Anna Tzakou: Give Where You Are

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Anna & Rhonda talk about making theater in times of unrest, making space to breathe in such times without hiding or running away, audience as participant, adventuring, the love of place, and trees (Christmas Trees?). Be sure to follow on your favorite streaming service to be notified of new episodes and BONUS content!

Anna Tzakou is a performer, theatre deviser, and practice-based researcher based in Athens, Greece. She holds a PhD in Performance Practice entitled: Geopoetics, a mindfulness (sati) site-specific performance practice, from the University of Exeter (UK), and integrates principles of Buddhism and Geography with American and European methods of post-modern artistic lineages to create a body-landscape performance practice methodology.

In 2012, she founded Performance Group Geopoetics with which she has been creating site-specific walking performances in rural and urban landscapes. Anna’s research has been published in the USA, UK and Greece. She has been teaching in BFA and MFA academic programs in Europe. Currently she is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Performing and Digital Arts in the University of Peloponnese.