“Scale made /«now»” (2015)

Runtime: 30min

“Scale made /«τωρα»”  

18-19 April in Athens @ Sixrono Theatro
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 9-12 July in Berlin @ Dock11

A new work by Yannis Adoniou and Eugenia Arsenis with scenography by Dionisis Christofilogiannis. A body transforms on stage through text and objects.

«… I see everything from above, like a ride at a luna park` you get dizzy up there but you are free, you scream your fear, you do not strangle it for one more time”.

“Scale made /«τωρα»”

Concept:  Yannis Adoniou, Eugenia Arsenis

Choreography / Dance: Yannis Adoniou

Text Written by / Voice: Eugenia Arsenis

Scenography: Dionisis Christofilogiannis

Created in a residency at the Akropoditi dance center, Syros Greece 

About the artists:

Eugenia Arsenis, Director – Dramaturg, Ph.D in Philosophical Aesthetics, has collaborated with international cultural organizations (Royal Albert Hall, San Francisco Opera Center, Center for Contemporary Opera, Skylight Music Theatre, Oakland Opera House, Greek National Opera, Megaron Athens Concert Hall, National Theatre of Northern Greece etc). She is the Dramaturg of the Center for Contemporary Opera. Coordinator and Dramaturg of the Experimental Stage of the Greek National Opera from the beginning of its inception (2004-2011). For her performance Mendelssohn’s Antigone, which she directed and adapted at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms, Eugenia Arsenis was honoured at the Antikenfestspiele in Trier. Holder of numerous scholarships. Speaker at international conferences. She has taught Directing at the Department of Theatrical Studies at the University of Peloponnese, Opera at the Department of Music Studies at the Ionian University, Acting for Opera at the National Conservatory and she is the designer and coordinator of the Minor in Theater and Performance at the Hellenic American University. She also coordinates the Melodrama School (Acting for Opera) of the Athens Conservatory. Dr. Arsenis studied Dramaturgy and Directing at the Department of Drama, Theatre and Media Arts at Royal Holloway University of London. She pursued her postgraduate research in Philosophy (University College London) and her Doctorate in Philosophical Aesthetics, Opera and Greek Tragedy at the University of London (RHUL). She was Visiting Researcher at the School of Music of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University for Musical Analysis and Opera Directing. Moreover, she studied Film Directing at the New York Film Academy. She was trained over fourteen years in the theory and the performance of music and she studies dance until today. She was a Board Member of the National Theatre of Northern Greece (2010-2013). She is a Board Member and Registrar of Public Relations of the Hellenic Theatre Studies Association and a regular member of the Greek Directors’ Guild and the International Theatre Institute.  www.eugeniaarsenis

Dionisis Christofilogiannis (b. 1973, Greece) Lives and works in Athens.

Graduated from the School of Arts of Cluj Napoca in Romania. Founder of DL Projects and artist/coordinator of the White House Biennial.Solo shows has shown  at the Muzeul de Art? Cluj-Napoca, Nakagawa Gallery Tokyo and in Athens. Recent group exhibitions have included “The Kennedy Bunker” in Berlin curated by Nicos Charalambidis (2014), “Uber-Bodies” at Hydra School Projects (2014), “The Red and White flag Project”  parallel on Biennale4 Thessaloniki (2013), “SelfConcious” curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis (2013), “Civilisation (genres and cases)” curated by Alexios Papazacharias (2013).  He has also co-curated several exhibitions, including the “In the Studio” at Kunsthalle Athens (2013), “I fought the X and the X won”  at the National Museum of Malta and Romania (2011), “The Cutting Edge” in Romania (2011). In addition to having exhibited widely in Greece and internationally, ha has also worked as set  designer in Romania National Theaters of Timisoara, Cluj Napoca, Braila with Razvan Mazilu and in National Theater of Athens with Robert Wilson. 

  Yannis Adoniou, the renowned artist was born in Athens, where he received his first formal dance education at The State School of Dance and later at John Neumeier's Hamburg Ballet School in Germany. Since 1998 he has been leading in San Francisco the critically acclaimed arts organization, KUNST-STOFF productions, co-founded with Tomi Paasonen and In 2010 he founded KUNST-STOFF arts, a studio/art space located in downtown San Francisco, designed to host performing and visual artists from around the globe. Adoniou works in dance, film, opera and takes active roles as a curator, producer, and educator. Adoniou has frequently been in collaboration with nationally known composers, and visual and media artists. His production, “Rebetiko-ρεμπετικο”, on the music of Minos Matsas sung by Catherine Clambaneva, received critical acclaim and toured in the USA and Europe. Adoniou was a principal dancer with Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet from 1993-1998 and a regular guest artist across the USA and Europe. In addition to his work with KUNST-STOFF Dance Company, Adoniou has created works for companies and Universities such as Seattle Opera, Sacramento Ballet, Bonn Ballet, Opera Santa Barbara, the Modern Department at the University of Utah, West Bay Opera, West Edge Opera, and Lines Ballet/Dominican University, among others. Adoniou’s works has been commissioned and presented by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, CounterPULSE, Dock11 Berlin, Burning Man, Herbst Dance Festival in Heidelberg, Germany, Dance Forum Monaco, Dimitria International Dance Festival, the Athens International Festival, and Ballet Frankfurt, among others. He earned the first place award at Sacramento Ballet’s capital choreographic competition for his creation, “Gomidas Songs”, based on the music of Gomidas Vardabet, and has received support and acknowledgement for his work as a dancer and choreographer from the Isadora Duncan Awards, Irvine Foundation, Dance/USA, 2005 Goldie Awards, San Francisco Arts Commission, MANCC national center for choreography, and the Gerbode Foundation, among others.  www.kunst-stoff.org