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What could refugee children and grandfathers and grandmothers in Athens have in common?
How can they practically co-exist? They do not speak the same language, they do not have the same age, they do not have the same experiences. Their only thing in common is the language and the memory of their bodies. The cross-generational workshop Moving Music brings in contact two groups of people that do not communicate with each other in their everyday life: unaccompanied minors and elderly people. Using as an instrument the sounds of their voices, the rhythms of their feet and the guidance of artists, the two groups come in contact, co-exist and co-create.
For four months, the rehearsals building of the Greek National Opera in Kallithea will be transformed into a sound and image factory. With the participation of 18 artists coming from the fields of music, sound and visual arts, selected via an open call, the new workshop, Transmedia Labworks, will focus on the relationship between opera and digital arts, interactive media and programming. Starting with Richard Strauss’s Elektra, the participants are called upon to experiment in order to redefine the concept of performative act in opera. The on-stage action will not be seen as a reproduction of narrative successions, received by the audience as an external observer, but as a spatial interactive experience, co-formed by the audience’s active participation. The aim of the Transmedia Labworks workshop is to create a series of experimental, cross-media and interactive audiovisual projections and interpretations of selected scenes from the foresaid opera. Transmedia Labworks will be completed by opening its doors to the public and by giving them the unique chance to become part of an exciting audiovisual experience. Exactly at the point where opera meets with digital cross-mediacy and computer interpretation.
For Stravinsky with love
Having as a baseline the avant-garde and bold Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s (1882-1971) work, young musicians and choreographers are invited to create new music and dance works, that will be short and comprehensive and full of fresh ideas. Le sacre du printemps (1913), Le Rossignol (1914/1917/1920) and Les Noces (1932), three emblematic works which were written for the Russian Ballets and contributed to the establishment of the composer’s reputation, serve as a source of inspiration for young composers and choreographers, by giving them the chance to express their creativity and experiment without boundaries or limitations. Through an open contest process, seven new music works will be selected and performed by select dancers of the GNO Ballet School. And there’s more. Stravinsky Miniatures will be completed in April 2019 with the production of seven videos that will have recorded all the preparation stages of the works. The projection of the videos will take place in parallel with the performances of the Ballet’s three-fold tribute to Stravinsky. From Russia with love in the GNO venues at the SNFCC.
The selection of the artists will be made on the basis of an open call announced at www.nationalopera.gr
Μια σειρά από εκπαιδευτικά και ερευνητικά εργαστήρια του έργου Creability θα φιλοξενηθούν στην Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή στο Κέντρο Πολιτισμού Ίδρυμα Σταύρος Νιάρχος από τις 18 έως και τις 23 Φεβρουαρίου 2019. Τα εργαστήρια διοργανώνονται από το Συνεργείο Μουσικού Θεάτρου Λάρισας σε συνεργασία με τις Εκπαιδευτικές και Κοινωνικές Δράσεις της ΕΛΣ.
Στα εργαστήρια του Creability, ερευνητές, καλλιτέχνες και εκπαιδευτές στις παραστατικές τέχνες, φέρνουν στην Αθήνα γνώσεις, μεθόδους και καλλιτεχνικά/εκφραστικά εργαλεία, προκειμένου να δοκιμαστούν υπό την επίβλεψη αλλά και με τη συμμετοχή καλλιτεχνών με αναπηρίες. Στόχος είναι οι επιλεγμένες μέθοδοι και τα εργαλεία που θα προκύψουν από αυτή τη σύμπραξη να δημιουργήσουν γόνιμο έδαφος για τον επαναπροσδιορισμό της καλλιτεχνικής εκπαίδευσης και παραγωγής υπό το πρίσμα της προσβασιμότητας και της συμπερίληψης.
Το έργο Creability είναι μια διεθνής πρωτοβουλία του Ευρωπαϊκού δικτύου Un-Label (https://un-label.eu/en/), χρηματοδοτείται από το πρόγραμμα Erasmus+ και αφορά τη συμπερίληψη ατόμων με αναπηρίες σε δημιουργικές και καλλιτεχνικές δράσεις. Πραγματοποιείται παράλληλα σε Ελλάδα και Γερμανία με τη συνεργασία 3 εταίρων: του Συνεργείου Μουσικού Θεάτρου από τη Λάρισα (www.smouth.com), ενός από τους πιο ενεργούς οργανισμούς σε εθνικό επίπεδο στο θέμα της συμπερίληψης στις παραστατικές τέχνες, του Τεχνικού Πανεπιστημίου του Ντόρτμουντ και του Κέντρου Pusteblume της Κολωνίας.
Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες σε σχέση με τις εκπαιδευτικές και καλλιτεχνικές δράσεις του δικτύου Un-Label και του έργου Creability μπορείτε να απευθυνθείτε στην ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A heavy set, impressive costumes and red velvet don’t always make for a successful opera. In some cases the only thing needed as a set is a few singers, a pianist and a closet. As simple as that. In this pocket opera, this tiny opera production, precedence is given to music and interpretation. Taking into consideration all of the above, GNO’s Educational and Social Activities shrink Mozart’s comic opera Le Nozze di Figaro into two parallel workshops to create its pocket version with all of you as protagonists! The participants of these two interconnected workshops (music and visual arts/scenography) will morph into composers, musicians, singers and set designers of their very own opera and will become a large company. In this wildly fun pocket opera there’s room for everybody!
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 40 participants (visual group for children aged 8-12, music group for teenagers aged 13-18)
Participation is free on a first come first served basis
Contact
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Monday - Friday, 9.00-15.00
Tel. 2130885742
A heavy set, impressive costumes and red velvet don’t always make for a successful opera. In some cases the only thing needed as a set is a few singers, a pianist and a closet. As simple as that. In this pocket opera, this tiny opera production, precedence is given to music and interpretation. Taking into consideration all of the above, GNO’s Educational and Social Activities shrink Mozart’s comic opera Le Nozze di Figaro into two parallel workshops to create its pocket version with all of you as protagonists! The participants of these two interconnected workshops (music and visual arts/scenography) will morph into composers, musicians, singers and set designers of their very own opera and will become a large company. In this wildly fun pocket opera there’s room for everybody!
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 40 participants (visual group for children aged 8-12, music group for teenagers aged 13-18)
PARTICIPATION IS FREE ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS
Contact
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Monday - Friday, 9.00-15.00
Tel. 2130885742
In the Visualizing Sound movement workshop, people with or without sensory disabilities interact, express themselves, and mainly feel by using exclusively their body to produce music. This is body music, the most ancient form of music. A form of expression that combines rhythm, movement and music and allows for the participant to live an unprecedented musical experience. Through the exploration of space and the potential of body sounds, original soundscapes based on contemporary dance techniques, improvisation and body music will be created, while at the same time the kinaesthetic perception, the ability to read and produce sound through one’s body, the handling of expressive means, communication and the stimulation of imagination will be developed.
PARTICIPATION IS FREE ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS
Registration Period: September – October 2018
Επικοινωνία – Eγγραφές
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Monday - Friday, 9.00-15.00
Tel. 2130885742
A project that awakens the motor and auditory development of infants and pre-schoolers through four periods of classical music: Baroque, classicism, romanticism and 20th-century music, with an approach including parent participation.
Through music-and-movement games children within the group discover timbre and style and get acquainted with the sound of classical music and the basic categories of musical instruments.
The workshop is targeted at two age groups: 0-24 months old and 2-4 years old. The presence of at least one parent is necessary for both age groups.
ANIMATEUR Daphne Tsiouni (music educator / sound artist)
IMPLEMENTATION DATES 15,22,29 March, 5 April 10a.m.– 12p.m.
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The Greek National Opera invites for a second year children, teenagers, adults and people aged over 65 to get to know the work of Marius Petipa (1818-1910) through a workshop held on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth. The Meet Petipa workshop aims at introducing the top choreographer’s work to young audiences through the teaching of excerpts from his original, imaginative choreography for the masterly Swan Lake.
DESIGN / IMPLEMENTATION: T.B.A.
IMPLEMENTATION DATES: 7, 8, 14, 15 December 2019 (15.00 – 17.00)
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The Co-OPERAtive: An intercultural and collaborative opera hub for young people project, winner of the 2019 Fedora European Prize for Education, is an opera hub for a mixed group of 60 young Athenians and unaccompanied minor asylum seekers aged 14-18 from across Attica.
A few words about the project
The Co-OPERAtive project is an opera hub for a mixed group of 60 young Athenians and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged 15-17 from across Attica. The project is inspired by opera, which is a common language for creating the first intercultural youth opera hub in Europe. Co-OPERAtive aims to expand opera’s appeal and make it more known to youth audiences, while bringing out cultural diversity and social cohesion. Foregrounding opera’s cooperative nature, the Co-OPERAtive project places collaboration at the heart of its design and implementation, building strong alliances with three partner-organizations, ARSIS, The HOME Project and Melissa Network.
The project will be implemented from January to June 2020 in the Greek National Opera’s venues at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Detailed information about the project and the participation process will be announced in September 2019 on the GNO webpage (www. nationalopera.gr).
The Co-OPERAtive project brings out three of opera’s basic disciplines: music, theatre and dance. The music section includes instrumental music composition, vocal and improvisation workshops. The theatre section includes creative writing, acting, and directing workshops, and the dance section ballet, contemporary dance, and choreography classes. Alongside the artistic team, the GNO’s professional personnel will contribute in the areas of lighting design, stage management, sound engineering, etc.
Artistic Team
Director: Themelis Glynatsis
Music supervision/ Conductor: Andys Skordis
Music workshop Leaders: Nikolaos Zaziaris, Ann-Kristin Sofroniou
Theatre workshop Leaders: Panagiotis Exarcheas, Eleni Moleski
Movement coach: Edgen Lame
Dance workshop Leaders: Edgen Lame & Katerina Gevetzi
Sets & Costumes: Christina Spanou
Fedora Platform
The Fedora Platform is a European Organization established to support the revival of opera and ballet. Its network of supporters consists of people and companies in Europe, wishing to support the genre of Opera and expand its audience on a global level through their philanthropic work.
Opera Europe
Opera Europa is the largest network of opera houses and Opera and Ballet professionals in Europe. Its main office is in Brussels. It currently serves over 200 member organizations from 43 different countries across Europe. The GNO is an active member of Opera Europa and participates in all its activities on a yearly basis.
FINAL PERFORMANCES: 13 & 14 June 2020, GNO Alternative Stage
INFORMATION / REGISTRATION: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 213 088 5752 (Monday – Friday, 10.00 – 18.00)
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Learning & Participation deepen their collaboration with the explosive Drum Works from East London introducing a series of weekly workshops of music, composition and performance through the use of percussion instruments. Drum Works will once again visit the Greek National Opera for a series of intensive workshops in collaboration with “Atrapos”, Schedia – street magazine and other community groups of Athens. Workshops will climax with a big concert, a percussion marathon, and open workshops for the audience (March 2020).
PLANNING / IMPLEMENTATION:
Drum Works
Myrto Tikof (musician)
Alexis Stavropoulos (musician)
Dimitris Bourzoukos (musician)
INFORMATION / REGISTRATION: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 213 088 5752 (Monday – Friday 10.00. – 18.00)
Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:32
Music and speech workshop at the Nigrita Penitentiary in Serres
Written by vaios
A new music and speech workshop is launched by the GNO’s Learning & Participation, this time at the Nigrita Penitentiary in Serres. The workshop’s basic goal is to cultivate participants’ creativity, team spirit and free expression.
DESIGN / IMPLEMENTATION:
Kostas Makrygiannakis (musician)
Michalis Sionas (director, musician)
The workshop Connecting body focuses on the development process of kinesthetics and music perception, as participants learn to harmoniously share space and time. A basic instrument for attaining this result is body music, which proposes an experiential way of co-existing and communicating based exclusively on the use of the body for producing music. The workshop is targeted at people of all ages and it can simultaneously include persons with or without sensory disabilities. The result is every time unique and it depends on the group’s special character.
DESIGN: Yiota Peklari
IMPLEMENTATION: Yiota Peklari, Vicky Skordali
IMPLEMENTATION DATES: Mondays (17.00 – 19.00)
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Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:37
Music workshop at the Diavata Penitentiary in Thessaloniki
Written by mariana
For a second year in a row, GNO’s Learning & Participation continue the music workshop at the General Penitentiary of Thessaloniki (Diavata Prison). The workshop’s goal is to acquaint participants with the sound of different musical instruments and rhythm as creative tools of expression and help them compose and perform their own original pieces through a guided group process.
DESIGN / IMPLEMENTATION:
Kostas Makrygiannakis (musician)
Michalis Sionas (director, musician)
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