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CONFERENCES

2019

December

THEATRA II has organized a conference given by Yannis Kokkos,

scenographer and theater director under the title: "Scenography and staging of the ancient Greek drama" in the Maison de la Grèce de Paris, 9 rue Mesnil 75116 PARIS, with the kind contribution of the Hellenic Community of Paris and the suburbs.

February

Conference given by Maria Frangi, PhD, Theater Director, Directing Educator,

Special Teaching Staff at the Department of THEATRE STUDIES of the

University of Patras (Greece) under the title: "From the origins of drama to Euripides' The Suppliants' women" in the Maison de la Grèce de Paris, 9 rue Mesnil 75116 PARIS, with the kind contribution of the Hellenic Community of Paris and the suburbs.

2018

January

  - Projection of the visual material produced during the practical research in 

    Crete and its analysis.

  - Presentation of the research results on Sophocles' Antigone

  - Choice of the new tragedy for our next two-year's research: Euripides'  

    Suppliant women.

February

 - "Euripides: His works and his time."

 - The tragedy The Suppliants women and its historical context "

    by Jacqueline Razkonnikoff

April

Workshops and theater performance of Sophocles' Antigone at the high school Lycée Jean XXIII at Metz.

Conference given by Vincianne Pirenne-Delforge, professor at the Collège de France and at the University of Liege, under the title: "Laws of gods, laws of humans? Some thougths about the honors attributed to the dead in ancient Greece" at the Maison de la Grèce de Paris, 9 rue Mesnil 75116 PARIS, with the kind contribution of the Hellenic Community of Paris and the suburbs.
 

SEMINARS

 

2017

At the Μaison des Associations, 10e Arrondissement, 

206 quai de Valmy, 75010, Paris

January

Sophocles’ 'Antigone', 1st episode

  • Presentation of the textual analysis performed during the conference in Greece

  • Presentation of the propositions for the space structuring "mise en espace" in photographs.

  • Presentation of the translation of the text performed by Jacqueline Razgonnikoff

February

Sophocles’ Antigone, 2nd episode

  • Presentation of the textual analysis performed during the conference in Greece.

  • Presentation of the propositions for the space structuring "mise en espace" using photographs.

  • Presentation of bibliographic elements relevant to our work.

March

 - Presentation and analysis of an experimental approach.

 - Conference given by Vassilis Kapsambelis, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst:

 - "Antigone, between mourning and melancholy".

Reading Sophocles’ Antigone in relation to Freud’s essay "Mourning and melancholia" 1915.

April

 - "Dramatic Structure of the text"  Claire Nancy

May

 - "Space and spaces"  Miranda Skoulatou

June

Preparational work for the Seminar/Wokshop in Crete

October

- "Body, disappearance, memory: Antigone and the Mediterranean cemetery" Filippo Furri

November

29/11: Theater performance/presentation of the research results on Sophocles' Antigone at the town hall of the 10th arrondissement of Paris. 150 spectators.

Two children’s workshops were organized before the performance.

2016

January

 - "Psychoanalytic approach of  Sophocle's Antigone " by
Margot FERRAFIAT-SEBBAN, Marianne CARABIN, Psychoanalysts

 

 

February

 - "Architectural structure of the ancient Greek theatre." by Miranda Skoulatou.

 - "Influence of sound, rhythm and song on the scenic space"
by Maria Tsakoniti.

 -"Distribution in Sophocles' Antigone"

by Diomède GARIAZZO LECHINΙ, PhD in Classical Letters

 

March

 - "Composition and organization of space : "Mise en espace"
Miranda Skoulatou

 - "Information thechnology tools" by Maria Tsakoniti and Stéphane Sarianos

April

 - "The spaces of Antigone" by Miranda Skoulatou and Diomède Gariazzo Lechini

May

 - "The actor's body in the space of the ancient Greek Tragedy"
Maria Houhou

 - "The movement of the chorus in the ancient Greek drama and its role in contemporay staging" by Maria Kefalaki

 

June

 A reading of extracts from Sophocles' Antigone and proposals for their "mise en espace" Preparation for workshops of "mise en espace"

November

Organisation and proposals for the Seminars

December

Antigone prologue, parodos

  • Report of the  textual analysis done in the seminar in Greece

  • Presentation of photos of the propositions for the "mise en espase"

  • Presentation of a new translation by Jacqueline Razgonnikoff

2015

December

 - Presentation of the research team THEATRA II. Objectives of research, methods and experimentation. Presentation of the project by  Miranda Skoulatou


 - Presentation and analysis of Sophocles' Antigone by Panos Sarianos

 

PAST SEMINARS in the EnsadLab:

 

- Τhe Ancient Greek Theater, its genesis and position in the urban space.

The theater of Dionysus in Athens. M.Skoulatou

- Architecture and characteristics of the above theatre. M.Skoulatou

- Τheater and its place in the society where it was born. M.Skoulatou 

- Analysis and commentary of modern productions. M.Skoulatou

- Seminar on stage lighting. G.Karlikow
- Analysis and compilation of a vocabulary appendix on the spaces of drama

that are reported, implied and/or presented in the texts. Their relationship

with the scenic and the dramatic space. M.Skoulatou
- Αnalysis of the prologue of Euripides’ Bacchae for understanding spatial

issues. L.Petit
- Τheater in the Italian style, the real space, the space of action and the

imaginary space. G.Karlikow
- Τhe question of visual perception. The relationship between the spectator

  and the spectacle. G.Karlikow
- Τhe elements constituting the actual scenic space. G.Karlikow
- Τhe elements of spatial composition: point, line, plane. M.Skoulatou
- Τhe “sign” in contemporary theatre. G.Karlikow

 

 
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