ONASSIS NEW CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL: 15 HOURS OF HIGHLIGHTS <br>Two Sundays Full of Dance

How many times did you think that you would like to dance as if no one saw you? On Sunday, 6 December at 15:00 (EET) and Sunday, 13 December at 18:00 (EET), dance to the end. Dance at home in any way you like, while watching important highlights from the Onassis New Choreographers Festival at the Onassis Channel on YouTube. Celebrating the latest call to new choreographers by Onassis Stegi, we will feature 878 minutes of dance, productions that have stayed in memory, and productions you may have missed: solo and ensemble pieces, great Greek choreographers at their early stages of their career, dancers we admire are all presented one time in our screens in a 15-hour dance feast.

When everything seems to have stopped, what is it that moves you, physically and emotionally? Motion towards, approaches to, a movement for a new kind of coming together. This is the driving force behind our open call for Onassis New Choreographers 8, a festival that never stops tracing the steps taken by new artists. Choreographers, dancers, dramaturgs, researchers, and performers from the broader spectrum of contemporary dance and performance to submit proposals till the 14th of December for works of dance expression, choreography, movement, and movement practice at every level: form, esthetics, and content. Because when the circumstances around us upend everything we once took as given, it’s on us to look anew at how we operate, how we create, and how we “embrace” one another in inner ways, or, to put it another way: how we can creatively move beyond the limits imposed by our circumstances? To dance is to completely reformulate numerous things: what moves you in physical, shared, and emotional ways, what motivates you, and what thrusts you beyond everything you’ve ever known. Read more in the following link: https://www.onassis.org/open-calls/open-call-onassis-new-choreographers-festival-8

The fifteen-hour homage to the Young Choreographers Festival will be presented in two parts: Sunday, 6 December at 15:00 EET (4th and 5th Festival) and Sunday, 13 December at 18:00 EET (6th and 7th Festival). Featured just once are the following productions by Onassis Stegi:

Sunday, December the 6th, 2020 | 15:00 (EET)

Onassis New Choreographers Festival 4

Hannes Langolf & Ermira Goro, Dandelion

Iro Apostolelli, Umbilicus

Onassis New Choreographers Festival 5

Evangelia Kolyra, Code Bend Time
Androniki Marathaki, Hi Jack. Hijack!

Christos Xyrafakis & Andi Xhuma, “Ok, That’s You..”

Elpida Orfanidou, Pharmacist Or Balloonist

Sunday, December the 13th, 2020 | 18:00 (EET)

Onassis New Choreographers Festival 6

Margarita Trikka / Prolet Ocd, A Punch Of Losers

Danae Dimitriadi & Dionysios Alamanos, ΑΤΜΑ

Myrto Grapsa, Brighter

Ropis Co, Depaysement

Onassis New Choreographers Festival 7

Christos Mouchas, Α Little More Than Nothing
Iro Vasalou, Becoming With Animal

Anastasia Valsamaki, Dis Joint

Candy Karra & Chara Kotsali, Manoeuvre_

Georgia Tegou & Michalis Theophanous, Reverie

Dafni Antoniadou & Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Vanishing Point

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Sunday, December the 6th, 2020 | 15:00

DANDELION

HANNES LANGOLF & ERMIRA GORO

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 4

Ermira Goro and Hannes Langolf on stage together for the first time as creators. Of course, they share a common past as performers with the distinguished choreographer Lloyd Newson and his internationally renown company, DV8 Physical Theatre. In “Dandelion”, they set out both to explore in depth the affinities between the performance codes of theatre and dance and to transmute their stage experience into a new and personal performance idiom. Combining their individual styles and exchanging materials and experiences, they produce an amalgam of physical virtuosity and meditative poetry.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/4th-young-choreographers-festival/4th-young-choreographers-festival-hannes-langolf-ermira-goro

UMBILICUS

IRO APOSTOLELLI

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 4

Three bodies in the role of convergent and divergent metronomes in a movement experiment based on music by the minimalist composer John Adams. Iro Apostolelli, the dancer and choreographer, places the multiple dimensions of the dancing body at the centre of her quests: the body as a field of knowledge, but also as a tool for tracing movement through acoustic stimuli and singular on-stage experiments.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/4th-young-choreographers-festival/4th-young-choreographers-festival-iro-apostolelli

CODE BEND TIME

EVANGELIA KOLYRA

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 5

Is there a connection between the language we speak and the way we act? Evangelia Kolyra invites us to an interactive performance of long duration, in an original venture where dance meets the diversity of language. A performance about what dance can “say” and what language can “dance”.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/5th-young-choreographers-festival/5th-young-choreographers-festival-evangelia-kolyra

HI JACK. HIJACK!

ANDRONIKI MARATHAKI

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 5

A “dancejack” at -1 of the Onassis Stegi. Androniki Marathaki invites our eyes to wander indefinitely, while the audience may come and go freely during the performance in a spectacle open to randomness and audience participation. A dance company of 12 joins her in this pirate venture, which activates the choreographic circuit, pursuing the minimal.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/5th-young-choreographers-festival/5th-young-choreographers-festival-androniki-marathaki

“OK, THAT’S YOU..”

CHRISTOS XYRAFAKIS AND ANDI XHUMA

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 5

The chorographic duo, Christos Xyrafakis and Andi Xhuma, make their first stage appearance responding to the challenge of joint endeavour and the onslaught and dominion of images nowadays. How do we handle multiple reflections in the mirror of virtual reality? Two young choreographers and dancers feel the pulse of the times and present a work-commentary on human relations and the omnipotence of the picture. Private life, on the microscope of the social media, appears ever more transparent and accessible to everyone as it becomes spectacle.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/5th-young-choreographers-festival/5th-young-choreographers-festival-christos-xyrafakis-and-andi-xhuma

PHARMACIST OR BALLOONIST

ELPIDA ORFANIDOU

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 5

In this dialogic laboratory of concocting “choreographic remedies”, where dance, music, words and herbs blend, the spectator becomes “healer and healed”, rethinking the artistic act itself. “Pharmacist or Balloonist”, playing with the elixir of inspiration and the poison of failure, tries out prescriptions, prayers, incantations and other “preparations”, so that time can once more become the “healer” and an instrument of therapy at the disposal of every participant.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/5th-young-choreographers-festival/5th-young-choreographers-festival-elpida-orfanidou

Sunday, December the 13th, 2020 | 18:00 (EET)

A PUNCH OF LOSERS

MARGARITA TRIKKA / PROLET OCD

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 6

In among the endless swells of history, how are the tales of the defeated recorded and told? What is it that sustains their tireless, almost childlike persistence on regrouping so as to be “defeated better”? With her "a Punch of Losers", Margarita Trikka comes out “in favor of the defeated living amid the makings of history” and urges us to preserve the daring and the delight of childhood – a necessary condition if we are to tirelessly defend our vulnerable selves. And if everything seems inescapably to lead towards the melancholy of resistance, the choreographer overturns any and every form of defeatism by finding dignity in the fights of the defeated.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/el/whats-on/6th-young-choreographers-festival/margarita-trikka--prolet-ocd-a-punch-of-losers

ΑΤΜΑ

DANAE DIMITRIADI & DIONYSIOS ALAMANOS

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 6

Danae Dimitriadi and Dionysios Alamanos experiment with that most familiar of tools: the body. They explore its fragility but also its endurance, using movement as a means of conveying transformations into and back out of whatever constitutes the natural origins of humankind, whatever has been effaced by CULTURE. In "ATMA", a series of themes selected for their power to move and sensitize audiences are made visual by the two artists. The bestial is contrasted with the human, the Apollonian with the Dionysian, not so as to create yet another unbridgeable dualistic divide, but rather to incorporate two conflicting aspects into one single nature – for it is the very complementarity of opposing elements that characterizes the totality of humankind.

Learn more at: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/6th-young-choreographers-festival/danae-dimitriadi--dionysios-alamanos-atma

BRIGHTER

MYRTO GRAPSA

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 6

How can we pinpoint what stays familiar and alive inside us? Four dancers throw light on questions that touch upon pain, pleasure, and happiness. Despite the light inherent in its title, the work invites audiences to dive deep into the darkness of desire, not in order to produce a simplified dualistic interpretation of reality – the interchange of darkness and light – but rather to direct our attention towards a reconciliation with what is core to humanity: the unknown.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/6th-young-choreographers-festival/brighter

DEPAYSEMENT

ROPIS CO

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 6

One narrator, two dancers and three musicians in a work that toys with the safety that exists in the interpersonal distances between audiences and performers. A note, a word, a movement, a shaft of light – all have the potential to provoke a shift in the audience, a shift that can lead into other worlds, worlds knocking at the other side of the door. Words accompany the movement, and the stage action borders closely on the audience, both to dissolve boundaries between the here and there, and to plunge the audience into the transience of the now unfolding before them.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/6th-young-choreographers-festival/ropisco_d%C3%A9paysement

Α LITTLE MORE THAN NOTHING

CHRISTOS MOUCHAS

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 7

Let’s dance. This distinctive performance aims to make us communicate, as an audience group, guided by our bodies, hearing in the “silence” both the stimuli of others and our own experiences. Our participation, through the improvised bodily reaction to the stimuli of others, proposes – first and foremost – that we reappraise the theatrical experience, comprehending the invitation to dance as interactive. So let’s go beyond the barriers of the mind and let our instincts and emotions do the talking.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/onassis-new-choreographers-festival-7/little-more-nothing

BECOMING WITH ANIMAL

IRO VASALOU

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 7

How do you experience this metamorphosis? Mysterious and evocative, this performance creates an ecstatic atmosphere and invites us to come into communion with a metamorphosis. A woman breathes in and out, labors away, connects with the animal instinct inside her and, in the end, frees herself, entering a world woven anew. Taking the body – that moves, imitates, experiments, fails, insists and, in the end, exhausts itself and is transformed – as both its starting point and main medium, the solo piece “Becoming With Animal” is a dark work of ritual that poses questions concerning the limits of the body, of reality, and of scenic space. A manifesto that calls upon audiences to pick a position and take part in the process.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/onassis-new-choreographers-festival-7/becoming-animal

DIS JOINT

ANASTASIA VALSAMAKI

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 7

How does a choreography trigger our thinking and which processes of perception can be re-evaluated when we watch dance? These questions sit at the heart of “DisJoint”, an on-stage experiment that plays with entrenched mechanisms of the gaze and engagement, proposing unfamiliar physicalities and incongruous narratives instead.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/onassis-new-choreographers-festival-7/disjoint

MANOEUVRE_

CANDY KARRA & CHARA KOTSALI

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 7

A plank of wood and two dancers. Is that all there is to it? Possibly, but obviously not. An absurd situation and yet a well-chosen constraint for exploring the inventive limits of movement, and for studying the dancing body in action. This first choreographic collaboration between Candy Carra and Chara Kotsali functions as wordplay: it resists easy interpretations that seek to “reword” each movement or open themselves up to many possible scenarios, all without explaining the obvious, without producing surplus meaning beyond that which is unfolding before our eyes.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/onassis-new-choreographers-festival-7/manoeuvre_

REVERIE

GEORGIA TEGOU & MICHALIS THEOPHANOUS

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 7

Surrealist and atmospheric, “Reverie” is a dive into the unconscious. Like a visit to Wonderland, the work conjures up characters that are transformed, tested and embodied within dream-like worlds that audiences will find strangely familiar. With humor, irony, and an air of the surreal, the dancers tackle myths and archetypal forms, constantly crossing from the personal to the collective and blurring the borders between the real and the imaginary.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/onassis-new-choreographers-festival-7/reverie

VANISHING POINT

DAFNI ANTONIADOU & ALEXANDROS VARDAXOGLOU

Part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 7

A mirror of existence but also the abyss from which a most genuine sense of the unfamiliar is drawn, the body in the work “Vanishing Point” forms the basis for a journey that initiates us into a world that sits on the border between the imagination and dark reality. Τhe irresistible desire for union, that serves as a reminder of every symbiotic relationship that seeks to “birth” a new form of life, and the violent separation from the other, that signifies our dual nature that – though seemingly a given – opens itself up every so often to the unknown with a view to attaining totality.

Learn more at https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/onassis-new-choreographers-festival-7/vanishing-point

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