11 Aug The Pulsating Performer: residency with Alexandra Kazazou
Open call for participation at the residency with Alexandra Kazazou
Dates: 11-17 September (open presentation on Wednesday 17 September)
The 12th Festival MPArt – EXIT and the organising team of the Synergy of Music Theater are announcing an open call to actors, dancers and students who want to participate in a seven-day theater residency with Alexandra Kazazou. The residency will take place from Thursday 11 to Wednesday 17 September during the morning and in the afternoon at the SMouTh premises, while the artistic result will be presented on Wednesday 17 September at SYNERGEIO Culture Space
Participation in the residency is free of charge.
Individuals are requested to send a detailed CV along with their contact details and a brief description of their reasons for wishing to participate in the workshop at the email: info@smouth.com
Application deadline: Friday 22 August 2025
Description of the residency
Participants will be working precisely on the anatomical approach to the limits of the body and its sound vessels, where any kind of aesthetic language can be stripped away. The residency is aining to reunite 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)
The following thematics will be presented:
- Cultivating awareness of the body’s members and vessels, as well as its expressive capabilities
- Strengthening the respiratory vessels
- The embodiment of sound, text and song and the creation of physical actions
- Body setting to music
- The rhythmic scores of the body and voice
- The harmonization of the horizontal and vertical axes of the body and voice
- Deepening coordination technique
All participants will receive a text that corresponds to this year’s residency theme which they will need to memorise before the start of the residency.
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 under the auspices of the 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.