4th Young Choreographers Festival

Now in its fourth year, the Onassis Stegi’s annual date with new choreographers will once again be supporting and spotlighting the work of up-and-coming figures on the Greek and international contemporary dance scene. However, the Festival’s aspirations extend beyond spotlighting the on-stage quests and experiments of a new generation of choreographers; it also seeks to stimulate an open dialogue with our current social and political context, to eavesdrop on upcoming trends, and to prepare the ground for future artistic collaborations. At a macro level, Onassis Stegi programming prioritizes the building of bridges between different generations of artists, and hence the mapping of the evolution and the expectations manifested by the arts over time.

This willingness to move from the familiar to next-generation proposals is what the New Choreographers Festival, which is curated by Katia Arfara, seeks to capture. Doing so will cement its relationship with both current developments and the subversions to come.