ANOTHER LAND dance performance

DANCE Athens

Seven dancers bring to life a journey through time and history, expressing personal and collective paths with their bodies. Through constant transformation, they seek identity and balance in a dialogue between personal and collective experience.

Choreography / Direction: Ilias Bayeorgos Costume Design: Francesco Infante Curation / Dramaturgy: Kon/nos Argyriou Evangeloudis Performers: Ilektra Vosou, Christina Gaki, Eleni Markou, Youli Banousi, Sofia Panousi, Andrianna Stavrou, Elena Tsikala

Start time: 21:55 / Duration: 12’

PROJECT HUMAN – Dance Performance
Faidra Soutou

In a world where human rights are irrationally violated, in a post-pandemic era that revealed the power imbalance, PROJECT HUMAN explores existence using only the body. Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Auguste Rodin’s sculptures, the piece emphasizes that all humans are equal in their right to a free life.

Direction / Choreography / Performance: Faidra Soutou Dramaturgy: Faidra Soutou, Giorgos Stavrianos Music: William Antoniou Visual Environment: Alegia Papageorgiou Artistic Partner / Voice-over: Giorgos Stavrianos

Start time: 22:10 / Duration: 15’

HOW CAN YOU NOT HEAR THE TRAINS? – Theatrical Performance
Group 0.5

A story for those who left and those who remain. From “I haven’t received his letter” to “text when you arrive.” We’re all passengers on the same train. Destination known, purpose dreaded. You don’t hear them? How can you not hear them? A performance about memory, loss, and the terror of waiting – where the journey is not a choice. Based on true events.

Text: Christos Balagiannis Concept / Dramaturgy / Direction: Group 0.5 Original Music: Christos Balagiannis, Vaggelia Tsitakidou Lighting: Christos Balagiannis Cast: Nikolas Agapiou, Dafni Kakali, Christos Balagiannis, Vicky Choudalaki, Tzortzis Chortarias

Start time: 22:25 / Duration: 25’

SEARCHING FOR MEANING – Rap Performance
FES & DJ 2 Delta

The “Searching for Meaning” set is a deep introspection of the human soul and its struggle with itself. Confronting life and truth, the individual is forced to choose, reevaluate, understand, accept, and ultimately discover themselves.

On stage: FES & DJ 2 Delta

Start time: 22:30 / Duration: 15’

BLAME: AN ODE TO MURDER – Theatrical Performance
MASH

A theatrical anti-musical with dark humor inspired by Kafka’s short story A Fratricide. The murder causes no horror – it is predetermined and executed without questions or explanations. The perpetrator leaves, the act is done, life goes on.

Text: Franz Kafka Translation / Adaptation / Dramaturgy / Direction: MASH (Katerina Anastasiou & Christos Kapenis) Art Direction: Kostas Gogas Original Music / Soundscape: Katerina Anastasiou Cast: Christos Kapenis, Katerina Anastasiou

Start time: 23:00 / Duration: 15’

The city’s most vibrant youth festival returns for its 13th edition!

Once again this May, for the 13th year in a row, the most vibrant artistic youth festival in the city meets its audience for a two-week celebration of young expression and creative exploration, transforming the unique Railway Carriage Theater to Treno sto Rouf into a timeless incubator for emerging artists.

Seventeen artistic groups and young creators from Theatre, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts will present short performances (10–30 minutes) for fifteen consecutive evenings with free admission, from May 18 to June 1, 2025.

Since 2011, the Festival has welcomed and showcased over 1,000 artists and artistic groups, many of whom have continued their collaboration with the Railway Carriage Theater to Treno sto Rouf on a professional basis. This year’s 13th edition received an overwhelming response from applicants, surpassing all previous years, increasing the need and responsibility to ensure its continuity and growth in the future.

The theme of this year’s festival focuses on the Human Being—on everything that defines and shapes human existence in its journey toward self-awareness. The fascinating path of life, from departure to final destination, marked by encounters, intersections, transitions, detours, reversals, and challenges, reflects the evolving trajectory of humanity through time. In our era of rapid technological acceleration, it becomes imperative to move forward in harmony with the universe of emotion, language, imagination, and empathy.

Tatiana Lygari, Artistic Director of the Festival, notes:
“We thank the hundreds of young artists for their trust in this year’s 13th Festival and the audiences who have supported them over the years. Amid the fluid global geopolitical landscape and unpredictable climate crisis, this year’s festival insists on keeping Humanity in its frame—as the only transformative force that must survive, positively influencing the planet and the precarious future of humankind. From birth to maturity, from departure to arrival, from goodbye to pause, from inquiry to discovery, the Human Being follows a unique trajectory in search of the self. They redefine their dreams, chart new paths, return and start again in an eternal inner journey toward self-knowledge and improvement. Looking toward a future increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, redefining human essence becomes necessary, and protecting all that defines it, critically urgent.”

The festival takes place in the distinctive carriages of the Railway Carriage Theater and on the open-air Stage of the Platform, offering artists and audiences a unique experience of creation, viewing, and coexistence in an unexpected, unconventional space.

All performances take place from May 18 to June 1, 2025, between 19:00 and 23:30 in a rolling program, every day for fifteen consecutive nights.

FREE ADMISSION
Entry tickets are required. Ticket distribution begins daily at 18:30 at the Railway Carriage box office. Max. 3 tickets per person per day, subject to availability.

VENUE
Railway Carriage Theater to Treno sto Rouf
Konstantinoupoleos Ave. & Amphipoleos, Rouf Railway and Suburban Station
10’ walk from METRO station Kerameikos
Free outdoor parking

INFO
Production Office: +30 210 9237076
Theater: +30 210 5298922, +30 6937604988
theater@totrenostorouf.gr

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