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Dancing to Connect

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Monday-Sunday
Time
00:00
Venue
High schools in Attica and Kalamata, Onassis Stegi

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

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 successful years, we are well aware that dance brings people together. This is why the Onassis Stegi, still drawing inspiration from the brainchild of New York's Battery Dance Company and with the perennial support of the U.S. Embassy in Athens, will keep “Dancing to Connect” – the same way 45 countries in the world do, in the framework of the titular program.

After seven consecutive successful years, we are well aware that dance brings people together.

Photo: Christina Georgiadou

Credits

  • Dancers Who Participate this Year

    Nikoleta Karmiri, Candy Karra, Androniki Marathaki, Dimitris Mitilineos, Martha Passakopoulou, Avgoustinos Potsios, Demokritos Sifakis, Antonis Strouzas, Alex Tsiamoglu, Maria Fountouli

  • Members of the Group of Dancers Who Have Participated in the Past Years

    Ioanna Apostolou, Nontas Damopoulos, Maria Fountouli, Ilias Hatzigeorgiou, Nikoleta Karmiri, Candy Karra, Alexander Laskaratos, Androniki Marathaki, Yiannis Nikolaidis, Aris Papadopoulos, Martha Passakopoulou, Demokritos Sifakis, Elena Stavropoulou, Antonis Strouzas

In collaboration with the Municipality of Kalamata, Municipality of Kalamata's Public Utility Company "Faris", Kalamata International Dance Festival, and Messinia's Regional Directorate of Secondary Education.

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