Part of: Onassis Dance Days 2025
Dance

Planet [Wanderer] | Damien Jalet

Dates

Prices

10 — 40 €

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday - Sunday
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage

Tickets

Type
Price
Full price
20 €, 30 €, 40 €
Reduced, Friend & Neighborhood residents
20% discount on the regular ticket price
Groups 5-9 people
10% discount on the regular ticket price
Unemployed, People with disabilities, Companions
10 €
Restricted View Ticket (if available)
50% discount on the regular ticket price

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org

Onassis Stegi Friends presale - Phase 2: from 7 MAR 2025, 17:00
General presale - Phase 2: from 14 MAR 2025, 17:00

The first presale phase of a limited number of tickets, that started on September 20 for Onassis Stegi Friends and on September 23, 2024 for the general public, has been completed.

We are planets. And together wanderers, constantly drifting beings on the same celestial body. The internationally renowned and iconoclastic choreographer, a collaborator of Madonna, Thom Yorke, and Marina Abramović, among others, creates, in the company of Japanese visual artist Kohei Nawa, a monumental installation, a cosmogony in motion.

Photo: Rahi Rezvani

Eight creatures, eight wanderers. Like nomads condemned by the law of gravity, they constantly drift on the same celestial body. Damien Jalet exposes eight dancers to a ceaseless confrontation with the natural elements—wind, water, dirt, smoke, fog, light, and darkness. On stage, a cosmogony begins to take place.

An iconoclastic choreographer and dancer, Damien Jalet (Belgium/France) is internationally revered for his monumental choreographies that can be perceived as art installations, such as the iconic "Chiroptera" (2023) staged on the façade of the Opéra Garnier in Paris with the participation of 153 dancers. Moreover, he has helmed choreographic work for Madonna ("Madame X" and "Celebration" tours) and the films "Suspiria" by Luca Guadagnino, "Anima" by Paul Thomas Anderson, and "Emilia Pérez" by Jacques Audiard. He has also collaborated with artists such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Marina Abramović, Iris van Herpen, Thom Yorke, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Thomas Bangalter, and JR.

Eight creatures, eight wanderers. Like nomads condemned by the law of gravity, they constantly drift on the same celestial body.

For his first staging at Onassis Stegi, he wishes to present the work he began creating in Japan in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 2011. It is a work that he eventually titled "Planet [wanderer]", based on the double meaning of the ancient Greek verb ‘planáōmai/ planōmai,’ which is “to wander about, to stray.”

Because maybe this is what we are. Wanderers. On the same celestial body, which, equally, drifts amid the universe.

Photo: Rahi Rezvani

Credits

  • Choreography

    Damien Jalet

  • Set Designer

    Kohei Nawa

  • Music

    Tim Hecker

  • Light

    Yukiko Yoshimoto

  • Sound Design Collaborator

    Xavier Jacquot

  • Assistant to the Choreography

    Alexandra Hoàng Gilbert

  • Outside Eye

    Catalina Navarrete Hernández

  • Creative Producer

    Jamila Hessaine

  • With

    Shawn Ahern, Karima El Amrani, Aimilios Arapoglou, Francesco Ferrari, Vinson Fraley, Thi Mai Nguyen, Astrid Sweeney, Ema Yuasa

  • Production 2023

    Théâtre National de Bretagne, Centre dramatique national (Rennes)

  • Production 2021

    Chaillot―Théâtre national de la Danse

  • Coproduction

    Chaillot―Théâtre national de la Danse, Charleroi danse―Centre chorégaphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Sandwich Inc., Festspielhaus St Pölten, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, ROHM Theatre Kyoto, Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Theater Kampnagel Hamburg, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Nagelhus Schia Productions

  • With the support of

    Grand Marble and MATSUSHIMA HOLDINGS CO., LTD

  • Co-funded by

    the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

  • In Cooperation with

    Kyoto University of the Arts―ULTRA SANDWICH Project #14 #15 #16 #17, Kyoto University―Takenaka University

  • Special thanks to

    Théo Casciani, Prabda Yoon, Fabienne Aucant, Didier Deschamps

Nominated for the FEDORA―VAN CLEEF & ARPELS prize for Ballet 2020.