Sunday, February 9 at 19:30 – Screening & Talk: "Art and Life as Composition"
Aliki Germanou-Georgoulopoulou and Aris Michalopoulos invite you to a retrospective screening of works from their long-standing artistic collaboration, spanning from 2007 to today. Their projects combine dance, photography, and video art, and have been presented at exhibitions and festivals in Greece and abroad. This evening offers a unique insight into the fusion of movement and image, personal and artistic dialogue.
A discussion will follow, focusing on:
the dynamics of artistic collaboration
the influence of personal relationships on creative processes
and art as a shared, living space of exploration.
About the Artists
Aliki Germanou-Georgoulopoulou
Dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, and Hatha yoga instructor.
She studied at the Matey School, the State School of Dance, and the Higher Professional Dance School of Despina Grigoriadou. In 2013, she graduated from the NYSY Studios Yoga Academy.
Since 1999, she has been practicing and teaching Japanese Butoh dance, participating in workshops with renowned teachers such as Masaki Iwana, Yumiko Yoshioka, Moeno Wakamatsu, and others.
She has collaborated with visual artists on performance and video dance projects and has appeared as a dancer, actress, and performer in various productions.
She lives and works in Athens and Aegina.
Aris Michalopoulos
Visual artist and audiovisual creator.
Since 2000, he has been creating works that explore the dialogue between analog photography, film, and digital media, merging sound and image into immersive experiences.
He is a founding member of the art collectives FOZ, Contre/akt, and En.grams, and regularly participates in exhibitions and festivals both in Greece and internationally.
He has collaborated with dancers and musicians in numerous audiovisual and performance projects. He lives and works in Athens and Aegina.
Free entrance
For more information: tomikrostudio.aigina@gmail.com
Sunday, January 12 at 19:30 – Fantastic Women
With special guest Antigone Gyra! We will screen and discuss her work!
"Fantastic Women" is the result of a three-year choreographic research project, developed across seas, mountains, living rooms, studios, airplanes, and the paths in between — in Greece, Switzerland, Israel, and the UK. It explores the nature of femininity and the notion of womanhood in transition.
From the beginning, the central concept was femininity in transition, which led the team to coin the neologism "gynaikótita" (a Greek wordplay suggesting “woman-ness”) to emphasize everything carried by female biology, whether innate or acquired.
The performance examines how unequal treatment of all forms of femininity is rooted in discrimination tied to what is culturally and socially perceived as "female nature." Any form of femininity that diverges from socially acceptable ideals continues to be judged and undervalued.
At the same time, Fantastic Women is both a protest and a celebration — a journey from the source that embraces every form of woman and womanly behavior stemming from self-defined creativity, strength, and vulnerability.
Choreography: Antigone Gyra, in collaboration with the performers
Dramaturgical Consultant: Christos Polymenakos
Soundscape & Original Music: Orestis Tanis
Performers (in alphabetical order): Afroditi Vervenioti, Antigone Gyra, Anthi Theofilidi, Ioanna Kampylafka, Danai Omoregie-Neanthi, Pinelopi Pyrrou, Evgenia Sigalou
Lighting Design: Anti Steve
Scenic Objects: Aristotelis-Georgios Zogas
Costume Design: Ioanna Kampylafka
Texts & Lyrics: Christos Polymenakos, Dimitra Zagora
Choreography Assistant / Singing: Aliki Avdelopoulou
Antigone Gyra’s solo was co-choreographed by Amalia Bennett, with costume design by Evdokia Veropoulou.
Premiered: Spring 2023, Roes Theater
Duration: 75 minutes
Antigone Gyra is a dance and theater performance creator, video artist, and mother of three grown children. She graduated with distinction from the Laban Centre London, receiving the Graduate Choreography Award in 1993.
In 1996, she founded KINITIRAS Choreography Hub, with which she has choreographed dozens of works — supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture and other institutions or produced independently. She has also organized numerous workshops and educational lectures on dance and theater. (www.kinitiras.com)
Her work has been presented in Greece and internationally at events and festivals including:
– Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Italy, 1997)
– Athens 2004 Olympics
– Hannover International Choreography Competition (2002)
– BKK Fringe Festival (Bangkok, 2007)
– Dance Days Festival (2015/2022)
– Kalamata Dance Festival (2017)
– Athens World Book Capital (2018)
– Bite Size Festival – Laban Centre (2019)
– “All of Greece One Culture” (2021)
– Jerusalem International Solo Dance Festival (2022), among others.
In December 2008, together with Vicky Adami and Flora Kalomoiris, she co-founded Kinitiras Studio, the first residency center for performing arts in Greece, offering a wide range of research events, artist exchanges, and creative residencies until summer 2019.
In theater, she has collaborated with numerous renowned directors and ensembles (S. Vgenopoulou, L. Giovanidis, N. Diamantis, S. Evangelatos, E. Theodorou, G. Kakleas, I. Karellas, G. Markopoulou, G. Mavragani, G. Moschos, G. Paloubis, C. Siopachas, S. Fasoulis, N. Chaniotakis, etc.), at the National Theatre of Greece, independent theaters, and Athens & Epidaurus Festival.
Since 1995, she has taught movement and choreography in professional schools and currently teaches at the Delos Drama School by Dimitra Hatoupi.
Her educational vision, EK-PLIXI, brings dance and physical theater into primary and secondary schools since 2012 (www.ekplixi.com).
Since December 2019 and during the pandemic, she designed and carried out two choreographic research projects supported by international institutions and the Greek Ministry of Culture:
"Femininity in Transition" – exploring contemporary transitions of femininity through solo works by choreographers from Greece and abroad.
"Contemporary Dance and the Elderly" – a study of mature-age dance, focusing on Kinitiras Ω (Omega) and similar international groups.
Antigone Gyra
Founder & Artistic Director of KINITIRAS
www.kinitiras.com | info@kinitiras.com
Sunday, December 8 at 19:30 – Guest Artist: Ilektra Angelopoulou
We are delighted to welcome Ilektra Angelopoulou to Mikro Studio for an evening screening and discussion.
We will present the performance “Woman” followed by an open conversation with the artist.
A Few Words About the Work:
In July 2019, as part of the Theatre/Archaeology program at Koutroulou Magoula (a collaboration between Brown University and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Phthiotis and Evrytania), and in collaboration with Efthimis Theou, the performance “Woman” was presented on site at the excavation.
Together with eleven women from the two nearby villages, and inspired by the rich collection of figurines found at the site, the performance explored female identity—as seen in archaeological material, excavation practices, and the local community.
About Ilektra Angelopoulou
Born in Athens, she studied Classics at UCL (University College London) and holds a Master's degree in Ancient World – Classical Archaeology from the University of Crete, where she gained several years of excavation experience.
She also holds an MA in Text and Performance (Performance track) from RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in collaboration with King’s College London.
In theatre, she has worked as a performer, director, assistant director, researcher, dramaturg, and producer, collaborating with institutions and festivals such as:
2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture | EMST (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens) | MOMus (Thessaloniki) | MIRfestival | Festivals of the Future
Goethe-Institut | BIOS/Tesla | Monitor Festival | University of Crete | Brown University | Renaissance Festival of Rethymno | Municipal Theatre of Rethymno,
and many more.
Free entrance
For info & reservations: tomikrostudio.aigina@gmail.com
Sunday, November 10 at 19:30 – Screening of the performance "7 Trax"
by the improvisation duet “instant poem”
Nikoleta Xeniareiou – movement
Martha Mavroidi – voice
We invite you to a special screening of “7 Trax”, a performance by the improvisational duet instant poem, featuring movement by Nikoleta Xeniareiou and voice by Martha Mavroidi.
The piece was originally presented during the reactivation of the Embros Theater (back then… in earlier times…).
After the screening, there will be a discussion on their process of artistic collaboration and the framework of instant composition.