The Milan Meets Greece festival opens its doors for the fourth year running in Milan. With a program featuring a variety of performing arts as well as lectures, exhibitions and seminars, the festival has established itself as a meeting point for Milanese audiences.
This year’s program was structured on this concept. Focusing on crossroads of all kinds, be they geographical, historic, thematic, chronological or even emotional, we played around with different combinations. Carlo Michelstaedter meets Heraclitus in Theodoros Terzopoulos' performance 'Eremos' and 'positive energy' embraces death in Lena Kitsopoulou’s provocative text 'M.A.R.I.L.O.U.'. In a dance double bill, Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis meets Turkish contemporary dance company Taldans, while Italian-Jewish performer Moni Ovadia joins forces with soloists of the Estudiantina Orchestra of Nea Ionia in Magnesia, and, in dialectical relation two independently realized installations by two important Greek artists-Lizzie Calligas and George Hadjimichalis-cross each others paths in the exhibition organized by the Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art. The combinations vary and we are eagerly awaiting the public’s reactions.
At a time when anything Greek-related is associated with the crisis, we have chosen to associate Greece with the most beautiful of things, the arts. This is our way of raising the Greek stock in the international market, because we believe that culture is crucial to maintaining one’s identity; a lesson we would do best to remember.
Occupation:
We started out four years ago with the belief that there is valuable artistic potential in contemporary Greek culture. Unfortunately, this is rarely presented outside Greece with the exception of a few isolated efforts. Instead, Greece’s international image remains trapped either in tourist stereotypes or within the confines of its history. Our idea was to launch an annual platform to showcase contemporary Greek culture, helping both upcoming and established Greek artists present their work in Milan, at the famed Piccolo Teatro, as a starting point of a greater vision and journey that has gained momentum along the way.
As the festival evolved, so did our ideas about promoting today’s Greece. Our first concern was to produce a concise but also high-calibre program that could, of course, be carried out on a low budget. At the same time, we realized – not that this is anything new – that collaborations, joint productions or interactive works are more popular with audiences. So we embarked on a series of efforts to bring together Greek and foreign artists as well as Greek and Italian institutions, through our own productions. The festival took in various venues around the city and, as a result, Milan really did meet Greece.
All this made us think that Greek artists could just as well embrace any audience, not just Italians, in the same way. Hence we move on to our higher goal, which is to introduce the modern Greece to other European cities and create a mobile festival, a kind of road show. Through its presence across Europe, the festival can create a network that cuts across cultural boundaries but is also focused on contemporary Greek artistry.
Publications:
Concerts/Performances:
8 marzo al Piccolo Teatro ore 19,30 “M.A.R.I.L.U”- Teatro Nazionale di Grecia Autore: Lena kitsopoulou Regia: Lena Kitsopoulou, Maria Protopappa Interpreta: Maria Protopappa
9 marzo al Piccolo Teatro ore 20.30 “EREMOS” Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria Teatro Brunello Cucinelli Emilia Romagna Teatro Teatro Attis
Regia-scene: Teodoros Terzopoulos Autore: Carlo Michelstaedter, Eracleto Interpreta: Paolo Musio, con la partecipazione di Teodoros Terzopoulos
12 marzo al Piccolo Teatro ore 19,30 “Sek Sek” Taldans Dance Company (Turchia) Coreografia - Ideazione: Mustafa Kaplan, Filiz Sizanli Interpreti: Mustafa Kaplan, Filiz Sizanli Produzione: CATI Contemporary Dance Artist Association, Istanbul Centre National de la Danse, Paris
ore 21,30 “La Sagra della Primavera”- Apotosoma Dance Company (Grecia) Coreografia: Antonis Foniadakis Interprete: Ioanna Toumbakari Musica di: Igor Stravinskij Luci - Costumi: Antonis Foniadakis
Ingresso 15 €. Per informazioni e prenotazioni tel. 848.800.304 Per informazioni su biglietti e abbonamenti per i gruppi organizzati tel. 02 72.333.216 e-mail: promozione.pubblico@piccoloteatromilano.it
13 marzo al Blue Note ore 21,00 “DA SMIRNE AL PIREO”
Concerto dei solisti dell'Orchestra Estudiantina Neas Ionias. Con la partecipazione di Moni Ovadia
Ingresso: Prezzo advance: 20,00€. Per informazioni e prenotazioni tel. 02 69 01 68 88
Per ulteriori informazioni sul Festival Milano Incontra la Grecia: www.milanoincontralagrecia.com info@milanoincontralagrecia.com
Exhibitions/Events:
10 Μarzo-1 Μaggio allo Spazio Oberdan Intersections – Heterotopias Lo spazio riflesso nell'arte contemporanea greca
Provincia di Milano/Assessorato alla cultura Museo Statale di Arte Contemporanea di Salonicco Mostra a cura di Katerina Koskina
A Milano, presso lo Spazio Oberdan, dall’10 marzo al 1 Maggio 2011, si terrà la mostra dal titolo Intersections – Heterotopias, che colloca in una nuova dialettica due installazioni, realizzate indipendentemente, di due tra i più importanti artisti greci: Lizzie Calligas e George Hadjimichalis. che colloca in una nuova dialettica due installazioni, realizzate indipendentemente, di due tra i più importanti artisti greci: Lizzie Calligas e George Hadjimichalis.
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