Workshop: Wood Carving Art from N. Africa & the Maghreb
Hamid Lafer (Algeria / France)

In the tradition of Algeria, and of many regions of the Mediterranean in general, every house had a large chest, where they kept their valuable objects, their precious clothes, textiles and money. This chest was ornately decorated. The owner would call the craftsman, when the house was still on the foundations, and he would constract the chest on the spot. Then the walls of the house were built around the chest, and it remained forever there. Furthermore, when the patriarch of the house passed away, he was buried in the chest.

Hamid Lafer is a wood carver specializing in chest art, with exhibitions in Algeria, France and elsewhere. He will show us in the workshop the construction and decoration of traditional chests, with elements from the woodcarving art of North Africa & the Maghreb.

Ileana was born in Athens and has been involved in classical and contemporary dance since a young age. She has attended many seminars in Greece but also in Spain and Sweden. She has participated in performances in theaters in Athens, while since 2012, She began to explore different forms of movement such as acrobatics, improvisation and aerial acrobatics. She has attended intensive seminars by renowned artists and teachers and has participated in festivals both in Greece and abroad.

The workshop is part of the 1st Circus Convention of Cyclades.

Performing artist and cultural manager with more than 10 years of experience, he has participated as an artist and teacher in the main conventions in South America, in addition to participating in different shows and festivals.

He is constantly training in different areas and as a teacher through his seminar "body, object and memory".

The workshop is part of the 1st Circus Convention of Cyclades.

The Natural Rhythms workshop is a joyful trip towards the body wisdom through dance. When we listen to our body and we allow to express itself in a free way, we bring a balance to our system.

An approach for the liberation of psychological traumas through body in combination with healing music and sounds.

In the context of the organisation of the concert with Stathi Koukoulari and Martha Mavroidi , a traditional song workshop will take place. In this laboratory we will learn traditional songs from all over Greece, focusing in stylistic details of every place: the particular ornaments, the intervals, the sense of rhythm etc. We will also approach the folkloristic context of every song, the traditions with which it is connected and its place in the annual celebration cycle.

In the painting workshops that will take place, we will try to approach the technic parts of a painting piece. We will study the structure, the axes, the setting up of image and the painting space, the visual weights, the search and the editing of the shape. In the same time we will study the colour, its resolution, its properties and its capacities.

The workshop's purpose is not to manage only to complete technically a painting, byt mostly to learn to perceive things in a figurative way. To discover and develop a personal way of reading and writing, staying focused to the honesty of our personal sentiment, a key that brings us to the artistic- figurative art and to the Art space as well.

"From the outer space to the inner space and back, baduajin and other exercises. "

Qi Gong is aan ancient Chinese meditation method , based on the idea that the human being is a bridge between Sky and Earth and his role i sto bring a balance between the contraries. Qi Gong exercises require a dynamic partecipation of our attention, also a sharpened observation as well as a sense of pleasure during their execution. This way, those exercises can work in multiple levels nad more specifically in relation to our health, those exercises open the energetic roads,they strengthen nad make more elastic our muscles, our articulations nad our joints, fortifying in the same time the nervous system. Maybe the most important is , that while we are developing a balanced relationship between our movement and our breath, we are widening our limits, we are exercising meditation, we are balancing our sentiments and mind, we are enjoying every moment, we are pointing out our kind nature, we are improving the quality of our every day life, we are approaching our spiritual sufficiency, while we are becoming more conscious..

A lesson for the rythmic stability and flexibility, putting some reference points in musical pieces. We will also study melodic articulation in relation with the pulse and the rhythm of a musical piece.

In the context of the visit of Hyperion Ensemble, Saturday the 5th of January the creator and flutist of the orchestra Bruno Fiorentini, with our tango dancer Aggelianna Vlachou will coordinate a meeting for tango dancers, with live music played by the musicians of Hyperion Ensemble Trio. This workshop has the intention to help the dancer to listen to the music more consciously so that he/she can interpret better the rythm, the musical phrases kaithe style of the various tango orchestras, through his/her dance. So the dancer learns to sense in a different way the different rythms of tango (tango, tango vals, milonga) and their structure , to recognise the different instruments in a tango orchestra and their role and to use relevant choreographic elements, depending on the changes og the rhythm in the same musical piece..

Old and new techniques for the enlargement fo the musicality. A wide -dynamical- approach to the musical art , with exercises that aim to evolve our potentials. The seminar is the for every instrument, musical genre and voice as well.

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