International Research Theatre Laboratory – OSMOSIS

International Research Theatre Laboratory – OSMOSIS
The first Osmosis – International Research Theatre Laboratory comes to the 13th Handmade and Recycled Theatre Festival.

Fabrica Athens, as part of the 13th Handmade and Recycled Theatre Festival (HRTFest), is organizing for the first time the International Research Theatre Laboratory – Osmosis, from 19 to 28 September 2025 at Fabrica Artspace and REKTIFIE – Research Center of Mixed Performing Arts.

It is a ten-day, international workshop with theatre and performing arts presenters from all over the world (Greece, Italy, Germany, Poland, Denmark, USA), which aims to empower performers, strengthen theatre research and achieve a deeper inter-artistic dialogue and co-creation.

From 9/19-27/2025, participants will have the opportunity to attend workshops in theatre, acrobatic partnering, contact improvisation, dance theatre, butoh, object theatre, stage presence and infant performance creation, with the goal of being equipped with the necessary interpretive tools to participate in the eponymous show, Osmosis – The Performance, on 9/28/2025. OSMOSIS – The Performance will be an open pan-artistic jam with the directorial signature of Fabrica Athens, which will seal the closing ceremony of the Festival.

More specifically, at the Internation Research Theatre Laboratory – OSMOSIS the following seminars will be held:
  1. Theatre of Research – Fanis Katejos (GR)
  2. Feats of Performing – Donald Kitt (DK)
  3. Performer, Space, Objects – Antonis Koutroumpis (GR)
  4. Coral Body, From the Spine to the Voice – Nathalie Mentha (IT)
  5. Contact Improvisation and Acrobatic Partnering – Günter Klingler (DE)
  6. Making Theater for Very Young (0-3 years old) Audiences – Natasha Mirny (U. S.A. )
  7. Body, conflict, truth: the stage as a political and poetic act – Teatro Nucleo (IT)
  8. Sculpting Presence | A Psychophysical Approach for Actors – Katerina Drakopoulou (GR)
  9. The Art of Presence – Teatr Brama (PL)

Those interested can attend the entire ten-day laboratory, as well as individual seminars. Fabrica Athens, always aiming to make the festival’s activities accessible to all social groups, maintains the lowest possible participation fee also for the International Research Theatre Laboratory – Osmosis. The supporters of the programmes and the festival, the Hellenic-German Youth Foundation – DGJW/EGIN, the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Polish Ministry of Culture contribute to this. In detail, the prices are as follows:

  • For the whole ten days:

Participants up to 29 years old: 50 euros (limited number of places: 15)

Participants aged 30 and over: EUR 150

Observers: EUR 100

  • One-day seminars: 30 euros
  • Two-day seminars: 50 euros
  • Three-day seminar: 70 euros

Please note that only those who attend all the seminars of the international workshop will be able to participate in OSMOSIS – The Performance.

To register for the International Research Theatre Laboratory – OSMOSIS please follow the links below and for further information you can contact in writing at edu.fabricaathens@gmail.com and by phone at +306949409474.

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