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The "Odyssey" starts from Floisvos

It dropped anchor until March when the performances will be completed

Odysseus' ship was built and ready, took his place in the Marina of Floisvos, being an original attraction: And in this way the National Theater chose to inform the public about the performance of Homer's "Odyssey" which is its heavy artillery for this season.

With the world premiere to be set at 26 October, on Ziller's Main Stage, directed by American creator Robert Wilson, the co-production of the National with the Piccolo Teatro of Milan, is the theatrical event for the period 2012-2013. Her performances will end in March, then the production will be transferred for three weeks to the historic theater of Milan while other destinations abroad are not excluded.

Miniature and copy, the wooden ship of Odysseus, bears the signature of the Giza brothers, belonging to the permanent technical staff of the National Theater: THE Freddy Giza designed it and George Gizas undertook its construction. The ship will remain in Floisvos, before being transferred and hosted in city malls where members of the troupe will reserve happenings for visitors.

The show for which the American director auditioned to compose the troupe of his choice, has started a year ago the rehearsals which are done in parts. On Thursday (27/9) The Bob Wilson is coming to Athens again, and this time it will remain a month, as it is in the final stages of preparation. The rehearsals will last until the day of the premiere. The same, as usual, has undertaken in addition to directing and designing the scenery and lighting of the "Odyssey".

The roles are played by actors Nikitas Tsakiroglou (Hostage / Τειρεσίας), Alexandros Mylonas (Zeus / Alkinoos-King of the Phaeacians / Εύμαιος), Zeta Douka (Athena / Siren), Apostolis Totsikas (Hermes / Telemachus / Alkmaion)), Maria Nafpliotou (Calypso / Circe / Siren / Penelope), Lena Papaligoura (Siren / Circus maid / Φαίακας), Mariana Kavalieratou (Siren / Circus maid / Φαίακας), Stavros Zalmas (Odysseus), Lydia Koniordou (Antiklia – the ghost of his mother / Αρήτη / Euriklia), Vicky Papadopoulou (Nautical), Akis Sakellariou (Wide / Antinous), Kosmas Fontoukis (Elpinor), Thanasis Akokkalidis (Antifos / Agelaos / Φαίακας), George Tsambourakis (Evryvatis / Evrymachos), Konstantinos Avarikiotis (Citizen), George Glastras (Perimedis / Αμφίνομος / Φαίακας), George Tzavaras (Sailor). The gods are interpreted by the whole troupe. End, on the piano, Thodoris Oikonomou.

Pre-sale + prices
The pre-sale has started _information and purchase of tickets at the box office of the National Theater tel.. 210.5288170-171 (Saint Constantine 22 – 24 and University 48), with credit card at 210.7234-567 and at www.n-t.gr. The prices are as follows: Distinguished belt 40 euro – Zone A. 35 euro – Zone B. 25 euro – Zone C. 20 euro – Zone D 16 euro – Student 16 euros while a separate invoice concerns the family ticket. Specifically for 2 parents + 1 child in Zone B., the total price is 52 euro, for 2 parents + 1 child, in Zone C., is 45, for 2 parents + 2 children in Zone B are 65 and finally for 2 parents + 2 children, in Zone C., is 55 euro.

Source : tovima.gr

53the Thessaloniki festival – New band with "forbidden" movies

From the caustic look of K.. Zappa as the anxious look of the Israeli L.. Samriz

"Night Pictures" is the title of its new section Thessaloniki Film Festival to be launched this year.

With films that break taboos and explore the dark side of human nature, they provoke suspicious viewers and invite the uninitiated to discover them..

A Greek ,Costas Zapas and an Israeli, Lior Samriz are the people the festival focuses on this year. The family, sexuality and politics are primitively exposed in K.'s films. Zappa, which in fact have found commercial distribution in Greece: «Uncut Family» (2004), «The Last Porn Movie» (2006), "Small freedoms" (2008) and "The Red Mary Rebellion" (2010).

Extreme digital cinema images with scenes of forbidden eroticism, authoritarian violence catalyze moral laws within the claustrophobic family environment. We remind you that K.. Zapas is preparing a new film entitled "Frankenstein: A Death Odyssey», whose music will be signed by the internationally renowned Japanese composer Sigeru Ubebayashi.

Born in 1978 in Israel, based in Berlin, ol. Samriz raises questions about identity issues, culture and sexuality and composes a diverse cinema: influences from video art and avant garde scene, a cinematic world that resembles a temperamental home movie.

The semi-autobiographical debut of "Japan Japan" (2007), the "Saturn Returns" (2009) το «The Magic Desk» (2010) και «Mirrors for Princes» (2011) are some of his works that will be played during the festival which he has also secured and they are his short films.

Source : tovima.gr

Lembessiart 2012, street art

The art galleries el.marneri galerie and Τεχνοχώρος art gallery of Lebesi Street, next to the New Museum of the Acropolis, organizer for the third year in a row Lembessiart, at 6-7 October 2012.

Lembessiart2012, is a celebration for young and old full of art, creativity, educational games and surprises in the most beautiful and historical neighborhood of Athens.

Like every last year 3 years, on their own initiative, the owners of the cultural spaces el.marneri galerie and TECHNOCHOROS art gallery organize this two-day event with the aim of “scatter” art and culture under the roof of the Acropolis, hoping to thus promote to visitors the power of creativity, teamwork, noble rival, ecology, solidarity and sympathy, as unique tools for the evolution of all of us, of our city and what we expect. For this purpose, all the educational actions this year, especially those referring to children, are aimed in this direction. Helpers in this effort are of course the partners, artists, volunteers and friends of art, the sponsors of the event, as well as shop owners in the wider area of ​​Makrigiannis neighborhood.

The program of events follows:
Saturday morning
11:00 | "We print and capture ideas, feelings and memories on different papers creating our own little ones “works of art”».  With the beginning of the school year, a journey to books and art begins with the signing of Come to Play and the visual art of Rallos Katsaris (for children 4- 10 years)
12:00 | Creative expression workshop with recyclable materials from the 3rd Pack of Sea Scouts N. Faliro, for children of age 6 – 12 years.
12:30 | "What is hidden under Lebesi Street;» Free drawing activity for children 7-10 years old edited by the painter Emilia Tsekouras.
13:00 | Excerpt from the choreography of Hara Giannakopoulou's children's play "The Sleeping Circus", by the Kinitira Studio team.

Saturday afternoon
17:00 | Demonstration debate competition by the OPA Rhetoric Club on the topic "Can art that offends religion be censored".
18:00 | "Carving the wood" Demonstration of engraving art using the relief method by the engravers Yiannis Kardiako and Yiannis Kolios. Visitors will print and carve their own engravings on wood and linoleum.
19:00 | Street Latin Dance show, with Dimitris Anagnostou & his team with the active participation of the public.
20:00 | "Stories about odd couples" These stories are written in books. Storyteller Evi Gerokosta shares them with the public like old fairy tales. With the mouth and with the heart. Because that's how they were written... The show is aimed at adults.
21:00 | Jazz music for trained ears by M.O.T.He (music of the heart) jazz trio, Vangelis Chinas (drums), Ilias Pantazis (bass), Manolis Papadakis (piano).
Sunday morning
11:00 | Group painting for children 7-9 years with the theme "Athens, my city" edited by the painter Anna Tsalaga.
12:00 | "Treasure Hunt", great game from the 3rd Group of Sea Scouts N. Faliro with many surprises and gifts, for children from 11-15 years. Children are asked to work as a team in competition with other teams and to put their minds on alert to cope with the "crazy" demands of the game.
12:00 | "ORI-ZONTAS" Puppet show by the puppeteer Nefeli Bonanou for children from ages 4 years and older
12:45 | "I make my own doll" Doll making and animation workshop. We make dolls from glue and paper, we bring them to life by giving voice and movement,
animation: Nefeli Bonanu , Socrates Pappas, for children 6 years and older.
13:00 | "Poster-Vision" Poster construction using the collage technique by the 3rd Group of Sea Scouts N. Faliro for children of age 11-15 years.

(Is the motto of the 16th Spare Parts Bazaar 12:00 until 13:00 there are parallel actions to creatively occupy our little friends from pre-school age up to their age 15 years)

Sunday afternoon
17:00 | The secrets of the art of Origami (paper folding), by visual artist Maria Dukakis.
17:45 | Demonstration debate competition by the OPA Rhetoric Club with a surprise theme on art.
18:30 | "The Waltz of Dreams" Puppet show by the puppeteer Sokratis Pappa. For children over 15 years and adults.
19:00 |  "We dance Hip-Hop" The Dance Stage group with Dimitra Agrafiotis, Mina Rinni, Tasso Rinni and Simos Stamatoukos dancing in the street. (The dance stage is located in Chalkida and comes exclusively for lembessiart2012)
19:15 | Visual performance (dance theater) with a title “pandora's box” from Marilou Theodoridou's team, “In the box”. She is joined by, Eriketi Andreadakis, Fotini Vai, Konstantina Lampi, Danai Morfoniou, Xenia Nikolaou, Eleni Turva, Christiana Tsousis. Music: fear & the loathings.
19:45 | Closing party with Rock n’ Roll by dance group Rollin Foxes.
During the weekend the artist Christos Alaveras, will be with us from Thessaloniki for a unique painting performance titled “Visual reports in Lembesi”, recording the happenings and events that will happen. When will it happen?, remains unknown to both us and the organizers since the artist wants to maintain the element of surprise for the audience.

Prof’ throughout the two days there will be an open-air exhibition of sculpture and installations in Lembesi. They are participating: Adrianos Angelopoulos, Yannis Aitinidis, Gagik in Altunya, Manolis Anastasakos, Kostas Varotsos, Vasilis Karakatsanis, Aristomenis Katsoulas, Christina Kellidis, Haris Kontosfyris, Francesco Moretti, Stella Bolonaki, George Tsakiris, Nota Tsitoura and Kaiti Haliori.

also, throughout the event will “is running” the project “Walking through the city” by artist Denia Cekura, where passers-by will be invited to draw their favorite route on a map of the center, or a route they take in their everyday life. This aims to create a group visual composition, which will emerge from the intersections, convergences and divergences as well as parallel courses, routes that each visitor will be able to draw on a map of the city. The results of the project will be presented at the end of the two days to the public in a live performance of people who will ”wear” these visual routes and will walk through the city.

Active participation in this year's event will be the 70th Primary School of the area where the students' creations will be exhibited on the street with the theme:

"I see the city with my own eyes" , the "Alphabet" and "My neighborhood". Finally,  at el.marneri galerie you will have the opportunity to enjoy the solo exhibition of Sofia Gaitani "PEOPLE'S WORDS" who will present her own alphabet with her painting and at TECHNOCHOROS art gallery she will “is running” the painting exhibition, “At the bottom of time” with participants Sarantis Gaga (artist from Thessaloniki) and Anne Thulin (artist from Sweden who lives and works in New York).

During the two days, passers-by will be offered treats such as ice cream from the best gelateria in Athens, “Gelato Polis”,  for young and old. Also the owners of the "Wine Point" and "Liondi coffe" stores & wine” will offer wine. The "Lion coffe & wine" will be offered by Leontitis, wine of his own production and the "Wine Point" wine of the Gentilini estate. Finally, the "fun bike" will raffle off free rides with two- and four-seater quad bikes. The above are housed in the area of ​​Makrygianni and support the institution of lembessiart with their offer.

Source : culturenow.gr

Brute force look up, at the Badminton Theater

The show Brute Force, Look up, which is deified in New York, will be found for only a few performances at the Badminton theater in Athens from 22 September 2012.

Brute Force – Look up!

The Badminton Theater hosts in a specially designed space the subversive performance Fuerza Bruta, which has been deified for five consecutive years in New York! Fuerza Bruta is the new creation of the team that De La Guarda had offered us, the show they enjoyed in Athens the 2006 30.000 spectators.  The Badminton Theater stage, except for the show, it will also welcome the spectators themselves for the first time (!!!), who will stand and watch the action under the water world of Fuerza Bruta... Fuerza Bruta turns everything,what we knew about the theater until now, since it brings the viewers literally into the center of the action. The 800 lucky spectators of each performance receive such energy from the living, which are necessarily left to the beat of the music, jump and dance in the most interactive show ever! Escaping the limits of phrasal discourse and theatrical convention, Fuerza Bruta is a spectacle in which truths collide and reality takes second place, as dancers run between moving walls, they try to meet each other by running from opposite sides of a swirling sail and have fun dancing in a water world that hovers a few centimeters above the spectators' heads.  Non-stop action and airborne movement is accompanied by a dynamic soundtrack of rhythmic percussion and atmospheric music.

Fuerza Bruta is a creation of Diqui James and premiered in Buenos Aires 2005. Since then it has gone by storm through many major cities in Europe and America, while continuing his fifth triumphant year in New York, in the same space that De La Guarda stayed for 7 exciting years. Fuerza Bruta is a production of Ozono Producciones and S2BN Entertainment.

Many celebrities follow the work of Diqui James fanatically. Among those who enjoyed De La Guarda and Fuerza Bruta are: Leonardo DiCaprio, Blake Lively, Usher, Beyonce, Shakira, Jay–Z, Jim Carey, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Cameron Diaz, Sting, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford, Tyra Banks, Robert DeNiro, Catherine Zeta Jones, Sandra Bullock, Neil Patrick Harris, Pierce Brosnan, Taye Diggs, Alexis Bledel, Orlando Bloom, Bradley Cooper, Lucy Liu, Demi Moore, Isabella Rosellini, Lil Wayne, Jessica Alba, Fergie, Beyonce, Rachel McAdams, Kanye West, Jude Law, John Legend, Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn, Kelly Rowland, Penn Badgley, Rihanna, Michelle Williams, Jesse Tyler Fergusson, Serena Williams and Ashton Kutcher!!!

To see Fuerza Bruta you must:
Know that you will be standing for 70 about minutes.
Be sportily dressed.
Don't be bothered by crumbs and water in general.
Don't be bothered by strobe lights.
Be from 8 years and older.

SHOWS-PRICES
 
22/9/2012 20:30

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23/9/2012 19:00

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26/9/2012 22:00

27/9/2012 22:00

28/9/2012 20:30

28/9/2012 23:30

29/9/2012 20:30

29/9/2012 23:30

30/9/2012 19:00

30/9/2012 22:00

1/10/2012 21:00

3/10/2012 21:00

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5/10/2012 19:00

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Source : culturenow.gr

Rich events at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall

What we can see from September to December 2012

Creative search, support for young creators, honor in older but also cooperation with cultural institutions and institutions are the main axes of the planning of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall for the period September-December 2012.

Concerts, parallel activities and festive events form the main body while special emphasis will be given to the Southeastern Mediterranean, in the framework of the Thessaloniki program- Crossroads of Cultures, but also in the Macedonian capital itself.

Σ΄ό,as far as the performances themselves are concerned, stands out the famous dance group Batsheva from Israel with the choreography of the famous Ohad Naharin "Hora" which is a co-production with the 47th Dimitria and will be presented on 29/9. The title refers to an Israeli folk dance that was danced in the fields after a day of hard work..

A concert by pianist Giannis Vakarelis and accordionist Bjarke Mogensen will follow on 3/10 and includes contemporary works written for unusual combinations of instruments as well as their own adaptations of classical works.

Σ΄ό,as for the other events, among others, the concert of the Izmir Chamber Orchestra on 10/10 but also the recital of the Turkish pianist Fazil Sai on 12 of the same month.

The program, complement, among other things, classical ballet performances ("Sleeping Well" on 8 and 9 December ) but also flamenco (BalletFlamencodeAndalucia on 6 and 7 November), the comic opera of Spyros Samaras "The Cretan Girl" , a production of the National Opera to be played in Thessaloniki between 22-25 November , the "Date with the Opera" – the cycle of educational programs organized for the second year- the Concert of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Yuri Yanko on 19 October and live broadcasts from the New York Metropolitan Opera with the support of the ANTENNA Group.

Source : tovima.gr

VIENNA :Caryatids brought a prize to the Acropolis Museum

The Acropolis Museum was awarded the Acropolis Museum with the "Keck Award 2012", on Friday 14 September 2012, From International Institute for Conservation (IIC) in Vienna.

The Acropolis Museum was awarded the Acropolis Museum with the "Keck Award 2012", on Friday 14 September 2012, From International Institute for Conservation (IIC) in Vienna. The award applies to the Museum for the maintenance and restoration of the Karyatides of the southern Erechtheion using laser technology. The peculiarity of this award lies in the success of the Acropolis Museum to bring visitors into direct contact with procedures that have been done in inaccessible laboratories so far.
Since December of 2010, more than 2 Millions of visitors watched the maintenance of conservationists, thus participating in a historical museum process. The Keck Award was adopted by IIC the 1994, Following the initiative of the couple Sheldon and Caroline Keck, pioneers in the maintenance of artworks, and awarded every two years.

Source : ethnos.gr

"Twice Stranger" at the Benaki Museum

"Twice Stranger" is the title of the major exhibition on the exchange of populations, which opens tomorrow at the Benaki Museum.

It opens tomorrow, 18 September, in the main building of the Benaki Museum (Koumbari 1) the "Twice Stranger" exhibition, on the occasion of their anniversary 90 years since the Asia Minor disaster. It is a tour of the largest exchanges and displacements of populations of the 20th century, from the Greek-Turkish exchange of 1923 until the mass movement of Germans and Poles after the end of World War II, as well as the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan the 1947 and Cyprus 1974.

The exhibition is based on personal testimonies and rare film and photographic material and will last until 25 November. It takes place within the framework of the Culture Program of the European Union and has already traveled to Istanbul and Nicosia, while in March it will be hosted by Stockholm and Luxembourg.

The "Twice Foreigner" exhibition is accompanied by events, which include live storytelling and a children's book among others, "the tree of memory" (exhibition with visitors' experiences and thoughts), Documentary screenings, as well as Culinary Evenings with references to India, Pontus and Asia Minor.

Source : kathimerini.gr