Driving to Morocco...

I'm leaving Sunday at midnight with François by car to Marrakech!
I will get to see my beloved Ahlam(!) and of course the Dance festival that Anania dance company (see photo) organizes for the first time in Morocco!
François will help with the stage management and I will do some filming. I'll be back around the 30th.
See info HERE!


Photo : Hassan Hajaj, asst. Abdel Benbadreyef

Mother...Christmas?

That "father Christmas" story irritates me:
let's stop treating children as if they’re idiots...
We all know secretly that Father Christmas today is a big money making concept and nothing else (...anymore!).
My girlfriend's daughter leaves in Morocco and is traditionally Moslem but is becoming crazy about Santa Claus and "his"...presents.
My tradition is Greek orthodox and although I do not adhere to my church (or any other!) I'm conscious that my moral background is based on that tradition...
For me S. Claus symbolizes today the spoiling of western kids but also the need for warm hearted spirituality. Unfortunately buying and selling toys has nothing to do with warm heartedness...And religion usually separates people. Especially when certain toys are being manufactured by...kids for minimal salaries.

Let's create new myths and leave ancient saints alone!
Let's teach children to give the present of life to disappearing animals or give them the present of saving energy...
Above all let's respect children and find ways to stimulate their intelligence without spoiling them.

An excerpt from an interview with Patti Smith in The Sun Magazine :

Patti Smith : It hasn’t always been this bad in Washington. I remember
that when Jimmy Carter was president, he actually inspired
me. He asked the American people to sacrifice. He asked us to
bring down our thermostats, to use less energy, to buy fewer
material things. He asked us to strip away a lot of what we
didn’t need and in that way to help our environment. He also
asked us to develop ourselves spiritually and mentally.
But what happened is that people found his requests offensive;
they didn’t want to sacrifice. Then Ronald Reagan
said to the people — and I’ll never forget this — he said that
American children deserve a bicycle in every garage. He wasn’t
talking about a chicken in every pot, or an education for every
child. He was saying that we deserve certain material possessions.
That made a big impression on me. All the way through
the Clinton era, people embraced this idea that we deserve
certain material things, that our children have to have them,
and if they don’t have them, then they’re deprived. This has
really hurt our country, the fabric of ourselves, our network
as human beings.
Greg King: After 9/11, George W. Bush told Americans to go
to Disney World, to keep buying things..."

The Mafia wants our food!!!

Friends of the Earth International Chair Meena Raman said in Hong Kong : "The WTO should not force anybody to eat genetically modified foods. The WTO is the wrong place to be deciding what we eat and how we protect our environment. It is time for the WTO to get its hands off our food! "
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Music or...music industry???

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Beautiful mix...

Here
you can download a beautiful,
moody mix by DJ Snej!
To be enjoyed by the river,
by the sea,
by the fire....
Welcome the winter!

Whales need us...or we need whales?

With a few
clicks
you can
add
your voice
against
whale hunting
from our japanese friends.
Click here : OOO

Coupédécalé!

This week we rehearse for coupé-décalé.
Performances are December 2nd and 3d, at the Nouvel Olympia, in Tours.
Pop sounds from Eran Zur, live drawings from Tamar Getter, costumes by Rose-Marie Melka, texts of Lautreamont and Fassbinder, dancing from Tal, Bernardo, Marc and me...


Photo : Guy Delahaye

today : sensitivity matters...

My first 4 day seminar of
"Art, therapy and movement"!
Time to study again;
redefine;
ask new questions.
Altering space-time perception...
Communicating one's creation...
Re-evaluating silence...

May the space be with you ;-)

The body is an orphan...

Time, Space,
and...
BUTOH...
Danse matters :
with Kô Murobushi and Bernardo Montet!

No God (looks up)
No God (looks down)
You alone!

Daily workshops at the CCNT till Sunday the 27th

IF YOU LIKE COFFEE YOU PROBABLY LIKE SLAVES

Like "our" greek ancestors : in order to enjoy "DEMOCRACY" they exploited SLAVES...
Like ourselves : OXFAM link

<- photo copyright in the above link!

Workshop in CCNT...

I will be teaching a professional contemporary dance class in CCNT : November 7-10, 10:00 - 12:30 a.m.!

Tomorrow in NY city!

Photo : Guy Delahaye










Tomorrow around 16:30 we arrive to New York...It's been 11 years...Since college time : NCSA...
We're going to improvise on Bernardo Montet's "coupédécalé" with the great musicians Tilbol! Tuesday and Thursday at 18:30. INFO : Here!
We will see old and new friends!Examine the exoticism of local artists...
Test our solitude on Broadway street.
Check our chronobiology through "jet lag"...

If you have any suggestions for places that promote poetically our existential apple-pies please let me know!

10 more days for APNEA...

Filio Louvari(photo top left) is trying to say something along with other members of the xsoma collective...
How do chinese people breathe?

Rena Papadopoulou (photo bottom left) is diving in dark blue waters asking : where is everybody?

In the International Dance festival of Thessaloniki on Saturday 24th of September we will be sharing our breath in public...

LAVA?

is Stephanie looking for...Lava in Iceland?

Driving through Europe

2800 KM!!!
I will never do this again!
Unless of course I have a co-driver and I avoid highways (toll is expensive...) and I take more TIME to discover places.
Still I enjoyed a few hours in the center of Belgrade and felt like a real stranger within a family. After the war not so many tourists come to visit Serbia...Too bad my friend Dejanna was busy with her family and I had dinner alone...I also had a bad incident with Moskau Hotel : they wanted me to pay 57 € although I had reserved for 33€ !!! New boss they said and new prices from september 1st. So I complained at the tourist information and they found me Prague Hotel close to Moskau hotel for 31€!
Of course it was not as charming as the other one...
The 2nd picture is from the place I slept in Waidring/Tirol in Austria!!!Only...16€ with delicious breakfast included!!!I was lucky that my dear friends Katerina and Anestis proposed me this village. For those of you with back problems i suggest putting the matress on the floor. I do that in almost all hotels. I know I'm spoiled with my pure latex matress...
The drive through Austria and southern Gremany was beautiful-beautiful!
SEHR SCHÖN JA???
In Karlsbab I picked two young people who contacted me through ALLO STOP! It's a wonderful service called carpooling (???) because it allows low budget travel (sharing expenses), meeting people and ecologically interesting!
I used gps to find my way through in Paris suburbs where I had to take them. Otherwise it would have taken hours in the traffic jam...
Finally I arrived home (?) in Tours after midnight; let's have a snoring party now...

breathless again?

Rehearsing with 35°C in humid Thessaloniki is not easy but seeing them in strange dance states is FUN! They made me want to dance more!
We are never ready for a premier (as most dancers feel...) but we will enjoy it! The...world premiere will be september 24th in the National Theatre of Northern Greece in Thessaloniki. It will be during the international month of dance organized by Dimitra Koronaiou, director of the municipal dance school.
How do chinese people breathe???

my vacation in nikiti...

water wraps/

this silence/

leaving me wet/

with all my dances/

following the urge/

to empty/

this stoneful mind/

no - mind - no - where/

Fuel up after sunset!

Apparently putting gazoline when the sun goes down during summer helps the environement. Of course we should all prefer the bicycle but whenever we use a car let's contribute a litlle...Check here : Care2!

TSOLIAS

A non utilitarian performance with the name Tsolias : today at 18:00 at the Beaux Arts of Tours, by Dimitri under the magnificent 200 year old Cedar tree...At some point it will be on...the tree. Tomorrow second try same time, same tree, same festival : Rayon Frais...

Absurd questioning of one's sensorial greek-french, spiderman like and almost contemporary movement behaviour.

xsomatic identity matters around the tree...
The tree generously hosted the "thing"...
With the help of CCNT!

No Mafia Music here!

By mafia I mean of course the multi-billion £$€ industry...
That radio was my discovery of the year!!! Sorry it's in...french, but the programm is almost non stop music!
CLICK HERE JAAA?

GO!

Let's
stop complaining
and let's have fun
protecting
this beautiful planet!
GREEEENPEACE!

MEN!

"...After Heraclitus dies, the males sink down to a-pathy, to not-suffering. When you shout at them, they don't reply. Tehy turn their face toward the crib wall, and die...

...But there are thunderstorms longing to come into the world through the minds of women."

ROBERT BLY [excerpts from "A meditation on philosophy" / collection "The man in the black coat turns."]

APNEA:25% LEAVES ATHENS!

Out of breath in Athens : we enjoyed a lot our performances in the contemporary dance platform! It encouraged us to go from "apnea:25%" to "apnea:100%"! In September in Thessaloniki!And eer...what does love have to do with breathing???

Slaves 2005

AS you can see HERE we are all a little responsible for the ongoing slavery on planet earth 2005! Let's get involved!

APNEA:25% GOES to ATHENS!

In two weeks we'll be in Hellas /Athens presenting an excerpt of Apnea : apnea:25%!
Before that we'll be rehearsing in Thessaloniki for a week to see what's inside our lungs...
For more info on Apnea look HERE!

More Coupé!

Photo by Guy Delahaye!
Tal running from MA LOV'98 into coupédécalé 2005!Today's rehearsal risks to be very wet!

coupédécalé

One more week left for our premiere with coupédécalé of Bernardo Montet!Check here for info in...french!

GOOD NEWS FOR OUR PLANET!

China becomes sceptical about GMO's!!!Genetically modified businessmen YOU LOSE!See article HERE. Plus the Portuguese are making electricity from...OCEAN WAVES!See article HERE!
These news are dedicated to all my friends who feel it's useless to care for the environment since the multinational mafias are doing what they want!Aaah!

SOULFULL PLACES

Who stole the soul? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Who governs the self? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Power seems="" to="" be="" a="" shared="" thing="" among="" living="" entities=""
And let's not forget the power of TREES <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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soft, epileptic, narcoleptic, frameless, against the (solar) wind, noise of the bloood, crazy whale breathes out extremely slow; i see no*thing...i keep inventing what has to be!aaagainst the (lunar) wind. more or less superficiallll anihilations take over the space between this and that skinful thought. again? 

Human nature...

Let's be part of the people who don't take advantage of other people's ressources : survival-international

Who needs nuclear weapons today???

No more Hiroshima Nagasaki! Click here to add your voice against nuclear weapons production : greenpeace!

river Loire danses!

xsoma street performance today in Tours by the Loire river!

xsoma in Tours!

there we are in the chapel of the Conservatoire of Tours researching our breathlessnes.
xsoma reunited for "apnea"!

Coupé-décalé!

this week : preparing the lighting design and improvising for "coupé-décalé", the new creation of Bernardo Montet in collaboration with Tamar Getter (on the picture) and...us!Territory, the "other", the "double", the..."love"!It is based on an older creation from 1998 : Ma Lov. The music is composed by Eran Zur!

ZZZZORRRO!

it has been a wonderful xsomatic experience improvising with Nicolas and Ahlam for Phonochrome!

The END of the old ECOLOGY?

Some americans stay "positive" face to the terrible ecological situation of the USA today. Michael Shellenberger proposes a new ecological posture for our american friends : thebreakthrough.org . Or you can go directly to his interview for my favourite magazine (the Sun Magazine), where he explains his view :
http://www.thebreakthrough.org/files/Sun_Mag_Interview.RTF
In the same progressive spirit he advertises the petition that aims to put Martin Luther King's image on the 20$ bill!!! Sign here : http://www.putkingonthe20.com/

Drugs in the EU!

Let's create some more "good" drug-addiction-news!
Here's the petition : http://action.encod.org/ic3/faces/public/ic3/home/petition

NOise baby!

Let's do some noise! maketradefair.org

Meat eater but...

Why not save some whales today?Unless of course you are addicted to whale meat....Click here to send a message to the Korean embassy in your country : act.greenpeace.org

Contemporary Danse Workshops!

If you feel like taking a contemporary dance class you can drop by at CCNT from april 4th to april 8th. I will be teaching from 10:00 to 13:00. The 9th and 10th of april I teach in Orléans/Saran at Centre Jacques Brel for the association Art's Danse...Warmest greetings from space!

Phonochrome #2

me and nicolas we will be experimenting with movement frequencies for the second edition of...PHONOCHROME! In Tours the 15th of April. For more info check at their site...

Jeeeesus!

If you want to see a strange version of The Passion...check Bernardo Montet's last choreography : Parcours de C!At the end of March!
In Montpellier/France : www.montpellierdanse.com
In Paris/France : www.theatredelaville-paris.com
I will be the only greek...non-orthodox in the piece!
See you there!?

INGENIEUSES...

Local "destinies" have arranged 2 choreographies for the students of the National Conservatory of Tours. It seemed as if my intentions concerning female consciousness inspired them...Presented in the Vincy on Saturday 19th of March!

Experimental electronic music from Italy!

Discovery of the day : sine3pm recordings is a copyleft web-label. it means that you can freely download everything you want. all releases are provided under the terms of the creative commons public license [ccpl]. click here!

powers of whom?

do we have to apply our "sixth sense" to "comprehend" these notions of size?
powersof10/

Kangaroos for Self...

i avoid to focalise
into this silence
my solitary kangaroos are having a party
silence is hardly accessible...
one once said : be still and know
unstill : unknowing?
i promise to this self of "mine"
to be still right before sleep
planning to modify the dreamness of the bedroom
i might access the matrix of this bizare self
the kangaroos might move away
even the chapters of faintless melancholy?
my utilitarian awareness might experience bliss
i might transform to something not yet imagined
i might even laugh three times before sunrise...
O.K?

science + poetry?

Excerpt of Mae-Wan Ho's "the Rainbow and the WormScience" :
: "Science is to initiate us fully into the poetry that is the soul of nature, the poetry that is ultimately always beyond what theories or words say."
Science is "...an adventure of the free, inquiring spirit...the enigmas, the mysteries and paradoxes that take hold of the imagination, leading it on the most exquisite dance."
Read review here :quantonics.com

άπνοια.....

well yes, it's time to dive into a new breathing behaviour...Me and my friends at xsoma are cooking some new dance questions : how much silence can you fit between your breaths? How slow can you move so that the...matrix will not perceive you? ;-) How do you step on a curious concept like the "time" without falling into conventional timings? (Doug has some advice about that...) More info at www.xsoma.net

You really need furs???

This was supposed to be a good news weblog since it's beggining...So let's create some good news!Go to the petition site and save the seals of Canada!http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/370512755