© Mario Banushi
Workshop
Performing arts between memory and intimacy
Mario Banushi
April 4 – 5, 2025
Running time: 2 days (from 11am to 4pm)
Free workshop for a maximum of 20 participants. To apply, please fill in the registration form by 12.00pm of March 10, 2025.
An intensive two-day workshop for performing arts professionals led by author and director Mario Banushi. In his works, on the border between theater and visual arts, pain and memory are intertwined with balkan traditions, through the intimacy of storytelling. Combining personal experience and historical memory, in this workshop Banushi proposes interpretive tools to explore the way in which, the person who interprets, perceives and reveals. Participants will have the opportunity to get to know his particular surrealist aesthetic, where the prevalent logic of time and space are questioned, but also to explore their own universe, and will be invited to utilize unexplored aspects of their artistic practices.
Mario Banushi was born in 1998 and lived in Albania until the age of six, before moving permanently to Greece. He studied acting at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory, from which he graduated in 2020. The same year, he made his first short film Pranvera, with which he participated in the 2021 Tirana International Film Festival. His first work as a stage director was the performance Ragada, which was created and presented in a house in Athens, during the pandemic lockdowns. His next work, Goodbye, Lindita, premiered in 2023 at the experimental stage of the National Theatre of Greece, and quickly accumulated an enthusiastic audience and rave reviews, resulting in international invitations from esteemed festivals and theatres, such as the International Theatre in Amsterdam, the Adelaide Festival in Australia and Bitef in Belgrade in which Mario received the Bitef Special Award “Jovan Ćirilov” and the Politika Award for Best Director. His third work, Taverna Miresia – Mario Bella Anastasia, was presented in July 2023 at the Athens Epidaurus Festival and has been touring internationally since the beginning of 2024. Mario Banushi’s trilogy is usually referenced by the title Romance Familiare, which means family romance in Albanian. His latest work, MAMI, is an international co-production between Onassis Stegi [GR], Berliner Festspiele [DE], FOG festival / Triennale Milano Teatro [IT], & Espoo Theatre [FI] and Noorderzon Festival / Grand Theatre Groningen [NL]. Mario Banushi is an Onassis AiR Fellow and a resident artist of the Centre Culturel Hellénique in Paris.
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The workshop is held in English and is aimed at professionals (dancers, actors, musicians) in the performing arts field, as well as students and graduates of professional dance and theatre schools.
It is advised to wear comfortable clothes.
If you can play a musical instrument, please bring it with you at the workshop.
