An interview with Aliki Danalis, for Greek News and Radio FL
Age 5: you remembered
The things I remember as a child have a composition of three factors. I remember family moments - mainly with my grandmother, a teacher who had taken care of me due to her profession. Family contact equaled love.
I remember the first days at school as a toddler and how much I loved it! The first summer during his vacation I fell into melancholy! Finally I remember the first shows I saw as a child. At the garden theater Aliki, in Minoa (Karra-Sileinos, let them sing "Zitas" by my beloved Marianna Toli and some other faint ones! The theater enchanted me as a child. This triplet of family peace, good school and theater determined my development.
Age 15: dreams
Go to Higher School at any cost! Reading, but also on the weekends with friends and loves! I went to three Schools, I completed two of them, but since then friendship and love have also had a worthy share in my life.
Age 25: deeds
The studies, which were completed. The first studies on the Preservation of Rarities, the first roles, which came with auditions (Io of Mlirka Gemetzaki Persai in Greece and Sweden, DI.PE.THE Serron, The Merchant of Venice with Diachrono theater, Lorezzo directed by Armao, Orfeas in Eurydice by Giorgos Bellos at KEA, Kazantzakis' Othelos reruns directed by N. Charalkambous, the famous Cabaret Story by Vangelis Seilinos, Maria Xenoudakis Antitheater etc. Postgraduate at the Papathanasiou-Georgousopoulos Center for Ancient Drama. Refusal to accept the offer of Nikos Foskolos to get into everyday life. Back then you chose television or quality theater. Now 25 years later one follows the other, don't say often defines.
Age 35: actions
National theater, the Modern Theatre, Epidaurus, Herodion (I don't remember how many times anymore!) Dimitris Potamitis needs me as a lead actor and assistant director in Erevans, I'm working on a tragedy with Lambros Taga and a musical with my great idol Marianna Toli & a twenty-year collaboration is being created life relationship. I share the same role with Anna Synodrinou (Athina in the Eumenides) ancient I modern Greek she at the Athens Festival. Interpretation award at the festival of San Marco for the work of the Municipality of Alopeki "Kiss of a Woman". My first directing attempt at the urging of Synodino-Potamitis. I found Theatrina Theatres and staged Ms. Stoun's Roman Spring with Marianna Toli as the main actress.
Age 45: achievements
The Theater Spectators lead me to build the -most authentic according to the LIFO pocket theater of Athens - Studio Kypselis. With the Theater spectators, we create a stable, constantly practicing core and stage more than 30 works with distinctions and awards. Leonardo's ring , Dirty tricks, Double infidelity, Angry youth, Tonight we improvise. Edda Gabler, The Importance of Being Serious, The Balcony, Black Heels, Cavafy Returning, When Pasolini Met the Boy Who Offered Him Death, Twelfth Night and a Half, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Shock, etc.
Collaborations with special people, Kaiti Imbrochoris, Yiannis Soldatos, Rosita Sokou, Mimi Plessas, Marlia Aliferi, ¨Angelos Hatzis, Charitini Karolou, Pepi Economopoulou, Hara Bakonicola, Depina Volidis, Zacharias Rochas, Nikos Verlekis, Mimi Plessas, Sakis Tsilikis, etc. . More than 30 festivals, tours and frequent support from the Ministry of Health. the Region of Attica & the Municipality of Athens.
NOW: where we find you personally and professionally.
We have just completed the renovation of Studio Kypselis and I am preparing the great work of Giorgos Skourtis Kommatias and Thrypsals composed by Yiannis Soldatos with music by Sakis Tsilikis and selected actors on stage with me (Yorgos Livanos, Pepi Oikonomopoulou, Yiannis Tsiomou, Manos Hatzigeorgiou, Maria Drakopoulou, Sonia Kotidou, Manos Tsivilis, Zoi Triantafyllidis, Giorgos Karatzas, Giannos Triantafyllou & Niki Goudoumi on piano). we aspire to make an important show again this year worthy of its creators. Next we are preparing many interesting surprises.
Personally, I keep my childishness and optimism, I keep what I've learned and I still bet on friendships and love. But also new collaborations. Thank you very much.
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