Dancing to Connect
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Venue
Time & Date
Information
Addressed to
Middle and High School Students in Attica and Kalamata
Dates
February–March 2020
Cost
Free admission
Application and Selection Process: Applications can be submitted to the email address education@onassis.org. Deadline: November 22, 2019. Responses will be sent by December 9, 2019.
Final Rehearsals and Performances Dates
In Kalamata: Saturday 7 March 2020, 20:00 (Kalamata Dance Megaron, Artemidos 124)
In Athens: Sunday 22 March 2020, 19:00 (Onassis Stegi, Syngrou 107 - 109)
Workshops Dates
In Kalamata: Tuesday 25 February to Friday 6 March 2020 (including Saturday 29 February or Sunday 1 March 1, but excluding Monday, March 2 [Ash Monday])
In Athens: Tuesday 19 March to Friday 20 March 2020
Introduction
How many students are needed to shake the performance area of the Onassis Stage? Teenagers from ten different schools speak with their bodies, think with their hearts, and come together through a dance that is as daring as themselves. Break loose on stage – the place that welcomes you right as you are.
Sometimes, the only thing you need in order to communicate or eliminate prejudice, bullying, and fear, is a simple choreography. This is exactly what you ’ll create together with other adolescents.
Ten junior and senior highschools from Athens and Kalamata allow the power of contemporary dance to invade the school’s classrooms, gyms, corridors, and yards. Are you scared? Do you think you have no clue about contemporary dance? The program “Dancing to Connect” is calling for you. Professional dancers will come to your school to share their knowledge and guide you and your classmates on how to express yourselves through movement, how to tell a story just by using your body, and eventually how build your own choreography.
After seven consecutive successful years, we are well aware that dance brings people together.
Photo: Christina Georgiadou
