Proposal for Application Form
The National Theatre of Northern Greece organizes the
1st Meeting of Young Artists of Southeast Europe entitled
«Ancient Drama and Politics» from 22 to 29 September 2017.
The meeting aims to link the valuable inheritance of Ancient Drama with the contemporary artistic creation and to provide motives to young artists to deal with ancient theatre texts. Moreover, new perspectives and correlations with the contemporary social and political reality will be emerged.
During the week, a series of workshops and lectures will be held and performances will be presented, all this aimed at highlighting modern views and approaches to Ancient Greek Drama and the results of cooperation between artists with different cultural backgrounds. Simultaneously, open presentations and discussions with the public are in program.
The National Theatre of Northern Greece invites for participation:
- Professional artists (until 35 years old) and graduates of schools of drama or Universities specialized in acting, to participate in workshops that will lead to the presentation of the work done in common by artists from different countries.. The artists should send CV, photos and at least one video extract from a performance that they had participated. Sufficient English knowledge is required.
- Groups of young artists (until 35 years old) who work in Southeast Europe countries, have dealt before with Ancient Greek Drama and are able to present a finished performance or a work in progress based on ancient drama focusing in politics. Groups must send a short CV of the group, individual CVs of the members, description of the idea and the direction, video of the performance (if applicable), videos extracts from previous performances, photos and sample text in Greek or English.
Taking part in workshops and performances will be provided at no cost for certain groups/artists members that will be chosen by an artistic committee. Travelling and overnight expenses for groups and individual artists that live overseas are payed by NTNG.
Submissions must be sent to
[email protected] with the appropriate subject “
Ancient Drama and Politics” to NTNG drama office or by post to the address Ethnikis Aminis 2, 54621 Thessaloniki
until 21 June 2017.
Under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Sports