Athens International Conference 2018
Theatre/Drama and Performing Arts in Education
Utopia or Necessity?

Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr) in the 20th anniversary of its foundation (1998-2018), in partnership with the International Drama/Theatre & Education Association (IDEA) and in collaboration with a number of academic, professional and artistic institutions in Greece and abroad, is organizing the 8th Athens International Conference on Theatre and Performing Arts in Education.

Workshops

Please see below the Conference 2018 WORKSHOPS

WHEN: Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 November 2018. Workshops are 2,5 hour or 5 hour long.

All 5 hour Workshops are on Saturday 24/11/18 09.30-12.00 & 15.00-17.30

2,5 hours Worksops are on Saturday 24/11/18 09.30-12.00 or Saturday 24/11/18 15.00-17.30 or Sunday 25/11/18 09.00-12.00

WHERE: several rooms to be announced later REGISTRATION: Those who have completed Conference Registration may then register for Workshops. Places in Workshops are limited.

ATTENTION: Please NOTICE day and time of the workshops, to avoid registering in workshops offered in the same time zone. No changes are possible. Also take note of the language the workshop is offered.

 

ROOMS-DAY/TIME   WORKSHOPS & WORKING GROUPS

(ALL SEATS ARE FILLED) About a theatre of feasibility: Platforms of effortless creative theatre

(ALL SEATS ARE FILLED) About a theatre of feasibility: Platforms of effortless creative theatre

Athens, 24/11/2018, Workshop, Kostas Gakis

Event date: 11/24/2018 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Export event

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About a theatre of feasibility: Platforms of effortless creative theatre

Athens, 24/11/2018

Kostas Gakis, director, composer, actor, Greece

Workshop 5 hours
The workshop hours are 9:30am-12:00pm and 3:00pm-5:30pm, according to the timetable.

Part of the 2018 ATHENS GREECE INTERNATIONAL THEATRE/DRAMA & EDUCATION CONFERENCE
organised by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr) 

Language: Greek 

This workshop will explore the transformation of texts, stories, narratives, dreams, myths and songs into theatrical action in a playful and spontaneous way, according to the principles of physical and narrative theater. Various exercises and theater games will be used, which will help the members of the workshop to release their expressive toolset and enhance teamwork, spontaneity and effortless participation. The goal is to create a group that will look like a “tribe” of magical synergy, healing and escape from the tough or dull reality. In this “tribe” we will all become teachers of all, we will all become disciples of all, we will all move one another, surprise one another, accept and welcome one another. The workshop is addressed to anyone who, regardless of age, gender, class, previous experience or knowledge relevant to theatre, wishes to enrich their expressional toolkit and to meet with ideas about theatre of human affection and empathy. 

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Kostas Gakis is a graduate of the Greek National Theatre drama school, History and Archaeology department of Athens University, as well as Athens Conservatoire graduate on classical guitar. For the last 15 years he has been directing, acting, scriptwriting theatre plays, teaching acting in drama schools, composing music for theatre performances, and exploring new teaching methods as a theatre facilitator. In 2006 he was awarded the ‘DimitrisChorn’ award (best young actor) for his performance in “The cockroach”. In 2007 he scripted and directed the play ‘Without music’ and turned Italo Calvino’s novel ‘The Cloven Viscount’ into theatre. These two performances were staged in Athens for three years. In 2008 he worked with a group of people with physical disabilities and created the performance ‘Siga to aygo’ (‘Not a big deal’), while at the same period he participated in the TV series ‘Ioanna tis kardias’ (‘Ioanna of the heart’). In 2011 he founded the collective “Thea” (“View”), which is a workshop for artistic experimentations. At the same year he directed the play ‘Love’s executioner’, an adaptation on Irvin Yalom’s tale with Minas Xatzisavvas and Xenia Kalogeropoulou in the leading parts. He is a member of the theatre group ‘Idea’ since 2012, along with Athena Moustaka and KostantinosBibes. Together they created ‘Romeo and Juliet for 2’, a play which has been staged in three different theaters in Athens and has travelled all over the country. The performance is also awarded abroad: National Awards of Cyprus, 2013 (two awards), 1st Shakespeare festival in Serbia 2014 (honorary invitation by Nikita Milivojevits to represent of Greece), Almagro Festival - Spain (1st award in international competition), Festival se TeatroClasico MX - Mexico (honorary invitation to represent Greece). ‘Idea’s latest work is ‘the last black cat’ by EvgeniosTrivizas which met great success in “Chorn Theatre” and “Alpha.Idea” theatre. He is an active member of Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, based in New York, as he was twice selected for its fellowship. In 2014 he was selected by Goethe Institute Athene to represent Greece in the training program on documentary theatre “Theatre experts from Southeast Europe” in Berlin. In 2016 his play ‘Aristophanias’, based on an Alpha.Idea script was staged in a crowded Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens Festival. Since September 2016 he is the artistic director of theatre Alpha.Idea, along with Konstantinos Babes and Lefteris Plaskovitis. He founded the ‘Duet Yourself Festival’, a festival for theatre duets realized every spring in Alpha.Idea theatre. In 2017 he directed the plays “Tree of Oedipous’ (script by Alpha.Idea group) and ‘From Antigone to Medea’ (script by himself) and traveled to Korea, representing Greece in big festivals. He also created the performance ‘Lalies toy cosmoythaymastes’ (‘wonderful voices of the world’), based on stories brought by immigrants who live in Athens. During the same year he directed the performance ‘Ikaria; a theatre record’ based on local stories of the island Ikaria, which was performed in open spaces of the island. Both the above performances were the outcome of the homonymous year seminars of Alpha.Idea. In 2018 he directed Mistero Buffo at the Theatre Organization of Cyprus, and toured all around the country.He is deeply grateful to his parents and his classical guitar teacher, Vassilis Kanaras. In his spare time he puts music to poetry or composes his own songs on guitar, piano, lute and tzouras.

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