The Pulsating Performer (Τhe Show)

The Pulsating Performer 

Artistic result of the theatre residency with Alexandra Kazazou

Theatre Performance

Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Time: 21:15 

Venue: SYNERGEIO Culture Space

The show ”The Pulsating Performer” is the artistic result of the 7 days theatre residency with Alexandra Kazazou which is hosted in this year’s festival. By working precisely on the anatomical approach to the limits of the body and its sound vessels, any kind of aesthetic language can be stripped away. The reunion of the physicality of the pulsating performer, the musicality of the body and the physicality of sound, as revealed through the energy of the whole (Ensemble Energie) are the main points of this special artistic residency’s focus. 

Alexandra Kazazou

Greek-Polish, born in Wroclaw, Poland. She studied at the Theater Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and then pursued a master’s degree in acting at Manchester Metropolitan University. From 2010 to 2016, she was a close collaborator of the Grotowski Institute in Poland. In Greece she has been working as an actress, director and theater educator. In the academic year 2023-24, she was teaching acting at the drama school of the Athens Conservatory, the Academy of Arts 100, the Theater School 100, and the Drama School of the National Theater. In Greece, she has collaborated as an actress with renowned directors, choreographers and composers, including Michael Marmarinos, Efi Birba, Yannis Mantafounis, Io Voulgaraki, Efi Birba, Yannis Leontaris, Petros Sevastikoglou, Filippos Tsalachouris and others. She is also a founding member and director of the Teatr Andra theater group based in Istanbul and consisting of Greek, Turkish and Polish artists. In 2017 she was nominated for the Eleftheria Sapountzi Theater Award and in 2018 for the Melina Merkouri Theater Award. She has taught many seminars at the Grotowski Institute as a member of the Studio Matejka Physical Theater Group (2010-2015). She has also taught as a professor in residency at St. Lawrence University in New York (2014) and Gonzaga University in Washington State (2015). She has offered masterclasses at Calarts University in Los Angeles, California (2018). In 2020 together with the photographer Karol Jarek, she founded the Transatlantic Group which is committed to the fields of art, education, research and social issues.