HELLENIC THEATRE/DRAMA & EDUCATION NETWORK (TENet-Gr)
THEATRE SUMMER CAMP 2022 - CHILIOMODI GREECE
MAIN SEMINAR 24-29 August 2022
"The body as narrator"
Ioanna Mitsika, dancer-choreographer
THIS SEMINSAR IS OFFERED IN GREEK LANGUAGE
In the seminar we study the body as part of a whole body-spirit-imagination
The body, through which we are present, the strong and the weak body, the body of memory, history, pain and joy, the body in society, the political body. The body that tells the stories of our lives.
How does the body narrate when speech is absent?
Taking contemporary dance and physical theatre as our starting point, we will proceed from personal to group creation. We will use techniques to expand our movement vocabulary, communication through physical movement, and finally we will compose our narratives. We will see how different qualities of movement, tension, breath, flow, gravity, body contact and interaction within an ensemble come together with our experiences, memory, fears and desires to create our stories.
No previous experience is required.
Ioanna Mitsika, since 2004,has been working as a dancer and choreographer. She is a member of VIS MOTRIX dance company. Since 2007 she has been choreographing and dancing in the performances and concerts of the music group encardia, with which she has toured in Greece, Cyprus, Corsica and Italy. She has also collaborated with the National Theatre of Northern Greece, with the Ion Dacian National Operetta Theatre in Bucharest and with private dance and theatre companies. She has been teaching Movement for Actors, Contemporary Dance and Impro at Andreas Voutsinas Drama School since 2010. In 2021 and 2022 she taught the course Movement and Dance for Actors at the Theatre Department of the School of Fine Arts at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has also taught at the Professional School of Dance of the municipality of Stavroupolis, at the Public High School of Arts of Thessaloniki, at Vassilis Diamantopoulos Drama School. From 2016 to 2020 she participated as a trainer in the programme ‘It could be me, it could be you’ of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama Education Network and the UNHCR for refugees in Greece, a programme to raise awareness of the wider educational community on human rights and refugee issues. Since 2008 she has been implementing drama and dance workshops in Diavata prison Thessaloniki. Since 2021 she collaborates with Stathis Grapsas in the implementation of the programme 'Personal Development Workshop for Prisoners' in the same prison. She has participated in various European training programs and exchange of good practices on the subject of Art in Prison and in collective publications of educational material of these programs on the same subject. She graduated from the Professional School of Dance of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, she has a degree in Law (AUTH) and a Master's degree in Labour Law (DUTH). She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean, with her research field being art in prison.
Organisation: Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
INFO: info@theatroedu.gr / ++302106541600