The “
Tournament 5X5”, organised by the NTNG, gives to the new groups in our city the opportunity to present their work. The festival continues with “Kantan”, a performance by A4M performing arts group.
About the play
“Kantan” is based on the homonymous theatrical play of Yukio Mishima, a play belonging to Noh, a form of Japanese theatre.
A somatic performance where elements of the traditional Japanese Noh theatre and of the Japanese modern Butoh dance merge with modern music. This performance creates an audiovisual score whereby actors, dancers and musicians “meditate” on matters regarding life’s organic substance and its/our choices.
It is a play of exceptional beauty, poetic and cruel, posing questions about nature and human desire, politics, power, and wealth. Dream and reality, life and death intermingle until the moment of awakening.
The performance was presented for the first time at Avlaia Theatre in 2014. The second version of the play with new elements and scenes is presented at the Studio Theatre of Lazaristes Monastery.
A4M performing arts group
The experimental group of performing arts research A4M was founded in 2008 by the director-theatre researcher Athina Dragkou and the musician-actor Dimitris Papadopoulos. A4M is a non-profit organisation. The group’s main goal is to explore new theatrical forms through a holistic approach whereby theatre-speech, dance-music, music-breath-sound are inseparable. The group has presented their projects abroad, in Athens and in Thessaloniki.
In 2011 the Centre for Performing Arts A4M was created, where the group presented the 1st Asian Theatre Festival. Since then A4M performing arts group has organised and hosted there various seminars as well as experimental performances from Greece and abroad.
In 2015 the group represented Greece in the 13th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, PQ, with the play “Project Odysseys: Thessaloniki”.
“Kantan 2”
Director: Athina Dragkou
Music: Antonis Rouvelas
Vocal composition: Dimitris Papadopoulos
Sets-Costumes: Koyouki Kako
“Beauty” Costume: Synthia Gerothanasiou
Construction of mask: Martha Foka
Shibari instructor: Christos Tsakalos [ΌΧ1]
Assistant director: Marily Ventouri
Lighting design: Stelios Tzolopoulos
Sound engineering / audio engineer: Kostas Kontos
Musicians: Jannis Anissegos (flute), Haris Doulkas (vocals), Anthi Kyrkou (vocals), Gioula Michail (vocals), Thanasis Tsolakis (vocals), Davina Florentin (percussions)
Performers: Dimitris Papadopoulos, Sofia Papanikandrou, Alexis Tsiamoglou, Sofia Chatzivasileiou
“Kantan 2”
Friday 15 April, 21:00
Saturday 16April, 18:00 & 21:00
Sunday 17April, 21:00
Tickets
General admission: 10 €
Reduced ticket: 5 € (students, persons over 65, unemployed, persons from multi-child families)
Ticket Sales
NTNG box offices, Τel. +30 2315 200 200, www.ntng.gr, tickethour.com, GERMANOS stores, ote shops, Piraeus Bank (aps machines)
Vassiliko (Royal) Theatre box office: Tuesday-Sunday: 8:30-21:30
Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies box office: Wednesday-Sunday 16:30-21:30
Lazaristes Monastery box office: Wednesday-Sunday 16:30-21:30
Telephone reservations: +30 2315 200200