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Venison from The Helter Skelter Company at the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation

The Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation presents the show Venison by The Helter Skelter Company team from12 October until 11 November 2012.

A man is in a hospital room injured. No one knows where he comes from or what has happened to him. A nurse gives him first aid. A TV in the room is showing a movie that no one is watching. The man loses consciousness and the nurse runs to call for help.

The man sinks and is trapped in strange worlds, inexplicable, chaotic. He gets lost in a delusional labyrinth of personal and collective memories, persons, creatures and voices that haunt him. He is found to have committed a crime, and as a bearer of a tragic destiny, seeks his punishment. Until his wanderings lead him to the land of the void. In that paradoxical space where nothing exists and everything must be defined from scratch. In the womb. In the place of innocence. In a landscape without time, guilt and return.

The team "The Helter Skelter Company" returns to the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation [“Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark", Black Box, March – April 2011] with the performance "Venison" and draws material from Aeschylus' Eumenides and Dostoyevsky, in order to track -through worlds that float within each other- the fall of a person from civilization to barbarism, from crime to punishment, from man to beast.

(Venison = Meat from hunting)

Source : culturenow.gr

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Pemy Zouni at Badminton with tango and zeibekiko

On Saturday, he presents the show "17. 37΄Πειραιάς – The Mouth»

Greece and Argentina meet in a port. On a journey through time. Six faces, each with their own history and memories, with his partings and dreams. Dominant theme, the waiting. Their weapons, the song and the dance. Tango and zeibeki, ball and tzakarera. Carnival and demonstration. Pictures of him 30, of 70 and his 2012. Everything sweetly tangles and unites them.

This is how the theatrical production that culminates the actions of the Tango Acropolis Festival unfolds on Saturday 8 September entitled "17. 37"Piraeus - La Boca" at the Badminton Theatre.

"It is a theatrical performance with a lot of dancing where Greeks and Argentinians participate", says Pemy Zouni who directs and stars in the production. "I would essentially say that it is a meeting of the cultures of two countries that may be far away, but they have, many common elements. The course of Greece and Argentina in the 20th century shows many similarities. Comprehensive regimes, forbidden songs ( zeibekiko and tango), tendency to flee and cities full of immigrants. They are two countries with big hearts and unruly minds..."

The "soul" of the show are the tangeros, the community of Greeks and Argentinians who live in our country and love tango and Argentinian culture. From the end of April, the small group of core performers of the show prepares the play. A woman in a harbor waits for her lover who is a sailor to return. Based on a story of waiting, many different separation stories, of love, of dreams and hope unfold in parallel.

The direction is by Pemis Zounis and the texts are by Stelios Hatziadamidis. Assistant director is Pella Makrodimitri. They are playing: Pemy Zounis, Elena and Luis Mestre, Panis Kalofolias, Dimitris Nikolaidis, Marianna Cutulas. Marios Strofalis participates (accordion), Costas Vlachopoulos (harmonica) and the Quilombo percussion group.

What will the viewer take away from the show?; "A sweetness of things he knows and loves, and from stories he may have recognized. Memories "touch". And seeing the harbor can, for example, may come to your mind "The minor of the dawn" with the voice of Sotiria Bellou..."

There is a case for repeating the performance; "We are in discussions with Buenos Aires", Pemy Zouni answers. "I would also like the show to be staged in Thessaloniki. All possibilities are open…”

Saturday 8 September
Badminton Theatre
«17. 37΄Πειραιάς – The Mouth»

Source : tovima.gr
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Mikis Theodorakis – Axion Esti in Herodion

The Center for the Support of Dependent Persons presents one of the most interesting artistic events of the year in Herodion on 24 September 2012.

The monumental work "Axion Esti" by Mikis Theodorakis, based on poetry by the Nobel laureate, Odysseus Elytis, will be presented under the Parthenon, accompanied by the compositions "Stabat Mater" and "Song of Ascent" by Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, one of the most important contemporary Russian composers.

This is a unique concert, in which Greek music and history will meet the traditional and orthodox church music of Russia.

The two composers have chosen these deeply humanistic works, where art expresses religious inner spirituality.

Two countries, two cultures will be represented in this concert in which distinguished world-renowned artists will perform.

"Axion Esti" is a monument of Greek art. Its importance as well as the form of the poetic text led to the consideration of a new musical form.

The work covers the entire history of the Greek nation. "This is a small world, the great"… from Genesis to the prophetic vision of the sufferings imposed on us.

It is divided into three main parts: "The Genesis", "The Passions", "Doxasticon", while in its internal structure there are also three elements – the narrative, the hymn and the chorus.

The Narrator reads the prose text, the Psalmist in the hymns and the Layman in the choral sections.

Soloist: Marios Frangoulis (Folk singer), Dimitris Kavrakos (Chanter).
Narrator: Stavros Zalmas

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, he is the most widely performed of all Russian composers.

His ability to complement the music with a deep religious content, to unite different cultures, to express profound meanings using simple and understandable language makes him unique among modern composers.

His music resonates with people regardless of background, the language, their political orientation and even their religious beliefs.

The sacred texts, including the gospels, of psalms, orthodox liturgical texts as well as medieval Latin poetry, they become a source of constant inspiration for the composer, who is distinguished both for his excellent craftsmanship, as well as for his spiritual insight.

His works that will be presented at the concert are::

The Mother was standing soprano, mezzo orchestra and choir, Song of Ascent, Symphony for orchestra and chorus, one aria from the Matthew Passion and one aria from the Christmas Oratorio with soloist: Svetlana Kasyan and Marita Paparizou

They participate:

• Symphony Orchestra of the Municipality of Athens
• Mixed Municipal Choir of Athens, Maestro: Stavros Beris
• PPC Mixed Choir, Maestro: Kostis Constantaras
• Choir "Ambitus" of Leontio Lyceum, Maestro: Katerina Vasilikou
• Soloist of traditional instruments

Source : culturenow.gr
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69the Venice Festival: Live or die; Here's the question

Not many years have passed since the death of 17 years in a coma Elwana Englaro had shocked Italian public opinion. In February 2009, Englaro who had been in a coma since the 1992, after a car accident, died while the Italian Senate was debating in an emergency session the passage of Silvio Berlusconi's bill on compulsory feeding of patients in hospitals.

The request by Englaro's parents, who had repeatedly expressed their wish that she not live should she fall into a coma, amounted to euthanasia, which is illegal in Italy. With the support of the Vatican, Berlusconi drafted the law on compulsory feeding.

One of the people who were shocked by the Englaro case was the teenager – then –  daughter of Marco Bellocchio. Talking to her, the Italian director came up with the idea of ​​a film that would raise hot issues and dilemmas such as, in this case, euthanasia. The film called "Unseen Beauty" (Sleeping Beauty) and starring Tony Servillo and Isabelle Hyper, it was screened on Wednesday in competition in Mostra and received warm applause

Having the Elwana Englaro case constantly in the background, Bellocchio sets up short stories of death that take place in Rome. The most interesting of all is that of a senator (Tony Servillo) who is living the exact same drama as his wife who is dying of cancer and is determined to vote against the bill.

"There is no neutrality in Art, but the film is not a manifesto either," said the leftist Marco Bellocchio who had admired the lonely attitude of Englaro's father and was shocked by the way the media handled the event and also by the political dimension the issue had taken. "I want to believe that my film is serious and non-ideological and above all open to different points of view" he added.

Voyeuristic wandering

The sex, drugs and crime, permanent reflections of the "provocative" American director Harmony Korine, student of the equally challenging (but a better director) Larry Clark, dominate his latest creation as well, "Spring breakers" which is shown today Wednesday in a competition in Mostra.

We follow the adventures of four girls in Miami during Spring break, an American custom, according to which, shortly before the end of the academic term, students go on a two-week break.

Relaxation, sure, we mean nothing stands still. The girls go prepared for everything and Korain's lens with a voyeuristic mood captures every graphic detail emphasizing young girls' backsides and breasts. Such rabid cinematography of bare flesh can only be expected from the deeply deprived.

The interest in the film is its cast. Corinne cast actors closely associated with teen movies such as singer Selena Gomez and Ashley Benson as well as James Franco as a Miami criminal rapper who takes the four girls under his wing.

Source : tovima.gr

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Iphigenia in Avlidis directed by Themis Moumoulidis at the Badminton theater

It started impressively in Athens, filling up the Petra Theater and continued to sell out continuously
in the cities where it is played, from B. Greece to Crete and the Peloponnese. Iphigeneia in Euripides' Aulidis, directed by Themis Moumoulidis in a production of the 5th AGE OF ART, in collaboration with DI.PE.THE. Verias, have been warmly applauded so far 50.000 viewers all over Greece highlighting it in the great success of this summer.

The tour ends in Athens with three performances at the Badminton Theatre, where the scenery will be adapted specifically for a closed space.

At 13, 14 and 15 September the Athenian audience will have the opportunity to enjoy a troupe of elite protagonists in a performance that brings to the fore the tragically relevant concept of sacrifice.

Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulidis is one of the leading texts of the ancient Greek treatise, it is a deeply political text, an ironic and at the same time tragic comment on the subject of political expediency. Iphigenia is a symbol of every sacrifice, it is the atoning victim of the political expediency of each era. Iphigenia doesn't just sacrifice her life, but mainly, he sacrifices, her innocence as she is summoned almost instantly, to realize the mercilessness of this world.

The show...

"The performance attempts a contemporary stage reading of the text, in a poetic visual environment, with the modern musical arrangement of K. Beta. A shot. Darkness. A woman dead. Somewhere near a beach. A set of female death witnesses, are interrogated. Suicide or murder. Dance takes on a face, every woman expresses herself differently. Chorals become the point of meeting and confrontation with history. The heroes are each looking for their own truth, each expressing a different world, which stubbornly refuses to coexist with the self-evident…

The concept of sacrifice takes on multiple dimensions. It is akin to murder…”

The show is being translated by K. X. FRAGRANCE, directing – text editing THEME MOUMOULIDI, scenery by GIORGOS PATS, PANAGIOTA KOKKOROU costumes, music by KONSTANTINOU VITA, lighting by NICOS SOTIROPOULOS.

They star:

WALNUT LEAVES OF KARABETI [Clytemnestra], STELIOS MAINAS [Agamemnon] IOANNA PAPPA [Iphigenia], MHNAS HATZISAVVAS [ambassador], YIANNIS STANKOGLOU [Achilles], ALEXANDRA SAKELLAROPOULOU [angel], ANGELOS BOURAS [Menelaus], LUKIA MICHALOPOULOU, MAROUSKA PANAGIOTOPOULOU, YANNA PAPAGEORGIOU, LENA PAPALEGOURA, ARETI PASCHALI.

RITA ANTONOPOULOU plays the leading role.

The story…

THE “Iphigenia in Avlidis”, is the penultimate work of Euripides. It fulfills the divine will of Artemis that Iphigenia be sacrificed, daughter of the king of Mycenae, Agamemnon, in order for fair winds to blow and the fleet of the Greeks to set sail for Troy.

The war is happening this time because Paris stole Menelaus' wife Helen, thus insulting Greece. The Greek fleet waits in Avlis for the winds to blow...

Agamemnon's initial decision to accept the oracle, in a state of confusion and panic and his false announcement of Iphigenia's marriage to Achilles in order to drive Iphigenia to the Court, it is soon recalled by him. However in the end, Agamemnon, despite the pleas of Clytemnestra and Iphigenia, decides the sacrifice. The Iphigenia, she is called in a moment to realize the irreversible change in her life. Weak and disgusted in the face of the army's violence, defenseless, and innocent,  decides, with an ironic speech that borders on sarcasm, to sacrifice himself voluntarily.

The sacrifice is decided! The campaign will begin… The story continues…

The question remains: Sacrifice or murder;

Source : culturenow.gr

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ΑRΚ FESTIVAL : Music, bazaar and trampoline

Nautical, Orange, Maravia, Burger Project and many young artists sing in "Technopolis", that becomes an interactive park

Endless fun with a lot of music, well -known artists but also many parallel artistic, Athletic and educational activities promises to his audience the "Ark Festival", that will be hosted, For the third consecutive year this year, In the "Technopolis" of the Municipality of Athens, at 10 and 11 of the month.

This year's event will be greater than the two previous, As concerts will be held in two different scenes, While the space of "Technopolis" will be transformed into a vibrant and interactive park that will provide visitors a unique experience.
Renowned artists of the Greek music scene, But also new names with very good prospects for the future will pass through ARK scenes.

On the first day of the festival the Nikos Portokaloglou, that this year is celebrating the 30 years of presence in the song, The Kostis Maravejia with his rhythmic songs, the unconventional group 'Tiger Seedlies', or Nalyss in the Green with her romantic tunes, the «Imam Baildi» with the original sound combinations, the «Wedding Singers» with their subversive covers and the «Bangies» with their explosive sounds.

On the second day of the festival, the eternal teenager of Greek song will go on stage Lucian, to set up a party… not in Vouliagmeni but in the throttle.

The evening will also have inventive covers of them «Burger Project», who will join the traditional Byzantine instrument band «Such», new songs and unpredictable covers by the Matoula Zamani and their «Angry Birds», Swing from them «Swing shoes», Fresh fun by 'One Night Onlys' who make a private party, every two months, In Greece and abroad, Wonderful tunes from Marietta but also an alternative pop from him Mr. Minimal.

The festival's audience will have to choose between the following interesting activities: ramp bmx, trampoline, photographs, body painting, vinyl bazaar, Buying Festival Objects and Clothing as well as Great Flavors from the Guru Bar that will revive for two days specifically for the needs of "ARK".

The cheap tickets of the 12 euro have been exhausted. Tickets are available at the prices of 15, 17 and 30 euro.

Source : ethnos.gr

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Concerts with the most popular artists at the 77th TIF (1/8/2012)


WE GO FORWARD WITH THE 77th TEF

The pulse of development in the region and the effort of businesses to overcome the crisis with innovation and the implementation of extroversion actions, "hits" in the 77th TIF from 8-16 September 2012 at the International Exhibition Center of Thessaloniki.

Creating playgrounds for use by children with mobility problems and ensuring their access to all municipal structures and schools, in the thematic tribute, "Greece & Entrepreneurship", This year's Honored Region is Western Macedonia, which will be present at the stand 16 with its multitude of businesses and products.

The dedication, "Greece & Entrepreneurship", in which the "leading" role is played by the regions of the country and the Chambers emphasizes the following axes: a) Entrepreneurship – Technology – Innovation and other elements that create the "Identity" of each region, b) Culture - Folk Festivals - Tradition and c) Tourism (Outdoor – Marine & Winter).

In this context, except for Western Macedonia, the Region of Crete has already "closed" their participation in the 77th TIF, Eastern Macedonia-Thrace, but also the Regional Unit of Serres, which comes to TIF for the 2nd consecutive time with at least 50 its local businesses.
Until the start of the 77th TIF, it is expected that this tribute will be enriched even more, as there is also interest from other Chambers of the country.

Innovation and highlighting ingenuity and passion, which distinguishes businesses, research centers, application labs, but also individuals, will attempt to demonstrate on its part the INNOVATION tribute & INVENTIONS.
This tribute is addressed to inventors or creators of robotic constructions from all over Greece and is carried out with the cooperation of the Industrial Property Organization.

MUSIC EVENTS LIVE
The 77th TIF, however, also includes endless entertainment with a particularly rich program of concerts, in which popular Greek artists participate and will last from 11-16 September.

Only with the entrance ticket to TIF, at MUSIC EVENTS Live well-known names from the artistic scene will give all visitors the opportunity to have fun every day with the greatest hits of the Greek music scene.

The schedule of related events of MUSIC EVENTS Live is as follows: 
Tuesday 11 September 2012 –  Philip Pliatsikas& Eleonora Zouganelis
Wednesday 12 September 2012 – Professional Sinnerz – Enola Str8 – My Excuse
Thursday 13 September 2012 – Natassa Bofiliou
Friday 14 September 2012 – Lavrentis Machairitsas ,  Dimitris Starovas ,Sakis Boulas & Tonino Carotone
Saturday, September 15 2012 – Alkistis Protopsalti & Evanthia Reboutsika
Sunday 16 September 2012 – Eleftheria Arvanitakis & Babis Stokas

The concerts will take place on a specially designed stage in the arch of the CHANTH gate and start at 21:30.

In addition to the above thematic tributes, within the framework of the 77th TIF, the MODA CASA tributes are also implemented, GLOBAL EXCHANGE, STATELAND, FARMA FAIR, AUTOLAND, ENERGY LAND, DOMISIS, E-GAMING & SPORTS WORLD.
The Major Sponsor of the 77th TIF is OPAP, Sponsor of ENERGYLAND tributes & DOMISIS is the company 3Ds Energy and Sponsor of E-GAMING is WIND.
Official Air Carrier of the 77th TIF is Olympic Air.

Source : helexpo.gr