Festival 2023
ANTI-SKINO, Outdoor Festival of Theatre and Performing Arts is evolving and growing. The team of your beloved festival-institution expands its creative horizon by organizing a multi-level performing
arts festival with the central theme “Cyprus 2023 AD.” which will unfold in August 2023, reaching its peak during the three-day festival on the last Thursday-Friday-Saturday of August in Kato Pyrgos.
The main connecting pillar of the festival will be the creative interplay of on-stage and live arts (performing, visual, digital etc.) with the aim of a performative result. The festival's activities will
build on the creative power of the community by bringing together artists from different fields, while special emphasis will be placed on innovation, art peer-to-peer learning, the use of digital technologies and sustainability.
Monday, 31 July
Home for Cooperation
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Focus Group (120’)
For individuals and groups of the performing arts sector in Cyprus.
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Music-Poetry Act (50’)
«Η τύχη των τειχών» (on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the checkpoints opening in Cyprus)
Choice of texts, Music Composition, Director: George Kalogirou (Composer)
Actors: Irini Andronikou, Konstantina Xenophontos
Musicians: Charalambos Panteli, Konstantinos Makaritis
The musical-theatrical event “Η τύχη των τειχών” is written in 2023 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the checkpoints in Cyprus, linking them to the Berlin and Palestine walls. It consists of poems and texts by poets who lived in these divided cities or refer to them, in order to show through their writings how the concept of “walls” functions in the internal and external world of people. That is, how it is possible, if at all, for the wall as an element outside man to function as an element within him, as K.P.Cavafy describes it in his poem ‘Walls’.
Tuesday, 1 August
Home for Cooperation
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Performance Art Masterclass
Under the supervision and in collaboration with Christina Georgiou, performance artist and founder of the first performance festival in Cyprus (CIPAF Cyprus International Performance Art Festival)
Participants have the opportunity to create and present their own performance.
The masterclass follows a multi-level approach through practice, theory, performance screenings, discussion, feedback and consultation on the work of each individual participant.
The result of the Masterclass will be presented on 26/8 at the Community Park of Kato Pyrgos Tilliria in the form of a performance.
8:30 PM – 9:15 PM
Music-Poetry Act (50’)
«Η τύχη των τειχών» (on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the checkpoints opening in Cyprus)
Choice of texts, Music Composition, Director: George Kalogirou (Composer)
Actors: Irini Andronikou, Konstantina Xenophontos
Musicians: Charalambos Panteli, Konstantinos Makaritis
Friday, 1st September
Idalion Amphitheatre
8:30 PM – 9:15 PM
Music-Poetry Act (50’)
«Η τύχη των τειχών» (on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the checkpoints opening in Cyprus)
Choice of texts, Music Composition, Director: George Kalogirou (Composer)
Actors: Irini Andronikou, Konstantina Xenophontos
Musicians: Charalambos Panteli, Konstantinos Makaritis
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Teenagers' Workshop (60’)
«Εγώ την Νύχτα»
Facilitator: Maria Kassinou
It is a walking interactive musical activity. The spectators/participants of the activity will go to 4 different locations within the festival site and will be motivated to watch, listen, create and interact with the material available. The workshop aims to foster the artistic cultivation of young people and teenagers through their direct involvement in creative artistic processes. At the same time, the activity will give teenagers and young people a sense of belonging, socialize with other young people and have a good time through their participation in the festival.
9:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Young Artists on Stage - Devised theatre (30’)
«Roots»
Actress: Evanthia Polyviou
Musician: Spyros Sokratous
A young girl moves with her family to a new environment. Every day she struggles to be accepted by those around her. Is it finally worth it to change who you are for others? The play presents in diary form the experiences, difficulties and daily life of the young girl accompanied by a live improvised musical accompaniment.
10:30 PM
Music night – Introduction of the cast and volunteers of ANTI-SKINO with the youth of Kato Pyrgos through a flashback to Greek music.
With Katerina Paraschou and Andreas Moses
11:00 AM -12:00 PM
Getting to know each other activity with the artists and visitors(60’)
Facilitator: Nasia Kelepessi
Everyone can participate in this game. A workshop designed to make us remember how we play innocently and humanly, how we express ourselves unfiltered and truly, how we share stories and moments. It’s hard as adults to open up to people we don’t know, but it all becomes much easier through playing in a safe and respectful environment. Our game becomes the beginning of beautiful encounters.
1:00 PM
DJ Playlist
6:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Young Artists on Stage - Art & digital Performance (20’)
“Kάτ εικόνα”
Conception – Performance: Stavros Petrou
“Kάτ εικόνα” is an artistic performance of an experiential character, in a live-real space and time, on the subject of the contemporary life condition of a virtual reality. An individual now lives in two complementary “worlds”, consisting simultaneously of his embodied self and the virtual self-image! What happens when these two worlds begin to drift apart? Have we created a life made up of images, like a show, for invisible virtual digital recipients?
6:30 PM - 6:50 PM
Young Artists on Stage - Art Performance (20’)
“Sanctus”
Conception – Text: Maria Eleftheriou
Dramaturgy – Direction: Stavros Petrou
Actress: Georgia Nicolaou
The Art Performance “Sanctus” deals with the human’s inner impulse towards evil with the ultimate goal of pleasurable satisfaction by seeing himself, not as his real self, but as a self-dummy, a puppet that can, due to its socially accepted beauty and youth, do the ultimate evil. This impulse is more pronounced in our time since the challenges and attention-seeking by any means become more important than any virtue. Virtue in the sense that in Cyprus today humanistic values are considered obsolete. On stage the performer will move from speech to dance and from the real-performance space to the heterochronous virtual space through video art with which she will interact.
7:00 PM - 7:20 PM
Performance (20’)
«Ά – ψυχη»
Directors: Raphaela Kavazi, George Papaconstantinou
Script: George Papaconstantinou
Actress: Raphaela Kavazi
In the last stage of a catatonic episode of a young girl in a psychiatric institution, finds herself talking in front of a closed door. The closed door of our society and the people around her (us). The mental health issues hidden behind a taboo that our country keeps concealed, slowly appear before our eyes through the young girl’s desperate attempt to support the person behind the closed door. A monologue that speaks to the outside but also to our inner selves. An attempted suicide leads to an attempt to renegotiate and reposition souls struggling to make it through another day on the world map.
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Theatrical play (60’)
«Λογιστικός έλεγχος ή Ισλανδία, Ένας Μοντέρνος Μύθος»
Director: Maria Karsera
Scenography: Thelma Kasoulides
Actors: Teresa Evripidou, Fotis Fotiou
The play «Λογιστικός έλεγχος ή Ισλανδία, Ένας Μοντέρνος Μύθος» was written in 2018 by Andrew Westerside and Proto-type Theater, examines the global financial crisis and contemporary politics through the recent history of Iceland and the efforts of the Icelandic people and nation to raise their voices and protest. The work is about reclaiming human power, overthrowing a world designed to keep us enslaved and how collective power can change – even if only one small step at a time – our world.
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Theatrical play (60’)
«Τον γάτο μου τον λέν Σωτήρη»
Text – Director: Constantinos Tsitsios
Actor: Giorgos Anagiotos
A dramatic monologue with comic elements.
The imprisonment of a thirty-five-year-old man in a basement after a huge global catastrophe of an unforeseen nature brings him face to face with his past life. Gradual memory loss and lack of food will bring him face to face with a difficult dilemma. One should not wait for the end of the world to embrace the ones he has loved or give in to the passions he has avoided all his life. The new generation must throw off the burdens that the previous and more intractable generation has burdened it with. The expectations of the previous generation have fallen on deaf ears and we fallen with force from Mars.
11:00 PM - 11:50 PM
Musical Narration (50’)
«Χρώματα»
Director: George Papakonstantinou
Script – Narration: George Papakonstantinou
Musicians: Savvas Chrysostomou, Christodoulos Christodoulou
A creative musical-theatrical monologue in the Cypriot dialect written by the Cypriot poet and writer George Papaconstantinou based on a series of pieces – compositions by the young singer-songwriter and artist Savvas Chrysostomou. The 11 pieces of this musical-theatrical collection represent one colour of the palette of people. A musical-theatrical performance that goes from the innocence of our carefree childhood in the villages of Cyprus through the footsteps of adolescence and adulthood in cities made to hurt human relationships.
12:00 PM - 12:40 AΜ
Poetry and Performance (40’)
«ALIVENESS» (in EN)
By Melissa Zanga
ALIVENESS is a blend of poetry and performance art. A one woman show that pulls you into an unexpected journey of feelings and textures, music, mud and a bathtub. A blend of improvisation and written text, the performer shows up authentic, confronting the audience with their shared vulnerability, their power and their brilliance.
9:00 AM
Qi Gong and Tai Chi practice Embodied Poetry in Flow Motion
Alexis Karkotis
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Interactive Theatre Workshop for children (6-12) (60’)
«Ονειρεύομαι ένα κόσμο»
Facilitator: Nasia Kelepessi
The workshop is based on the fairy tale, ‘The Pillows of Heavenly City’ by Eugene Trivizas and its main purpose is learning in the sense of understanding ourselves and the world. Children explore the theme of freedom and the importance of this concept through drama, play, dramatization and other activities. The aim of the programme is to enable children to create their own, more beautiful worlds, just as they imagine them.
1:00 PM
DJ Playlist
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Performance Art by Christina Georgiou (60’)
The result of the Performance Art Masterclass as a “performance”.
The Masterclass was conducted under the guidance and in collaboration with Christina Georgiou, performance artist and founder of the first performance festival in Cyprus (CIPAF Cyprus International Performance Art Festival).The masterclass followed a multi-level approach through practice, theory, performance screenings, discussion, feedback and consultation on the work of each participant individually.
Participants will have the opportunity to create and present their own performance.
6:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Young Artists on Stage (30’)
«Bits and Pieces»
Performer: Alexandros Kyriazis
Bits and Pieces is based on Friedemann Schulz von Thun’s theorem called “Inner Group”. Schulz von Thun is a psychologist and an expert in interpersonal and intrapersonal communication. The “inner group” describes how each person has a set of “voices” in his head. A kind of internal polyphony. How these voices have different characteristics and different functions.
This performance attempts to examine some of these characters. It uses improvised text and movement language that attempts to represent these different parts of the individual’s psyche. Through the aforementioned process it speaks to an internal overstimulation of the individual and how this is mirrored by the external overstimulation imposed on us by today’s societies. Using both scores and improvisation tools, it consists of different chapters, each one based on a different “voice”.
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Dance theatre performance (30’)
«Excavated Anatomies»
Idea, Research, Choreography, Interpretation, Script: Panagiotis Tofi
Music Composition: Marios Takousis
Cello solo: Jakub Otčenášek
The choreographic piece ‘Excavated Anatomies’ is a solo kinesthetic journey to the sounds of electronic music and strings in which the performer’s body is treated as a living archive. The movement material has emerged through a research process of ‘mining’ moments and incidents from the choreographer/performer’s life in Cyprus (from a young age to the present day) which have shaped intense memories. Texts from personal diaries have been part of this research, from which, extracts have become part of the completed work. The work deals with the inner emotional reality of a Cypriot male artist, which allows for important aspects of himself to exist – away from titles, labels and vain epiphanies – part of an abstract, structured composition in the now. In the present.
8:00 PM - 8:50 PM
Music-Poetry Act (50’)
«Η τύχη των τειχών» (on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the checkpoints opening in Cyprus)
Choice of texts, Music Composition, Director: George Kalogirou (Composer)
Actors: Irini Andronikou, Konstantina Xenophontos
Musicians: Charalambos Panteli, Konstantinos Makaritis
The musical-theatrical event “Η τύχη των τειχών” is written in 2023 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the checkpoints in Cyprus, linking them to the Berlin and Palestine walls. It consists of poems and texts by poets who lived in these divided cities or refer to them, in order to show through their writings how the concept of “walls” functions in the internal and external world of people. That is, how it is possible, if at all, for the wall as an element outside man to function as an element within him, as K.P.Cavafy describes it in his poem ‘Walls’.
9:30 PM - 10:20 PM
Theatrical play (50’)
“Nostalgia”
Actors: Penny Finini, Andreas Makris
Director: Achilleas Grammatikopoulos
Stage 8
What is Nostalgia?…. cause we really need it more than ever?….
Two actors confronted with their memories… “return”… and with them they take the viewer on a bittersweet journey of nostalgia… full of intense emotions and humour.
Two “strangers” … “accidentally” stumble upon each other’s nostalgia… a midsummer night by the sea… a piece of music… a scent… a taste… “awaken” in them memories well-kept… and lead them to the “new” day!
10:30 PM
Stand-up comedy with Hampi
11:30 PM
23:30 Closing Party with Mpakkalis & Patsas
11:00 AM
Memories recording - DJ Playlist
