about us
á art company (non profit) was founded by Yannis Papakammenos and Marianna Makri as a collaborative platform for artistic research and creation. With a central focus on dance and theatre, the company explores the intersection of movement, visual language, and poetic narrative. Through minimalist aesthetics and emotionally driven performance, á art company aims to craft works that resonate deeply and speak to the silent places within us.
tiens / άντεξε / endureShort Film
Directed by Yannis Papakammenos
A crack in a wall becomes the image of an inner crack within the human being. An opening through which we do not see a story with a beginning, a middle and an end, but the entire trajectory of an existence: past, present and future coexist, become entangled and complete one another. Memory does not follow a linear path; it returns, interrupts, repeats and transforms.The crack is personal. It belongs to each of us. And yet, at the same time, it is collective. We all carry within us an opening, a point of vulnerability through which everything we have lived, everything we are living, and everything that has not yet happened passes.In tiens, a body is placed on a surgical table, as if it is about to undergo an operation. But the intervention does not concern the surface of the body. It turns towards what lies within it towards its crack.Inside the crack, times, memories, fears, desires and traces of a life coexist. The bodies become carriers of these fragments and move through a space where nothing is truly in its place and nothing belongs exclusively to a single moment in time.tiens does not seek to close the crack.It looks into it.
It enters it.
And it tries to endure.directed by Yannis Papakammenos
With:
Ioli Spiliopoulou
Andreas Kolovos
Yannis Papakammenos
Roula KoutroumbeliCamera:
Stelios Antoniou
Vasilis KaragiorgosDrone:
Vasilis PapakammenosMusic:
M.v.3Editing:
á art companyProduction Coordination:
Marianna MakriProduced by:
á art company
DOCUMENTATION the recycle project
Dance Artistic Hospitality ProgramTechnopolis of the Municipality of Athens
Dance Industry Workers' Union (S.E.X.O.X.)The Recycle Project emerged through a continuous process of research, where body and materials met, transformed and redefined one another.
The research unfolded through experimentation, repetition, failure and unexpected discoveries.
Each material created a different relationship with the body, opening new possibilities for movement and transformation.
Alongside the physical process, an inner journey developed around change, loss, decay and the possibility of renewal.
This documentation traces that journey not only the result, but the process that led to it.
the recycle project
The Recycle Project explores the idea of recycling not only as the reuse of materials, but as an artistic and existential process of regeneration.
Movement, bodies, images, and objects on stage are treated as living materials — constantly deconstructed, transformed, and redefined.Through continuous metamorphoses, the dancers recycle movement patterns, rewrite stereotypes, and breathe new life into symbols and forms that carry memory and decay.
The performance reveals that repetition is not imitation — it is a new act of creation. Just as matter gives birth to new forms of life through its own recycling, movement too can be reborn, unveiling new aesthetic and emotional dimensions.The Recycle Project does not simply speak about recycling — it embodies it on stage, through the body, memory, and the endless process of transformation.
the recycle project
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memory
the recycle projectA physical journey between memory, loss and rebirth.
Recycling as an act of existence.REGIONAL THEATERJanuary 22–23, 2026
21:00 | Agrinio Regional Theatre (D.I.P.E.TH.E.)Concept – Choreography:
Giannis PapakammenosPerformed by:
Roula Koutroubeli
Kostas Kokkinos
Olga Darrala
Giannis PapakammenosSet Design:
Konstantinos XanthopoulosCostumes:
Agathi AngelakiMusic Direction:
á art companyPhoto / Video:
Giorgos KatsoulisProduction Manager:
Marianna Makri
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a
cinematic & performative variations on impermanence
a is a single artistic gesture expressed in two parts:
abîme — a short experimental film
a(skitikí) — a live choreographic performanceRooted in the existential thought of Askitiki by Nikos Kazantzakis, a explores states of becoming, disappearance, and transformation across time.Through minimalist, recurring symbols — a chair, a pair of shoes, a child — the work unfolds between presence and absence, light and abyss.abîme and a(skitikí) reflect two interrelated dimensions — one cinematic, one performative — forming a unified meditation on memory and loss, form and formlessness.At its core, a is concerned with the fragile remnants of being —
a chair, a pair of shoes, a child —
and the space they occupy in the journey between origin and dissolution.
How do we remember?
How do we float?
How do we vanish?
abîme
We come from a dark abyss and end in a dark abyss —
the light in between we call life.
Nikos Kazantzakis, Askitiki
Experimental short film of emotional recall movement | 2025
A poetic reflection on memory, loss, and the fragile traces we leave behind. Three figures — man, woman, and child — drift along a narrow road between sky and sea, surrounded by silence and salt.
Their movement is rooted in emotional memory — gestures that recall, echo, and vanish.
From the depths of a dark abyss to its mirror above, abîme unfolds as a fleeting choreography of presence and disappearance. A chair, a pair of shoes, a child walking forward — remnants of existence suspended in time.And in the end, a single voice remains: А ты меня помнишь? (Do you remember me?)conceived and directed:
yannis papakammenos
performed by:
efstathia panagiotara yannis papakammenos and the young
orestis/minoas papakammenosmusic: Jóse & Hildur Guðnadóttirproduction supervision: marianna makri
costume supervision: agathi aggelaki
artistic constructions: sotiria davrazu
camera/drone : vasilis papakammenosexcerpts from Askitiki by Nikos Kazantzakis
and the poem
А ты меня помнишь? [A ty menya pomnish? (Do You Remember Me?)]
by Andrei Voznesensky
recited by Чулпан Хаматова (Chulpan Khamatova)filmed in the salt lagoons of Messolonghi – 2025
a(skitiki)
The stage version of a, shaped around the metaphysical text Askitiki by Nikos Kazantzakis.
This version engages the physical presence of performers, the spoken word, and the raw temporality of the stage. The performers become fragments of one consciousness moving through time, echoing the cycle of descent and elevation, fall and light.
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