Myrto Makri
Myrto Makri-Actress, Theater and Acting Teacher, Dancer
Graduate of the "Andreas Voutsinas" Higher Drama School (Thessaloniki, 2018). Graduate of Aliki Durmazer's physical theatre workshop Present Being Performer Laboratory (Thessaloniki, June 2019). In the summer of 2019, she attended the 8th International Workshop "The Return of Dionysus - The Method of Theodoros Terzopoulos" (Athens, July 2019, Attis Theatre). She is also a member of the comedy improvisational theatre group Improvatines, with which she performs comedy improv shows in Thessaloniki. Since 2019, she has been attending comedy improvisation classes at the House of Improv School.
Myrto has many years of educational and performance experience in physical arts. She studied classical ballet for 14 years. Then she studied hip-hop, latin and social dances, and modern jazz. For the last five years, she has been training in modern dance. She has attended numerous courses and seminars in acting, physical theatre, vocal/singing and modern dance, with Aliki Durmazer, Dimitris Varkas, Maria Lappa and Vicky Angelidou. She has been playing in theatrical, musical, site-specific and comedy improvisation performances.
SEMINARS/COURSES
THEATER & DANCE SEMINARS/LESSONS
· 3rd Meeting of Young Artists of SE Europe/ project "Oedipus Genus"/ KTHBE | September 2019
· "Introduction to the acting of the commedia dell arte alimprovisata" -Camilo Bentancor, Bid Day of the KTHBE/ "CONVERSATION WITH THE CLASSICS (II): CARLO GOLDONI" |31/03/2019
· Project Snow White-Dance workshop and site-specific performance by Catherine Baÿ, Roel Stassart [53rd Dimitria] | 07/10/2018-10/10/2018
· "2nd MEETING OF YOUNG ARTISTS OF SOUTHEAST EUROPE", Ancient Drama and Politics, The Search for the Comedian / KTHBE - Workshop: "The element of satire in Ancient Drama and the construction of 'characters': the relationship between Comedy and Tragedy" | Emiliano Bronzino 22/09/2018-29/09/2018
· Acting Seminars from Drama Classes London-Animal Study/ Punctuation Walks/Meisner Technique with Konstantinos Kavakiotis | August 2016 and August 2017
· "The Garden of Trees: The Birth of the Vocal Ensemble": Vocal Improvisation & Performance | Anna Papagiannaki Divani | 02 & 03/03/2019
Musical Seminars “Be Italian” | July 7-9, 2013, January 10-11, 2014
REPRESENTATIONS
·Performances with the Improvatines comedy group.| November 2019 - Present
·"The Garden" - Performance | Coming soon Subway/Via Contact by Katerina Tsoumana | October 2016
· "The spark was a fire" - Event | September 2017
· “Default” – Contemporary Dance Performance | Motum Group | May 2018
·K'S BLINK Musical group. Festival of Musical Choirs/ performances at the Avlaia Theater and the Thessaloniki Concert Hall | 2014-2017
She says: “My motivation for teaching is exchange through connection and my goal for the lessons is to succeed in inspiring the students to enter their path of meaningful and true artistic expression. Improvisation is a cornerstone of the process I follow in the classes, as I am interested in improvisation not only as a tool, but also as an educational and creative process. I believe that learning to improvise is the core element of creativity.
Our body contains all the possibilities for stage expression. Instinct and free expression are missing from today's stages and with me a student will experience things they already know by nature, instinctively. The techniques I give will be simple tools that lead to the creation of new paths. This is my vision of art, this is what I want to do and to convey.
In the lessons, I offer a theoretical basis, work on roles, practice acting techniques, warm-up exercises and work through improvisation. I also prepare for auditions for admission to drama schools and the entrance exams of the Ministry of Culture, as well as auditions for performances. Notes, bibliography and materials are provided.
Catherine Matsou
Catherine Matsou-Vocal & Theatre teacher, Singer, Performer and Theatrologist
Katerina Matsou was born in 1992 in Volos. She is a voice and theatre teacher with 14 years of studies (2005-2019) and she has professional experience since 2010 in the field of performing arts.
She is a graduate of the Theater Department (Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2010-2016). She holds a Degree in Contemporary Singing with a grade of Excellent 10 (Rhythm Conservatory, Volos 2011). She has completed her postgraduate studies in contemporary vocals with the title "Mmus in Musical Performance" at Kingston University (London 2017-2018). She has carried out two postgraduate diploma theses: the first one was a research on "Vocal Techniques in Musical Theatre" in the context of her studies in Theatre School and the second one on the subject of the growl as an extreme vocal technique: "Singing with growl: Methods and Techniques".
She has been studied modern singing by teachers Ioli Skourti, Aliki Dourmazer, Evi Siamanda and Susan Blair.
She has also been studied various types of dance for 13 years, such as Modern Jazz, being a member of the "Aspa's Vassilaki" competition team (1st Prize in the Modern Jazz category at the Pan-European dance competition "Open Salonica" - Thessaloniki 2013-2014), Oriental, Latin, Contemporary Dance, Ballet, Tango, Modern Dance (Student group “Flames of Passion”).
For a year and a half, she attended physical theatre and voice classes with teacher Aliki Dourmazer in Thessaloniki, while she participated in the performance of the class "The Hidden Inside the Glass" in 2017.
He has been attending courses in piano, guitar and music theory, sound engineering, free drawing and jazz harmony, while he has taken part in several seminars of artistic and pedagogical interest.
Since 2010, he has been performing music as the lead voice in various musical groups, in music stages in Greece and UK. She participated in live performances of choirs, such as in the Thessaloniki's Concert Hall, as a member of the Mixed Choir of Thessaloniki, in the musical tribute to K.P. Cavafis with Giorgos Dalaras performing compositions by Alexandros Karozas (2014).
Since 2014 she has been a member of the professional musical group K's Blink, under the supervision of the choreographer Dimitra Kastellou and the vocal teachers Dimitra Athanassatou and Athanasia Kyriakidou (performances at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, participation in the 5th World Musical Festival in Thessaloniki).
Since 2016, she has been teaching vocal, contemporary and modern singing, pop, rock, blues, improvisation, jazz, etc., to all ages, as well as voice and body practices based on physical theatre and dance techniques worldwide.
In the lessons are explored together with the student:
- the basics of vocal training, which concern all styles of singing and style,
- the theoretical and practical knowledge of the function of the body and its anatomy,
- mind training and concentration,
- various ways of protecting the health of the voice, and of course
- the body sounds are researched, the body resonators are used to discover new possibilities and particular ways of voicing, which give flexibility and choices of style/vocal colour.
- discussion of a healthy diet and lifestyle issues that lead to a healthy voice.
- combination of the art of singing with dance and theatre techniques-if the student is interested in an extensive and holistic performing arts training
- if you are a professional singer, who might have difficulty distinguishing between different vocal techniques (classical-modern-folk-foreign-Greek, etc.), I would like to help you find your own style.
- personal notes, bibliographical material or even research support (eg thesis, dissertation, etc.) can be provided.
Catherine says: "I consider the educational process as a result of cooperation. Therefore, I would like to create a space open to experimentation and discussion, where meaningful communication prevails, as I aim to freely express each student's thoughts and needs. Together we will develop your critical thinking so that you learn to function independently, having received a holistic knowledge of your body, which is your musical instrument. I look forward to working with you!
I really like teaching Online, as it helps me to communicate my art with people not only from all parts of Greece but also from all over the world. I am fully equipped with all the right electronic components to make my classes feel like a face-to-face teaching experience. There is the possibility of using two cameras to visualize from two different angles to present the appropriate body posture for vocalisation and theatre. I also use mirrors, books, and boards to write about music theory if this is desired by the student, and of course my piano, microphones and amplifiers. I like to shape the conditions so that the students feel that I am there, close to them, as if the lesson is taking place in a natural place!”
Alexandra Manetzi
Architect engineer, creator of the architectural office"Off the Wall.architect". She flirts with music from an early age mainly through singing and is interested in music projects. In her spare time she plays tennis and daydreams.
Contact: amanetze@gmail.com
Lefkos (L_)
Music and video creator, singer, voice actor, comedic improviser, physicist, gamer, innovator, "cheap trick inventor"
Contact: l_official_insta
Collaborators
Roxani Chatzidimitriou
Roxani Hatzidimitriou (1992) is a Greek composer, pianist and music teacher. Her list of works includes over 50 compositions involving music for orchestra, smaller ensembles, electro-acoustic music and music for cinema, theater and contemporary dance.
Contact: roxanichatzidimitriou@gmail.com
Thomas Apostolidis
Musician, Singer, Guitarist, Composer, Street Musician
Contact: tapostolidhs@gmail.com
Pelagia Tsakalidou
Lover of the image, body and Nature. I have been painting since I was a child and photography as an adult. Along with my studies on the science of Physics, I study the body through dance, kinesiology improvisation and human psychosynthesis. Travel and Nature are a key part of my life.
People with themwhom we coexist in our artistic path. Everyone in their capacity has contributed to the creation of our team,