Onassis Stegi’s productions are traveling: March – April 2024

The exhibition “Weather Engines”, curated by Daphne Dragona and Jussi Parikka, will be on view at LABoral Centro de Arte in Gijón, Spain, until May 25. Titled “Motores del Clima”, the exhibition includes works presented at Stegi alongside new commissions by Spanish artists: installations, photographs, videos, sound pieces, and sculptures – from the ground to the sky and from the soil to the atmosphere. Approaching the models and systems of art as techniques of knowledge, “Weather Engines” addresses the need for climate justice while exploring weather as a complex system, as an object of observation and control, and as a lived experience.

After the ΙmPulsTanz Festival in Vienna and the euro-scene Leipzig Festival in Leipzig, choreographer and dancer Chara Kotsali travels with her work “to be possessed” to the renowned dance festival Spring Forward on March 23, 2024, at the Staatstheater Mainz, Germany, as part of the Aerowaves Network. Possession, animism, exorcisms, inner voices, and spectral presences are some of the key words for unlocking the work that we experienced for the first time at Stegi’s Upper Stage during the Onassis Dance Days 2023.

The Greek breakthrough choreographer Christos Papadopoulos adds two more cities/stations to his international tour with the well-traveled “Larsen C”. On March 23, the choreographic work/glacier will be presented at the theater Le Gymnase CDCN in Roubaix, France. On March 29 and 30, the choreographic piece “The House of Trouble”, by Patricia Apergi and the Aerites dance company, will also be presented on the same stage. “The House of Trouble” shook Stegi’s Main Stage in May 2023.

A month later, on 27 and 28 April, Christos Papadopoulos with “Larsen C” will conquer the New Baltic Dance Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania. The party – and tribute to the silent transition of bodies – goes on, from the Main Stage of Stegi to the rest of the world.

From Onassis Dance Days 2023 to Komuna Warszawa. On April 5 and 6, Xenia Koghilaki with “Bang Bang Bodies” lands in Warsaw to invite Polish audiences on a choreographic journey into the collective imaginary, exploring notions such as collectivity and embodied memory. Taking into consideration the overestimated position of the head in relation to the rest of the body, the choreographer proposes a reformulation of relationships and hierarchies. An endless chain of reciprocity and exchange – of time, sweat, breathing, emotions, historical, cultural, and political particles between bodies – that is never static.

Modern-day guides containing instructions for proper use – what are they like? Konstantinos Papanikolaou with his solo performance “A User’s Manual” travels on April 6 to Strasbourg, France, and to POLE – SUD Happy Days Platform, providing all the necessary information and instructions one needs to live in the 21st century. First praised by audiences in March 2022 at the Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8, the work arrives to Strasbourg for a special performance, hosted as part of the Grand Luxe Network.

Additionally, in the same setting, as part of the Happy Days platform of Pole-Sud CDCN, choreographer and Onassis AiR Fellow Fotini Stamatelopoulou will present a work-in-progress entitled “Near Misses”. After “optimal soft”, which premiered at Onassis Stegi as part of the Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9, Fotini Stamatelopoulou shares her new artistic creation while still in progress: a performance/ sound installation emerging through a set of rituals linked to ex-votos and protective wear.

The Grand Luxe network, initiated in 2015 and consisting of nine organizations (including Stegi) from seven different countries working on dance development, offers a support circuit for emerging choreographers and their projects. The idea behind the Happy Days platform is to invite to the stage works by artists who have benefited from the network’s support.

For three days, on April 3 to 6, seventeen new choreographic works (completed and in-progress) will be performed on the stages of POLE-SUD, Strasbourg.

Adored at Onassis Stegi in Athens and praised at the Brandhaarden Festival in Amsterdam. The next station for “Romáland” by Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris is Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater on April 6. A deeply human show that aspires to tell an inverted journey across Greece’s contemporary history through the perspective of Roma people.

Seven years after “Clean City”, the most well-traveled in Europe theatrical production of Stegi, starring immigrant women cleaners in Greece, directors and playwrights Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris return, this time trying to approach the life of the Greek Roma, looking back at facts, toying with stereotypes, and evading romanticization.