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2023
Screening of the film “Monkeys Hidden in the Storeroom” by - Georgia Petrali + Joanna Poupaki - at the 14th international Athens Video Dance Project,on Monday 18 of December 2023!
Sunday 5th of November 2023 - Rethymno @ 11:30 - 13:15the body in space – a polyphonic place
Experiential workshop of co_Movement ¦ self_Expression ¦ pan_Rhythm
with Georgia Petrali in the context of the Interdisciplinary - Artistic Symposium
CREATING POLYPHONIC PLACES OF MEANING, LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT: PLAYFUL ALTERNATIVE-EXPERIENTIAL AND EMBEDDED-POLYTROPIC PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL APPROACHES
2022
“Monkeys Hidden in the Storeroom” - by Georgia Petrali + Joanna Poupaki - screening at the “Thessaloniki Cinedance International - Season 5: short dance film festival”, this Friday 23 September!Program of the festival: https://die-wolke.org/tci/prog
Official Selections: https://die-wolke.org/tci/season/5
Bookings: https://vitruvianthing.com/tci5
Trailer: TCI # 5 trailer
The film “monkeys hidden in the storeroom” (production 2021) premiered at the Wicklow Screendance Laboratory 2022 in Ireland on the 14th of April 2022 (https://www.screendance.ie/). The film is also part of the official selections and will be screened at Dance Days Chania 2022 in Chania-Crete, Greece (https://dancedays.gr/festival/video-dance-selection-ddc12/). Furthermore, it has also been selected within the honorable mentions of the 2nd quarter of Prague International Film Festival 2022 for best experimental and best editing.
"And when red begins to turn pink and grow in the soil with the eyes always facing the sky, then light is probably the only thing that tends to define…" (Georgia Petrali)And so the shooting of the second video from a ‘poetic video-trilogy’ with a focus on nature and its elements, the human factor, the unexpected and the emotions that arise from the futility and greatness of life μόλις has just ended…
with: Anna Delimpasi, Maria Manoura, Joanna Poupaki
photos: Evangelia Papastavrou
April 2022
Standing with the "small dance" for Peace at Heraklion-Crete-Greece, Saturday 26 March 20222020
Life in Plastic is NOT Fantastic is the new project by Fysalida Dance2019
Article on LiFO.gr about the video “Merry Plastic Christmas”, December 2019
Dance activities for parents and kids with Georgia Petrali at CretAquarium, Sunday 22 December 2019
Improvisation evening with the collective Free The Soprano Player and Georgia Petrali Sunday 15 December, 20:30-22:00 @ Comeet, Petraki Louka 3, Heraklion, Crete
Travelling Festival-10 stops around China, Kazantzakis Museum, Myrtia, July 2019
Contact Improvisation @ Art + Culture Week by Tangoneon - Heraklion, February 2019 2018
Participation of TRACE at Mostra Viva del Mediterrani - Screendance, October 2018 
Fysalida - street Art 5Be the TREE, at Georgiadis Park, Sunday 22 April 2018, @12:30
2017
Saturday 23 December -> parent+kid dance activities at 11:00-12:00 and dance-improvisation for primary-school kids at 13:00-14:00 with Georgia PetraliLooking forward to welcoming you @ Cretaquarium!
Georgia Petrali in elpis calling ..., October 2017 Screening of the dance film "wrinkles and dreams" - 2008 (7 awards in Greece and abroad) as well as of the video art «motel Labyrinthos» - 2014 (Silver Jury Award - Contact Dance International Film Festival - Toronto, Canada 2015) and «Save Karteros beach» - 2014 at the
2nd Pancretan Street Art Festival in Heraklion,«ART EN ROUTE 2017», July 2017
Screening of the awarded dance-video "motel Labyrinthos"at "Politistiko Kentro" of Heraklion city, on Friday 24 March at 20:20 during the 2 days-event "Eros-Anteros - The art of coexistence" 2017
Georgia Petrali - Fysalida at TEDx AUEB’s stage, Saturday 18th of March
Monday 6 February on ET3 tv: Georgia Petrali - Fysalida Dance @ 24 hours in Greece - Heraklion2016
Heraklion-Crete December Dance for Every Body
Fysalida dance group presents its new dance-theater production “GAIA - be the bee” in CRETAquarium (Gournes, Crete) on October 8, 9, 15 and 16 at 20:00
4 Days of great Celebration in Heraklion-Crete: 1-4 of SeptemberThursday 1st of September at 20:00-at the Port, next to Marina café
leader-coordinator-choreographer of 1st day: Georgia Petrali
Participation of TRACE at Videodance tribute in the Historical Museum of Crete, 26-31 August 2016 
Saturday 25 June, Fysalida's Free Stretching @ En Oiko 2016
Participation of the Video Art "ma crise dans ta crise" (Award for the Best Art Film-Document.Art.International Film Festival-16th Edition-2012-Pitesti-Romania) in the PRECONFERENCE INTERDISCIPLINARY-ARTISTIC SYMPOSIUM in Rethimno, 16-19 June 2016
Participation of the dance video "TRACE" at Screendance Touring Festival "Agite y Sirva" 2016
Participation of the dance video "TRACE" at ScreenDance Festival 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday 29 April 2016
Participation of the video art "Motel Labyrinthos" at Athens Video Dance Project, Saturday 23 January 20162015
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Participation of the dance video "TRACE" at the International Video & Dance Festival “Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual” in Guadalajara, Mexico. September 2015
Participation of the dance video "TRACE" at São Carlos Videodance Festival in São Carlos, Brazil, 13-16 August, 2015
Participation of the dance video "TRACE" at the International Video & Dance Festival “Video dança em foco” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 4-16 August, 2015.
a dance theatre project - Berlin premiere, Jadi Carboni + Georgia Petrali, Berlin,25-28 May 2015 workshop, 30 May 2015 performance
Participation and SILVER JURY AWARD winning of the video art "motel Labyrinthos" at FRIDAY NIGHT GALA SCREENING:
Release of Force - Contact Dance International Film Festival - Torondo, Canada - 13 to 15 May 2015
STREET ART 4, a dance theatre performance about WATER. Agios Titos Square, Saturday 28 March 2015, time: 21:00 Geo Move Body in space – Bodies in crisis. Contact Improvisation Workshop with Georgia Petrali, Ikaria Island, Greece, June 15th - 22nd 2015
2014
Fysalida + CI Crete at CQ Contact Improvisation Newsletter, Sept. 2014
contemporary dance - movement - improvisation, "basic principles", an introduction to technic by Georgia Petrali, also for beginners, September - December 2014
Contact Improvisation practice with Georgia Petrali, introduction to CI Crete 2014, 6 & 7 September 2014 CI Crete 2014 @ Cretazine
Georgia Petrali - Fysalida Dance @ Autonomous Research Lab - CreteHeraklion, 1-9 August 2014
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CI Crete 2014 gathering at tvxs
Georgia in Dance Days 4 at Chania, July 2014 Georgia in Syros' Dance Fest. Akropoditi 2014, July 2014
CI Festival in Italy, June 2014Come and Dance with Us!
Can dance and drama change yourself and even the world?Interview in ABC Kimberley, Australia - Anne Sorenson and Georgia Petrali
by Vanessa Mills
Artists Anne Sorenson and Georgia Petrali in partnership with Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council will deliver contemporary workshops in using arts for social change. A regionally based training for Artists and Community Health workers wanting to collaborate to make change. Georgia in "Artists in Residence-Switzerland", February 20142013
Screening of the Fysalida's dance video art "ROOMS" at festival "ART is HARD" in Rethymno, Crete, Saturday 12 October 2013 at 19:30 Interview of Georgia Petrali by Katerina Dinopoulou - Art Magazino, September 2013
CQ Contact Improvisation NewsletterInternational Contact Festival Freiburg, Freiburg-Germany, August 7-13, 2013
Article by Georgia Petrali (GR), Marika Rizzi (FR), Laura Hicks (CAN)
Guest Editor: Colleen Bartley
CQ Newsletter Editor: Nancy Stark Smith
Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in DANCE FEST akropoditi 2013 in Syros, 16 July 2013 3rd Contact Improvisation Crete Festival 2013 - Heraklion arts festival summer
Fysalida's participation in Dance Days Chania 2013screenings of Fysalida's dance art videos and of the dance film "wrinkles and dreams"
Participation of Fysalida Dance in artistic events for nature and the enviroment at the Park for the Preservation of Flora and Fauna of the Technical University of Crete in Chania, 18 and 19 May 2013
Street Art, freedom of movement and expression, by Fysalida Dance! Monday 29 April 2013, International Dance Day, at Eleftherias' square, Heraklion, Crete at 18:30
Fysalida's Dance Activities at Theatrikos Stathmos, 26+27 April 2013, Heraklion, Crete Georgia in Freiburg contactfestival Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Ljubljana International Short Film Festival 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1 April 20132012
Participation of the video art works "Flock-the stargazer" in MIRfestival 2012, Athens, 7-14 December 2012
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Loggia, Heraklion, Crete, 2 December 2012, at 10:30 a.m. Award for the Best Art Film in the Document. Art. International Film Festival, 16th Edition, 2012 in Pitesti, Romania
"body in space -> movement inside and outside", ge0_move with Georgia Petrali at the Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens - Sunday 4 November 2012 at 11:00-13:00 Article about the 1st International Contact Improvisation Festival in Crete from the contactquarterly.com Interview of Georgia Petrali for cretazine, September 2012 Fysalida's presentation @ Pecha Kucha 3, Heraklion, Crete - September 2012
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Georgiadis park, Heraklion, Crete, 16 September 2012, at 7:00 p.m. Participation of the Video Street Art "jokes with lies" in the 14th International Film Festival of Patras, 2 October 2012 Participation of the Video Art "ma crise dans ta crise" in the 9th Naoussa International Film Festival, 30 September 2012 Participation of the Video Art "ma crise dans ta crise" in the International Art, Ecology and Tourism Film Festival “DOCUMENT.ART.”, Romania, 27 September 2012 Participation of the dance video "Insect" in the 30th International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal, Canada, 15-25 March 2012
Street Art, "green energy", by Fysalida Dance! Wednesday 18th of July 2012, at Meramvelou Pedestrian Street, Heraklion, Crete at 19:15
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Georgiadis park, Heraklion, Crete, 1 July 2012, at 10:30 a.m. Participation of Fysalida Dance in Athens Fringe 2012, 15-30 June 2012, 18:00-00:00 Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in the Interdisciplinary Symposium on "The Absent Presence of the Body in Social Sciences, Art, Education and Health Sciences", Rethymno, Crete, 22, 23 and 24 June 2012
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Koule, Heraklion, Crete, 17 June 2012, at 7:30 p.m. 
practice in silence, offered by Fysalida Dance, Amnissos beach, in front of the archaeological site, Saturdays 16, 23 June 2012, at 17:30
CONTACT parent+kid. Mondays 11, 18, 25 of June and 2, 9 of July 2012, 17:30 - 19:30 
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Lions Square, Heraklion, Crete, 27 May 2012, at 6:00 p.m. >
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, open-air theatre by the lake, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, 19 May 2012, at 7:00 p.m.
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Georgiadis Park, Heraklion, Crete, 29 April 2012, at 10:30 a.m. 
Street Art by Fysalida Dance! Sunday 1st of April 2012, at Four Lions Square, Heraklion, Crete at 1:00 p.m.
'Free' night of Contact Improvisation & Jam, Theatrical Stage near port, Heraklion, Crete, Monday 19 March 2012, at 6:00 p.m.
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Agias Aikaterinis square, Heraklion, Crete, 18 March 2012, at 10:30 a.m. 3rd prize for its esthetic result for the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Artfools Video Festival 2012 in Larissa, Greece
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Loggia, Heraklion, Crete, 12 February 2012, at 10:30 a.m. Fysalida Dance in 'from stage to page' 
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Loggia, Heraklion, Crete, 22 January 2012, at 10:30 a.m. 2011
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Agiou Titou Square (25th August Street), Heraklion, Crete, 18 December 2011, at 10:30 a.m. 
Contact Improvisation Performance with Adrian Russi, Manuela Blanchard and Georgia Petrali, Bern, 25 November 2011
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Loggia, Heraklion, Crete, 20 November 2011, at 10:30 a.m. 
Dance Performance "ma crise dans ta crise", 18-19-20 November 2011 at Renens, Switzerland
"colours in the city". Dance Improvisation Workshop with Street Performances
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Eleftherias Square, Heraklion, Crete, 23 October 2011 at 10:00 a.m. Participation of the dance video "Insect" in Naoussa International Film Festival 2012, 1 October 2011
Participation of the dance video "Insect" in the 3rd MovingFrames - Digital Art Festival in Mitilini, 23 September 2011
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, St Ekaterini Square (next to the Cathedral of St Minas), Heraklion, Crete, 18 September 2011 at 19:00
Contemporary Dance Performance and Dance Video Projections in Agios Nikolaos with Georgia Petrali (dance) and Emmanouel Sgouridis (music), Saturday 17 September at 21:00!
1st International Contact Improvisation Festival in Crete, Greece 
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Venetian castle Koules (in front of the castle), Heraklion, Crete, 28 August 2011 at 19:00 Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Soufli, 9 August 2011
1st International Contact Improvisation Festival in Crete, Greece 
Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Aivaliotis Square, on Sakoulieridon Street in Agia Triada, Heraklion, Crete, 27 July 2011
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, Vitturi Gate, Heraklion, Crete, 10 July 2011 at 21:00
Participation of the video art works "Flock-the stargazer" and "Insect" in Festival Miden, in the Historical Centre of Kalamata, Amfeia's square, 8 July 2011 Interview of Georgia Petrali for "Fresh Magazine", June 2011Live Performance [structured improvisation] by Pierre Magendie and Georgia Petrali at Vitturi Gate, in Heraklion, Crete, Friday 8 July 2011 at 20:30
Sunny Tango Vacations from Thursday 30th of June until Sunday 3rd of July 2011, at Damnoni Bay, Plakias, Crete island, Greece!
Free Stretching by Fysalida Dance in Nafpaktos, 23 and 24 June 2011 at 10:00 Insect Performance and screenings of the Fysalida's Dance Company Dance Videos in Athens (20 June and 22-26 June 2011) and in Nafpaktos (22 June) 
Fysalida's Free Stretching of June in 'En Oiko': eco-farmers and eco-craft meeting 2011 (http://en-oiko.blogspot.com) in Heraklion, Crete, Sunday 19 June at 10:00Waiting for all of you!
Screening of the Fysalida's dance company, video dance installation "Rooms" at the cafe-bar "Tita Briki" Iraklio, CreteWednesday 15 June until Thursday 30 June 2011 (17:00-18:00 & 22:00-01:00)
Explore the sheer beauty of movement in Heraklion's central parks and squares!
Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, 8 May 2011
Explore the sheer beauty of movement in Heraklion's central parks and squares! Enjoy free stretching offered by Fysalida Dance, 10 April and 8 May 2011
Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Kilkis, 29 March 2011 Fysalida Dance is taking part in the "what do i like about the crisis" competition at the Kinitiras Studio, Athens, 24-26 March 2011 
Projections of the Fysalida's Dance Video productions and the solo performance "Insect" in Heraklion, 20 March 2011
Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Livadia, 21 January 2011
Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Keratsini, 20 January 2011 -programma.jpg)
Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Athens, 19 January 2011 Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Xanthi, 17 January 2011
Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Mitilini, 16 January 20112010
Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Kastoria, 8 December 2010 Fysalida Dance & Talos Events at Talos Plaza in Heraklion, 17 and 20 December 2010 
Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Athens, 10 December 2010
Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Thessaloniki, 5 December 2010
Projections of the Fysalida's Dance Video productions in Heraklion, Crete, 17-19 Nov. 2010 Press release of the Fysalida's Dance Video projections in Heraklion, Crete, Nov. 2010 Screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Athens, 27 November 2010
Two more awards for the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" and Georgia Petrali in Romania: Award for best director and the Grand Prix of the international Film Festival Document.Art, Otopeni, Romania 2010"Original creation" award for the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in the International Film Festival of Patras, Greece
The film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Heraklion, Crete on 5th of September 2010 at "Pili Vithleem"at 21:00 Heraklion, Crete
Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" and of the video art works "Flock-the stargazer" and "Insect" in Athens Video Dance Project 2010-Greece, Oct. 2010
Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" and of the video art and "Insect" in the 14th Edition of the Document.Art.-International Festival of Turistic and Ecologic Film, Otopeni-Romania, Sept. 2010 Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in the International Film Festival of Patras-Greece, Oct.2010
The dancetheater performance "Moments of Metamorphosis" - 12 of September 2010 at "Pili Vithleem", Heraklion, Crete
Prize for the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" as a winner of the 46th International Tourfilm Festival, 29 May 2010 Participation in Athens Video Festival 2010 with the dance art video "Insect", May 2010 Interview of Georgia Petrali for "Patris" newspaper, May 2010 Article about the dance theatre performance "Moments of Metamorphosis" from the "Patris" newspaper, May 2010 "Moments of Metamorphosis" in facebookThe dancetheater performance "Moments of Metamorphosis" in dancetheater.gr
The dancetheater performance "Moments of Metamorphosis" - 4,5,6,7 June 2010 in Houdetsi, Heraklion, Crete
Tuesday, 18 May at 20:30: screening of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" - speech: "The creation of a film through the community dance and the architecture of the space" The film "Wrinkles and Dreams" won the 2nd prize at the 8th International Culture and Tourism Conference "Yperia 2010" on Amorgos, April 20102009
Articles about the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" from the "Patris" newspaper, Nov. - Dec. 2009 Fysalida dance in youtube The film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in Heraklion, Crete on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of December 2009 at "Androgeo" room. First screening at 19.30 and second screening at 21.00. After each screening there will be a discussion with the audience and the contributors of the film Articles - Interviews about the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" from the "Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Digital Wave 04" Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in the "Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Digital Wave 04", Greece, 19 and 20 Nov. 2009 Article about the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" from the "Tolmi" newspaper, 19 Nov. 2009 The international short film festival of Drama travels to Athens at TRIANON filmfestival. The film "Wrinkles and Dreams" at TRIANON filmcenter, 2 Nov. 2009 Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in the Experimental Film Festival "Strange Screen 8" in Thessaloniki, Greece, 14 Oct. 2009 Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in the International Tourism Film Festival "Art & Tur 2009", Portugal, 27 Sept. 2009 Articles - Interviews about the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" from the "Drama Short Film Festival, Digi 2009" Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in the "Drama Short Film Festival, Digi 2009", Greece, 24 Sept. 2009 Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in the Budapest Short Film Festival "busho", Hungary, 5 Sept. 2009 Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in "Portelllo River Festival 2009", Italy, 16 July 2009
Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in "Athens Fringe Festival", Greece, 18 June 2009 "Wrinkles and Dreams", film review by Andy Dimopoulou at myfilm.gr Prize for the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" as a winner of the 4th International Tourfilm Festival in the category "Personal Travel" in Plock, Polland, 29 May 2009 Participation of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams" in the Internation Dance Video Festival "Dance and Media Japan", Japan, Feb. 2009 Article for Dance community, "Velvet mornings" magazine, Jan. 20092008
Press release for the film "Wrinkles and Dreams", newspaper "Patris", Dec. 2008 Αrticle about the film "Wrinkles and Dreams", "Stigmes" magazine, Nov. 2008 Booklet of the film "Wrinkles and Dreams"2007
"Childlike-ness is my driving force" Interview by Maro Tsagaraki, "Stigmes" magazine, Oct. 2007 "Perpetual flight" Interview by Georgia Petrali, "Difono" magazine, Oct. 2007