ARTikolexo – The new educational programs of liminal

Let’s make the alphabet of inclusive art together! Registration for ARTikolexo starts now!

In huge yellow curved letters "ART" is written at the top of the poster and just below with slightly smaller letters "ikolexo" forming the word Artikolexo. Behind them a thick vertical dark blue brush stroke outlines the poster from the top to about the middle. At the bottom a yellow correspondingly thick brushstroke starts from the left and its colour fades towards the centre as if the paint has run out. Above it in dark blue capital letters is written "Inclusive Arts Education, Dance - Theatre - Music Workshops. At the bottom right is the liminal logo with the two parallel diagonal black lines.

What does “expressionism” mean for a blind person? How does a deaf person perceive melody or harmony? How can people with neurodevelopmental or motor disabilities approach dance movements and the work of important choreographers? How can we approach art not from a position of power, but by attempting shared readings, building bridges of understanding and enjoyment of art in an inclusive way?

ARTikolexo consists of short introductory courses on basic art forms with the ultimate aim of exploring basic terminology and art currents and creating a common vocabulary in order to open channels of communication between artists and the public with and without disabilities.

ARTikolexo: Theater, Music, Dance!

ARTikolexo

  • cultivates and fosters the motivation of disabled audiences to discover arts that were previously inaccessible through the development of an inclusive methodology,
  • creates a common vocabulary in the field of arts in a way that meets the needs of the learner,
  • encourages cooperation between people with and without disabilities through art,
  • contributes to a more innovative and inclusive artistic field addressed and created by the collaboration of art education trainers and people with disabilities.

Theater with Georgina Kakoudaki

In huge green curved letters "ART" is written at the top of the poster and just below with slightly smaller letters "ikolexo" forming the word Artikolexo. Behind them a thick vertical dark blue brush stroke outlines the poster from the top to about the middle. At the bottom a green correspondingly thick brushstroke starts from the left and its colour fades towards the centre as if the paint has run out. Above it in dark blue capital letters is written "theatre workshop". At the bottom right in small size is the liminal logo with the two parallel diagonal black lines.

“The True and the Real in the Theatre”: a historical review of the theatre, focusing on the period before and after realism. The passage from Ancient Drama to Modern Director’s Theatre, from the theatre where everything is said to the theatre where everything is shown. How do these intersections in theatrical language respond sensorially to different audience groups? How do they ultimately resonate with all audience members? How do we revisit key theatrical genres with the characteristics of the recipient in mind?

The workshop starts a cycle of research meetings aimed at people with and without visual disabilities.

Information and application forms

Facilitator: Georgina Kakoudaki When: Every Friday, from 4 October to 22 November, 18:00-21:00. Location: liminal, 6 Theatrou Square, 10552, Athens, Greece – Age group of participants 18+ years old To register for the acting workshop, click on the button to fill in the form below. Deadline: Thursday 26 September 2024.

Application form

– No previous relevant experience is required. – Participation is free of charge. You will be notified about your application via email.

Music with Dana Papachristou and Giorgos Samantas

In huge pink curved letters "ART" is written at the top of the poster and just below with slightly smaller letters "ikolexo" forming the word Artikolexo. Behind them a thick vertical dark blue brush stroke outlines the poster from top to about the middle. At the bottom a pink similarly thick brushstroke starts from the left and its color fades towards the center as if the paint is finished. Above it in dark blue capital letters is written "music lab". At the bottom right in small size is the liminal logo with the two parallel diagonal black lines.

The music and sound art workshop aims to familiarize students with the concepts and practices of musical performance, notation, sound composition and performance. Participants will be trained in the properties of sound, such as rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/chroma, pitch and volume, in an experiential way by playing music. At the same time, they will learn about the technology of instruments and the history of music and movements, so that they will learn about the context of sound art and music. Finally, they will compose and perform a musical work, creating their own score, which they will create collectively. The main tools of the workshop are tactility, vibrato, visual translation of data and experiential learning through various available technological tools and the use of musical instruments.

The workshop starts a cycle of research meetings aimed at people with and without hearing disabilities.

Information and application forms

Facilitators: Dana Papachristou and George Samantas When: Every Tuesday, from October 1 to November 19, 18:00-20:00 Location: liminal, 6 Theatrou Square, 10552, Athens, Greece – Age group of participants 18+ years old To register for the music workshop, click on the button to fill in the form below. Deadline: Thursday 26 September 2024.

Application form

– No previous relevant experience is required. – Participation is free of charge. You will be notified about your application via email.

Dance with Katerina Gevetzi

In huge lilac curved letters, "ART" is written at the top of the poster and just below with slightly smaller letters "ikolexo" forming the word Artikolexo. Behind them a thick vertical dark blue brush stroke outlines the poster from the top to about the middle. At the bottom a lilac correspondingly thick brushstroke starts from the left and its colour fades towards the centre as if the paint has run out. Above it in dark blue capital letters is written "dance workshop". At the bottom right in small size is the liminal logo with the two parallel diagonal black lines.

liminal’s inclusive dance group Artogether will come into contact with the history of dance of the 20th and 21st century by exploring and “adapting” excerpts from landmark works of modern and contemporary dance. By studying specific works from 1900 to the present and approaching them through the lens of inclusion, we will attempt to revive excerpts from these works using the main tool of mixed groups – “translation”. On the basis of these works we will talk about dance movements and get to know important choreographers and dancers such as Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman, Rudolf Laban, Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Merce Cunningham, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Pina Bausch, Maguy Marin, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Alain Platel, Sasha Waltz, Wim Vandekeybus, Yan Martens and others.

The workshop runs a series of research meetings aimed at people with and without motor and/or neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Information and application forms

Facilitator: Katerina Gevetzi When: Every Saturday, from 5 October to 30 November, 14:00-17:00. Location: liminal, 6 Theatrou Square, 10552, Athens, Greece – Age group of participants 18+ years old To register for the dance workshop, click on the button to fill in the form below. Deadline: Thursday 26 September 2024.

Application form

– No previous relevant experience is required. – Participation is free of charge. You will be notified about your application via email.

Facilitators’ CVs

Katerina Gevetzi

Katerina Gevetzi is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. She studied at the Niki Kontaxaki Professional Dance School and at the Academy SEAD of Austria. Moreover, she has studied philology (NKUA), while currently she is a postgraduate student at the Department of History and Theory of Art (School of Fine Arts).

With Vienna as her base since 2015, she worked for two years with Flowmotion Dance Company and Transitheart Productions, as well as with the Berlin State Opera. In Greece as a dancer she has cooperated with Maria Koliopoulou, Mariela Nestora, Sania Stribakou, Antigone Gyra, Athanassia Kanellopoulou, Kosmas Kosmopoulos, Ermira Goro, Willi Dorner. She has worked with such directors as Argyris Xafis, Kostas Papakonstantinou, Sophia Kamagianni, Thanassis Megalopoulos, Roumpini Moschohoriti, Phoebus Symeonidis, Amalia Bennett, etc. She has worked with the National Theatre of Greece, dance group LunaPark and GNO.

Since 2011, she teaches contemporary dance and organises educational artistic projects. She works on inclusive dance as part of the Artogether company, where she coordinates workshops and choreographs for the Movement Improvisation Group. Moreover, she works as a choreographer in theatre. Since 2018, she is the facilitator and choreographer of the Artogether Dance group operating in liminal NGO.

Georgina Kakoudaki

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Georgina Kakoudaki is a director, dramaturg and a theatre specialist. She focuses on adolescence audience education through theatrical productions and creative workshops.

She holds a Master’s degree in Theatre from the Department of Theatre Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, while she has authored, participated and edited publications on directing, cinema and cinematic aesthetics and experiential and theatrical education from well-known publishing houses and artistic organizations such as the National Theatre and the Institute of Educational Policy.

She has directed dramatic texts of Ancient Greek and world drama on the contemporary stage, including: Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Helen, Aristophanes’ Vultures and Nebulas, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Goethe’s Faust, as well as contemporary plays based on ancient Greek tragedies such as Aeschylus’ After Aphrodite (based on Aeschylus’ Persians) and Jack Thorne’s Rispect /Burying Your Brother on the Sidewalk (based on

Antigone by Sophocles). She has also collaborated as a dramaturg in over 30 theatre and dance performances and has organized numerous Young Creators Festivals in collaboration with various organizations and theatres.

At the same time, she has directed site-specific performances inspired by personalities of politics, science and literature (Pericles, Pythagoras, Lafcadio Hearn) as well as by the historical-narrative imprint of cities (Athens, Heraklion, Pelion region, etc.) as a result of her artistic research and effort to connect the past with the present through the creative and educational power of theatre.

She has taught courses on theatre in education in the departments of Theatre Studies (University of Patras, University of Peloponnese in Nafplio, University of Athens) and Pedagogy (University of Athens, University of Thessaly in Volos) and has presented lectures and experiential workshops at universities and theatre organizations abroad (Mexico, Iran, China, Iceland, Serbia, Belarus, Lithuania, Belgium, etc.). He has taught theatre in primary schools, high schools and public educational institutions in Greece. From 1997 to 2004 she was in charge of the Library and Archive of the National Theatre.

She teaches History and Dramaturgy at the drama schools of Athens. From 2016 to 2019 she was the advisor of the educational programs and Head of the Lyceum of Epidaurus – International Summer School of Ancient Drama of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.

Link: https://georginakakoudaki.org/en/

Dana Papachristou

Dana Papachristou is a musicologist and artist that focuses on the combination of artistic genres with new media. She studied music (piano, clarinet, composition) in Elliniko Odeon, musicology in the University of Athens, and Music Culture and Communication in the department of Music Studies, delving into “the relation of music and painting within Modernism, through the correspondance of Shoenberg and Kandinsky”. She holds a PhD on the “Aesthetics of New Technological Media Arts in Deleuze’s and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus and Milles Plateaux”. In the last few years she has participated in interdisciplinary research endeavours on contemporary music and its relation to other art genres, in various musical and geo-located projects, and has worked as a music teacher in primary education. She is a founding member of akoo.o group, with which she engages in the composition of soundwalks and audiowalks with the use of locative media. She is currently teaching in Thessaly University, in the dept. of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, while she is also a visiting scholar in Californian Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

link: Dana Papachristou

Giorgos Samantas

Giorgos Samantas (BA Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean, MA Visual Anthropology / Ethnographic Documentary with Sensory Media, University of Manchester) is a social anthropologist, sound artist and sound designer. He uses sound, walking, and other media as means of experimentation to expand anthropological modalitites, as well as ethnographic research for the benefit of artistic production. He has worked in areas such as oral history, sound heritage, acoustic ecology, urban anthropology, environmental anthropology, and the anthropology of disability, in Athens, Manchester and on various Aegean islands (Andros, Naxos, Syros, Tinos, Lemnos, Kythera). He has participated in transdisciplinary projects such as “Fonés”, “Learning from documenta” research project, and “Akoo-o” group. He is currently coordinating the research and artistic project “Audibility” on the Deaf experience with music and sound, on behalf of TWIXTlab, co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the EU. He has participated in art events, festivals, artist residencies, exhibitions, presentations, and conferences in Greece and internationally. He has worked as a sound designer, sound engineer and researcher in documentary films, radio curator (NGO PRAKSIS – 105,5 Sto Kokkino), art mediator/educator (documenta14, 10th Berlin Biennale), educator/facilitator in urban social research projects (Technopolis – Innovathens, Balkan Beyond Borders, etc.), and a dj.

link: Giorgos Samantas

Coordinator of liminal educational programs: Marilena Koukouli

The programme is implemented with the financial support of and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture.