MINTATI AGAIN
The performance MINTATI, first presented in 2024 as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, returns for two exclusive shows on September 6 and 7 at 20:00, at Venue D, Piraeus 260. Conceived and choreographed by Jenny Argyriou, MINTATI draws inspiration from the collective energy of traditional dances as well as contemporary choreographic practices, posing questions about new forms of expression and ritual that have the power to bring us together. At its core lie the notions of community, memory, and co-creation.
“Mintati” in Epirus, “xelasi” in the Peloponnese, “argatia” in Pontus, “allaxia” in Ikaria, “ambasada” in the Cyclades—these are words once used to describe the collective labor of community members working side by side toward a common good. Such practices, deeply rooted in daily life, relied unequivocally on mutual support and solidarity—values that today seem to be slipping away.
Embracing this spirit of “shared effort,” dancers and musicians shape the landscape and create a living archive of sounds and movements—memories of dances resurfacing from the depths of time to meet the present—gradually unfolding the concentric circles of a collective celebration.
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CREDITS
Concept – Choreography Tzeni Argyriou
Collaborating visual artist – Set designer Vassilis Gerodimos
Performers Nancy Stamatopoulou, Ermis Malkotsis, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Sotiria Koutsopetrou, Despina Sanida-Krezia, Tasos Nikas, Sevasti Zafeira, Luke Macaronas
Original music composition, performance, sound editing on stage Giorgos Gargalas, Nikos Tsolis
Lighting design Nysos Vasilopoulos
Dramaturgy Christiana Galanopoulou
Costumes Vassilia Rozana
Assistant to the Choreographer Fotini Stamatelopoulou
Assistant to Set Designer Ioanna Plessa
Traditional Dance Instructor Nikos Panagiotou
Artistic collaborator Vitoria Kotsalou
Management – Executive Production Delta Pi
Production AMORPHY
Tzeni Argyriou and the team would like to wholeheartedly thank all the participants at the research workshops for their contribution to the research and to the performance. Special thanks to Alexandros Klidonas, Yorgos Antonatos, Yiannis Malatantis
MINTATI
Photo © Karol Jarek
MINTATI a new choreographic work by Tzeni Argyriou presented at Athens Epidaurus Festival 3rd&4th of July 2024.
Can we invent new dances to express us and new rituals to unite us? What would such a festivity look like? Could we all ‘lend a hand’ in creating it? The MINTATI project was born in the light of these questions and thoughts, putting at the centre the concepts of community, collectivity, and solidarity.
For more information visit:
https://aefestival.gr/festival_events/midati/?lang=en
ΑΝΩΝΥΜΟ
Photo © Lila Sotiriou
ΑΝΩΝΥΜΟ comes back for the U.S premier at Peak Performances, 4-7 May 2023, Alexander Kasser Theater- Montclair, NJ, USA.
When technology defines our life and our relationships, isn’t it time to start from the beginning? Shouldn’t we walk to the river source? A journey to the source of dance. ΑΝΩΝΥΜΟ looks back to a time when art wasn’t something created by particular, named individuals, but a practice which brought people—and kept communities—together. It immerses itself in these societies’ dances and modes of expression, which are rooted in human contact, holding, group cohesion and shared joy.
SYNAXIS In Progress
Photo © thearchlabyrinth
SYNAXIS In Progress. This new work by Tzeni Argyriou premiered in 07.2023 at Festival “Sti Skia ton Vrachon” and furthermore at the Atrium of the Benaki Museum – Peiraios 138 and at the National Garden
How does a set of bodies meet in a specific space or place? Will they sync in a common thing? Will they be able together to create dances that capture old and new forms of collective expression? The project attempts to emphasize the importance of bringing people together in urban centers through artistic practices that build shared experiences. As a counter to the complexity and loneliness of modern life, “SYNAXIS in progress” invites us to connect with nature in a different way, returning our attention to the body, the voice, the rhythm and the landscapes they create.
ELEFSINIAN MOVEMENT, Part of the Opening Ceremony of 2022 Eleusis on 4th of February 2023
Photo © Mairi Vossou
Numerous processions moving simultaneously, like rivers over land, like arteries of the urban body, gradually come together and form a new, large polymorphic body. All the local associations of the city unite in a large chorus that will “flow out” at the point of continuation of the activities in the Opening Ceremony of 2022 Eleusis. As a commemoration of this new emblematic march, a special exhibition-installation about the labour movement will be set up at Elefsina’s coastal zone.
Conversations
A performance that explores the process of creating a painting through a choreographic composition.
The dramaturgical line of the piece is inspired by the work of Yannis Moralis and the way he conversed with the human body during his artistic career. The audience witnesses a process consistent with that of the artistic creation of a work in an artist’s studio.
The performance will be presented at the house – studio of Yannis Moralis in Aegina on 3rd of September 2022 in the context of the 13th Aegina Fistiki Fest.
An initiative of the Society for the Study, Research and Promotion of Modern Greek Art – Yannis Moralis Laboratory (https://www.jmoralis.gr)
Photo © Christos Doulgeris
PHRASIS vs PRAXIS
PHRASIS vs PRAXIS is a series of performative excerpts and installations that explore the body’s relationship to speech, as well as the different interpretations that result from the interaction of these two elements in a space.
What kind of distance exists between thoughts, words and actions?
The experts will be presented on 8th and 9th of July 2022 at Cosmopolis Festival, kavala city with the support of Crea Centres. Amorphy produced this work with the support of Greek ministry of Culture.
Photo © Tzeni Argyriou
SYNTHESIS
Synthesis is a long-durational performative-installation treating the composite concept of Revolution conceived, planned and curated by choreographer Tzeni Argyriou and visual artist Vassilis Gerodimos. The work is a commission by the GNO Alternative Stage and will be presented as part of the tribute to the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution to the GNO Alternative Stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on 29, 30 and 31 October 2021. During the three days of the event on the GNO Alternative Stage, audience members will have the possibility to move within the performative installation, follow different approaches from different viewpoints, decide for themselves the length of their stay in the venue, create their own synthesis, and ultimately experience fragments of the Revolution in the here and now. Synthesis is the creative outcome of a composite, collective artistic endeavor – a score involving creatives from the visual and performing arts and the social sciences.
Photo © Tzeni Argyriou
PHRASIS
SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER – 18.00-19.00
OLYMPIEIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
The upcoming performance «Phrasis», created by choreographer Tzeni Argyriou and Amorphy dance company, will be presented within the program “All of Greece, One Culture” initiated by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, as an official selection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (ΕMST). The performance will take place on Sunday, September 20, 2020, 6pm-7pm at Olympieio Archaeological Site.
The performance draws its inspiration and materials from phrases, known or unknown, such as proverbs and ancient sayings, as well as from ancient and contemporary artworks, raising the question of how such condensed information embodied in timeless phrases may be attributed and interpreted today, physically, verbally and vocally.
Photo © Tzeni Argyriou
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ANΩNYMO | performances cancelled cause to covid 19
MARCH 27, 2020 - Le TPE - BEZONS SCENE CONVENTIONNEE *-* May 19&20, 2020 - Dublin dance Festival *-* JUNE 12&13, 2020 - MAILLON – THEATRE DE STRASBOURG–SCENE EUROPEENNELE *-*
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ANΩNYMO
February 1st, 2020 | ITA- A’dam
Photo © Lila Sotiriou
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ANΩNYMO
Octomber 4th, 2019 | Dance in Brugge | Belgium
Photo © Maria Argyriou
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ANΩNYMO
July 21st, 2019 | MITTEFEST| FRIULI | ITALY
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ANΩNYMO
June 14th, 2019 | THEATER ROTTERDAM| NETHERLANDS
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ANΩNYMO
May 21st&22nd, 2019 |SPRING PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL, UTRECHT| NETHERLANDS
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Dr. Maybe Darling
24.04.2019 @ Horizont Contemporary Dance Festival,
Miskolc National Theatre
Photo © Lila Sotiriou
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ANΩNYMO
July 17th, 2018 | Kalamata International Dance Festival | Main Stage
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ANΩNYMO
June 5 & 6, 2018 |Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis | Theatre Berthelot, Paris
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ANΩNYMO | premier | Tzeni Argyriou
24th – 27th May 2018, OCC MAIN STAGE
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ANΩNYMO’s choreographic approach takes the form of a physical ceremony, a contemporary ritual that recalls the power of bodies dancing together. Taking traditional dance forms as a source of inspiration, Tzeni Argyriou transcended the formal movements, patterns and rhythms to focus on a collective encounter of a shared experience!