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Dancing to Connect 2019

Adventurous students discover contemporary dance

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Athens

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Saturday 16 March
Time
19:00
Venue
Municipal and Regional Theater of Kozani (Main Stage)
Day
Sunday 31 March
Time
19:00
Venue
Onassis Stegi Main Stage

Information

LIVE STREAM

Sunday 31 March | 19:00 (EET)
Watch 200 teen connecting with the world live.
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Dancing

Students from Kozani and Athens of junior and senior high school

Workshops dates
Kozani: 5 — 15 March
Athens: 19 — 29 March

Performances dates
Kozani: Saturday 16 March
Athens: Sunday 31 March

Think you know nothing about contemporary dance? That you’d fall flat on your face if you had to walk across the stage? Then you’re just what we are looking for. Because in “Dancing to Connect” we’re not looking for talented dancers—what we want are daring teenagers who want to express themselves.

200 teens are dancing here
Connecting Athens with Kozani

This year too, dance invades schoolrooms, gyms, corridors and, yes, it will sweep you off your feet, even if you think you know nothing about dance.

Because dancing is discovering how to communicate with people without using words, how to express yourself and collaborate with others and to explore new boundaries for yourself. Are you still mulling it over? If you are an adolescent, Dancing to Connect is your own festival.

Professional dancers will come to your school to share their knowledge and help you and your fellow students with ways to express yourselves through movement, and build your own choreography. All you have to do is wear your tracksuit and share your drive/high spirits and creativity. This will culminate in a performance in the main stage of the Onassis Stegi. Ten schools, five from Kozani and five from Athens, ten performances. Can you imagine the vibes?

Photo: Kiki Papadopoulou

Credits

  • Members of the dance group that worked on the project during the five previous years

    Ioanna Apostolou, Nontas Damopoulos, Nikoleta Karmiri, Candy Karra, Alexandros Laskaratos, Androniki Marathaki, Yannis Nikolaidis, Aris Papadopoulos, Martha Pasakopoulou, Dimokritos Sifakis, Elena Stavropoulou, Antonis Strouzas, Maria Fountouli, Ilias Hadjigeorgiou

This is the seventh year that Dancing to Connect will reach ten secondary schools. The Dancing to Connect festival is the brainchild of the Battery Dance Company from New York, whose conviction is that at times all it takes for people to really communicate, wipe out prejudice and bullying and realise the adolescents’ potential may be no more than a choreography.

Supported by the US Embassy in Athens

In collaboration with Municipality of Kozani, Directorate of Secondary Education in Kozani and Municipal and Regional Theater of Kozani

Sponsor/Partner