THEATRE SUMMER CAMP 'PILIO 2025'
Creative movement & dance workshop: From Me to We
Facilitator: Polina Kefala
Agios Ioannis Pilio Greece, 26-31 August 2025
Main Workshop
Language Greek & English
Through individual and collective improvisations we will attempt to create situations of dance and coexistence.
In the workshop we will use tools from contemporary dance and Apogeos* practice in order to expand our proprioceptive and kinesthetic capacity and to meet that feeling of communion that a dance act creates.
We will explore the musicality of the body through actions of active listening and initiative and we will listen to the movement and sounds of our surroundings.
At the same time we will experiment with the liberating power of play and the corporeality of objects.
Special emphasis will be placed on unit and group observation and the creation of collective compositions.
Polina Kremasta holds an MD in Medicine and an MA in Anthropology (University of Ioannina). She also graduated with honors from the Higher Professional Dance School Rallou Manou (Hellenic Ministry of Culture). Central axes of her work are: research processes, movement and body mechanics. She studies in depth kinesiology, anatomy and physiology of the body, while her readings travel through poetry, philosophy, anthropology, music, as well as political and sociological analysis. Dancer and choreographer (Creo Dance Company), she participates in International Festivals, Residencies, European programs and Workshops. Creo DC has received state support from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (2009–2024) and the performance GODOT was awarded first prize at the Sarajevo Winter Festival 2012. Since 2014 she is conducting the art-based research Apogeos. She is also the creator and founder of Skytali, a multilayered educational program for dancers and pupils, which was chosen as one of the most inspiring programs in Europe by the European Dancehouse Network. As a choreographer and educator she collaborated with the National Opera of Greece and led an Intercultural dance program and the community project Melisma, which took place in a Greek area affected by the devastating fires of 2021. She has collaborated with many artists and scholars from various fields. She is teaching contemporary dance, theory of contemporary dance, improvisation and applied anatomy in various Professional Dance Schools in Greece.
* Apogeos is a research on movement, dance and composition, which began in 2014, and led to the creation of a new practice open to professionals and amateurs. It has been supported by the Ministry of Culture and by International Choreographic Centres, Festivals and Foundations (Kalamata International Dance Festival, S.E.F.A.A., Hellenic Open University, Tipperary Dance Platform, DeVIR/CAPa - Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve, Choreomundus, Erasmus+ project “Faire-Corps”, etc.), while the official presentation of the research took place in September 2019 at the National Theatre. Part of the research has been published in the journal of Discourse and Criticism “the Erma” (issue 3). More than a thousand people have participated in Apogeos' workshops, from Greece, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Ecuador, etc.
Organised by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
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