WE STAY CLOSE, NOT CLOSED 17-24.4

Promo video: https://youtu.be/pBzgXs0jGX4

We stay home, but we are not alone. From Friday, April 17, the Onassis Foundation adds more important instances from its rich program in Greece and the USA to its YouTube digital channel. The channel has attracted art lovers from 54 countries, from Brazil to South Africa, from New Zealand to Uruguay, from Canada to Vietnam within less than two weeks, creating a lab of ideas, images, performances and educational programs, constantly streamed and updated. Apart from recorded performances of Greek and international artists as well as Greek premieres, podcasts of important intellectuals will be added this week, trying to help us decipher the new way of life.

On Holy Friday, April 17, at 21:00, watch the live premiere of XENOS by Akram Khan, the last solo performance in the career of the great choreographer, whose world premiere took place at Stegi in February 2018, along with a stellar creative team. On Easter Sunday, April 19, at 21:00, attend the live premiere of Birds directed by Nikos Karathanos, as they were first presented at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus in August 2016, making their first “flight” for the Greek audience, before embarking on a heartwarming journey around the globe (the show will be available for one week).

From April 17, another performance from the Onassis Youth Festival 2019 will be available on our digital channel, the delightful Summer Rain directed by Vassia Attarian and Myrto Makridi (Ntouth Theater Company) with students from the 41st Athens High School, while the third session of the Workshop on the Organization and Access Policy of Archival Sources will be added to the Cavafy Archive. The Onassis Library presents Akyllas Karazisis reading passages from “Erotos Apotelesmata” (The Results of Love), an anonymous author’s work, the first artistic prose creation of Modern Greek Literature, in Professor Eleni Kourmantzi’s lecture “Erotos Apotelesmata, Vienna 1792”.

Last but not least, two new podcasts will be available. In one of them, the Founding Executive Director of Onassis Los Angeles (OLA) and host of noted interviews at the New York Public Library for years, Paul Holdengräber, presents his conversation with the author Maira Kalman in the context of “The Quarantine Tapes”, his 20-minute conversations with various guests about how they experience the global pandemic and social distancing. In the latter, the philosopher, writer, Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City and board member of the Onassis Foundation, Simon Critchley, explains, in his own unique style, the ways in which the Covid-19 virus can reconnect our existence in the podcast: Simon Critchley on Looking at the Contemporary World Through the Lens of Punk, Greek Tragedy, and Humor At a Distance.

PROGRAM FROM 17 APRIL 2020

THEATRE

Nikos Karathanos, Birds by Aristophanes (2016) (with Greek and English subtitles)

Live premiere: Sunday 19 April at 21:00 (GMT +3) (Available until Sunday 26 April at 21:00 GMT +3)

With English and Greek subtitles | Duration: 120 minutes

Onassis Youth Festival (2019) | Summer Rain | Directed by: Vassia Attarian & Myrto Makridi | 41st Athens High School (Kato Patissia)

DANCE

Akram Kan, XENOS (2018)

Live premiere: Friday 17 April at 21:00 (GMT +3) (Available until 16 May 2020 at 21:00 GMT +3)

With English and Greek subtitles | Duration: 70 minutes

EDUCATION

Cavafy archive: Organization and Access Policy Workshop "An Unsigned Watercolor"

Part C' (2019)

Onassis Library "Erotos apotelesmata", Vienna 1792

PODCAST
“The Quarantine Tapes” by Paul Holdengräber | Maira Kalman

Simon Critchley on Looking at the Contemporary World Through the Lens of Punk, Greek Tragedy, and Humor At a Distance

Still on

CINEMA

Babis Makridis’ Birds (Or How to Be One) (2020) GREEK PREMIERE

(available until 15 April at 19:00 GMT +3 (with Greek and English subtitles)

THEATRE

Dimitris Karantzas, Ρομπ/Rob by Efthimis Filippou (2018) (with Greek and English subtitles)

Argiro Chioti, Vasistas, Emata by Efthimis Filippou (2014) (with Greek and English subtitles)

Antigone in Ferguson, Antigone Now Festival, Onassis USA (2016)

Lena Kitsopoulou, Little Red Riding Hood – The First Blood (2014) (with Greek subtitles)

Aris Biniaris, Bacchae by Euripides (2018) (with Greek and English subtitles)
Onassis Youth Festival (2019) | Green Line | Directed by: Martha Bouziouri & Erifili Yiannakopoulou | 1st Piraeus High School

DANCE

Patricia Apergi, Aerites Dance Company, Cementary (2017)

RootlessRoot, Kireru (2012)

MUSIC

Klangforum Wien, Happiness Machine (2019) (with Greek and English subtitles)

Lena Kitsopoulou, Rebetika: The Blues of Greece, Onassis USA (2019))

Tuned City (2018)
Blaine Reininger, Secret Concert (2018)

TALKS & THOUGHTS

Werner Herzog (2019) (with Greek subtitles)
Christina Karafyllia, the Onassis Scholar that solved two unsolved math problems (with Greek subtitles)

Guerilla Girls (2017(with Greek subtitles)

Daniel Mendelsohn, Narcissus Now Festival – Onassis USA, Podcast (2015)
Narcissus & Acting with Paul Giamatti and Vanessa Grigoriadis (2015)

CONFERENCE
Crafting The Future Part A' (2019) (with Greek subtitles)