Athens festival 2006 peiraios 260
Industrial building on Peiraios Street, one of Athens’ major arteries, which has been converted into a cultural centre. The space has been specially designed by the Athens Festival as a venue for the following events.
june
SATURDAY 3
SUNDAY 4
Petit psaume du matin (2001)
Choreography: JΟSEF NADJ
Dancers: Dominique Mercy and Josef Nadj
Music:
- • Traditional music from Cambodia, the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Rumania, Egypt and Ukraine.
- • Μichel Montanaro, Maria, (extract)
- • Ιgor Stravinsky, Tango, (Editions Alphonse Leduc et Compagnie)
Costumes: Βjanka Ursulov
Lighting: Remi Nicolas
Josef Nadj, the choreographer, on-stage with Dominique Mercy, Pina Bausch’s lead dancer.
WEDNESDAY 7
THURSDAY 8
SUSANNAH YORK
The Loves of Shakespeare’s Women
SUNDAY 11
MONDAY 12
LA COMPAGNIE MAGUY MARIN
Umwelt (2004)
Duration: 1 hour
Conception: Maguy Marin
Music: Denis Mariotte
Lighting: Alexandre Béneteaud & Denis Mariotte
Costumes: Cathy Ray, assisted by Chantal Cloupet & Aurora Van Dorsselaer
Sound: Matthieu Schmauch
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Daring, radical and direct, Maguy Marin stands out on the French contemporary dance scene for her unique ability to renew both herself and the stylistic variety of her work.
WEDNESDAY 14
THURSDAY 15
l’association fragile/Christian Rizzo
Soit le puits était profond, soit ils tombaient très lentement, car ils eurent le temps de regarder tout autour (2005)
As proposed by Christian Rizzo
Original Music: Gerôme Nox + Didier Ambact
Lighting installation: Caty Olive
Sets, costumes and props: Christian Rizzo
Meditative and baroque, Christian Rizzo attempts on-stage metamorphoses, setting bodies, sounds, lights and images in motion.
TUESDAY 20, WEDNESDAY 21, THURSDAY 22
WEDNESDAY 28, THURSDAY 29, SATURDAY 30
SCHAUBÜHNE AM LEHNINER PLATZ
Nora, Henrik Ibsen
A midsummer night’s dream, William Shakespeare
Directed by: Τhomas Ostermeier
july
SUNDAY 2
MONDAY 3
RACHID OURAMDANE
Les morts pudiques (2004)
Rachid Ouramdane incorporates digital technologies into his choreography, while drawing upon hyperjective political, medical and sexual references to identity and death from the Internet.
TUESDAY 4
WEDNESDAY 5
Pierre Carlet de Mariveau
The perfect strategy
Translated & directed by: Nikos Hadzopoulos
Set design & costumes: Thaleia Istikopoulou
SATURDAY 8
SUNDAY 9
MONDAY 10
TUESDAY 11
PINA BAUSCH
Café Müller (1978)
In her autobiographical Café Müller, Pina Bausch relates the stirring story of the Wuppertal Dance Theatre over the past three decades and more.
SUNDAY 16
MONDAY 17
TUESDAY 18
WEDNESDAY 19
THE WOOSTER GROUP
To you, The Birdie! (Phaedra)
Directed by: Elizabeth LeCompte
A new on-stage version of the mythic Phaedra from the Wooster Group, the famous New York company that led the way in breathing new life into the theatrical form through the new techniques it pioneered.
SUNDAY 23
MONDAY 24
TUESDAY 25
BLACK BATTLES WITH DOGS
By Bernard-Marie Koltès
Director: Arthur Nauzyciel
Translation: Bradby and Delgado
Adapted for the stage by: Arthur Nauzyciel
Set design: Giulio Lichtner και Arthur Nauzyciel
Lighting: Christophe Delarue και Giulio Lichtner
Sound: Xavier Jacquot
Costumes: Arthur Nauzyciel
A work by Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), the last French poet of the theatre, who defined his roots as the confluence of the French language and of the blues. His poetry deals with issues of Otherness.
SUNDAY 30
MONDAY 31
Tamerlano, Georg Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Giorgos Petrou
Directed by: Thomas Moschopoulos
Handel’s Tamerlano [Tamburlaine] occupies a special place among the operas of the baroque and early classical periods. Its most outstanding feature is the emphasis it places on a plot which often flouts the conventions of the era.
AFTER HOURS…
Late-night, music events at the same venue, when the day’s performances are over…
JUNE
TUESDAY 20, WEDNESDAY21, THURSDAY 22
Τhe Three Ladies of Blues
A tribute to the great Ladies of Blues
Joan Faulkner, Cybthia Utterbach, Joanne Bell & Trio
WEDNESDAY 28,THURSDAY 29, FRIDAY 30
Shemekia Copland
JULY
SATURDAY 8, SUNDAY 9, MONDAY 10, TUESDAY 11
Rebetika
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