The Travels of the Onassis Stegi Touring Program | March – April 2026

Having received the prestigious Silver Lion award at the Venice Theatre Biennale, Mario Banushi travels with “MAMI” to the Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe, one of the most important theatrical institutions in France, between March 9 and 12, and March 14 and 16. There, the director who has developed an absolutely unique stage language, drawing inspiration from personal experience, will create a new shrine to the mother-child relationship. “MAMI”’s journey continues in Madrid’s Teatros del Canal, on April 24 and 25.

Fotini Stamatelopoulou also travels to Madrid with her work “NEAR MISSES,” which will be presented on April 11 and 12 at Réplika Teatro. This solo dance performance, which we first encountered at Onassis Dance Days 2025, once again unfolds a series of acts, interweaving spoken word, protective symbolic objects, and intense physical states. A performance, as well as a visual installation, reposes its own vows while seeking a collective “armor of resilience.”

On April 25, Manolis Saridakis travels to Komotini, Greece, and the 4th International Contemporary Dance Festival Dancing Routes with the performance “Do Robots Have Emotions?”. Responding to the title “Human Patterns,” this year’s central theme of the Festival explores the patterns that shape the way we move, relate, and exist. Within this framework, Manolis Saridakis presents a strikingly perceptive concept that originated at the Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9 – ONC 9 and has since toured numerous national and international dance festivals.

Saridakis’s work “Do Robots Have Emotions?” was developed within the framework of EBA, co-funded by the European Union, and as part of Stegi’s ongoing commitment to issues of accessibility in the fields of art and dance.

Christos Papadopoulos takes yet another “fierce ignorant step” with his work of the same title, at the major contemporary dance festival New Baltic Dance in Vilnius, Lithuania, on April 28 and 29. My Fierce Ignorant Step” is a performance about the euphoria of being alive: optimistic, extroverted, and enchanting new work about the first times we met, laughed, lived. The award-winning choreographer Christos Papadopoulos presents his most personal work to date, connecting for the first time the materiality of sound with the musicality of the body.