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music theory and the rudiments of music at the
Greek Music School under Yiannis Ioannides. At
the age of 19 he went to Germany where he stud-
ied classical music and discovered the polyphonic
music of Epirus, his homeland. He then went to
Paris, where he discovered ethnic musicology at
the Musée de l’ Homme, where he attended semi-
nars by musicologists from around the world and
came face-to-face with authentic performances of
Rebetiko song. He then established the group Re-
betiko Tsardi and gave performances all over the
world. After Paris he returned to Greece, where
he remains occupied with the traditional music of
Greece – he makes recordings, takes part in con-
certs, and composes songs and music for theatre
productions.
Chronis Aedonides
was born in 1929 in Karo-
ti of Didimoticho in Greece. After the war, he
moved to Athens, where he studied Byzantine
music with Hadjitheodorou and Simon Karas.
Aedonides recorded approximately 45 discs;
many of his radio and TV broadcasts are housed
in the ERT archives.
He participated in numerous concerts organized
in Greece, the USA, Australia and Europe. He
collaborated for many years with the folklore
researcher Polidoros Papachristodoulou, the
chorus of Pantelis Kavakopoulos, the Associa-
tion for the Promotion of the National Music of
Simon Karas and the University Publications of
Crete and Thrace. He is a founding member of
the Greek Music Archive.
Mapping the Wind
(26 September, Strovolos Municipal Theatre; 29
September, Rialto Theatre, Lemesos)
Wind doesn’t merely surround us; it flows into us
as we breathe. Wind can transcend our perceived
boundaries, exploring and even dissolving them. It
proves the geography we establish, with things such
as coordinates, are neithermore nor less than defined
signposts for orientation. Maps are no match for the
transience of wind. The French philosophers Gilles
Deleuze and Felix Guattari described cartography
as a two-sided exchange with reality: maps offer a
multitude of ways to access reality while constitut-
ing reality in and of themselves:
A map is open; it can be connected, disman-
tled and rearranged in every dimension, al-
ways absorbing new changes. They can be
ripped apart or reversed, they adapt within
montages. They can be created by an indi-
vidual, a group, a societal organisation. They
can be drawn on a wall, conceived as art or
understood as a political act or meditation
(Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari:
Thou-
sand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophre-
nia
, Merve Verlag, 2010).
Production Credits
Concept/Choreography/Τext
: Alexandra Waier-
stall
Performers/Contributors
: Evangelia Randou,
Jonathan Pranlas, Harry Koushos, Scott Jennings,
Kyriakos Hadjiioannou
Choreographer’s assistant
: Evangelia Randou
Visual concept
: Marianna Christofides
Sound composition
: Marios Takoushis
Costumes
: Kyriaki Costa, Alexandra Waierstall
Production assistance
: Ina Zentner
Light design
: Ansgar Kluge
Photography/Artistic contribution
: Alexandros
Niagos
A production of Noema Dance Works, co-pro-
duced with the Tanzhaus NRW, Dusseldorf; Dance
Ireland, Dublin; Isadora & Raymond Duncan
Dance Research Center, Athens; in the context of
MODUL DANCE. Supported by the Kulturamt
der Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf, the Kunststif-
tung NRW, the Fonds darstellende Kunste e.V. and
the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus.