Harlem Shake sweeps Athens

Thousands of teenagers flooded a park in central Athens on Saturday to take part in the first Greek version of the Harlem Shake, the latest viral video to hit the Internet.

The new dance craze appeared to have started with a posting by a vlogger (A vlogger is someone who posts embedded videos regularly to his blog) and spread quickly, with more than 12,000 Harlem Shake videos posted and watched up to 44m times in the first two weeks of February, according to YouTube.

Local teenagers responded enthusiastically to the call put out on social media to create a massive Harlem Shake video in Athens and came armed with costumes, funny props and even smoke flares.

"I came here with all my friends to support the Greek Harlem Shake to have fun and laughs and whatever happens," said 17-year-old Giorgos, who came dressed as an air hostess and clambered up onto the roof of the nearby train station and lit smoke flares with his friends.

Brothers Pavlos and Stefanos, who were dressed up as mustard and ketchup bottles, said they came to send a message to the world that the country is not just about strikes and protests.

"We want to send a message that here in Greece we're not dead, and that the young people are here and present," said 18-year-old Pavlos. "Yeah, we're going to shake things up here today," added 19-year-old Stefanos.
Young Greek comedian Jeremy who organized the event said that the aim was to create the Harlem Shake video with the most participants.

"We wanted it to be the biggest one yet, so we chose a very central location. We wanted it to have the Acropolis in the background, but unfortunately it wasn't possible, but I think we managed to gather a lot of people," said the 22-year-old Jeremy, who directed his fellow online comedian, Mikeius, in the video.

About 5000 people took part in the video which will be uploaded on Jeremy's YouTube channel, according to organizers.
The Harlem Shake began as a dance in the 1980s but the latest version featured on the thousands of online videos is an electronic dance track by 23-year-old Brooklyn DJ Baauer who released the single last year.

The interest has also helped drive Baauer's sales, with the single topping the iTunes America chart and coming in second in the iTunes UK and Australia lists last week. Source Reuters

ANAMESA, Art de vivre, vivre d’art

Le Lycée Franco-Hellénique Eugène Delacroix a initié un projet européen, ANAMESA, pour faire réfléchir nos élèves sur les notions de la différence et de lutte contre les préjugés, enjeu majeur pour notre établissement. 

Afin de mobiliser les communautés scolaires, nous organisons un Festival d’Art (Le Festival «ANAMESA», « Entre nous » en grec) où de jeunes talents, artistes en situation de handicap et valides, issus des mondes scolaire, associatif et professionnel partageront avec nos élèves la même envie: «Art de vivre, vivre d’art»

Pour cette première année, les lycées français du réseau AEFE de Vienne et de Budapest nous ont rejoints.

Du mercredi 13 au dimanche 17 mars 2013, le festival ouvrira ses portes à Athènes et déclinera ses spectacles multiformes, aussi bien dans des salles de spectacle que dans la rue, au plus près du public.

Le site internet du festival !

http://www.festivalanamesa.com/fr/festival.html

Athènes rend hommage à Rudolf Nureyev

Le 19 et 20 Janvier, l'Opéra de Paris présente dans la salle du théâtre Badminton à Athènes, un hommage au danseur Rudolf Nureyev, à l’occasion de l'anniversaire des vingt ans de la mort de Nureyev. 

Le Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris est le plus ancien et l'un des plus importants au sein du ballet contemporain. Son répertoire va de grands classiques et de ballets romantiques aux créations de chorégraphes contemporains.

Le soliste leader du Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, entouré aussi de plus de quinze danseurs présenteront une variété de chefs-d'œuvre du répertoire classique et des chorégraphies particulièrement aimées par Nureyev lui-même. 

De 1983 à 1989, Nureyev a été directeur du Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris. Pendant cette période, il a apporté un nouveau souffle au ballet, a invité plusieurs chorégraphes contemporains et des enseignants et il a mis en scène de nombreux chefs-d'œuvre.

A Sleeping Beauty at Badminton Theatre

Renowned choreographer Yuri Grigorovich, soloist with the Maryinsky Theatre for 18 years and choreographer-in-chief at the Bolshoy Theatre for 30 years, presents a production of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet The Sleeping Beauty at Badminton Theatre on September 12, 13 and 14.

The Grigorovich Ballet Theatre of Russia is expected to deliver a dazzling show which will include impressive scenery, costumes and sensational special effects.