"Inside"

First Art Shelter Festival: Day 1

8 JUNE SATURDAY
Vagelis Pitsilos
Performance | Duration: 15’

One person, one space, one idea.
A division between the inner self and the external “being.”
Nothing is the same. Ever.
I struggle, looking through the eyes — through myself — into my heart.
In the end, the body doesn’t lie.

"MARGINALIA"

8 JUNE | SATURDAY
Performance | Duration: 50’
BACK TO BACK SOLI
with Iris Fousteki & Thekla Gaiti

Two femininities in search.
One woman looks for herself.
One swimmer looks for the sea.
But what exactly are they searching for?
What do they find?

Two female bodies that do not know how to compose their utopia—
only how to listen and dissolve those “autopias”
that brought them here,
together,
to this stage...

On the same evening, two distinct solo performances compare the notes scribbled in their margins, seeking common ground:

(A)UTOPIA 2.2: (a) being in a woman’s body by Iris Fousteri
&
“metadramatic” by Thekla Gaiti

9 JUNE | SUNDAY
Duration: 50’
Physical Puppet Theatre (for adults & teens)

A physical puppet theatre performance addressed to adults and teenagers – though younger audiences are also welcome.

The piece explores the consequences of modern sedentary life: the rigid education system, screen addiction, and disconnection from oneself, others, and the collective.

Through movement, puppetry, and metaphor, Kumku Yamki raises awareness around the “chains” of the chair — inviting a reflection on how we might reclaim a life where both body and mind shine through purposeful use.

10 JUNE | MONDAY
WORK IN PROGRESS
Duration: 15’
Concept & Performance: Nikoleta Xenariou

"on" (work in progress) aspires to become a performance-ode to emptiness.
It searches for meaning in being, in the present tense, and in the nature of performance itself.

Fragments of texts, songs, and movement form a desperate attempt to articulate the function of presence — that specific stage presence that opens a “space of emptiness,” inviting you to engage with your entire being.

10 JUNE | MONDAY
DANCE PERFORMANCE
Duration: 30'
by Maria Sanchez Alonso

An infinite river calls loud.
The mountains to come.
The journey back home,
inward. Where the nest of butterfly’s
sleeps in the voice of the poem.
A song that cannot remain unheard.
The blood of tomorrow, does not need to be spilled
it transcends the time we have, to remember.

11 JUNE | TUESDAY
PERFORMANCE
DURATION: 50’
by Giorgos Fritzilas

The performance "Orthie Skope!" is a theatrical ritual, an existential scenic journey, a monologue based on the poem "Traveling with Dionysus" by Angelos Sikelianos and a passage from the Old Testament.

11 JUNE | TUESDAY
DANCE PERFORMANCE WITH LIVE MUSIC
DURATION: 25’

The performance “Mangrove_Act I” is a work in progress and explores the perception of touch and contact as a point of opening to the world, a source of knowledge, and an attempt to redirect our relationship with ourselves and the Other.

In the performance, a dancer and a musician become carriers of stories and experiential maps with elements of imagination, memory, and desire, attempting a tactile transcription of stimuli and narratives into sound and movement.

The piece focuses on the imaginary maps that each person carries, through which the body can navigate and dance by drawing from visible and invisible facets of the space and life of each place.

It is a continuation of the group’s choreographic research titled Mangrove, based on myths and maps created by residents during our visits to small communities and neighborhoods throughout Greece, with the first stop being Aegina in March 2021.

Dance: Mina Ananiadou
Live Music: Dave de Rose

12 JUNE | WEDNESDAY
VOCAL/BODY PERFORMANCE
by Joahannes Schmelzer-Ziringer
DURATION: 15’

What does our soul want to express, when we find ourself alone-in-a-black-naked-of-structure-situation?
A ritual, an instant composition, not knowing if scary or funny, not knowing if with hate or love, not knowing if ridiculous or meaningful. Embedded in the chorus of souls of the audience.

Performance | Duration: 20’
with Loukiani Papadaki
Wakan Tanka reflects a common view among American Indian tribes, that all things were kindred and brought together by the same Great Mystery. The natural world is viewed as part of a spirit being, or infused with spirit and it’s the same force that had been breathed into the first man.
This solo dance piece draws inspiration from our interconnected nature and the Great Sacred Creative Power which permeates the whole creation.
https://vimeo.com/712966687

12 JUNE | WEDNESDAY
DURATION: 40'
with Lily Kiara | Maria Sanchez Alonso | Loukiani Papadaki | Maya M. Carroll
earth ripple
four winds foretell a story
stirring streams of earthy patterns
stories foretold whisper in our ears
'we surrender our need for self defense'
humbled by the sky
our dreams move in cycles as we listen to how
everything is changing
the earth ripple

13 JUNE | THURSDAY
Live Music Performance

The music collective Confusion was born in Aegina two summers ago — in a different form — and it keeps evolving.
Improvising together as friends and chosen family, we explore, communicate, and listen deeply to one another. That’s how we began co-creating and experimenting musically.

We come from everywhere — and we go everywhere.
This is what our music stands for.

13 JUNE | THURSDAY
LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE
Oliwia Tato Twardowska
DURATION: 15’
There are caves on the moon
Veiled with luminous flowers
That blossom only when she looks at them

A live video portrait of Jasmine R. - the lunar entity

14 JUNE | FRIDAY
Lily Kiara / Maya M. Carroll / Roy Carroll
Performance Duration: 45’

If we sing to our bones
they may whisper like feathers
and carry our songs
to where they need to be heard

A poetic and resonant live performance, where movement, voice, and sound interweave.
Three artists come together in a unique encounter of dance, live music, and subtle storytelling — where presence meets ephemerality.