Marilena Katranidou

Marilena Katranidou studied theatre at School of Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, with a major in direction and acting. Recently she has worked as Theatrologist at The Center for Education and Rehabilitation for the Blind (CERB 2020-2021).She was a co-teacher with the artist Yorgos Sapoutzis at Salzburg International Summer Academy, for the course “Scenography as a place of longing”, in 2019. As a director, she has presented numerous plays in Greece and abroad, such as: “The soldier’s tale”(Koufonisia Classical Music Festival 2020) “Mommy, Mother, Mom” (Thessaloniki 2019), “First Gravedigger: who builds stronger than the builder, the shipbuilder and the carpenter?” (“Performance Rooms 2020”, St. George Lycabettus Hotel, Athens), “It does happen sometimes. The case of the bald soprano”(“Fast Forward Festival”, National Theatre of Dresden, Germany 2017), “The woman who was trained in Swimming” (Eksarcheia, Athens, 2017), “The stars won’t come out tonight” (Studio Pellizco, Thessaloniki, 2016), “Occupy Goethe” (a performance for the celebration of the 60 years since the establishment of the Goethe-Institut in Thessaloniki) and more.

She has repeatedly collaborated with distinguished directors as a Michael Marmarinos (” TRACKERS” Athens Epidaurus festival 2021),with Yannis Leontaris (“The Elephant”, National Theatre of Northern Greece 2019, “Ariagni”, Art Theatre Karolos Koun,2018), Michael Marmarinos (“Εlectra” Shanghai Majestic Theatre, 2018-2019, “Empire (I have your data)”, Faye of the Concert Hall of Thessaloniki 2018), Influx Artist Collective and Prodromos Tsinikoris (“Firing range (The wild ducks)” Experimental Stage of the National Theatre and guest performance in the Skien International Ibsen Conference (Norway), 2016-2017) as an assistant director. She has also attended various seminars and workshops related to theatre, dance, choreography and dramaturgy, with Greek and international artists in Greece, Hungary, Switzerland and more.

PROJECT

Marilena together with Andreas Levisianos and Dimitra Kandia curate and present the original site-specific music theatre performance “Thalassa Quarry” at the homonymous quarry. The topography of the “Thalassa” Quarry becomes music and stage score, exploring the physical and symbolic characteristics of marble. The performance is a landscape composition: it composes the sounds of marble as a natural material in the quarry, the sounds of marble when sculpted by craftsmen, the interpretation of its sound and symbolic features by acoustic instruments, voices, and narrative speech, and the sounds of the bio-soundscape. Marilena is the director of the performance. Through participatory workshops, the local community of the island will have the opportunity to attend the individual – organisational and creative – levels of preparation of the performance, including vocal, rhythmic and stage preparation workshops.