawn gang but also the politicians, businessmen and publishers who raised it ……

* Because the economic crisis that favors the development of fascism and Nazism is in front of us and not behind us…

* Because the whole of Europe is sinking into the darkness of the far right…

The creators of Debtocracy and Catastroika return with a new documentary that aspires to inspire and inspire anti-fascist movements across Europe while continuing one of the greatest experiments in independent journalism.

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* The documentary will be released freely from day one, without restrictions on use and retransmission in various cities in Greece and abroad.

http://infowarproductions.com/fasismosae/

Cocktail Flower Party – Participatory Food Performance – 28/04/14

Launched by Don Juan, the eternal heartthrob and collector of ecstatic moments, Flower Girls and Fabrica Athens invite the public on Monday, April 28 at 20:00 at the “Cocktail Flower Party”, a participatory food performance to celebrate spring and love.

Participatory Food Performance!

Flower Girls create participatory projects, a mix of installations, performances and happenings in which the public is invited to participate and be a part.

The means used are mainly food and drinks with edible flowers as well as objects of everyday life.

They seek to consider different perspectives of the table as a symbol, as a meeting place and a place of coexistence of different views and perceptions, as a miniature of society.

The team was created in 2011 and consists of Eleftheria Kotzaki, Dimitra Stamatopoulou and Christina Spanou.

Where; At the Fabrica Technoporos 125 Megalou Alexandrou & Evrymedontos

RUINS – The Chronicle of an Expedition – 07/05/2014

A documentary about the shocking case of HIV criminalization in Greece. The story of the persecution of HIV-positive women, who were brought in by the Greek Police, underwent forced HIV tests, were remanded in custody for a felony, and were finally released when their photos and personal data were published in the media, a few days before the 6th national elections. May 2012.

Admission free and open to all.

This will be followed by a discussion with Loukas Stamellos (member of the documentary production team) and social anthropologist Rania Mylonas.

At the screening there will be a box of financial support, with a free contribution, to support the various court cases of persecuted HIV-positive women, whether they are cases that are still being prosecuted in Greek courts, or they are lawsuits and appeals that they have made themselves. against the Greek authorities in Greek and European courts.

Update: Watch the documentary online

“The Speech of Tennessee Williams as a Religious Drama” with the subsequent screening of the play “The Angel in the Recess” – 15/09/2014

The Angel in the Hollow recounts Tennessee Williams’s experience as a tenant in a boarding house and the event that helped him accept his sexuality. A young writer rents an attic in a boarding house in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He hates his awful and cruel landlady as well as the miserable conditions under which he lives. His only consolation is a beautiful vision of an angel, who appears at night in his attic. One night, however, a more real guest arrives at his room.

Anthoullis Demosthenous / Curriculum Vitae

Anthoullis Demosthenous holds a Master’s degree from the Department of Theatrical Studies of the University of Athens (Diploma Thesis: Realism and magic. Comparing aspects of erotic desire with three theatrical heroines “Good and Evil”]). He has uploaded the performances DELLA ROBBIA (Composition of theatrical texts, composition of a monologue and directing guidance. Presented by the actress Ioanna Siafkali) and SEBASTIAN AND KANIVALOS (Composition of theatrical texts by T. A series of performances performed by the actor Marios Mettis was presented).

Short Films: “Piece of Heaven” and “My Plan” – 13/10/2014

“Piece of Heaven” (23 ′)

a short film by Nikolas Makris

Plot summary

Athens 2013. Two young parents try to cope with the blows of the crisis. For little Orestes, every star that falls is a wish that comes true. Mom stays home, does not go to work. So is dad. In every sigh of the big ones there is a smile of the little one. How long will a story like this last? What are the limits of optimism?

Starring: Orestis Tziovas, Dani Giannakopoulou, Lazaros Zois, Ariadne Kavalierou, Thodoris Bouzikakos, Haris Symeonidou, Tassos Christofilopoulos

Directed by Nikolas Makris

Written by Nikolas Makris

Screenplay adaptation: Nikolas Makris

Long Weekend Studio

Long Weekend production

«My plan» (7 ′)

a short film by Michalis Gigintis

Summary

Today his plan says to smile at all times, to everyone. To look for anything new that could move him. To get excited. To find his higher self.

But not everyone has the appetite of… Besides, they have their own plans.

Starring: Costas Silvestros, Fotini Atheridou Giannis Bisbikopoulos, Antela Mermiga Ioanna Kanelopoulou, Ioannis Kapeleris, Elias Kirilos, Fotini Baklatzioglou, Ariadni Kavalierou

Written by Billy Carson jr.

Directed / edited by Michael Gigintis

D.o.p Vasilis Stavropoulos

Post production Filenia Kartsonaki

Costumes by Dafnie

Sound_design / music manolis Kartsonakis

Production manager Antonis Stelianesis

Editing curator Nicolas Makris