Workshops | M-Power Festival

15:00 – 16:30 | Championing Inclusivity in Film: Back to Back Theatre's Approach | Galaxy Corner

Over the last 30 years, Australian theater company Back to Back has been creating trailblazing work, which questions and changes audiences’ perception of performing arts. What is possible and what is just an assumption of what theater can be? As the recipients of the International Ibsen Award 2022 for excellence in theater, Back to Back pioneers inclusivity by creating work inspired by their own ensemble of artists with disabilities. Screen Producer Alice Fleming and Associate Producer Meret Hassanen reflect on their recent film, “Shadow,” and its inclusive practice employing artists with disabilities in front of and behind the camera, discussing how “Shadow” is a great case study for increasing the employment of practitioners with disabilities in the arts sector.

Led by:

• Alice Fleming, Head of Screen, Back to Back Theatre
• Meret Hassanen, Associate Producer, “Shadow” film

Addressed to: Artists with disabilities and production companies looking to make their practice more inclusive, and anyone interested in participatory approach to making films or theater

15:00-17:00 | Playful processes – Connecting, collaborating, and sharing through playful improvisation | Galaxy Studio

The participants will use improvisation as a way of playfully and gently exploring their interests and ideas, not taking themselves or their practice too seriously. This workshop will make space for, mess, experimentation, and connection with others.

Led by: Kate Marsh, Artist, Researcher (United Kingdom)

Addressed to: People with and without disabilities, who are interested in dance regardless of their dance experience, 18 +

11:00 – 13:00 | THE LENS _ a sharing of ideas and methodologies through which "Solar" performance was formulated | Galaxy Studio

With the methodology developed during the creation of SOLAR performance as starting point, and making use of the resulting material, Vitoria Kotsalou, Eleni Dimopoulou, and the members of En Dynamei Ensemble will share a dance workshop with their female and male friends. The theme of the workshop is the body as a lens, a means of focusing attention and exploration, eliciting to the surface our deepest senses, memories, and needs, which we need in order to nurture an ever-expanded present.

The members of En Dynamei Ensemble, with and without disabilities, will coordinate the workshop. The participants, along with the members of the ensemble, shall follow successive stages, beginning from personal exploration, moving then forward to our relationship with the Other, with the different, while finally, they will be led to a collective situation where, by dancing, they will weave a new way of thinking and co-existence.

Led by: Vitoria Kotsalou, Eleni Dimopoulou, Agapi Theodoridou Kounini, Sofia Mpletsou, Loxandra Lukas, Michalis Ntolopoulos, Christos Sioumis, Stefanos Lentzis

Addressed to: People with and without disabilities, who are interested in dance regardless of their dance experience, 18 +