About Don't Panic

  Don’t Panic puppet theatre was founded somewhere in Greece between Crete, Kalamata and Athens in 2014 by Eleni Xylouri and Lita Aslanoglou.

  They met in Athens at the Ayusaya! Workshop, run by Stathis Markopoulos in 2009.They travelled together with their solo shows, performing in the street, in bars and festivals, in cities, towns, islands and villages of Greece and abroad.

  In 2014, after many trips, much laughter, many tears, worries, hot and cold weather, good and bad moments… they had their first group performance.

  Since then, Don’t Panic puppet theatre is collaborating also with other puppeteers and musicians for their shows and they are travelling in Greece and international festivals. Their shows, non verbal, aimed primarily at an adult audience. 

  

 

 Don't Panic.

Lita Aslanoglou

  Lita Aslanoglou lives in Athens and works as a puppeteer since 2012. She has attended sketching, painting and pottery lessons and she has being trained in puppetry through  workshops with Theodora Lamprinou and  Stathis Markopoulos and seminars with: Stephen Mottram, Jordi Bertran , Gavin Glover, Girovago E Rondella, Rene Baker, Jean-Jacques Lemêtre (musical body), Melina Mascha (theatrical lighting), Antonia Vasilakou (mime), Gosde Atalay (theatrical clown), Antonis Koutroumpis (physical theater).

  She is a founder member of Don’t Panic puppet theatre and she is collaborating with Bufos and Trishorolalato puppet theatre. She has participated in international puppet and theatrical festivals in Europe and Asia.

  She has collaborated with Greek National Opera for the production of the puppet opera “El Retablo de Maese Pedro”, for two theatrical seasons (2018-2019 / 2019-2020). (Production, direction, puppet construction, manipulation.)

  She has worked in commercial spots with puppets and for the production of the video for the Greek puppeteers and UNIMA Greece “The Puppeteers Reintroduce themselves”. She is building puppets for puppet productions.

  She is an active member and has served as president of UNIMA Greece (Greek National Centre of UNIMA- UNion International de la MArionnette) for the years 2018-19. 

  

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About 
Eleni Xylouri

Eleni Xylouri is from Heraklion (Crete), Greece.
In 2002 she went to Barcelona where she met the great Spanish puppet master, Pepe Otal. She spent three years studying the art of puppet theater under his guidance.
She holds a degree from the Pedagogical University of Granada in Spain and subsequently worked as a kindergarten teacher in Peru.
In 2009 she attended a one-year masterclass at the Ayusaya workshop under Stathis Markopoulos in Athens.
Since 2010 she has been working as a puppeteer in performances for  children and, in 2014, she became founding member of the Don’t Panic puppet theater which performs for adults in Greece and in festivals abroad.
Eleni is member of Unima Hellas, the International Puppetry Association of Greece.