Thekla Gaiti
Thekla has graduated from Veaki Drama School, the National Music Conservatory (contemporary singing department), the DUENDE School of Ensemble Physical Theatre, the Athens University of Economics and Business and has successfully completed her training as a level I Breathwork Facilitator. She is currently a postgraduate student of the program “Theatre and Society – Stage Acting: Didactics and Social Applications” at the School of Fine Arts, University of Peloponnese. She has worked as an actor and performer with Greek and international directors in theatre and cinema productions and TV commercials and as a singer with Greek singers and composers in small and big concerts all over Greece and TV appearances. She has been focusing her performance work on conceptual photography projects, discovering and exploring post-dramatic theatre. In the summer of 2022 she composes the solo performance “post-dramatic” as a practical application of her research. Since 2017, she teaches Self-With-Others performing method at the annual international residencies of the DUENDE artist collective in Lesvos to performing artists from all over the world, organizes and teaches the annual DUENDE School of Ensemble Physical Theatre with her partners and participates as a guest instructor in various training programs. In Athens, she teaches Experimenta Self-With-Others, enriched by her years of research, to small and large groups of different levels. During her postgraduate studies she taught at the Department of Theatre Studies of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Peloponnese as a scholarship holder of the supportive teaching program. She is a founding member of the Experimenta art company, organizes theatrical productions and educational seminars and is about to open the new studio Experimenta Area in Athens