Thekla Gaiti

Thekla is a Greek actress, singer and performer based in Athens. She has worked with Greek and international directors, producers, singers and composers in theatre and cinema productions and concerts. She was a founding member and the leading singer of “Klein Mein” music band, with which she was given the opportunity to sing along with famous Greek artists in small and big concerts all over Greece and make numerous TV appearances. In her work as a performer, she is interested in exploring nudity and finding new artistic ways of expression through the naked body. She has participated as a model in conceptual photography projects, several of which have gained distinction in International Photography Contests. She is an Associate Artist of DUENDE, an international collaboration of artists committed to Ensemble performance, teaching the Duende performing technique “Self-With-Others”. Recently, she completed her collaboration with the Duende Ensemble in the performance “The Hour of the Mayfly”, staged in Athens.

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New age

Beginning of September. Beginning of a new age. Beginning of a new life. My beloved friend, her young son and I are getting ready for a long, evening walk through the streets of the densely packed neighbourhood. She and I, same but different, women...

The count

382 beautiful things and 12 stupid things was the blonde six-year-old’s count on the way from his home in the city to his grandma and grandpa’s house in the country. That was what he announced to his mother, coming to the conclusion that the world was more...

At the bottom

“Drink water”, he tells me and holds me tightly by the arms seconds before he leaves me there, on the platform, alone waiting for the train that will take me away from his summer. He could have told me to take care, to write now and then, to think of him....

Melted ice cream

Summertime. It’s July but it’s rainy and windy, like autumn. Something starts to slowly shift within me: a sluggish reaction to this sudden weather change. I can still smell the sunscreen on my skin. I am summer. I smell the rain. It’s autumn. I’m...

Crossing the sea

I’m in a German town, in a stranger’s house, sitting on the edge of the bed, in a room that feels distant and unfamiliar. I bow my head to look at my shoes. All of a sudden, I’m overwhelmed and paralysed by the thought that today would have been my second...