Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
23rd THEATRE SUMMER CAMP 2026
“Impacts: Body and Voice in Action”
Chiliomodi, Corinthias, Greece, 27-31 August 2026
Workshop for adults
The disobedient body
Facilitator: Ioanna Mitsika
Language Greek & English
Workshop description
The body breathes, grows tired, reacts, yields, resists, hurts, shares, follows, fears, desires; it comes from the past and moves toward the future. The body through which we are present; the strong and vulnerable body; the body of memory, pain, and joy; the body within society, the political body. The body that carries our personal journey while also narrating human history.
Through physical practices — including elements of contemporary dance, movement improvisation, and physical theatre — and using play as a central tool, we will explore the body as a primary means of expression. We will unlock our personal movement vocabulary, work in pairs and groups, meet one another, and create individual and collective stories. We will observe how a shared stage language emerges through physicality and how the personal body transforms when it encounters other bodies. What happens when the body stops obeying mechanically and begins to be truly present?
No previous experience is required to attend the workshop. Comfortable clothes and shoes are recommended.
Ioanna Mitsika is a dancer and choreographer with extensive professional and teaching experience in both theatre (movement direction, dance, choreography) and education, as well as in facilitating groups of different ages and backgrounds in formal and non-formal educational settings. Her work has included projects in refugee reception and identification centers, KETHEA rehabilitation programs, prisons, teacher training seminars on theatrical techniques, and educational programs on human rights, theatre, and dance for students and educators. She is currently in the final stage of completing her doctoral dissertation, which focuses on the body in prison through theatre and dance. She is a member of the contemporary dance company Vis Motrix and collaborates with the musical ensemble Encardia, with whom she has toured in Greece, Cyprus, Corsica, and Italy. She has collaborated with the National Theatre of Northern Greece (KTHBE), the Ion Dacian National Operetta Theatre in Bucharest, and numerous independent theatre companies. Her choreographic works have been presented at the Rencontres Musicales de Méditerranée Festival in Corsica, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival (Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus), and the Megaron Concert Halls of Athens and Thessaloniki. Since 2021, she has been teaching the course “Kinesiology–Dance for Actors” at the Department of Theatre, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2010, she has also taught dance and movement for actors at the Andreas Voutsinas Higher School of Dramatic Art. In addition, she has taught at the Stavroupoli Municipal Higher Dance School, the Artistic Junior and Senior High School of Ampelokipoi, the Vasilis Diamantopoulos Higher Drama School, and the theatre workshop of the National Theatre of Northern Greece, among others. Since 2008, she has been leading theatre and movement workshops for inmates at the Thessaloniki Correctional Facility. She has participated in various European training and exchange programs focused on Art in Prison and has contributed to collective educational publications related to this field. Since 2016, she has also worked as a trainer in programs organized by the Panhellenic Network for Theatre in Education. She is a graduate of the Higher Professional Dance School of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, holds a degree in Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a Master’s degree in Labour Law from Democritus University of Thrace. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of the Aegean, researching art in prison contexts.
INFO: info@theatroedu.gr / ++302106541600
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