The Onassis Stegi Productions are Traveling | July – August 2025

Award-winning choreographer Christos Papadopoulos continues his successful international career, steadily building a strong presence on the world’s greatest stages. “My Fierce Ignorant Step,” a (fire)work of euphoria and youth, which premiered at the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi in May 2025, is presented on July 2 and 3 at Julidans Festival, a leading contemporary dance festival in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and on July 12 and 13 at GREC Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

A few days later, on July 18 and 19, Christos Papadopoulos returns to Greece to present his work “Mellowing” at the Kalamata International Dance Festival: A choreographic work he created two years ago with the dancers of the Dance On Ensemble, co-produced by the Onassis Stegi with the aid of the European program “DoPoDo”, co-funded by the European Union.

One year after Ioanna Paraskevopoulou’s journey to the heart of Colombia with the performance “MOS,” Chara Kotsali takes over. On July 4th and 5th, her ritual performance “to be possessed” is presented at Bogotá’s Centro Nacional de las Artes “Delia Zapata Olivella,” within the framework of the collaboration between the Onassis Stegi Touring Program and the international organization. The anniversary presence of Greek choreographers in Colombia continues, with Greek creations conversing live with Latin American audiences.

Kotsali will then return from Bogotá to Greece to present her new choreographic work, “IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE”, at Chania’s Dance Days Festival on July 22. Premiered at the Onassis Dance Days 2025, this work attempts a new dance marathon that manifests the ambivalent relationship of the individual and collective body with history.

The end of summer will find her traveling with the project “to be possessed,” mapping the modes in which a body is occupied, resists, and connects. On August 23, the work lands in Brussels, at the dance festival Perpetuum Mobile, adding yet another station on the artistic map of Onassis Stegi's “Outward Turn.”

One year following its world premiere at the Onassis Stegi, Xenia Koghilaki’s “Slamming” continues its journey around the stages of Europe. From July 4 to 6, the piece is presented at the Santarcangelo Festival in Italy, one of Europe’s most important contemporary performing arts festivals. On July 25, the work returns to Greece and the Kalamata International Dance Festival to meet the Greek audience anew. From there, on August 21 and 22, it will travel to Tallinn, Estonia, and the SAAL Biennaal, an organization with which the Onassis Stegi is collaborating for the first time. An encounter between countries and audiences that listen to and dance to metal music, through the eyes of contemporary choreography.

Mario Banushi’s “MAMI”, produced by the Onassis Stegi and premiered on February 6 on the Main Stage of the institution, will be presented on July 13–14 and July 16–18 at the Festival d’Avignon. This is a historic moment, as it is the first time that a director of Albanian origin presents their work at the emblematic French and European festival. At the same time, it marks the fourth participation of the Onassis Stegi in this important event, following: “The Circle of the Square,” written by Dimitris Dimitriadis and directed by Nikos Karantzas (2014); “6 a.m. How to disappear completely” by Blitz theater group (2016); and “The Great Tamer” by Dimitris Papaioannou (2017). This work’s participation in the Festival is supported by the Onassis Stegi Touring Program, within the framework of the Prospero NEW Platform, co-funded by the EU program “Creative Europe.”

After Avignon, "MAMI" will continue its brilliant international tour, making stops at leading theaters and organizations in Europe, and next stationing in Barcelona’s GREC Festival in Spain, on July 22 and 23, and Groningen’s Noorderzon Festival in the Netherlands, from August 14 to 16.

From July 5 onwards, Christiana Kosiari is participating in the Watermill Center’s International Summer Program in New York, as part of a capacity-building residency for the development of her artistic work. The Greek choreographer will make the most of the Watermill Center residency to plan the research and early stages of her new work, which will have more space and time for development in the next artistic season (2025/2026), within the framework of Onassis AiR.