Onassis Stegi at festivals around Greece

Everywhere from Syros island to Kavala, and from Mytilini to Ancient Olympia, Greek theater, dance and music productions, as well as educational workshops for both children and adults, are set to appear with the support of the “Outward Turn” Onassis Cultural Export Program, in the firm belief that art never ends.

In Agia Paraskevi village on the island of Lesbos, on August 7 at 21:30, the K-Gold Temporary Gallery will be filled with pounding trance music beats and a rope that both tames primal instincts and sets them loose in the work “Becoming With Animal” by Iro Vasalou. Commissioned and produced for the Onassis Young Choreographers Festival 7, the piece is being presented as a parallel event of the “Sleeping With A Tiger” exhibition, curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis.

In Ermoupoli on Syros island, the Akropoditi Dance Center and Onassis Stegi will be presenting a two-day arts event titled “In Miniature” on August 7 and 8 that includes two performances and two contemporary dance workshops. Candy Carra and Hara Kotsali will be explaining what business a plank of wood has appearing in a dance piece with “Manoeuvre”, presented outdoors at 19:30 on both days at the Kornilaki Tannery (Ermoupoli Industrial Museum). In addition to this performance, which was first presented at the Onassis Young Choreographers Festival 7, the two choreographers will also be giving morning workshops. Candy Carra will be leading a workshop for teenagers (aged 13-16) titled “Observing Movement” from 10:00 until 12:00, while Hara Kotsali will be giving a workshop for adults titled “Dense, Dance, Dunce” from 12:30 to 14:30.

Gravity-defying puppets that leap through the air will be appearing at Ancient Olympia on August 23 in the performance “A Brief Guide for Prospective Tightrope Walkers” created by Stathis Markopoulos (Ayusaya Puppet Theater). This contemporary piece of poetic puppet theater set to live music and suitable for all ages, which premiered in Athens as part of Onassis Stegi’s “offsite” season (2018-19), is now being presented at the International Ancient Olympia Arts Festival on August 23 at 21:00, in Ancient Olympia’s town center.

As part of the Cosmopolis Festival in Kavala, children aged 10 to 13 will be finding out what sort of music is played by a band that hacks and creates its own electronic sounds in the workshop “DIY: Build Your Own Musical Instruments” led by Aris Droukopoulos and Yannis Kotsonis, and held at Faliro Park from August 27 to 30 at 18:30. Onassis Stegi ran this educational program during the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years as part of the European Interfaces network co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe program.

At the Primarolia Festival in Egio, young audiences aged two-and-a-half to five are invited to dine with “Mam Mam: A Magic Dinner”. This work, with choreography by Panagiota Kallimani and music by Stavros Gasparatos, was created for and presented at Onassis Stegi’s second Big Bang Festival, held in May 2016. It is now being presented at the impressive Kanellopoulou-Kritsotalaki building, an old raisin storehouse on the Egio beachfront. A workshop led by the choreographer Panagiota Kallimani is also being held over two days for educators, performers, dancers, choreographers and entertainers as a parallel event, on September 20 and 21.