Angela Delichatsios
opennatureperformance@gmail.com
Athens, Greece
Theatre maker, director, actress/performer, instructor. Areas of expertise: psychophysical approaches to actor training (J. Grotowski, S. Wangh, Song of the Goat Theatre), Viewpoints (W. Beavers, M. Overlie, A. Bogart/SITI Company), devised theatre, site-specific theatre. Excellent communication skills in English and Greek.
EDUCATION
Song of the Goat Theatre/Manchester Metropolitan University, Wroclaw, Poland, 2011-2012
MA Acting
Acting training with acclaimed Polish company in the lineage of Jerzy Grotowski; physical theatre ensemble training, polyphonic singing, rhythms, text work, devised project creation.
Naropa University, Boulder, CO, U.S., 2005-2007
MFA Theatre: Contemporary Performance
Performance and theatre-devising training in contemporary modalities, including: Grotowski-based Physical Theatre, Six Viewpoints, Developmental Movement, Roy Hart Voice Training, Body-Mind Centering, Contemplative Dance Practice, Suzuki and Viewpoints with SITI Company, Moment Work with Tectonic Theatre Company.
Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, U.S., 1991-1995
B.A. in Social Studies with minor in filmmaking
WORK EXPERIENCE: THEATRE DIRECTING, DEVISING, PERFORMING
Since 2012, Angela Delichatsios has been based in Athens, Greece, and with an ensemble of co-creators, she collaborates on physical theatre performances (as director, co-director, deviser, performer) that incorporate poetic and other texts with site-specific embodiment in non-usual theatre spaces: public park spaces, a shopping arcade, a former workshop. Several of the performances have been ambulatory, with the audiences following the performers from location to location where the performative actions take place. Some performances had an activist dimension by re-introducing green public spaces (which had been semi-abandoned) to local citizens.
Thrausmata enontai tryfera (Fragments joined tenderly), Lykavyttos Hill (2021-2022), Festival Lykavyttos (2021)
Co-creator and performer, along with Vassiliki Nomidou, of devised site-specific performance on Lykavyttos Hill with themes of eco-poetry, political activism and socioeconomic alternatives inspired by the Zapatista movement.
Orizontes (Horizons), Festival Lykavyttos (2022)
Co-creator and performer, along with Vassiliki Nomidou, of devised site-specific performance on themes of horizontal political and social organization, inspired by examples from the Spanish Revolution of 1936, the contemporary municipalism movement in Barcelona, and the neighborhood association Γειτονιά Αλεξάνδρου Σβώλου in Thessaloniki.
Erpeto Glykopikro (Bittersweet reptile), Pedion Areos Park, Athens, Greece, 2019
Director and co-creator of physical theatre/site-specific performance in a public park in the center of Athens. Featuring seven performers/co-creators, based on texts of Sappho, Matsi Hatzilazarou, and Jenny Mastoraki.
Kathe ti mia fora… (Everything Once), Chimeres Space, Athens, Greece, 2018
Director and co-creator of devised, ensemble performance about the search for spirituality in the post-postmodern era, with texts from Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis.
Buy Me, Theatre Underground, Athens, Greece, 2017
Co-director and dramaturgical development for solo performance about consumerism. Created, performed and directed by Natasha Dailiani.
Dialeimma Charas – Joy Break, Lykavyttos Hill, Athens, Greece, 2015-2016
Director and co-creator of devised site-specific ensemble performance about the citydweller’s relationship with nature in a small canyon of Lykavyttos Hill (with the permission of the Municipality of Athens), with poetry of George Seferis and Walt Whitman. The production also toured to the Araklou canyon on Amorgos island in July 2016, and to the Kourdisto Mandarini Festival in Pendeli in September 2016.
exotic exile, Boulder International Fringe Festival, Colorado, US, 2013 Lead performer, creator, and director of ensemble performance about the Greek rebetika subculture and the Asia Minor catastrophe.
Drawing on Schulz, Wroclaw, Poland; Manchester & London, UK, 2012
Performer and co-creator of devised theatre project, directed by Song of the Goat Theatre.
Reviews of recent performances in Athens:
Θραύσματα ενώθηκαν τρυφερά στο Λυκαβηττό μπροστά στα μάτια… – Athinorama.gr
Κριτική για την παράσταση «Κάθε τι μια φορά…» • Fractal (fractalart.gr)
https://www.lifo.gr/culture/theatro/100-lepta-dialeimma-haras-sto-faraggi-toy-lykabittoy
Additional directing, co-directing, devising, performing in Europe and the U.S.:
Ilikinia, created by Vassiliki Nomidou, Handmade and Recycled Theatre Festival, Athens, Greece, 2017
Vradytita–Slowness, Nomadic.topos.athina/silent procession with performances, created by Eleni Tzirtzilaki, Athens, Greece 2017
The beauty of fate – Staged Reading, written by John Bicknell, Vryssaki, Athens, Greece, 2015
Actions in Public Space, Bread & Puppet Theater, Athens, Greece, 2013
Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers, Band of Toughs, Denver & Boulder, CO, 2010
Swimming Upstream, VIVA Theatre Troupe, Canyon Theater, Boulder, CO, 2010
Dead Man Walking, assistant director Naropa BFA production, Boulder, CO, 2010
Big Love, Band of Toughs, Boulder & Denver, CO, 2009
Good Girls Don’t, But I Do, created by Joan Bruemmer, Boulder & Denver, CO, 2009-2010
Harry Potter Acting Class, Rocky Mountain Theater for Kids, Boulder, CO, 2009
Discover Your Inner Diva, Naropa University Extended Studies, Boulder, CO, 2008
Flamenco Fantasy Dance Theatre, led by Rene Heredia, various venues, CO, 2007-2008
Women Who Love Passionately, Boulder Fringe Festival, Boulder, CO, 2007
Carmen/Cleopatra, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2007
Feast of Fools, Dzieci Theatre, New York, NY, 2005
West Side Story, Pierce School, Brookline, MA, 2004
The UnPossessed, Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield, MA, 2003
Bereft, St. Mark’s Theater, New York, NY, 2001
Candida, Expanded Arts, New York, NY, March 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: THEATRE INSTRUCTING
Workshops and Research Labs:
Viewpoints Performance Training – workshop at Cloud Gate Space, Athens, Greece 2022
Απαράμιλλoν Υποθέσεις – Viewpoints Research at Aparamillon, Athens, Greece, 2019
Ανοιχτή Φύση – Open Nature: Workshop & JAMs, Athens, Greece, 2014-2016
Πηγάδι: Αναζωογόνησης – Well of Renewal, workshop at Quilombo, Athens, Greece, 2014
ELANADISTIKANOUME, workshop for company at DanceVacuum, Athens, Greece, 2012-2013
Polish Ensemble Theatre Training, workshop at Quilombo, Athens, Greece, 2011
Discover Your Inner Diva, workshop at Naropa University Extended Studies, Boulder, CO, 2008
University-level Instructing:
Physical Acting and Monologue Work, Boulder, CO, 2009
Assistant Instructor to Stephen Wangh for Grotowski-based psychophysical acting course in Naropa University’s MFA Theatre: Contemporary Performance Program.
Designed course, created syllabus; taught corporals, plastiques, image work, voice work, application to monologues; assigned monologues; evaluated students in person and with written evaluations.
Physical Acting and Scenework, Boulder, CO, 2008
Assistant Instructor to Stephen Wangh for Grotowski-based psychophysical acting course in Naropa University’s MFA Theatre: Contemporary Performance Program.
Designed course, created syllabus, assigned scenes, taught scenework exercises, coached students.
SPECIAL SKILLS
Performance-related Skills:
Yoga, Greek folk dance, flamenco, belly dance, singing, song composition, rhythm
Languages and Technical Skills:
Languages: English (Native Speaker), Greek (Fluent), French (A2.2), Spanish (A2.1)
Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPress, Final Cut Pro video editing