Part of: Onassis Dance Days 2024
Dance

RUNWAY | Christiana Kosiari

Dates

Tickets

5 — 8 €

Age guidance

15+

Venue

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday - Sunday
Time
17:30 & 19:00
Venue
Onassis Stegi +5

Tickets

Type
Price
Full price
8 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people
6 €
Groups 10+ people
5 €
Neighborhood residents
7 €*
Unemployed, People with disabilities, Companions
5 €

*Onassis Stegi Neighbors can purchase their tickets only at the Onassis Stegi Box Office from Wednesday to Friday, between 12:00 and 18:00. Access from the “Artists Entrance” on Galaxia Street.

Onassis Stegi Friends presale: from Saturday, 27 January, 17:00

General presale: from Friday, 2 February, 17:00

Information

Duration

30 minutes

Introduction

A solo piece on a treadmill that never stops, a speed race against the corrosion of time.

Performance photos

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Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou
RUNWAY | Christiana Kosiari

A woman indulges maniacally in jogging in place—in this health practice as much as self-torture. Someone is monitoring her like a metronome of her steps: the composer Jan Van Angelopoulos, live, along with his keyboards and electroacoustic soundscapes.

Inspired by catwalks (European, New York, Dramatic Catwalks, etc.), “RUNWAY” explores a woman’s array of behaviors and transformations based on the era’s dominant beauty standards. Catwalks morph into a form of silly walks as the performer walks, runs, stumbles, puts on make-up, fixes her hair, stumbles on her heels, and recovers her balance in a race against the corrosion of time and the terror it induces. The treadmill is used as a beauty and wellness tool, as well as an existential prison, a torture instrument, and a conveyor belt for standardized products with expiration dates. It is eventually elevated to the symbol of a grotesque and absurd catwalk.A dancer and choreographer, Christiana Kosiari presented her first work, "Chained," at the Arc for Dance Festival 15 and won the second jury award at the Masdanza Dance Festival 28. In the summer of 2023, in Elefsina, she made the best impression by presenting the work "Bouboulines," in the framework of the European Capital of Culture "2023 Elefsis" and the U(R)TOPIAS Choreography Academy, with her mother and other elderly non-professional dancers in the leading roles holding a heroic ritual against the wear of time in a seaside tavern. Now, with RUNWAY, it's her turn to harness time on a treadmill that never stops.

Inspired by catwalks, “RUNWAY” explores the array of behaviors and transformations of a woman, based on the era’s dominant beauty standards.

Credits

Choreographer & Performer
Christiana Kosiari
Dramaturgy
Dimitra Mitropoulou
Assistant Choreographer
Katerina Foti
Original Music Composition & Performance
Jan Van Angelopoulos
Set Design
Evangelia Therianou
Costumes Design
2WO+1NE=2
Lighting design
Lampros Papoulias
Production Management & Line Production
TooFarEast
Commissioned & produced
Onassis Stegi

Special thanks: Olivier Dubois, Christian Rizzo, Christos Polymenakos—Body/Word Performance Writing Mentoring, Vangelis Mountrichas, Christos Christopoulos, Ioanna Papakosta, Penelope Koufopoulou, Maria-Angela Katsikali Kosiari, Anastasia Tsopelaki, Pavlos Christophoros Sinigalias

Supported by the Onassis Stegi “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Program.