International Dance Festival "Unlimited Access"
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7 € | Unemployed 5 €
Free entrance for people with disabilities & companions
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Audio description will be provided for the 3 performances staged by the Onassis Stegi dance companies (by Eleni Piperou and Maria Grigoropoulou) and for the performance "Edge" (by Ifigenia Benaki).
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Viewers 7+ years old
Groups of people both with and without disabilities from Greece and abroad will perform at the Onassis Stegi. Their shared message: on stage, we’re all the same!
International Dance Festival "Unlimited Access"
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The International “Unlimited Access” Dance Festival, which is to be staged at the Onassis Stegi as the culmination of the European program of the same name, is Greece’s first international dance festival for people both with and without disabilities. Companies from Greece and abroad will present their work at the Onassis Stegi along with a shared message: on stage, we’re all the same!
In 2012, four institutions—the British Council, the Onassis Stegi, Vo’ Arte from Portugal and the Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance—joined forced in the context of the Unlimited Festival being staged under the aegis of the London Cultural Olympiad. Together, they created a particularly ambitious program, Unlimited Access, which set out to create and promote dance performances for people with disabilities and to rethink the approach taken to disabled people in the cultural sphere.
Over the last two years, a series of “Unlimited Access” contemporary dance workshops at the Onassis Stegi have been attended by people with different disabilities as well as people without disabilities, some professional and some amateur. The mixed groups worked with the body, experimented with movement, and came up with works to be performed at the “Unlimited Access” Dance Festival, which will bring the program to a close in Athens.
The Festival will feature choreographies from Greece and abroad which, though very different from one another, together form a fascinating collection that prove in practice that dance really is for everyone!
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Thursday 26 February | Upper Stage
20:30 “evolution” by the choreographer and dancer Claire Cunningham (UK) - Duration: 17 minutes
Watch a video of the performance.
22:00 “Magnolia (or Defiance)” by IMRC (Integrated Movement Research Collective), choreographed by Iva Nerina Sibila (Croatia) - Duration: 40 minutes
Watch a video of the performance.
Friday 27 February | Main Stage
20:30 Three performances staged by the Onassis Stegi dance companies, featuring people both with and without disabilities, as well as dance professionals and people whose first venture into dance this was.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes (with interval)
“You listen to a sound. You run across the stage. You stop. You feel an arm on your shoulder. You go on…” - Choreographed by Iris Karayan
“Sweet Abyss” - Choreographed by Medie Megas
“The Flight” - Choreographed by Maria Koliopoulou
Saturday 28 February | Upper Stage
20:30 “Two for C” by Candocο Dance Company, choreographed by Javier de Frutos (UK) - Duration: 12 minutes
Watch a video of the performance.
21:30 “Edge”, by the CiM Company (Companhia Integrada Multidisciplinar), choreographed by Ana Rita Barata (Portugal) - Duration: 45 minutes
Watch a video of the performance.
Screening of the documentary “2 and 2, are four” by CiM company.
Sunday 1 March
18:00-19:30 “The last remaining avant-garde movement?”
A conversation exploring how D/deaf and disabled artists can be a radical force in the arts
Panel participants: Christos Carras (Onassis Stegi), Ben Evans (British Council), Padraig Naughton (Arts & Disability Ireland), Dave Toole & Lucy Bennett (Stopgap Dance Company), Nadja Dias (Candoco Dance Company), Jane Hackett (Sadler's Wells Theatre). Moderated by Steve Mannix (British Council)
The event will also include a screening of the short film "Silent Moves" by Aideen Barry and Emma O’Kane | Upper Stage
20:30 “Simulante Bande” by VerTeDance and Archa Theatre, choreographed by Veronika Kotlíková and Tereza Ondrová (Czech Republic) - Duration: 1 hour | Main Stage
Watch a video of the performance.
Workshop with Candoco Dance Company for teens
Friday 27 February | 10:00-13:00
Join Candoco Dance Company, the contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers, for a fun and creative workshop aimed at young people.
Workshop with Candoco Dance Company for adults
Saturday 28 February | 11:00-14:00
Candoco dancers will take participants through a group warm up followed by creative tasks based on “Two for C”. Workshop is suitable for disabled and non-disabled adults. Suitable for professional dancers, students, individuals with some movement experience or with a keen interest in dance.
Unlimited was a London 2012 Cultural Olympiad project. The project was principally funded by the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor, and is delivered in partnership between London 2012, Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council.
Credits
Festival curators
Katia Arfara, Myrto Lavda, Christos Carras
Production coordinator
Rena Andreadaki
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