NIKI CHRISTODOULOU ANASTENARIA / FIRE WALKING CO-ORGANIZED BY THE MUNICIPAL CULTURAL SERVICES ALATZA IMARET Anastenaria is an ancient ceremony that managed to survive until today having continuity through time as a living tradition. While trying to document the custom I followed the steps of "Anastenarides" the firewalkers in the village Agia Eleni in Serres from 1993 till today. The result was a collection of documentary photographs which describe the ceremony but didnt satisfy me as a reflection of the mysticism that exists there. So I decided to "cut" and the result is the installation that I exhibit. Legs on fire, dancers, landscape, photos around a circle of coal. In another room there is a slide projection that, as a sequence of images, describes the ceremony. In low volume that discretely fills the room one can listen to the music that I recorded there and that Koti K. helped me arrange. Niki Christodoulou was born in Thessaloniki in 1968. Later she moved to Athens were she studied photography at the faculty of Art and Design in the Technological Educational Institution of Athens. She works as a free lance photographer for magazines. Exhibitions. "EYES"- solo in cultural coffee bar Mirovolos- Thessaloniki, "EYES" fragments- group- in DEI old factory- Athens, "ANASTENARIA" fragments- group- in Pentelikon- Athens.