Konstantinos Athyridis
Director, Composer
His artistic work and practice span music composition, directing, and movement. He was a co-founder of the Anatolia Alumni Drama Club (1983) in Thessaloniki. His acting credits include leading roles in productions such as Cabaret, Godspell, Noises Off, What the Butler Saw, Black Comedy, and Tartuffe. From 1989 to 1995, he directed musical theatre productions such as Tommy Rock Opera, Cats, and Jesus Christ Superstar. In 2013, he composed the music for the National Theatre of Greece’s production of A Hatful of Rain.
A major milestone in his career as a composer and director was Alexander the Great. Rock Opera, an original production featuring 80 performers, staged at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, the Lazaristes Monastery, the Ancient Theatre of Dion, and other venues (2013-2014). The work was subsequently presented in a production by the National Theatre of Northern Greece (2014-2015) at the Royal Theatre in Thessaloniki and the Athens Concert Hall.
Since 2018, he has expanded his artistic practice into the realm of performance, conceiving and directing, among others, poetry-based performances such as Concerto for a Day Gone By (2018), Mnemes Unborn (2021).
OPEN CLASS
"The Art of Staging Performance Poetry"
Language: Greek
This open class is intended for poets venturing into performance poetry for the first time, eager to experiment and challenge themselves on stage, as well as for more experienced poets seeking to delve deeper into performative potential of this innovative and still largely uncharted poetic territory.
The class will explore three main thematic areas:
1. Fundamental Concepts: Performance, ritual, and the stage environment.
2. Performance Tools, Techniques and Intermediality
3. The Performing Body on Stage: The poet’s identity and the pitfalls of assuming a “role”. Experiential practices and exercises.
Participants are required to bring one of their own poem, no longer than 10 lines.
Due to the limited number of participants, please register your participation as soon as possible by sending an email to perposf@perposf.com.
Certificates will be given to all those who attend the Poetry Workshops of PerPoSF