About forty young choreographers have given their “present”, with the Festival of Young Choreographers becoming the springboard for them to leave the borders of Greece, touring abroad and receiving distinctions in international dance events.
The well-established Festival of Young Choreographers of Stegi closes ten years this year, renews itself as “Onassis Dance Days” (ODD) and gives the baton to the new generation of female dance creators for four days (2-5/3), hosting six productions, two masterclasses , a discussion with the audience and lots of dancing on and off stage.
ODD embraces the paradox, breaks down boundaries and stares into the next decade.
What do you think of when you think of modern dance? The Onassis Foundation Shelter, for ten years, has proposed spectacles in football rings and stadiums, cooking shows and electropop manifestos, walking performances, street dances and kinesiology projects using VR and AI.
About forty young choreographers have given their “present”, with the Festival of Young Choreographers becoming the springboard for them to leave the borders of Greece, touring abroad and receiving distinctions in international dance events.
Looking ahead, the festival, as Onassis Dance Days (ODD) from this year, fills the stages of the Roof from March 2 to 5 and continues to support new original works, which are developed in the most hybrid and dynamic genre of contemporary performing arts, by artists who, regardless of nationality, age, skill, dancing or non-dancing backgrounds, love to answer obliquely the simplest question in the world: what is dance?
This year at ODD, Elena Antoniou, from Cyprus, shows off her body beyond recognition in a solo that evokes a striptease, but in the end no one undresses, only the gaze of the viewer (“LANDSCAPE”). Hara Kotsali unfolds on stage a ritual for spirit possession and exorcism from demons, past and future, personal and collective (“to be possessed”).
Nefeli Asteriou transforms into a spider woman, a tiger, a gazelle and more, in a solo that explores the stereotypical zoomorphic characterizations of the female gender (“bestiaire”).
Finally, Xenia Konchylaki joins in with a duet inspired by headbanging: two women violently shake their heads to the beat of the music – a practice associated more with men than with women (“Bang Bang Bodies”).
Guest star for 2023, the internationally rising performer, choreographer and director Marina Otero from Argentina, who comes to Greece for the first time, with the diptych “FUCK ME” and “LOVE ME”, where she “eroticizes” her biography by submitting her own take on things – both what dance is and what love life is.
The curators of ODD, Ileiana Dimadis, Aphrodite Panagiotakou and Konstantinos Tzathas, report: “Apocalyptic. These are the five women-creators and performers of the works of this year’s festival of Stegi choreographers. None of them undress. If anything is undressing, it is our gaze on a contested body: the female.
Because with their dances they shed their own, blindingly unorthodox light on a series of toxic patriarchal practices, on systematic attempts at social control over their bodies and desires: from the objectification of the female body as a sexual fetish to the stripper itself and from the exorcism of possessed females to hateful and demeaning rhetoric with clichéd verbal designations such as “gazelle”, “bitch” and “whale”.
They are all staring them in the face in this new era, when and where their bodies, desires, and sexualities—male, female, and otherwise—are not just battlegrounds, but also landscapes of a kind that unaccountably displays its being, however paradoxical. if he desires the same to be. As paradoxical as ODD.”
More information at: https://www.onassis.org/el/whats-on/onassis-dance-days
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