Think of Others
A poetry performance and an artistic work in progress of theatre, music and a road to alterity eventually to be found in an abandoned theatre.
Inspired by Mahmoud Darwish, Amal Donkol and by our vagabond souls.
Argyris Plekas. Bouzouki
Betina Abi Habib. Performance
Bakr Al Jaber. Performance
Roberto Bacchilega-AstaroTheatro. Performance

Think of Others is Wednesday 21 June, 19;30 at De Voorkamer Kanaalstraat 225 Utrecht during Arabic Coffee Evening with Poetry Performance “Think of Others”

Blending Desires at Lola Luid
An event of theatre, music and togetherness for the neighborhood
Delicious dinner + Theatre storytelling about our kitchen + Live music by Argyris Plekas

Friday 16 June
Dinner 19:00
Theatre 20:00
Music 21:00
Lola Luid
Derkinderenstraat 44 Amsterdam
Entrance by Donation

Blending Desires
“Desires of love and deep affection
Longing for a real connection”

A Theatre Performance on memories straight from our kitchens. Coffee cups, potato peelers and a parody of food as a rigid dogma.
A storytelling and a metaphor of longing for love and deep affection, of being abandoned in the hope to be found again and finally, of the desire of otherness in a faraway land.
This performance originates from the participants to the workshop “Theatre as Communal Experience” at AstaroTheatro
With: Cristina, Giusy, Mehdi, Oscar, Roberto, Sava

Argyris Plekas Live Music
“I will present you some compositions of mine. The music that i made the past year, is pretty much biographical by my own life. The music is very influenced by the Greek rebetiko genre. I will play them accompanied by my favourite instrument bouzouki. Atmospheres from rebetiko scales and rhythms will dominate the air!”

AstaroTheatro is grateful and honored to be part of this meaningful project of theatre and community in Donoussa Greece

Ο Σπινθήρας. The Spark asking questions
@ ‘They used to call me Odysseus. What’s my name now?’

An amazing experience of theatre and community
Based on texts by the actors, excepts from the Homeric epic and stories from the island
‘I am here to bridge. So how do you bridge your curiosity with the essence of knowledge?’
(Pictures by Spiros Papadopoulos)
 

A La Muntagna – Up To The Mountain
How artists come together inspired by resistance and international solidarity
An event of music, theatre and togetherness

Same spirit and even more meaningful arts!
Friday 2 June, 20:00
Ru Paré. Chris Lebeaustraat 4 Amsterdam

Once upon a time there was a song connecting the mountains of Southern Italy to the peaks of Kurdistan by providing a common ground of resistance and solidarity.
Today this profound nexus of true international solidarity is still the main motivation for artists to come together.
Now A La Muntagna calls to be performed again, for the third time. Same spirit and even more meaningful arts!  We wish to share tales of reaching out to otherness and poems of travelers moving through theatrical roads. And music of course. Lots of music of love, friendship, dignity and resistance against any oppression.
Ru Paré is no doubt the place to be. Our A La Muntagna journey started in this warm and inclusive venue and now naturally it continues there.
A La Muntagna is again all yours!

Program:
Harun plays tunes and songs on the bilur (wind instrument)

Think of Others
A poetry performance and an artistic work in progress of theatre, music and a road to alterity eventually to be found in an abandoned theatre.
Inspired by Mahmoud Darwish, Amal Donkol and by our vagabond souls.
Argyris Plekas. Bouzouki
Betina Abi Habib. Performance
Bakr Al Jaber. Performance
Roberto Bacchilega-AstaroTheatro. Performance

Baschira & Roleda
Songs from Italy to Kurdistan. And vice versa
Baschira. Guitar
Roleda. Saz
Savalan Ghodsi. Percussions
Sipan Sezgin Tekin. Erbane Player

A la Muntagna.
Delicious Food and Healthy drinks are ready for you!
Entrance by Donation. Please bring cash!

Fernando Oliveira “Foreign Sound”
The style of “Foreign Sound” is devoted solely to one of the best-known Brazilian music styles- Bossa Nova, samba, and reinterpretations of international music in Bossa Nova style. The performance has at it’s core a rhythm based on samba also influenced by jazz music. Fernando Oliveira (vocals & guitar) and Felipe Duarte (percussion).

Fernando Oliveira
Fernando Oliveira (BR 1983) is a Brazilian musician, dancer and performer based in Amsterdam. Fernando graduated in Performing Arts from INDAC – Art and Science Institute, & NAC – Nucleus of Performing Arts (São Paulo, 2013). In the Netherlands he has participated as a musician in various exhibitions and concerts. As a dancer in experimental film such as the film Sunset as a finalist for the European Cinematography AWARDS -ECA. Fernando has played with many musicians in Europe. And also he danced and performed for companies such as Nina Wijnmaalen Company (Groningen), Sanne clifford& co | choreography (Amsterdam), Corneliu Ganea Choreography (Amsterdam, NL), J. Garcia Company of Contemporary Dance (São Paulo), GRUA – Street Gentlemen (São Paulo), NAC Núcleo de Artes Scenic (São Paulo), and more. In 2016, Fernando founded the ANT – Physical Theater Company, project-based in Amsterdam/NL.

Felipe Duarte
Felipe Duarte is a Brazilian drummer and percussionist, with a specialty in the pandeiro. He started playing music at the age of 16 and studied at renowned schools such as the Ricardo Breim Institute, and with professors such as Fabiano Manhas, Túlio Araújo. He was one of the members of the Brazilian folk band Lestics, and is currently part of the sunshine pop band Fun of the Real People. He lives in Amsterdam and dedicates his time to the study of Brazilian rhythms and jazz.

A Foreign Sound at AstaroTheatro
Saturday 29 April, 20:30
AstaroTheatro 
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
Entrance by Donation. Cash Only Please

Theatre as Communal Experience
A Workshop

Our lives are communal; we need to be social to survive.
AstaroTheatro has a long history of community creation.
Theatre becomes an empowering act of artistic and human blossoming in the direction of communal experience and collaborative sharing.
Hence this workshop where participants engage in the process of authorship through multiple discussions, self-representation, improvisations, learning to feel the others and the space. Egos are tamed, the collective creates.

There is no separation or hierarchy among body, mind and spoken word.
We communicate simultaneously with all our faculties – a lesson easily learned, but in practice a never-ending journey of rise and fall. All this makes for inspiring moments during our workshop. We learn to work with our body, our breath, our voice in a non-judgemental way. We explore the space and we interact with the other performers. New exercises are welcome and constantly proposed. We are in the process of learning that physical exercises, improvisations and experiments allow the body to introduce new ideas. The body does the thinking, in a way. We seek a deeper interaction by ‘feeling’ the other performers while at the same time being a total actor.
Who I am is because of you.

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater
Augusto Boal

This theatre workshop explores the basics of the performative practice: posture, movement, presence, body, the other in the space, games and the voice in many of its expressions.
Our voices engage in spoken word, text and poetry in order to reach the poetry performance: from poetry to theatre.
Our work will be inspired by theatre masters like Jerzy Grotowski, Jurij Alschitz, Augusto Boal and AstaroTheatro’s own experience. But above all our practice will originate from ourselves: our memories, stories and skills. Theatre becomes the discovery that each of us is able to tell and to tell about ourselves.

How to create while one is controlled by others, how to create without the security of creation, how to find a security which is inevitable if we want to express ourselves
Jerzy Grotowski

Five sessions open to everyone from the unexperienced person to the more experienced theatre practitioner.
5 sessions: 23, 30 April; 7, 14, 21 May 14:30-17:00.
Please contact us for more information:
AstaroTheatro Sint Janssstraat 37 Amsterdam
info@ourfootsteps.nl
Tel 06 25382491

Rebetiko Against The Machine at AstaroTheatro

On Friday 14 April we are going to be in AstaroTheatro.
We are happy to perform in this unique atmosphere! This time with the two of us! We are going to play some sets of our own material and some of our favourite Rebetiko tunes!
• Donation Based Entrance
•• Music starts at 20:30!
We are :
-Ilias Konstantinidis – Guitar-Vocals
-Giannis Leloudas – Bouzouki – Vocals 
We will be happy to see you there!!!

Friday 14 April, 20:30
AstaroTheatro 
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
Entrance by Donation. Cash Only Please

Blending Desires
“Desires of love and deep affection
Longing for a real connection”

A Theatre Performance on memories straight from our kitchens. Coffee cups, potato peelers and a parody of food as a rigid dogma.
A storytelling and a metaphor of longing for love and deep affection, of being abandoned in the hope to be found again and finally, of the desire of otherness in a faraway land.
This performance originates from the participants to the workshop “Theatre as Communal Experience”. As part of their practice, they engaged in a process of authorship and in the creative process of Blending Desires that we are now pleased to share with you.

“Hence dear audience, please be ready
and above all very steady
for these stories and many others
for the delight of your sisters and your brothers”

With:
Cristina
Giusy
Mehdi
Oscar
Roberto
Sava

Friday 7 April, 20:30
Saturday 8 April, 20:30
AstaroTheatro Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
Entrance by Donation