Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9 — ONC 9
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Onassis Stegi Friends presale: from 15 FEB 2022, 17:00
General presale: from18 FEB 2022, 17:00
Full price: 7 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 6 €
Groups 10+ people, Unemployed, People with disabilities, Companions: 5 €
Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org
ONC9
The festival program is the same across all three days
For those who decide to see all the productions in a single day, the festival will last around six hours in total
Both installations are free entry, and open to the public from 16:30 till 22:45
Introduction
A six-hour, three-day marathon featuring six original works and two installations, all redefining our relationship with reality as it dances roaring by. This is the Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9. Can you dance to the beat of tomorrow’s drum?
Works by artists who aren’t necessarily just choreographers, or new on the scene in terms of their age. Artists who do not censor themselves when it comes to their creative backgrounds, their temperament, and their conceptually complex or even rarefied content, and are instead more than ready to enter into international synergies at the ends of the earth. Artists who never hesitate when it comes to being highly personal, reactionary, and political, yet effortlessly emotional at the same time.
Six whole hours of dance presented across three days. ONC9 is here, all packed into one evening, with both commissioned artists making their Onassis Stegi debuts, and works that sprang from ongoing partnerships with movement and dance makers.
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Six minutes of ecstasy. Over and over again. A scene from the 1735 opéra-ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau performed in the krump street dance style – a dance form and act of resistance that sprang from the Los Angeles ghetto in the late 1990s – features in a video installation, set inside the Onassis Stegi foyer, that sets the beat and tone for this year’s entire festival (Clément Cogitore, “Les Indes Galantes”). Because at least two wonderful things are happening here: no-one will be able to sit still when next they hear music by Rameau, and an act of public recourse is holding sway. The sanctum that is opéra-ballet hands the dance floor over to whom it rightfully belongs: to those who dance in the streets, demanding emancipation from violence, from fear, from power, and saving us all from the stereotypes of what dance, art, and life itself should (or should not) be.
Constantine Skourlis, Dafin Antoniadou, and Alexandros Vardaxoglou transport us into a science fiction, or rather, an ontological fiction setting with their transmedia installation (“DEEP HORIZON”).
“When was the last time you felt like a robot?” asks Manolis Saridakis before inviting us all to meet on the same dance floor in the work he created as part of the Europe Beyond Access program, and within the framework of Onassis Stegi’s ongoing commitment to making dance accessible to persons with disabilities (“Do Robots Have Emotions?”).
An experiment involving bodies, sounds, and objects is choreographed by Ioanna Paraskevopoulou (“MOS”).
A “pink manifesto” against the patriarchy proclaimed by five Amazons of Latin dance, camp, and kitsch is brought to you by Alexandros Stavropoulos (“On Wednesdays We Wear Pink”).
Lessons in 21st-century etiquette are given by Konstantinos Papanikolaou (“A User’s Manual”).
Two amplifiers, 14 speakers, and original songwriting all play their part in the piece by Fotini Stamatelopoulou (“optimal soft”).
And, last but not least, Ilias Chatzigeorgiou choreographs four street dancers in order to talk about another kind of masculine “pulse”, one brought to you by the pioneers of Greek hip hop (“A BOUNCE 4 MEN”).
When it comes to dance, we’re talking about a multisensory, collaborative, physical, experiential, and public experience
Friday 11 - Sunday 13 March
“Les Indes galantes” | Clément Cogitore
16:30-23:00 | Main Lobby Foyer
“DEEP HORIZON” | Dafin Antoniadou, Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Constantine Skourlis
16:30-21:00 & 22:00-23:30 | Exhibition Hall -1 (Gallery Space Room)
“Do Robots have emotions?” | Manolis Saridakis
17:00 & 18:30 | Back of House
“MOS” | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
17:30 | Upper Stage
“On Wednesdays We Wear Pink” | Alexandros Stavropoulos
19:00 | Main Stage
“A User’s Manual” | Konstantinos Papanikolaou
20:00 | Upper Stage
“optimal soft” | Fotini Stamatelopoulou
21:00 | Exhibition Hall -1 (Gallery Space)
“A BOUNCE 4 MEN” | Ilias Chatzigeorgiou
22:00 | Main Stage
—Iliana Dimadi, Afroditi Panagiotakou, Konstantinos Tzathas
