Onassis Dance Days 2024: Stegi’s disruptive festival of young choreographers returns for its 11th year

This year’s Stegis contemporary dance festival wants choreographers, performers, composers and musicians with their bands to break it live on stage, with an impressive parallel with great names of the international scene.

Who are the next big names in modern dance? Stegi’s subversive festival of young choreographers returns for its 11th year and puts the music on the line. Onassis Dance Days 2024 – ODD with a denser program in the three days from February 23 to 25 dances after music, giving sound the lead and taking off the concept of sound design, with the new generation of Greek choreographers occupying the Onassis Foundation Building shortly before or after the moment when the European scene discovers them. As last year, ODD 2024 also introduces to the Greek public an international name that appears in all the great festivals of Europe.

Belgian visual artist Miet Warlop with “One Song”, an ecstatic dance performance that is both live concert and sports marathon, triumphed at the Avignon Festival, tours internationally and performs with her indefatigable dancers on February 24 and 25 on the Main Stage of the Stegi . ODD, like every year, shines a light on the Greek choreographers who are already marching in the European festivals or will occupy us in the coming years. This year, it reintroduces the most up-and-coming Greek choreographer, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, who last year received the distinction of the international Aerowaves network, presenting two of her sound-kinetic works: the award-winning “MOS” (February 24 – March 3), which was presented for the first time last year at ODD, and the new her and highly personal project “All of My Love” (February 24 – March 3), in world premiere, which sings right from the title, winking at those who once danced to the song of Led Zeppelin. Both Paraskevopoulos productions open at the festival and continue for one more week, until March 3.

Three more new works, resulting from Stegi’s recent NEXT OPEN CALL, premiere (February 23 to 25), with their performers sweating their jerseys like true rock stars, with – instead of coaches – their musical partners. The stage turns into a constantly changing concert mosh pit and the anarchic movement of the crowd becomes a dance (“Slamming work in progress” by Xenia Konchylakis, with George Poulios on the music). A panic attack becomes the occasion to create a confessional group therapy environment within the electronic sounds of rave culture (“We all need therapy” by Panos Malaktos in collaboration with Die Arkitekt). Finally, a female body runs under the relentless pounding of sound and time on a rolling gymnasium (“RUNWAY” by Christiana Kosiari with Jan Van Angelopoulos in sound design).

At the same time ODD includes a remarkable parallel program. In addition to the great choreographer, visual artist and curator, Christian Rizzo, who for the second consecutive year participates in the festival as a mentor to Greek choreographers, a series of remarkable moments follows.

On February 23, Damien Jalet, the iconoclastic choreographer and dancer, will hold a masterclass with the monumental choreographies, which function as visual installations – from “Skid”, in which 17 performers defy gravity by dancing on a ten-meter inclined platform , to the iconic “Chiroptera”, on the facade of the Opéra Garnier in Paris, with the participation of 154 dancers. Choreographer of Madonna, the films “Suspiria” by Luca Guadagnino and “Anima” by Paul Thomas Anderson and collaborator of artists such as JR, Thom Yorke, Marina Abramović and Iris van Herpen, in the masterclass he will give at Stegi, he will focus in his creative collaboration with composers such as Fennesz, Tim Hecker, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Thomas Bangalter and Thom Yorke.

On February 24 from 22:30 onwards, Miet Warlop and the crew of “One Song” take over the decks of the main foyer of Stegi for an ODD party with free entry.
From February 26 at 12:00 p.m., the first short film of the dancer and choreographer Yiannis Nicolaidis, “CABIN 9” (12΄, 2022), will be shown without time limit on the Onassis Channel on YouTube, in sound-design by Manolis Manousakis and produced by Shampoo films, a DIY, handmade, science fiction film.
Finally, on Saturday, March 2, the performance “MOS” by Ioanna Paraskevopoulos is presented with supertitles for deaf and hard of hearing people and audio description for people with visual impairment.

Coefficients

Curatorial Direction: Aphrodite Panagiotakou

Design & Editing: Ileiana Dimadi, Konstantinos Tsathas

Guest Mentors: Damien Jalet, Christian Rizzo, Christos Polymenakos

Head of Production: Vassilis Panagiotakopoulos

Production Organization: Christina Pitoulis, Despina Sifniadou, Dimitra Hatzicharalambous

Production Execution: Dimitra Bouzani, Iulia Stamouli, Danae Giannakopoulou, Marianna Anjoulatou

Technical director: Antonis Kokkoris

Deputy Technical Director: Yannis Dovas

Stage Managers: Melina Lorkidis, Katerina Kotsou, Natalia Vorria, Eugenia Deliali

Assignment – production: Onassis Foundation Roof

Information

Onassis Foundation Roof
Syngrou 107

February 23-25
RUNWAY by Christiana Kosiari, We All Need Therapy by Panos Malaktos, Slamming (work in progress) by Xenia Konchylaki

February 23 – March 3
MOS & All of My Love by Ioanna Paraskevopoulos

February 24 & 25
One Song by Miet Warlop

Detailed program

Friday February 23rd

14:30 Masterclass Damien Jalet | Galaxy Studio | 150′
17:30 RUNWAY | Christiana Kosiari | At +5 of the House | 30′
18:00 We All Need Therapy | Panos Malaktos | At -1 of the House | 40′
19:00 RUNWAY | Christiana Kosiari | At +5 of the House | 30′
19:30 Slamming (work in progress) | Xenia Konchylaki | At -1 of the House | 50′
20:30 All of My Love | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Small Stage | 40′

Saturday, February 24

17:30 RUNWAY | Christiana Kosiari | At +5 of the House | 30′
18:00 Slamming (work in progress) | Xenia Konchylaki | At -1 of the House | 50′
18:00 MOS | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Small Stage | 43′
19:00 RUNWAY | Christiana Kosiari | At +5 of the House | 30′
19:30 We All Need Therapy | Panos Malaktos | At -1 of the House | 40′
20:30 All of My Love | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Small Stage | 40′
21:30 One Song | Miet Warlop Main Stage | 21:30 | 60′
22:30 ODD Party | dj set by Miet Warlop & cast

Sunday, February 25

17:30 RUNWAY | Christiana Kosiari | At +5 of the House | 30′
18:00 We All Need Therapy | Panos Malaktos | At -1 of the House | 40′
18:00 MOS | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Small Stage | 43′
19:00 RUNWAY | Christiana Kosiari | At +5 of the House | 30′
19:30 Slamming (work in progress) | Xenia Konchylaki | At -1 of the House | 50′
20:30 All of My Love | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Small Stage | 40′
21:30 One Song | Miet Warlop Main Stage | 21:30 | 60′

Monday, February 26

12:00 CABIN 9 | Yannis Nikolaidis | Onassis Channel on YouTube | 12’30”

Thursday 29 February & Friday 1 March

21:00 All of My Love | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Small Stage | 40′

Saturday, March 2

17:15 Sensory accessible guided tour for the deaf, hard of hearing and visually impaired at the MOS show
18:30 MOS | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Small Stage | Accessible Performance | 43′
21:00 All of My Love | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Small Stage | 40′

Sunday, March 3

18:30 MOS | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Small Stage | 43′
21:00 All of My Love | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | Small Stage | 40′

Accessibility Information – Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, “MOS”

• Accessible performance: Saturday, March 2
• The show is presented with supertitles for deaf and hard of hearing people and audio description for people with visual impairment.
• Sensory Accessible Tour
• The tour is aimed at deaf and hard of hearing people and people with visual impairment.
• Start time: 17:15
• Accessibility services are carried out in collaboration with the cultural organization liminal, within the framework of the Europe Beyond Access program co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
• PWD seat reservations: 213 017 8036 & [email protected]

tickets

One song | Miet Warlop

Regular: €7, €15, €18, €22
Reduced, Friend, Group 5-9 people: 12, 15, 18 €
Group of 10+ people: €11, €13, €16
Neighborhood Resident: €7*
Unemployment, Disability: €5
Disabled companion: €10

We All Need Therapy | Panos Malaktos

Regular: €8
Reduced, Friend, Group 5-9 people: €6
Group of 10+ people: €5
Neighborhood Resident: €7*
Unemployment, Disabled, Disabled Companion: €5

Slamming (work in progress) | Xenia Konchylaki

Regular: €8
Reduced, Friend, Group 5-9 people: €6
Group of 10+ people: €5
Neighborhood Resident: €7*
Unemployment, Disabled, Disabled Companion: €5

MOS | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Regular: €10
Reduced, Friend, Group 5-9 people: €8
Group of 10+ people: €7
Neighborhood Resident: €7*
Unemployment, Disabled, Disabled Companion: €5

RUNWAY | Christiana Kosiari

Regular: €8
Reduced, Friend, Group 5-9 people: €6
Group of 10+ people: €5
Neighborhood Resident: €7*
Unemployment, Disabled, Disabled Companion: €5

All of My Love | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Regular: €10
Reduced, Friend, Group 5-9 people: €8
Group of 10+ people: €7
Neighborhood Resident: €7*
Unemployment, Disabled, Disabled Companion: €5

*Neighborhood Residents tickets can be purchased exclusively from Stegi’s ticket offices, Wednesday to Friday from 12.00-18.00. Access from the “Artists’ Entrance” on Galaxia Street.

The General Public presale starts on Friday, February 2, at 5:00 p.m

ELECTRONIC TICKETS SALE

The digital ticket / print@home service is available for online ticket purchases. Open the pdf on your smart device, alternatively save your ticket to your android or IOS wallet or print it and enter the hall directly.

LINE TO PURCHASE TICKETS
2111981784

FRIENDS OF THE ROOF TICKET LINE
2130178200

DISABLED TICKET LINE
2130178036 and [email protected]

TICKET ISSUERS ON THE ROOF (Sygrou 107)
The Stegi cash desks only operate on the days of the shows

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