Series of hourly broadcasts produced in 2024

"GREEK ACTS" travels, records, and presents the timeless cultural expressions of people and places. The journey, the music, the myth, the dance, the world. This is the destination of the show. The protagonist is the human, accompanied by mythical ancestors, in the local cultural events. It's where human adventure is distinctively traced in its authentic expression, across time. The show travels, explores, and reveals an enthralling human geography. The mosaic of the present creative and timeless cultural evolution of our country is showcased, with a selection of people-protagonists, events, and places, thus highlighting and complementing a living anthology. With music, stories, and images... With a revealing and sensitive gaze, with in-depth research rather than surface-level exploration, "GREEK ACTS" focuses on "unique" moments of human expression.
With a screenplay structured cinematically, each story, where the show focuses its lens, unfolds fully without "intermediaries", by the protagonists themselves, creating a documentary that "composes" the present with the past, the myth with history, where everyday people are the protagonists. Myths, history, time, people, and places harmoniously compose a complete set of creative expression. The direct and authentic documentation, by the genuine "bearer" and "expresser" of each story - rather than someone "interfering" - is the primary, inviolable rule guiding the research and realization.
Behind each documentary, there is extensive preparation. And the image eventually appearing on the small screen - the result of the efforts of the show's collaborators - constitutes a wholly original production, from the first to the last frame. In this year's journey from Crete to Evros and from the Ionian to the Aegean Sea, the show presents a feast of ethnographic, anthropological, and musical expression. Authentic creations of people and places.
The human, life, and its voice firsthand, the sounds, the images, the customs, and behaviors, the journey of rhythms, the history of dance "written step by step", the celebratory events, and every human endeavor, filmed in their natural and social context of action, at the moment of their authentic execution - and not through a fake representation - determine, create the form, style, and characterize the show.

Greek Acts investigates, searches and traces the path of creation, development and formation of Zeibekikos dance. Zeibekikos, one of the most characteristic dances, has been identified with the folk tradition and has played a leading role in shaping our folk music and dance culture. It is a living element of our cultural identity, as it is distributed throughout the territory, in local communities, urban centers and diaspora communities. It is deeply rooted in the cultural memory and identity of urban centers, and with its various variations it constitutes a post-evolved form of the most popular folk dance expression of the modern era. His musical compositions by leading composers have marked the younger era with unique and unsurpassed songs. The research of the show focuses on the origin of the Zeibekikos, its original versions, the elements that compose it, its morphological narrative, its kinetic harmony and all those characteristics that are enclosed in its form. The focus of the show's lens is aimed at the “wild nature” of the Zeibekikos, which is also of interest to our research. The discovery of its “hidden” narrative “logic” is a challenge, in order to be able to identify the reasons why the Zeibekikos now occupies a central role in modern Greek society and culture.