Woman In the Mud
"Woman in the Mud"
Statues lying on the seabed
Ancient sites
Afternoon
I see you lying on the ground
Like a wave, like an abyss
Like wild fire
Surrendered
to its own flames
Like the wild howl of other times
that no longer has the power to be heard
Surrendered to the earth
You give your breath
You return to the womb
You go back to where you started
Into the soil
You, you are not afraid
And if Beauty was once called Beauty
You call it Truth
You’re not afraid
You can hear now
The Secret
Alkistis Voulgari, Athens 6/10/2023
Sculpture created by PROSPERO
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Alkistis VoulgariDirector
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Room 37 ArtworksProducer
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Alkistis VoulgariPhotographer
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PROSPEROSculptor
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Date Taken:September 8, 2023
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Country of Origin:Greece
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Camera:Canon
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Student Project:No
Alkistis Voulgari was born in Athens. She is an actress and dancer specializing in Isadora Duncan’s Dance Technique.
The last three years she started her own filming experimentations and performance creations which embrace Theatre, Poetry, Literature, Dance and Radio Art.
Her work has been presented in many different countries, in festivals, exhibitions and theatres as the Short film Panorama and Academia Romantica of Athens, Avatar Center and Porcovete Pictures in Canada, UNU – Flores and Technische Sammlungen in Dresden, International Multimedia Art Festival in Serbia, Verti Films in Prague, On the Rocks Film festival in Italy, Museum of Dead Words in Brooklyn, NY.
She is gradually visualising and working on the reconnection of the Theatre with its natural roots by improvising and exploring the primitive idea in an open, natural space where the film camera becomes the "eye of the director" and an eternal narration of the theatrical, performative, human and life experience.
I was attracted to Theatre from a very young age so it was a one-way road for me.
Whatever I create has to do with Theatre as it composes the essential Art in the constellation of my mind. [Cinematography came during the quarantine as the only way to communicate and it turned out to be love at first sight.]
Later on, I met the Art of Isadora Duncan and got involved with many artistic ways and genres of Art and Dramaturgy crossroading with other individuals' inspirations and teachings. Some of them are Karolos Koun (Theatro Technis, Greece), Hellenic Choreodrama (Zouzou Nikoloudi, Rallou Manou), Theatre du Soleil, Grotowski Institute, Odin Teatret, the cultures of all the ancient tribes around the world as well as world philosophy and a desire to learn the body mechanism as wholeness of body - mind - spirit (<νοῦς, noûs).
I was initiated in researching and deepening into the human soul as a way to express and interpret the Archetypes throughout the soul history of the human being by numerous exceptional people : actors, activists, writers, artists, travellers, musicians or just simple men and women.
Having this "backpack" I feel the urge and responsibility to continue this receiving and giving of knowledge and inspiration as the only way to be and become an essential change in the world. ("Be the Change you want to see in the World" - Gandhi). I strongly believe in a change and I don't compromise with something less than my ideals.
So, I am on the way with my camera, notebook and thoughts, with my poems, my masks, dances and dreams... I contain multitudes as Bob Dylan said and I am sure you do, too.
Hope to meet you on the road!
Stay cool,
Alkistis