APHRODITE IN HADES
Saturday, March 30, 2013, 18:30 hs. Bath House of the Winds
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THEATRE AT THE BATH-HOUSE OF THE WINDS

8, Kyrrestou St., Plaka

Saturday, 30 March 2013, 18:30

Reservations T: 210 32 44 340

 

APHRODITE IN HADES (site-specific performance)

Idea / Concept / Direction: Chryssa KAPSOULI

Drama practitioner / Assistant Director: Zoe MANDA

Performers: Spyros VARELIS, Maria FROUDARAKI, Maria RIZIOTI, Elena KANIDOU

Song: Christine ASSIMAKOPOULOU

Cello: Alexandros GONIS

Dance: Dimitra CHARALAMPOUS

Special Appearance:  Michele VALLEY

Music Editing: Tsimaras TZANATOS

Communication: Maria Schubert / Cloud 7

Production: DameBlanche (www.dameblanche.gr)

Photographs: Zoe Manda 

 

In Tennessee Williams "Orpheus Descending" Aphrodite embodies love having a female gender…

But Williams' Aphrodites are presented with a limb, just like the Aphrodites of Milos: they are mutilated.
His heroines are being tormented within love...They live in a world were love is shunt...
Through his female characters in his plays the American playwright talks about Aphrodite in the most absolute and eloquent way.
His Aphrodites are presented as burning bushes...

"How could I answer with two tongues in my mouth?" Orpheus Descending

 

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Chryssa KAPSOULI

Graduate of the State School of Dance, the Pelos Katsellis Drama School and the Faculty of English Language and Literature (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens).

She continued her studies on body and voice training in theatre at the Freie Universitat in Berlin.

She works as an actress since 1982.

In 1987 M. Volanakis invited her to work at the National Theatre of Northern Greece. Since then she has worked alongside with significant theatre makers such as Mihail Marmarinos, Andreas Voutsinas, Yannis Rigas, Vassilis Papavasiliou, Evri Gavriilides, Nikos Hourmouziades, Sotiris Hadjakis and many others. She performed in parts of the classic and contemporary repertoire such as Lulu (Wedekind), Ophelia-Electra (Müller), Iris (Aristophanes), Anina (Goldoni), Orlando (Shakespeare).

She also worked as a choreographer in Trojan Women (dir. A. Voutsinas).

In 1998 she founds The DameBlanche Dance and Theatre Company where she performs and directs plays of the international and greek repertoire such as “Medea” Heiner Müller, “Lola Valerie Stein” (M. Duras, “Judith” (Howard Barker) etc. 

DameBlanche Dance and Theatre Company is being sponsored by the Ministry of Culture since 2006.

She collaborated with M. Lohman (Vienna), Tilo Crigar (Thessaloniki), Attila Retli.

Aside DameBlanche she performed in leading parts in plays such as “Gorki’s Wife” (dir. E. Penga), and “Second Solution” (dir. Al. Papageorgiou).

She taught Acting (1987-1994) at the National Conservatory of the National Theatre of Northern Greece, at the Postgraduate program of the English Faculty (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), and she conducted seminars in collaboration with Goethe Institut, and others.

She teaches acting based on the method Architecture of the Body and the Voice at the drama school of the Theatre of Changes, at Chora Theatre and the Drama Therapy Centre.

Currently she is staging The Visitor, a performance based on Tennessee Williams.

 

 

Zoe MANDA

Graduate of the Theatre Studies department of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

She did her M.Phil in Trinity College of Dublin (TCD) in the Drama department. She works as a director, assistant director and drama practitioner.

She collaborated with Nikos Kamtsis, Chryssa Kapsouli (Never Together, Judith, Lulu, The Visitor) and Elena Penga (Gorki’s Wife, Narcissus) in independent theatre productions and in the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.

She is a founding member of The BlackDots Theatre Company and she directed plays such as L’ enquête (J.Cocteau), Les Aveugles (M. Maeterlinck), Invitation to a party-not another fairytale (M. Schubert).

She collaborated and directed plays with the theatre group of the Italian Studies Faculty of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (La Mama-A. Roussin, Gli Imbianchini non hanno ricordi-D. Fo).

She translates theatre plays.

 

 

Christine ASSIMACOPOULOU

She was born in Athens in 1989.

In 2012 she performed in the role of Shepherd’s Boy at Puccini’s Tosca (Odeon of Herodes Atticus / National Opera of Greece). She also performed as a soloist the soprano part in Haydn’s “Nelson Mass” with the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Athens (Athens, May 2012) and “Missa Brevis St.Joannis De Deo” of the same composer (Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra – Polyphonic Choir of Patras,).

In 2001 she took part in the recordings of G. Kouroupos opera The Chessboard Fugitives.

In theatre she performed in Wedekind's Lulu and Tzanatou's Mazi pote/Head On directed by Chryssa Kapsouli (DameBlanche Dance and Theatre Company). She attended voice masterclasses (International Summer Academy Mozarteum, Salzbourg), as well as workshops of music theatre (Guilford School of Acting),  and mime (École Internationale de Mime Corporel Dramatique, Paris).

She is a senior student in the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens (section of Historical and Systematic Musicology).

She studies voice under Mata Katsouli.

 

 

Dimitra CHARALAMPOUS

She was born and raised in Athens in 1980. She started dancing in a very early age and she is a graduate from the State School of Dance (2001). After many collaborations and lots of travelling she is still dancing.

 

 

Tsimaras TZANATOS

He was born and raised in Athens, where he currently lives.

He studied cinema at the Hellenic Cinema and Television School, theatre at the Athens Drama School, and History of Art at Vakalo Art and Design College.

He started working as an actor in theatre, in television and in cinema alongside with prominent names in the industry.

At the same time he worked as a radio producer in radio stations in Athens and as a journalist in very successful magazines and press.

He started writing scenarios and poetry and he works as a Chief Editor and as a writer in various t.v programs.

Within the past years he is collaborating with the DameBlanche Theatre and Dance Company writing theatre pieces such as “Exodus” (a piece in Dream Odyssey (National Theatre of Northern Greece) and “Never Together” (based on Fatih Akin’s Head on, at Kinitiras Studio) and the unpublished plays “Abeyance” and “How many animals a man is consistent of!”

 

 

Michele VALLEY

She was born in Switzerland where she studied dramatic art and took part in various experimental performances (Arabal, Brecht, Albee etc).

She spent 10 years in Paris where she took classes under Antoine Vitez and worked with various theatre companies.

Since 1985 she lives and works in Greece. Within these years she performed in films, t.v serials, t.v movies and theatre productions.

She has worked with directors such as Nikos Nikolaides, Tonia Marketaki, Giannis Chouvardas and Michail Marmarinos. Recently she performed in Ghost from a Perfect Place-P. Ridley (National Theatre of Northern Greece, dir. A. Revi), Never Together/Head On-Ts. Tzanatos and Judith-H. Barker (DameBlanche Dance and Theatre Company, dir. Chryssa Kapsouli), Orpheus Descending (National Theatre of Greece, dir. Barbara Weber).

In 2009 she was the leading actress in the Oscar nominated movie Dogtooth (dir. G. Lanthimos). She is also collaborating with Dimosthenis Agrafiotis in site-specific projects and performances.

She translates literature (English. French, Italian and German).

She was in charge of the exhibition The Zero Years at the Cinema Museum in Thessaloniki in 2007.

 

 

Alexandros GONIS

He studies Violoncello at the Philippos Nakas Conservatory under the instruction of Dimitris Gousios and Music Composition under Cornelius Selamssis.

During 2013 he composed the music for the theatre performance “Winterlong” (dir. Carolos Armenis).

He is also a student at the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens).

 

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