Sardam Festival 2014
aRttitude presents the
2nd SARDAM: alternative literary readings festival
03-05 October 2014
This second edition of SARDAM presents readings and workshops by writers from Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Spain, through solo performances/presentations or cooperations with other artists. For the first time the main event will be presented in two cities, Limassol and Nicosia, whereas all workshops will take place during the festival’s last day, in Limassol. Once again, SARDAM aims at bringing the audience closer to a more direct, unconventional enjoyment of literature, through innovative and unusual readings that combine literature with other forms of art like video, spoken word-slamming, contemporary dance, voice experimentation, sound/music and so on. This year’s SARDAM, through its two workshops, also aims at offering an interesting perception of writing as a process of erasing, as well as ways of reading and performing poetry.
MAIN EVENT
03 OCTOBER 2014, THEATRO ENA, LIMASSOL, 8.30pm & 04 OCTOBER 2014, THEATRO ENA (ALLOS CHOROS), NICOSIA, 8.30pm
Participants: aRttitude, with the writers Maria A. Ioannou (CY), Marthia Carrozzo (ITALY), Marcal i Espi (SPAIN), the choreographer Evi Panayiotou and the dancers Petros Konnaris, Julia Brendle, Andria Vasiliou / the Noise Family Project (CY) / Dimitris Athinakis (GR) / Stella Voskaridou (CY), with the actress Marina Vrondi / Gianpaolo G. Mastropasqua (ITALY)
WORKSHOPS
05 OCTOBER 2014, 341 CREATIVE SPACES (341 Ayiou Andreou street), LIMASSOL
1. THE ERASER AS A PENCIL: Writing through erasing, by Dimitris Athinakis (GR) / 11am-2pm
2. READING AND PERFORMING POETRY by Marcal Font i Espi (SPAIN) / 3pm – 6pm
Participation fee: 25 euro (per workshop)
Limited number of participants.
By reservation only, until the 30th of September: 99404072
More info about the writers/artists that participate: http://www.sardamcy.wordpress.com
Supporters: Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus, Limassol Municipality, K.P Kyriacou Bookshops, Anagnosis Reading Network, PLATO Educational Services, Inprima, Exertus Services, Veramànd Studio Academy, newspaper LEMESOS.
Participants
The Noise Family Project (CY)
Maria Andreou was born in Limassol in 1989. After her studies in Applied Arts in Paris, she moved to London, to study Fine Arts and focus on a more media oriented practice that favors concept and context over practicality and materiality.
Her work consists mainly of text pieces worked into media based installations, often presenting binary and opposing concepts drawing mainly from personal experience, delivered with and through language.
Konstantina Ioannidou was born and raised in Limassol. She followed a three-year degree in Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton, in London, after attempting to study law in Nicosia and psychology in the USA and the UK. In writing she experiments with format and rhythm, coding and twisting experiential writings, focusing on the poetic practice. She is a founding member and coordinator of 341 Creative Spaces; she loves to translate and edit other works and has currently started up a publishing house named AΣΤΑΜΑΝ.
Claudiu Dita was born in Rome, raised in Craiova, Romania, lives and works in Limassol. He is mostly focused on creating his own electronic music and beats, but also experimenting with video and photography. The rest is just noise.
aRttitude (Κύπρος/CY)
*aRttitude was founded in 2009 by the choreographer Evi Panayiotou and the writer Maria A. Ioannou. The group aims at combining contemporary dance with literature, with emphasis on site-specific productions.
aRttitude’s previous productions:
ATTENTION FRAGILE, 10th Dance Platform,Rialto Theatre, 2010 / Untitled#1, NOBODY Festival, Pallas Theatre, 2010 / Untitled#2, 11th Dance Platform, Rialto Theatre, 2011 / TRANSPORTERS, Nea Kinisi Summer Festival, in a public bus (EMEL), 2011 / et cetera, Nea Kinisi Summer Festival, Gnorimias snack cafe, 2012 / BODY BIOS, Ethal, 2012 / ICY357, Nea Kinisi Summer Festival, 2013 / BODY BIOS II, Stoff Fringe Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013 / FOUR SALE, Limassol Municipal Market, 2014
DANCERS – SARDAM 2014
Julia Brendle studied dance at the Palucca-School/Dresden and at Codarts University/Rotterdam (BA). She graduated from the Freie Universitaet Berlin with a Masters Degree in Dance Theory/Dance Studies where she is recently enroled as a PHD candidate. She gained her professional experience with different international choreographers and companies such as Felix Ruckert (Delft/Holland; Berlin/Germany), Theater Thikwa (Berlin/Germany), Dansateliers (Rotterdam/Holland), Katja Erdmann-Rajski (Stuttgart/Germany), Rosemary Lee (London/Limassol). From 2006 till today she has been a member of z.em Tanzprojekte, company of the German choreographer Katja Erdmann-Rajski. Since 2010 she lives and works in Cyprus and has been part of the Cypriot dance scene ever since, working among others with Milena Ugren Koulas, Alexander Michael and Chloé Melidou, Roula Klevovoulou (Omada Pende) and Aelion. Since 2010 she is part time lecturer for dance and dance theory at the University of Nicosia/Cyprus.
Petros Konnaris was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1988. He graduated from the Dance Department of the University of Nicosia with first class honours and is a holder of a Mathematics and Statistics degree from the University of Cyprus. In 2012, he participated in the DanceWeb Scholarship programme 2012, part of the ImpulsTanz festival in Vienna, Austria. The previous years, Petros collaborated as a performer with .pelma, Doris Uhlich, Selas Dance Company, Asomates Dinameis, Christos Polymenakos, Christina Patsali Michelle Panteli and Anthi Pafiou. Petros performed in various European festivals such as ImpulsTanz in Austria, Opera Estate/B-Motion in Italy, Athens Festival in Greece, Frankfurt Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Germany and MDT in Sweden. The last two years Petros is researching through choreography, performance and collaboration on issues of identity, nakedness and nudity, honesty and simplicity.
Andria Vasiliou graduated from the State School of Dance in Athens in 2011. She joined the cultural group DIASTASIS and later the contemporary dance group aRttitude. She has taken part in many performances in Cyprus and abroad (ICY357, BODY BIOS, et cetera, FOUR SALE). One of her latest projects was her participation in STOFF FESTIVAL in Stockholm, Sweden.
Marcal Font i Espi (Spain / Ισπανία) + εργαστήρι «Reading and Performing Poetry»
Marçal Font i Espí (Badalona, Barcelona, 1980) is a second hand and antique bookseller, a literary investigator and a performer poet. He won the Barcelona poetry slam regular league in 2010 and 2011, the International Poetry Slam of Barcelona in 2011 and 2012, the Spanish National Chapionship of Poetry Slam in 2011 and got into the finals of the Spanish National Chapionship of Poetry Slam in 2012. He reached the semifinals of the World Cup of Poetry Slam in Paris in May 2012. He won the International Poetry Slam of Palma de Mallorca in 2013. He’s been performing his own poetry since 1999 and has taken part in many festivals and poetry readings in practically the whole Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Hungary and Guatemala. He has collaborated in many collective projects with other poets, musicians and visual artists in Spain and in Reims and Paris. In October 2013 he published the book Frutos del Desguace (Ed. Ya lo dijo Casimiro Parker, Madrid), with his own poetry, together with a studio recorded CD with jazz music by bLow. He published his literary works in Spanish and Catalan in many Spanish and Catalan magazines and anthologies. He has been translated into English, Portuguese, French and German and has been published in literary magazines in Scotland, France and Slovenia. As a literary investigator he has published his work in several specialized magazines of Catalonia and Spain. He received his degree on Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the University of Barcelona and eventually got a specialization on medieval and baroque manuscripts from the CSIC in Madrid (Center of High Science Investigation of Spain).
Marthia Carrozzo (Italy)
Marthia Carrozzo worked at the «power of the word» Workshop with Giovanni Lindo Ferretti (CCCP – CSI) in 2004. Her first collection of poems was “Womb of the Moon» (Besa, 2007). She has also published «skin to skin , sea spaces and only senses» (LietoColle , 2009). Theatre becomes her poetry, put into a personal and poetic research focused on the word and its rhythm, a rhythm that needs to breathe and that needs a “body” and a sound. Marthia was chosen to represent Puglia at the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Skopje Bjcem 2009. Her latest work of theater and poetry is Calicanthùse, for the voices of Marthia Carrozzo, Margherita Macri and Nabil Salameh (Radiodervish) with music by Rocco Nigro. One of her poems – Dinuovoedinuovo – becomes a song by Etta Scollo, the new album by Etta, Cuoresenza (May 2011 – Tocadero). She has also attended the Academy of dubbing, to explore further possibilities of the voice. As the winner of the 19th edition of the National Prize of Poetry with » Cuttlefish Bones » (Arma di Taggia, 2013) Marthia came first among 804 poets with the following comment by the jury: «the poetry of feverish, sumptuous sensuality in which Marthia Carrozzo, describes with a natural conscience the dynamic game of psycho – physical love, and an instinctive world of passion and radical impulses and ‘ longing ‘ for the other, for the lover. She has a strong character, ancient and percussive, like a litany; in her verses Marthia Carrozzo has succeeded in the difficult test to express all together an urgency of the senses and a shiny, tormented journey of knowledge for ardor. A poetic work that is related to the best lesson of the Baroque, appropriately revisited in post- twentieth-century sense.» On the 20th April 2013, Marthia opened the event «Next – The Republic of Ideas» in Bari, Teatro Petruzzelli, a festival of Innovation for Startuppers, because “Innovation is more poetry than Science” – Phil McKinney.
Dimitris Athinakis (GR) + εργαστήρι «Η γόμα ως μολύβι: Από τη δημιουργική γραφή στο δημιουργικό σβήσιμο»
Dimitris Athinakis (aka Latenighter) was born in Drama, Northern Greece, in 1981. Since 2000, with a small break from 2004 till 2006, he has been living patiently in downtown Athens. He has studied social theology, philosophy and philosophy of science in Athens, in Thessaloniki and in Amsterdam respectively. He works in the publishing sector as an editor, translator, literary critic, and public relations, communication and new media manager. He has published two poetry collections: “Domatio Mikron Diakopon (Short Vacation Room)” (Kedros pubs., 2012) and “horisemeis (wethout)” (Society of (de)kata pubs., 2009). He also works in the digital field as a concept developer, being a social media expert and focusing on the new ways of communication, having co-founded medianeras.gr with Gogo Voudouri and Angeliki Zervou. He is a nonstop music listener ―he works as a radio producer every once in a while― as well as he takes thousands of pictures composing small projects. His entire (digital) presence can be found here: about.me/dimitris.athinakis
Gianpaolo G. Mastropasqua (Ιταλία / Italy)
GIANPAOLO G. Mastropasqua was born in Bari in November 1979. After completing part of his studies in Seville, he graduated from the University of Bari with a thesis in Psychiatry. He has also completed a Post Graduate Course, at the same University, in Bioethics with a thesis on the relationship between psychiatry and art therapy. He also graduated from the Conservatory of Brescia «Luca Marenzio«, after musical studies at the Conservatory «Egidio Duni» of Matera.
He has published “Silence with variations”, by Lietocolle, 2005 (finalist for the Prix Festival of the Arts in Bologna in 2006 and winner of the 2007 New International Prize for Literature, the Italian Institute of Culture in Naples), which later became «PoesiaConcerto» of original music by A. Ciavarella for «The Great Narratives.» In 2008, again by Lietocolle editions, he has published Andante of the lost fragments”.
His lyrics are present in journals, anthologies, newspapers and literary blogs. He edited the anthology “If / say / year” and the Anthology “tag and portray” (Ed. Lietocolle) on poetry in the time of Facebook. With new texts, in 2011, he won the International award Alda Merini. He also promoted various artistic and literary events including «South Tour Lietocolle” and “Artists against the gag«.
He participated in the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean and in 2013, a monograph on his poetry has appeared in the Anthology «South of the South of Saints – One Hundred Years of Literary History«, published by Lietocolle. Some of his books are in the book «The evolution of poetic forms – the best poetry of the last twenty years«, published by Kairos 2013. He is currently one of the creators and curators of the Poetic Grand Tour.
Stella Voskaridou (CY), με την ηθοποιό Μαρίνα Βροντή
Stella Voskaridou Economou has undergraduate degrees in Music Studies from the National and Capodistrian University of Athens and in Piano performance and Composition Techniques (Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue) from the National Conservatory of Athens. She was awarded a MLitt at the International Centre for Music Studies of the University of Newcastle, for a research related to theatre and film music. She completed a PhD thesis on the music in films that are based on Greek tragedies at the same university, entitled: The Dionysian Influence on Screen: A Critical Analysis of the Music in Films that are Based on Greek Tragedies. Her work includes teaching and research on music, as well as musical composition. Among her research interests are: the relations between music and language, the relations between music and narrative, the concept of musicality and the representation of myth through music. Apart from the publication of academic articles on these topics, in 2013 she published her first poetry book, Anagelasta, in which she experiments with the Cypriot dialect, and more specifically with the idea of combining it with a modern poetic idiom.
Marina Vronti was born in Limassol and studied acting at Theodosiadis Higher Drama School where she graduated in 2004. She stayed in Athens for a total of 10 years where she acted in several theater performances such as "Coming from Cinema to Theater" and "Deadline" Stage. N. Karageorgos. "This We Will See" Dir. D. Komninos, "Neon" for the Experimental Stage of the National Stage Theatre. A. Tsiotsiopoulos. "Amphitryonas", "Skull Tragedy", "PlayBack Theater" etc. In Greece, he directed the plays "Katharevousa and other hidden resources" and "Old Hat" by N. Lemonis. In Cyprus he collaborated with several directors such as M. Zira, T. Tzamargias, S. Drousiotis, S. Kotsikos, A. Grammatikopoulos, H. Zanos, M. Tigilis, H. Melidou, T. Tatsi and others. He has participated several times in the Festival of Cypriot and Ancient Drama and has directed in Cyprus the plays: "Orphans" by Lyle Kessler for the Versus Theater and "Cyclopes and Frogs" by Kostis Kolotas in his memory for ETHAL for all Primary Schools of Cyprus. She worked for three years at the ETHAL production organization and her first play "Kalinyfta" was staged at the Ancient Conservatory of Paphos under the direction of A. Grammatikopoulos as part of the Cultural Window Paphos 2013. Since 2010 she has been teaching theater to children and teenagers.
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