About Thanasis Kritsakis
Thanasis Kritsakis (Thessaloniki/1991) is a director, performer and dramaturg. His work is based on the performing arts and, more specifically, on post-dramatic forms of theater and their connections with political theory. He aims to discover new artistic forms that could be produced through philosophical and sociological notions, examining everyday life. He believes that performing arts and the act of spectating could still create new meanings and, therefore, transformations in the social landscape and new ways of living.
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He has collaborated and completed his studies at various institutions in Greece and abroad (Stegi, PLETA, Maly Theater, Motzarteum University of Salzburg, Applied Theatre Studies Department Giessen, etc.), both as an independent artist and as a member of artistic groups. He is a graduate of the Theater School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, holds a master's degree in Political Science and Sociology and a post-doctorate from the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. He is currently pursuing his doctorate at the Theater Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in collaboration with the University of the Aegean and is a fellow of the Onassis Air program in the field of dramaturgy.
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Education
02/09/2020 – 05/07/2021
Royal Academy of the Arts
Stokcholm, Sweden
Post-Master in "Collective Artistic Practices".
Practical and Theoretical research of the idea that the collective rehearsing process, based on the theory of pluralistic democracy, could create a new form of pluralistic artwork on stage.
11/10/2017 – 15/11/2019
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National and Kapodistrian University.
Athens, Greece
Master in "Political Science and Sociology".
Thesis on the genealogical connection between Marxism and Art.
11/10/2009 – 16/12/2016
School of Drama
Aristotle University
Thessaloniki, Greece
Bachelor and Integrated Master in Theater finishing two different directions, actor and stage director. My thesis work, as a director, was in "Bacchae" of Euripides.
11/10/2015 – 02/2016
Department of Applied Theater Studies
Justus Liebig University
Giessen, Germany
Erasmus Scholarship Award that I got in first touch with post-dramatic and documentary theater theory and practice.
15/09/2015 – 30/09/2015
Maly National Theater
Moscow, Russia
Masterclass with Csaba Antal Union des Theatres de l' Europe participating as a director in a collective artwork on "Elektra", Hofmannsthal.
01/09/2003 – 15/07/2009
Music High School
Serres, Greece
Excellent knowledge of Electric Bass Guitar and Traditional Percussions. Also, good knowledge of Drums, Piano, Singing and Music Theory.