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Galaxy
Madeleine Peyroux
Our everyday yearnings, fears and desires are presented in the penultimate work of late German choreographer Pina Bausch, in a performance featuring 6 women and 3 men, from November 3-6, at Onassis Cultural Centre (Stegi), Syngrou 107-109, sgt.gr, tickets from €25-50.
“Galaxy” – the latest work of Andonis Foniadakis - explores the universe’s creation and evolution in this vital new dance performance jointlyproduced by the Greek National Ballet and the Greek National Theater, November 3-27, at Rex Theater, Kotopouli Stage, Panepistimiou. Tickets €15, available from nationalopera.gr.
A single performance by mesmerising American jazz and blues chantreuse Madeleine Peyroux, who will perform tracks from “Secular Hymns”, November 18 at 9pm, at PassPort, 58 Kerameikou & Marathonos, Kerameikos, tel 210.522.2203. Tickets €20-42; available from Public, Media Markt, and online at viva.gr
ART & CULTURE
October 28: A Day of Defiance. Photograph: Justin Brendel
TV THIS WEEK
ART & CULTURE
The Young Pope
The beginning of the pontificate of Lenny Belardo, aka Pius XIII, the first American Pope in history. Friday at 23.00 on OTE Cinema 4HD.
Private Eyes
An Urgent Conversation
Siren of the Deep Blue Sea
Athens audiences are in for a rare treat next week as Terrence Rattigan’s searing real-life drama “The Deep Blue Sea” is beamed live from London, starring one of England’s best and brightest acting talents, Helen McCrory, writes Amanda Dardanis. If Terrence Rattigan’s depiction of a grim The Deep Blue Sea opens with Hester’s McCrory – who played Cherie Blair in The and judgmental post-war Britain in The failed suicide attempt in front of a gas Queen and has starred in Skyfall, 2 HarDeep Blue Sea seems utterly convincing, fireplace at a dour rooming house in Lon- ry Potter films and the television drama that’s because he mined his own real-life don’s Ladbroke Grove. Her jilted husband Peaky Blinders – who has the critics in tries to reclaim her, while the other resi- raptures. tragedy to write his best-known play. Involved in a decade-long homosexual re- dents depict a transparent microcosm of As the establishment wife and unhappy lationship, Rattigan’s lover eventually left early 1950s England. The gender swap lover who “blazes like a city in illuminahim for another man, but later took his becomes moot. Rattigan’s prime concern tion” in the presence of Freddie, Helen own life in front of a gas fire when the ro- during his taut and passionate drama was McCrory is in a league of her own on the Lyttelton stage, according to the reviews. mance soured. As one of England’s most “the illogicality of passion”. popular mid-century dramatists, Rattigan A new revival of Terence Rattigan’s sear- “McCrory is buffeted, wretched, plaintive, knew he couldn’t write about that doomed ing work by Carrie Cracknell, starring the strung-along, strung-up, manipulative. All affair, which was illegal at the time (as was fantastically-talented Helen McCrory, the things a 21st-century woman does not the act of suicide incidentally). Instead, he looks set to become one of 2016’s hottest want to be,’ wrote the Guardian in its rechanneled his grief into the character of tickets when it screens live from London’s view. “Yet she makes of Hester Collyer a Hester Collyer, a judge’s wife who leaves Lyttelton Theatre at the Megaron next remarkable and unexpected heroine.” her husband to live in sin with Freddie week – (as part of its National Theatre colPage, a faithless former war pilot, who laboration with the British Embassy and The Deep Blue Sea is broadcast live on November 2 at 21.00 at Alexandra Trianti has left his vitality in the sky. It’s 1952. the British Council in Athens). Hester’s marital desertion is an act that, Tom Burke (recently seen in War & Peace) Hall, Megaron, Vas. Sofias and Kokkali. if not exactly criminal, is also condemned has impressed British audiences with his Tickets are €15, and available from www. emotionally-departed Freddie. But it’s megaron.gr by society.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Dance
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Mylonas’ mother Alex Mylona was herself a cutting-edge spirit who represented Greece at the Venice Biennale in the ‘60s and whose modernist sculptural forms were praised by the great British art critic Herbert Read. (Alex Mylona passed away this year but her work can still be admired at the Alex Mylona Museum in Psyrri). Born in Greece in 1944, her daughter Eleni Mylonas meanwhile spread her wings to New York, where she gained an MA in journalism, before continuing with photographic studies in London in the early 70s. Later, in the ‘90s, Mylonas’s focus evolved to art and digital imaging back in New York. Her nomadic spirit has led her to prioritise travelling for her art - even driving from London to Afghanistan and back in 1972. Her base is New York, but also Athens, and Aegina. Mylonas’ large-scale photographs from the ‘Journey Through Ellis Island’ series are part of the Ellis Island Museum’s permanent collection, while here in Greece, her video of a bloated/drowned sheep entitled ‘The Lamb of God’, was the parting work of
‘Destroy Athens’ - the first Athens Biennale (2007). Her works were featured in the 3rd Biennale of Thessaloniki, while in 2014 her ‘Cursed Serpent’ exhibition was shown at the Benaki Museum. In Germany, Mylonas exhibits at Munich’s Francoise Heitsch Gallery, which also represents her regularly at Art Athina. From Monday (October 31), Mylonas’ compelling voice can be heard as part of a collaboration between the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (EMST) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (M HKA). Called “Urgent Conversations”, the show will be organized into 22 dialogues, each one between 3 artists: a Greek, a Belgian and an international artist. All works are drawn from the two museums’ collections. The show, on a smaller scale, will later travel to Antwerp. See Mylonas’ work as part of the National Museum of Contemporary Art’s ‘Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp’, which runs from October 31-January 29, 2017. Read our exclusive interview with Eleni Mylonas at www.insider-publications.com
A high-profile murder at a hot Toronto restaurant shows Shade and Angie how volatile partnerships can get, just as they embark on their own. Tuesday at 23.00 on OTE Cinema 4HD. Watch OTE CINEMA 4HD on OTE TV
CINEMA THIS WEEK
Doctor Strange
A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts in this latest Marvel release. With Benedict Cumberbatch, and Rachel McAdams.
Ouija: Origin of Evil
In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their seance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home.
SPORTS
Familly The Land of Dinosaurs Walk among prehistoric giants at this new interactive and educational exhibit to transport you back 65 million years with the largest animals that ever walked the planet. Until November 20, Ellinikos Kosmos, Pireos 254, tel. 212.254.0000, tickets € 6.
7th Athens Tango Marathon Get your tango on during three giddy days and nights pulsing with smiles and high spirits (Nov 4-6) at the 7th Athens Tango Marathon, hosted by tangART Athens, featuring live tango orchestra, and famous DJs, visit tangomarathons.gr.
One of Greece’s most avant-garde of creative souls, Eleni Mylonas, is the perfect voice to contribute to a confronting new Athens exhibition, writes Stella Sevastopoulos.
Dance 5th Hip Hop Smile Festival Get the adrenalin pumping at this energetic dance symposium showcasing many faces of hip hop culture, October 28-30, with proceeds to Smile of the Child. Displays across various Athens venues. Visit smilefestival.gr for details.
CITY LIFE
Images from the 1896 Marathon
Still Running Strong The Athens Authentic Marathon, about to mark its 120th milestone, is on the bucket list of every serious runner around the world due to its epic history and symbolism. In the spring of 1896, during the first - is on the bucket list of every serious runner modern Olympics, athletes from five around the world due to its epic history. After countries lined up at the starting line on the Battle of Marathon, which took place in the bridge of Marathon in order to cover 490BC, during the first Persian invasion of the 42km distance to the Panathenaic Greece, legend has it that the Greek messenStadium on a dirt path. ger Pheidippides ran from the battlefield at The race was won by Greek athlete Spyros Marathon to Athens in order to relay news of Louis, whose historic victory stood as a the victory. After uttering the words, “We were symbol of tireless effort, stamina and the victorious!” he allegedly collapsed and died conquering of physical and mental barri- from exhaustion. His journey went on to beers. come the inspiration for the Marathon event, One hundred and twenty years on, this introduced at the 1896 Modern Olympics. annual sporting event is still a fiercely The only race to be conducted along the origpopular celebration of human will, inal course, the Athens Marathon has been strength and solidarity, with over 50,000 held in its present form continuously since runners from all across the globe esti- 1983, and is dedicated to Grigoris Lambramated to compete in this year’s historic kis, the great Greek doctor, champion in the foot race on November 13. Balkan Athletic Games and pacifist. The Athens Authentic Marathon – the Last year, a record number of 16,000 runcountry’s biggest annual sporting event ners went to the start line at the coastal
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town of Marathon, marking a rise of almost 25 percent from 2014 - and for the first time since 2000, the Athens Marathon had a Greek men’s winner: Christoforos Merousis. This year also marks 70 years from 1946, when leading Greek runner Stelios Kyriakides won the Boston Marathon, achieving one of the major Greek athletic successes internationally, while also demonstrating humanity and great love for his country. The 34th Athens Authentic Marathon, organised by the Hellenic Athletics Federation (SEGAS), comprises: the original Marathon race (which includes power walking) 18,000 entries; 10km run 9,000 spots; 5km morning race 9,000 entries; 5km evening run 6,000 spots. For more information and to find out which events are still available to compete in visit www.athensauthenticmarathon.gr
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the annual Kavala Beach tournament, the Kifisia 7s tournament, the Aegean 7s cup. The Veterans also play touring teams coming to Greece, compete in an annual “De Gaule” tournament, but also go bi-annually abroad to play neighboring countries’ teams. The main purpose of the Attika Springboks Academy is to teach the kids rugby; learn the Rugby Values; and for children to have fun, while also benefiting from many other social benefits such as: improved physical fitness and co-ordination; boosted confidence and self-esteem on and off the field; and a healthy introduction to competition.
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Occasionally the children play visiting schools from abroad. In the 2015-2016 season, over 70 kids (5-18) were registered, while this year, there are even more and the club reports that the number of Greek children getting involved is also increasing.
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