MAIN WORKSHOPS
Each participant may enroll and attend one "Main Workshop" for the whole week
(see time table for working hours)
There are also other "short workshops" for participants to attend in the afternoons
Children 6-12 may enroll for the "Children's Workshop" or be accompanied by adult all times.
Youngs 13-18 may enroll for the "Young Theatre Voices Workshop"
Developing argument through drama
Brendon Burns
Language: english
This workshop will explore ways theatre processes can be used to develop and refine agonistic responses to current social and political contexts. Sessions will cover devising and performance techniques drawn from both contemporary Theatre for Democracy practice and ancient rhetoric.
The workshop will also include a focus on facilitation techniques that can be used in situations where discourse may become polemical; on those occasion where participants adopt extreme positions, often regurgitated from the media, but that in fact often mask real fears and insecurity.
Brendon Burns is an experienced director and facilitator. He has led major participatory and educational theatre projects in the UK, Europe and in West Africa. He trained as an actor at the Arts Educational School, London and later undertook postgraduate study in Theatre in Education at the University of Middlesex and Rhetoric at Royal Holloway University of London. Brendon was previously artistic director of Solent Peoples Theatre, Indefinite Article and First Draft Theatre and also held associate director posts at Proteus Theatre and The Haymarket, Basingstoke. As a playwright, he has written numerous original plays and adaptions, including the first conventional theatre adaptations of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Brendon is currently director of the department of Applied Theatre and Community Drama at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
From individual to collective:
Building social theatre performances based on the Theater of the Oppressed
Christina Zoniou
At the Theatrical Camp 2017, at this transcendental gathering of educators and artists in Agios Ioannis, Pelion, under the sounds of the river and the plane trees, the workshop will deal with a theme that often comes back to the demands of the campers: the Theatre of the Oppressed (TO).
The aim of the workshop is to introduce the participants in TO, a theatrical method established by the Brazilian director Augusto Boal, which is widely applied in various social, educational and therapeutic environments. The TO method, which includes techniques such as Forum Theatre, Image Theater, Invisible Theatre, Rainbow of Desire, aspires to transform the stage monologue into dialogue and interaction between the stage and the audience, in order to explore collectively and individually the possibilities of overcoming Oppression and the achievement of social change.
This workshop aims to develop a knowledge of the ways in which theatre is used in social, non-theatrical environments and marginal spaces to benefit, empower and inspire a wide range of groups, communities and individuals. Special attention will be paid to the understanding of principles, peculiarities and techniques, and to the identification of the "traps" in the choice of TO as a method of intervention by artists - facilitators in their field of activity.
The workshop will end with an interactive TO event at the camp site.
“Making That Journey From Paper to Stage”
Barbara Douka, director, actress, trainer
Language: Greek
The texts ‘’lie’’ until we 'live' them ...
In this workshop participants will be invited to give life to different texts:
1. A choral and a scene from Ancient Greek Drama
2. Literary texts and poems
3. A story that will emerge from improvisation, with or without text
Interact through ideas, within a framework, and find ways to present them on different stages, in open space.
Approaching different theatre genres, we will learn some principles of directing, starting from a basic motive: the need to communicate ideas and meanings.
Our inspiration comes from the lively material we have next to us: landscapes, people, gatherings, dialogues, questions…
but also from what we have inside us: imagination, experience, personal glance, wants….
Barbara Douka, is director, actress and trainer. She has directed in Greece and abroad, theatre, opera, dance , music theatre and ancient drama. Among others: ‘For a piece of paper (Strinberg’s One act pieces ),‘Une fois mon amour,un jour..’ (Dancetheatre - Paris 1989 ),‘Amarga’ (a trilogy by Μ.Lymberaki ),‘The General in his Labyrinth’, by G.G. Marguez, ‘Women and War’, (European Programme, Kaleidoscope) , ‘They kill horses, don’t they?’ ( by O.McKoy) ‘Penelope’ (the last chapter of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’),‘The night of Inguana’ ( by Τ.Williams,‘The Wall’ (by A. Sevastakis), ‘The moment we knew nothing about each other’ by Peter Handke, ‘Vacchae’ by Euripides in the E.C. Culture Programme ‘Trans-, ‘Handbag’ by Marc Ravenhill, ‘4- EVER’ by G.Iliopoulos , ‘Moskow-Selim’ by G.Viziinos, ,‘ Thesmoforiazoussai’ by Aristophanis, ‘ Feed me, Emma’ by Zaharias Roxas, under the E.U. Cultural Programme “Feed the Artists that they feed the audience”, ‘The star-spangled gir’l by Neil Simon, ‘5women.com’ by Hosé Contreras and Anna Rivas, ‘Persians’ by Aeschylus. Since 1986, she teaches constantly in drama schools and workshops in Greece and abroad: Improvisation and Acting, as well as Ancient Tragedy and Theatre Anthropology principles, based on her method Performance Personal Development Training [P. P.D.T. System ] as well as ‘ Βasic Principles for the Stage Direction’ for directors and performance studies students. She has delivered workshops and seminars in educational centers and festivals such as: Berlin (Schwelle 7), London (Central School of Speech and Drama), Venice (Methodika Festival), Iran (Tehran's International University Festival) Cyprus ( International Symposium of Ancient Drama), New York ( N.Y.University- Steindhardt) , DEREE the American College in Greece, National Theater Drama School, Drama school ‘First Act’, Veaki Drama School. e.t.c. For her work under the main title ‘Tragedy as a Living Theatre’ and her approach in ‘Ritual Lament’ a combination of Theatre Anthropology training and Ancient Chorus, she was awarded three times : (‘Multi – theatre’ Symposium (Beaubourg –Centre Pompidou , June 1991), Latin- American Theatre conference (Chile, July 1992), ‘Body Diversity’ conference, Paris, 2007, by the Unesco Prix d’ Excellence of Alain Dizon – Theatre Anthropology Foundation). Since 2009, she is conductor of ‘Drama Mini Talent Lab’ of the International Short Film Festival of the City of Drama (Northern Greece).
"Personal dance"
Artemis Lampiri, choreographer, performer, dance teacher.
MAIN WORKSHOP "PELION 2017"
Language: Greek, English, body, any...
Personal dance is a workshop about finding one’s special qualities;
it is about discovering what makes one unique.
In this workshop we will try to investigate our own physicality and personality in the way that we move. Through choreographic and movement scores we will focus on our personal rhythm, perception and way of thinking.
Usually one’s body function is connected to the one of one’s brain.
This gives an excellent insight to the way of learning.
The class will be divided in warming up the joints and brain, making the body stronger, learning dance material and improvising our own way through movement.
Bring sneakers, comfortable clothes, notebooks and your favorite song at that period!
Artemis Lampiri was born in Athens in 1984 where she now works as a choreographer, performer and dance teacher. She studied at the Professional School of Dance "Rallou Manou”, later choreography at ArtEZ in Holland and Theatre Studies at the University of Utrecht with a full scholarship by the State Foundation (IKY). As a choreographer she has participated in festivals and made her own productions in theaters in Greece, Germany, Croatia, the Netherlands and Spain. Some of the productions are: “On hope” (2016), “Me On Top” with the support of Onassis Cultural Centre and NEON foundation (2015), “FREMD” (2014), “META” (2013-2014), "Anamesa-In Between" (2012-2013) etc. In 2013 she founded “MAN” dance company with which she participated in Kalamata International dance Festival (2016), New Choreographers’ Festival in SGT (2015), Arc dance festival (2014), MIR Festival (2012-2016), Dimitria Festival (2013) etc. She is also working as a choreographer at theatre productions and currently creating her new piece, entitled: “ANY ONE”
Link to video compilation of some of her works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBshXJCGoLA
Other links:
https://www.youtube.com/user/artemislampiri
https://vimeo.com/artemislampiri https://www.facebook.com/MANdancecompanyArtemisLampiri
"Young Theatre Voices 2017" Workshop
25-30 August 2017.
This is a workshop for 13-18yrs old young people who wish to take part in the Theatre Summer Camp "Pelion 2017" organised by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network at Agios Ioannis Beach, Pelion Greece
The workshop is offered within the Camp premises and with the same timetable as all the other "Main Workshops" of the Camp.
"ME AND MY SELFIE"
Giouli Douvou, drama teacher
Language: greek, english
A theatrical workshop for young people, aiming at personal development, exploration of "my-self" and "my other- self", through group work. We will seek new paths for collective creativity through improvisation and Devised theater.
This workshop will try to explore the image of the young people through their own eyes and the eyes of others and will focus on why there is a need to project another image, a "different" one, on social media networks.
Using theatrical games and DIE (Drama in education) techniques, we will discover communication codes, both verbal and non-verbal. We will express, entertain, interact and dare to dive into our needs, in our being and in our appearance, in our ‘’musts’’ and in our true ... wants!
We are waiting for you!
Giouli Douvou was born and lives in Patras Greece. She studied Theater Studies at the University of Patras . Masters Degree from the University of Peloponnese, School of Fine Arts, Department of Theater Studies, titled "Dramatic Art and Performing Arts in Education and Lifelong Learning" (MA in Drama and Performing Arts in Education and Lifelong Learning). She faciliates the Theatrical Workshop for Children and Adolescents and the Intercultural Workshop of the Municipal and Regional Theater of Patras. Teaching theatre studies at Arsakeio Schools of Patras. In 2006 she co-created the theatrical laboratory “Epi drasei” (In action) for children and adults. She works in primary, secondary and post-secondary education for 12 years. Animates teacher training workshops. She has participated and organized seminars in acting, directing, team building, drama teaching, drama therapy and master- classes. She has worked in many theatrical plays and TIE programs.
CHILDREN's WORKSHOP
for children 6-12 years old
language: greek, english, ...children's
THE GRAMMAR OF DIVERSITY
I play - You play - Does the Other Play? - What about us? What are We going to do?
Angeliki Tsakona, drama teacher
We are going to spell out and interpret the forms of the mind and the shape of our body – and the creations of our mind and those of our body. We are going to achieve this within dual realities, the one that belongs to us (I) and the one we share (I and the Other).
Experiential play and imagination along with drama techniques will motivate children physically, verbally and emotionally, bringing them closer to their own selves. At the same time, cultivating the children’s empathy and strengthening their communication skills will promote team spirit - thus drawing them nearer to the Other and helping them realize who ‘We’ are.
Angeliki Tsakona has been oscillating between Philology and Theater Studies for quite some time. Since 2002, she has been teaching Theatre/Drama Education in Primary Education. She is currently following a postgraduate course entitled “Drama and Performing Arts in Education and Lifelong Learning” offered by the Department of Theatre Studies in Nafplio Greece. Her postgraduate dissertation, “Cultivating Historical Empathy in Primary School Sixth-graders through their Contact with the Local History of Nafplio during the Venetian Occupation” is underway. She has carried out educational and theatrical education programs, training sessions, drama events, workshops and performances in collaboration with institutions such as The Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, the Department of Theatrical Studies in Nafplio, the Argolis Club for UNESCO (for which she received an honorary distinction), the Cultural Department of the Municipality of Nafplio, the Peloponnesian Folklore Institute, the Ephorate of Antiquities in Argolis, "IoannisCapodistrias” Centre of European Studies and Humanities, The Proscenium Society for Culture and Social Entertainment, the Authors’ Association of Argolis, the New Library at Fougaro multi-purpose venue, the Representation of the European Union in Greece through their Teachers4Europe project, the Directorate of Primary Education of Argolis, the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature (Network of Ecological Schools award winner) and the Children’s Theatre of Argos, among others. In the summer of 2016, she was coordinator and animator for the Creative Employment Pilot Programme run by the Festival of Athens and Epidaurus. This year, she is coordinating and animating the Audience Education Program for Students and Adults of Argolis run by the Epidaurus Lyceum, also in the framework of the Festival of Athens and Epidaurus.