Night has fallen on the mountain village of Megalo Papingo. The quiet village is drawn to the hustle of the church square where Nikos Matsopoulos is preparing his presentation on Space as the cold slowly starts to creep in. “What is science? It is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the […]
Monthly Archive:: July 2018
The Morning Walk
Each morning I awake and walk through the clouds. We have a thirty-minute walk down the mountain to Megalo for rehearsal, a trek we make once or twice a day, depending on our schedule. With a belly full of yogurt and my yoga mat in tow, I begin my descent. Our walk is filled with […]
Shira’s Workshop
In Shira’s workshop today, we focused on the script of The Life of Galileo and started to interpret what kinds of questions we wanted to explore in response to the text. We split up into small groups and began to examine certain scenes, looking for lines that spoke to us and underlying themes. From there, […]
Chorus Work With Georgia
I met Georgia Tsangaraki, on a stormy rainy night in Mikro Papingo, as I was waiting to meet “The Goat Man”, no really. The clouds had finally split and the rain was pouring. Here I am in Dias Bed and Breakfast coffee in hand, and now, nowhere to go, and a voice calls to me, […]
House Dinners
She apologies for it sometimes. The baby. It’s nearly midnight and upon approaching the blue gate—the last house on the hill—voices begin to hush. By the time the final foot has cleared the uneven cobblestones the silence is absolute. All that exists is the clear blue mountains and the echoes of crickets. Up on the […]
Mindfulness
“The art of being present” It’s one of the lessons Ianthe and One Year Lease is really instilling in us. Everyday, we do mindful meditation; this year we have a 30 minute mindfulness walk. Some hate this walk, others love it. It’s 10 minutes of walking the Papingo trails, 10 minutes at a watering hole, […]
Week One Workshare
For those of us not yet assigned a group composition, week one’s Workshare was uncharted territory. While many of us have experience devising in a group, this was our first real experiment with the material we have learned together as a company. Our instructions for this response to The Life of Galileo were as follows: 1. […]
The Panigiri
You could feel a shift in the village air in the days leading up to the festival: a slight bustling energy that differed from the quiet tranquility at the time of our arrival a week prior. This was once a time for the milkmaids to meet and dance with the farmhands and other young men […]
Clowning with Richard
Walking into our first Clowning workshop with Richard, I had no idea what to expect. I could feel a nervous energy circulating the church square, as none of us really knew how to prepare ourselves for what we were about to learn. As soon as Richard entered the space, he brought an incredible energy with […]
First Week of Classes
Our first week of rehearsals at Papigo, we have had the privilege to work with Adrienne Kapstein: a professor from PACE University who specializes in Lecoq training. We have spent the week working on accessing emotion through movement, and questioning how our bodies can be used to tell story. During our first workshop, we explored […]