Events
"Wandering Art"
Organization/production: Highlights magazine in the framework of ‘The Wandering Art’ symposium, Lapathiotis mansion, Exarheia, April 5, 2008.
Description: the “ohi pezoume” performing arts company assumed the artistic responsibility of creating a short performance that introduced the symposium, and took active part in proposals and discussions.
Rodokanakis Rediscovered
Rodokanakis Rediscovered 1908-2008 Festival
Organization/production: “ohi pezoume” performing arts company in collaboration with Maria Diamanti, a Benaki Museum scholar, and Nikos Sarafianos, a scholar-writer, in the framework of the performance “To Vyssini Triantafyllo [The Crimson Rose]”, July-September, 2008.
Description: An anniversary performance festival and lectures on the 100 years since the first reading of the play which established Platon Rodokanakis as the most representative aesthetic writer in Greek literature. There were 30 performances in five different locations associated with the interesting yet forgotten writer:
‘The Byzantine Rodοkanakis’: Byzantine Museum of Athens
‘The Modernist Rodοkanakis’: BIOS, urban culture exploration venue
‘The Creator Rodokanakis’: Isadora Duncan House (meeting place for Rodokanakis and Christomanos)
‘Rodοkanakis from Chios’: Summer theatre Mikis Theodorakis in Chios Island
‘L’esthète artist Rodokanakis’: Benaki Museum atrium on Piraeus Avenue
Program of Lectures:
The Byzantine Rodokanakis
Ioli Kalavrezou- “Rodokanakis’s Byzantium”
Sokratis Niarou- “ Rodokanakis, the scholar”
Nikos Sarafianos- “Platon Rodokanakis: literature of the cross”
Nikos Sarafianos- “Platon Rodokanakis: literature of God”
Aris Asproulis- “The Crimson Rose code: a game of riddle”
Despoina Lampada- “Byzantine art in the aestheticism of Platon Rodokanakis’s The Crimson Rose”
Panoraia Benatos- “Saint Dimitrios’s torture”
Nikos Dardalis- “Platon Rodokanakis, an elitist who despised the earthen smell of the mob, but praised the earthen scents produced by the senses”
Michalis Aggelakis- “The transcendental Rodokanakis”
The Modernist Rodokanakis
Maria Diamandi- “The Crimson Rose: censored passages”
Olga Theodoropoulos- “Platon Rodokanakis and the early 20th century Greek middle-class”
Ioanna Foka- “[…] All kinds of love are the same thing”
Nikos Sarafianos- “Literature of the stars”
Constantina Michalopoulos- “The erotic dialogue between Goethe and Rodokanakis on reading Barthes”
Takis Spetsiotis- “You are an aristocrat, due to your aesthetics. Shadowy forms of the Greek aestheticism and their contemporary projections”
Pavlos Sifnaios- “The ‘society--art--communication’ reference in Wagner and Rodokanakis
Aris Asproulis- “Rodokanakis as the creator of a suicide”
Rodokanakis from Chios
Maria Ksida- “Rodokanakises of Chios: the start of a princely family”
Vasilis Agianidis- “The Rodokanakis family of Thessaloniki”
L’esthet artist Rodokanakis
Akis Dimou- “There are wild pansies too”
Costantina Ziropoulos- “Platon Rodokanakis and the aestheticism movement”
Vicky Patsiou- “She has fraud as a rule: Platon Rodokanakis and The Crimson Rose”
Sokratis Niaros- “Rodokanakis’s hedonism”
Organization of Lectures: Maria Diamanti, Nikos Sarafianos, Aris Asproulis
Discussions - Lectures
Beyond performances, the company also participates in related activities which promote a wider dialogue on theatrical issues between artists and academics of diverse backgrounds. Specifically, within the scope of the UrbanDig Project, the company has participated in the following events up to the present:
www.ohipezoume.gr
Organization/production: “ohi pezoume” performing arts company in the framework of the “Mockov Selim Mid-” and “Mockov Selim Mid-2” plays, May-November 2009.
Lecture: “City and Soul [Poli kai Psyhi]: A tour of the urban environment and the human relations it creates”.
Organization/production: Fournos Theatre in the framework of the festival ‘the environment begins with me’, October 2008.
Description: the “ohi pezoume” performing arts company was invited by Fournos Theatre to participate in its environmental festival. Aris Asproulis, the company’s sociologist, gave a lecture on the impact of social environment on natural environment as a result of human relations. The lecture was based on philosopher Georg Simmel’s essay “The Metropolis and Mental Life”.
