Onassis Stegi’s productions are traveling: March – April 2025

What does a manual for the 21st century include? One year after its staging at the POLE – SUD Happy Days Platform in Strasbourg, France, Konstantinos Papanikolaou’s solo performance “A User’s Manual” travels to Artdanthé Festival in Paris, on March 11. The choreographic work we saw in March 2022 at the Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8 will discuss together with French audiences different issues relating to love, masculinity, and social status – which is to say, quintessentially everything that a real gentleman needs to know today.

Coconuts cut in half, with their flesh; washtubs filled with water; tap shoes: these are some of the props used by choreographer Ioanna Paraskevopoulou and her co-dancer Yorgos Kotsifakis to produce sound in “MOS.” The phenomenal choreographic piece that has conquered European stages adds another stop on the artistic map of the “Outward Turn.” On March 20, “MOS” will travel for a unique performance to one of the most important dance festivals in the Balkans: Belgrade Dance Festival in Serbia.

“MOS” was first presented as part of the Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9 – ONC 9 in March 2022, at the Upper Stage of the Onassis Stegi. The piece is a duet in which Ioanna and her co-dancer, Yorgos Kotsifakis, enter a discourse with a disparate set of cinematic images, seeking to impart their own transcription in space.

We had our first encounter in November 2023, at the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi. The performance “Romáland” by Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris lands at the Théâtre de Strasbourg, in France, from April 2 to 4, as part of a tribute to the Roma people, following a European Council initiative.

After “Clean City,” the most-traveled theatrical production of Onassis Stegi in Europe, starring immigrant cleaning women in Greece, the two directors-dramaturgs Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris return, and this time they attempt to approach the lives of Greek Roma, looking back at facts, toying with stereotypes, and evading romanticization.

Ten years after its world premiere in Barcelona, ​​Spain, Euripides Laskaridis’s “RELIC” sets off for a final tour of performances, inviting audiences to a farewell experience. Immediately following its staging on the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi, “RELIC”’s paradoxical and magical world travels from April 2 to 5 to the renowned Coronet Theatre in London, UK. Crafted in the heart of the Greek crisis, “RELIC” takes playful risks far out from the norm to test the limits of our acceptance when it comes to things incongruous and unfamiliar.

“RELIC” was presented as part of the parallel activities of the Young Choreographers Festival 7 at –1 of Onassis Stegi on January 28, 2020, exclusively for Onassis Friends, dance professionals, and experts.

The choreographic solo about spirit possession that we met in March 2023 at Onassis Dance Days 2023, continues its successful international tour, for the first time outside of Europe. On April 10, Hara Kotsali and her piece “to be possessed” will attempt a new rehearsal of demonism at the “Want to Dance Festival”. Through a disarticulated staged ritual, the choreographer crystallizes human existence as something that transcends the boundaries of the human as an individual, poetically revealing the ways in which language and social norms “possess” our body and spirit, both literally and metaphorically.

Chara Kotsali is a 2024–25 Onassis AiR Fellow, through the Dramaturgy Fellowship program.

The tours of Onassis Stegi’s productions are realized with the support of the “Outward Turn” program.