Onassis Stegi productions out on tour: October Tours

RootlessRoot added two more artistic venues to their world tour. On Sunday, October 2, they presented the show “Stones & Bones” at Teatro della Tosse in Genoa, posing a number of questions to the Italian audience, such as “Why did nature come up with mortality?” and “How is it that we live and disappear before we have a chance to understand the story of life?”.

The dance company raised the same questions on Wednesday, October 19, performing for the 57th Demetria Festival, thanks to the support of the Onassis Cultural Export Program.

After Andros and Tinos, Argyro Chioti and the touring “Halepas” participated at the 57th Demetria Festival, for two sold-out evenings, on Thursday, October 6, and Friday, October 7. The performance, based on the eventful life of the Greek sculptor, whom some called “the Auguste Rodin of Greece”, others “a saint, a madman, a genius, an artist cursed,” was also shown at Thessaloniki and Bologna, at the Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT, for two evenings, on October 14 and 15.

Through dream-like illusions, Argyro Chioti walks to the difficult path that was the sculptor’s life, between silence and absurdity, stillness and creativity, presenting a contemporary music tragedy with a libretto by The Boy, music by Jan Van Angelopoulos, set designs by Efi Birba, and an exceptional ensemble cast.

With humor, irony, and an air of the surreal, Georgia Tegou and Michalis Theophanous presented “Reverie” at Dance Umbrella, London’s major dance festival, on October 7 and 8. The performance, which premiered in February 2020 at Stegi, still swings between the realistic and the magical, activating the imagination and inviting audiences into a fairy-tale world, where everything is allowed and everything changes.

Choreographers Georgia Tegou and Michalis Theophanous create performances that meld contemporary dance, visual physical theater, and performance, and in which visual environments take on great importance as active elements of the choreography. They call their choreographic approach “dance-as-design.”

Breathtaking, insightful, and deeply humane, Manolis Saridakis’ performance “Do robots have emotions?”, created as part of the Europe Beyond Access program and within the framework of Onassis Stegi’s ongoing commitment to issues of accessibility, traveled to the Novi Sad festival for artists with disabilities. The festival, an initiative of the independent organization Per.Art and the British Council, took place on Tuesday, October 11, at the Student Cultural Centre of Novi Sad (SKCNS).

From Manolis Saridakis’ note:

“The performance you’re going to see has to do with robots. I chose this topic because I feel like a robot sometimes too. I conducted an interview and did research to learn about robots. How do they move and how do they help people? I had a few questions: Do robots have a mechanical heart? Is a robot brain the same as a human brain? Are robots ever bored when they do chores? Do robots do whatever they want or whatever humans want? I hope seeing my performance makes you happy.”