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Where was the dead body found?
Who found the dead body?
Was the dead body dead when found?
How was the dead body found?
Who was the dead body?
Who was the father or daughter or brother
or uncle or sister or mother or son
of the dead and abandoned body?
Was the body dead when abandoned?
Was the body abandoned?
Who abandoned it?
Was the dead body naked or dressed
for a journey?
What made you declare the dead body dead?
Did you declare the dead body dead?
How well did you know the dead body?
How did you know the dead body was dead?
Did you wash the dead body?
Did you close both its eyes?
Did you bury the body?
Did you leave it abandoned?
Did you kiss the dead body?
scene: freedom p.70
» I read about an experiment.
It said they opened the brain of six people,
under local anesthetic. Anyway, the brain does
not feel pain – it is the centre. So these people
were conscious. The doctor then took his tool
and touched a tiny spot on the brain. The same
spot on all six people. All six had the exact
same reaction. They turned their bodies and
their heads to the left.
Since the patients reacted – in the exact same
way – the scientists asked them a question.
The same question to each.
“Why did you turn now?”
One said that he was checking under his bed
to see if his slippers were still there. The other
that he had cramp and needed to stretch, the
third that he heard a noise and turned to see
what it was.
I want to say that all of them thought that they
had decided to make this movement. They
were all certain that they had chosen to turn
their body to the left.
We are not free, so there’s no responsibility for
anything. So, why do we search for any answer
to any question? Why know? Since we choose
nothing.
Maybe the thing is this, only this we must
learn.
That this is the one thing we should know.
To choose to be honest or not. To be able to
say I turned because you stuck a tool into my
brain.
Artists on Dialogue p.72
- Did you like it?
- Well… it’s nothing new.
BOOK OF SELF IMPROVEMENT p.74
A 40 year-old woman is involved in an accident.
She is taken to the emergency room. While in
surgery, she flat-lines. She meets God. When
she sees Him, she asks Him, “God, was that it?
Has my time come?” “No,” God replies. “You still
have 40 years, eight months and three days to
live”. “Thank you God,” she says and soon after
she comes to her senses. After some time she
recovers and leaves the hospital. She thinks to
herself that if she still has so much more time
to live, she’d better take advantage of it. So she
goes and has a face-lift, a boob-job, and any
plastic surgery she could think of. She goes to
the gym, changes her diet, dyes her hair, plucks
her eyebrows, and the rest… Shortly after, as she
walks out of the beauty salon, a bus runs her
over and she dies. She meets God once more.
“God, why am I here? Didn’t you tell me I had
forty years, eight months and three days to live?”
“Sorry,” God replies, “I didn’t recognize you.”
that which is not seen p.80-85
Rehearsal space, Olympic Weightlifting Stadium,
Nikia.
biographies p.86-91
director
ash bulayev
Ash Bulayev is an independent director and co-
Artistic Director of amorphy.org, in collaboration
with choreographer Tzeni Argyriou. He is a Ph.D.
candidate in Performance and Technology at
the i-DAT Centre for Art & New Media, at the
University of Plymouth, UK.
While making a prolonged detour in New York
City from 1991-2003, he was part of Resistance
Theater, working as a co-artistic director and
member from 1999-2001. He has created
multiple original productions ranging from
site-specific/multi-location work, interactive
installations to dance/theater projects in
the U.S.A., Spain, Germany, Egypt, Portugal,
Bulgaria, Holland and Greece.
Since 2003, amorphy.org has presented: ‘See
You in Walhalla’ (2006/7 Athens, Amsterdam,
Sofia and Athens Festival); ‘Invisible Cities 1.0’
(2005 12th Naples Biennale, Italy, Theater of
Neos Kosmos, Greece); ‘But Secretly We Thirst’
(2005 MAD Festival, Athens); ‘Psycho/Cycle’
(2004 Dock 11, Berlin, Theater Semio Greece);
‘Shedding’ (2004 InteraktionsLabor, Germany);
‘1,170,694’ (2004); site-specific work, Greece;
video based work: ‘Looking For Exit’ (2004) and
‘Render Time’ (2005). He has been awarded
and participated in several artist-in-residency
programs: PACT Zollverien (2005, Essen,
Germany; InteraktionsLabor Media Lab (2004,
2006 Germany); HERE Arts Center (2002–03 New
York City).
He has also worked in collaboration with:
Proto-type Theater Co.; Piper-Mckenzie Theater;
CanFactory Inc., CTI (active member); Anne
Bogart and SITI; Bread & Puppet Theater;
Alien Action; Madagascar Institute; Blackkat
Collective; One Arm Red Theater; Flambe-
Volupte; GoodBad Art Collective; The Rooster
Theater, New Orleans; The End of The World
Circus; Museum of Sound Recording, NYC
& Amsterdam; Legion of Black Poets; Love
Sphere; Stephan Hintsches, Munich; SPAZ;
DefCore Collective and political/social groups:
Reclaim the Streets, NYC and London; Uhuru
Movement and Free Mummia.
production design
christopher brellis
Christopher Brellis was born in 1973 in Athens,
Greece. An industrial designer by training, he
studied at Ravensbourne College and the Royal
College of Art in London, where he resided until
2001. He has also studied and worked in Finland,
Japan and the Netherlands. He founded Antidot
Design Studio, a multi-disciplinary business
entity with a diverse 10-year long course within
the design labyrinth: industrial design (Habitat,
DKNY), corporate identity (Fitch), graphic design
(Athens 2004), web (Warner Music), advertising
consulting (Leo Burnett). He designed and
produced design objects that were exhibited in
London, New York, Frankfurt, Milan, Saint-
Etienne and Athens. In addition, commissioned
works can be found in Russia, the Middle East,
the USA and Germany.
He has taught at Loughborough University and
currently teaches at the Department of Product
& Systems Design Engineering, University of
Aegean.
His interests lie in the cracks between the
mundane and the exotic, within the aesthetic
and social context surrounding the design and
production of cultural product. The convergence
of mediums also lie in the core of his activities,
along with a special interest in the methodology
used in the problem-solving of practical or
theoretical issues.
His collaboration with Ash Bulayev begun in
2006.
composer and conductor
NIKOS KYPOURGOS
Nikos Kypourgos was born in Athens in 1952. He
studied Theory of Music and Modern Techniques
with Yannis A. Papaioannou. At the same time,
he studied Law and Political Sciences at the
University of Athens. He continued his music
studies in Paris (1979-83) with scholarship by
the A.S. Onassis foundation, in the Conservatory
alongside Max Deutch, Yianni Xenaki and others.
He also studied Folk Musicology and Music
Pedagogics.
He has composed phonetic music, (‘Knots’ for
16 voices, was honored with the ‘A’ award in the
International Rostrum of Composers, UNESCO,
1979); orchestral music, chamber music, music
for dance, songs and musicals. He has been a
close collaborator of Manos Hadjidakis (Third
Program, Sirius, Song competitions etc), and
orchestration director of significant art pieces.
He has undertaken the artistic direction of the
music ensemble of Manos Hadjidakis as well
as the total responsibility of its musical work.
He has worked in particular on music for the
theatre, in collaboration with the National
Theatre, the National Theatre of Northern
Greece, the Theatre of Arts (Theatro Techins),
Amphi-Theatre, Open Theatre, New Scene,
Morfes and Theatro tou Notou. Kypourgos has
also composed music for films, for which he
has been honored with more than ten awards
in Greece and abroad. A large body of his music
has been recorded.
lighting designer
Lefteris Pavlopoulos
He was born in Athens in 1950. He studied
cinematography with specialty in direction of
photography.
Since 1971, he works in film, TV and Advertising
productions and has been honored with
awards and distinctions. Since 1986, he
collaborates as a lighting designer in theatre
performances of ancient Greek drama, new
Greek plays and global repertory plays for
the National Theatre, The National Theatre
of North Greece, the National Greek Opera,
the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Municipal
regional theatres, central and regional theatre
ensembles of Athens as well as for the ancient
theatres of Epidaurus, Dodoni, Herodes Attika
and the Ancient Stadium in Delphi. Many of
the performances, for which he collaborated
with, have been also presented in America,
Australia, Canada, Russia, and other European
countries. He has been the light designer in
two international opera productions: Makbeth,
Spolleto Festival of the two worlds, Coronation
of Poppea in The Opera of Cremona. He has
been honored with international and Greek
distinctions and awards for theatre and opera
performances.
PERFORMER
lena kitsopoulou
She was born in Athens in 1971. She graduated
from the Drama School of the Theatre of
Arts -Karolos Koun (Theatro Technis), where
she performed in several plays, directed by
M.Kougioumtzis, G.Lazanis and M.Liberopoulou.
Since 1995, she has been working in different
theatres such as: Theassaliko Theatro, National
Theater of Northern Greece, Nea Skini and
Theatro tou Notou, where she performed in
classical and contemporary plays, directed by
J. Houvardas, Th. Moshopoulos, L. Vojatzis,
V.Papavassiliou, V.Georgiadou, A.Hirche and
others. She has participated in many films for
the cinema and sometimes in TV. This year,
she is playing in Ten, a novel by M.Karagatsis
directed by P.Dimitrakopoulou. In 1997, she won
the price of Best Actress in the International
Film festival of Thessaloniki for the film No
Sympathy for the Devil by D.Athanitis.
In May 1996, her first book with short stories
Nychterides (The Bats) was published by
KEDROS publishers and she won the price of
the Best Newcomer 2007. Since then, she has
published short stories in Greek newspapers
and she is also writing for the theatre. She has
worked with Ash Bulayev for the first time in the
Athens Festival 1997 in the performance See you
in Wallhalla.
PERFORMER
maximos moumourIs
He was born in Athens in 1976.
In 1999, he graduated from the VEAKI School
of Arts and Drama. He is currently a 3rd year
student at the University of Peloponnese, School
of Arts, Department of Theatrical Studies.
He performed in the plays: Homecoming
Ritual based on Constantinos Kavafis’ poems,
directed by Ersi Pitta, Brad Frazers’ Unidentified
Human Remains and the True Nature of Love,
by the theatre group Fasi, Euripides’ Heracles
Furious, directed by Theodoros Terzopoulos,
Loula Anagnostaki’s The Sound of the Gun,
directed by Theodoros Gonis, George Iliopoulos’
The End of the Summer directed by Pemi
Zouni, L. Lazopoulos’ See ya directed by L.
Lazopoulos, Canter and Ebbs’ Cabaret directed
by Konstantinos Arvanitakis, Akis Dimou’s
Marguerit Gaultier’s Night Journey directed by
Antonis Kalogridis, Angeliki Darlasi’s City in
Cause of Emergency directed by Melina Mascha,
Belbel and Sanchez’ Soy Fea directed by Giannis
Anastasakis, Argo, an immigrant story directed
by Giannis Sarigiannis. These performances
took place in the Empty Ground of the National
Greek Theatre, Politia Theatre, the Ancient
Theatre of Epidaurus, the Municipal Theatre of
Patras, the Spring Theatre (Theatro tis Anixis),
the Ivi Theatre, the Veaki theatre, the Anesis
Theatre, the Amore Theatre, the Alma Theatre
and the Industrial Park of Pelargos in New Kios.
PERFORMER
Angeliki Stellatou
She was born in Athens in 1963. She graduated
with honors from the Greek State School of
Dance. She studied at the Merce Cunningham
Dance Studios, N.York with a scholarship from
the A.S.Onasis Foundation. She, also, attended
Contact Improvisation and Release Techniques
workshops with K.J.Holmes, Jeremy Nelson,
Daniel Lepkoff, Sarah Pearsons, Sarah Rudner,
David Zambrano, Chrysa Parkinson and others.
In 1987, she co-founded with D. Papaioannou
the Omada Edafous Dancetheatre ensemble,
wherefrom she withdrew in 2001. For 17 years
she has danced in performances in Greece,
France, England, Turkey, Portugal, Belgium, Italy
and Spain.
As a choreographer she has worked for the
National Theatre of Greece, the Theatre of Neos
Kosmos and others.
She worked as the head Choreographer in
the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the
Olympic Games ATHENS 2004.
She directed the performances An angel on my
way, based on the diary of George Sandes, and
just before( )right after, based on the Euripides
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