Roxani Garefalaki
- Actress
Roxani Eleni Garefalaki (b. 1983) is a movement Instructor, director and performance artist from Athens, Greece based in London.
She is an Alexander Technique teacher and Teaches Tai Chi and Chi Kung emphasising on their healing and meditative properties.
She uses a holistic approach to performance combining movement with sound, in order to explore the connections between art and healing.
She specialises in Butoh and slow motion performance using symbolism through movement and investigates the ability to transform collectively the sense of the dimension of time by creating space through the use of organic movement.
(2017) "Nagare" Butoh and vocal performance with Eliza Soroga and Takatsuma Murai, Strange Love Festival at Folkestone, and Cafe Otto, Dalston, 'Being Light' solo butoh performance, video art project and event in the context of 'Inhabiting CSM' curated by Symeon Banos, "Tuning into Elusive Times" solo butoh performance, video art project directed by Orestis Dikaios, awarded the first prize in the experimental category at London Greek Film Festival, (2016) 'Nagare' Butoh and vocal performance with Eliza Soroga and Takatsuma Murai, The Library at St. Martin's Lane, Covent Garden, London, and Guerilla Zoo Festival, Apiary Gallery London
'Prayer', A solo slow motion performance, for the opening of 'All Religions are One' various artists on William Blake, Gabriel Fine Art, London
She has performed in all kinds of stages, from ancient Greek theatres ( Epidaurus, Herodeion, Phillipoi etc, with the National Theater of Greece and the Hellenic Festival), to street theatre, children's theatre, dance theatre and circus cabaret, combining singing with physical theatre elements, stilts, aerial acrobatics and fire juggling.
She is also a creator performances being a songwriter, lyricist and script writer and has created productions addressing to different audiences, from dance theatre to open air stages and stadiums ("Art Sung- Alma Mahler'', by Elizabeth Mucha, at Wilton's Music Hall, London 2017 (direction, stage management, lighting design), "Perform to Reform" Erasmus+ EU Program, Jugend & Culturproject e.V. producing the "Great Wheel" dance theatre (script, direction, music, scenography & performing), Dresden, Germany, "The Art of Basking" by Jugend & Culturproject e.V., EU funded program, Thessaloniki European Youth Capital 2014, "Seven" circus- cabaret dance theatre (Script, direction, costume design, scenography & performing), El Convento del Arte theatre, Athens Zen Garden's "Semantic" opening the Future Sound of London in Athens (23.5.09) at Olympic Softball stadium). Her first collaborations in Butoh back in Greece include :
2007: "Deva" DanceTheatre with the group Synergion Technon, choreography: Sylvia Macchi-Varotsou, at Contemporary Theatre of Athens- Greek Choreographers' Dance Festival , and at Chorto village at Pilio.
2006: "Horizon" DanceTheatre with the group Synergion Technon, choreography: Varotsou, at Athens' Megaron of Music- Contemporary Dance Platform , Roes Theatre at Greek Choreographers' Dance Festival
2005: "Sound Transmutation" Musical- dancetheatre performance with Synergion Technon direction: Silvia Macchi, Singing together with Lamia Bedioui (Tunisian singer), Joe Tornabene (saxophone), and aerial silks at Drogarati Cave Kefallonia
2004: "Globus" Dancetheatre with Synergion Technon, direction Silvia Macchi,, Roes Theatre- Greek Choreographers' Dance Festival
2003: "Metamorphosis" DanceTheatre with the group Synergion Technon. Choreography: Sylvia Macchi- Varotsou at Roes theatre Greek Choreographers Dance Festival, and at "Melina Merkouri" Cultural Center of Athens.
She has trained in music (Bachelor Degree in Harmony- Higher Theory of Music (Hellenic Conservatory), classical singing, Healing through Sound and voice (Joe Tornabene, Roy Hart theatre), and movement Butoh (with Moeno Wakamatsu & Sai Misima).
She has trained in music (Bachelor Degree in Harmony- Higher Theory of Music (Hellenic Conservatory), classical singing, Healing through Sound and voice (Joe Tornabene, Roy Hart theatre), and movement Butoh (with Moeno Wakamatsu & Sai Misima).