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?