Residencies Detail

Residency of Irene Michailidis

hosted by Festival Jeunes Pousses
Participating countries:
  • Belgium
  • France
  • Italy
  • Circus
  • Theatre
© Asmara Bassetti

Period

  • From 01-10-2023 to 30-04-2024
Generation #2

Website

Address

Saulx-les-Chartreux
France

Project summary

Odissea del pollaio is a show by Irene Michailidis and her small creative team. It is a journey between Italy and Greece, inspired by the writings of her grandparents, combining the reading of the Homeric tales of one Grandparent, with the diary composed within the walls of a chicken coop during wartime confinement, by the other Grandparent. The discovery of those past traces moves the feminine character on stage, who leads the audience into a journey to explore life, ideals and dreams. This poetic and comic solo puts together all the disciplines Irene practices on stage: music, clown, puppet, physical theatre; each of them contributes to composing a poetic, dreamlike and grotesque intimate narration, which speaks to the whole audience, able to touch universal feelings.
© Jean Lucas

Artist

Irene Michailidis

Biography: Irene Michailidis musician clown puppeteer, Italian with greek origin. She took her first steps on stage as a child with a company of traveling artists who opened her up to the world of the circus, music and puppet theater.
Then she studied classical music in Italy and France, graduating and specializing in classical guitar and studying score reading and composition. In 2009 she moved to France, where she developped new research projects that combine musical expression and theatrical language at the Strasbourg Conservatory.
Since 2013 she has started working in various theater productions in Italy and France.
Since 2018 she has been working regularly with the Teatro Necessario company.
She created her own theater company “ Theatre du Troisième Étage” and started planning a path of residenc
Contact: ireneclass@gmail.com
Social media: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086495932113
Work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BabLYrdTJW-e6KxfUR2YMynP6vX4g5o6/view?ts=64898818 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lItSdoLEAEE https://vimeo.com/312907135

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