The Travels of the Onassis Stegi Touring Program | September–October 2025

Xenia Koghilaki continues her European tour with two important new stops. On September 9 and 10, she presented her work “Slamming” at Copenhagen’s Dancehallerne, a venue devoted to contemporary dance. From there, the choreographer will appear at Madrid’s Réplika Teatro on October 26. This dance performance, inspired by the anarchic behavior of a crowd during a punk rock concert, continues to transmit its energy to European audiences, reconstructing a collective ritual that lurks behind an ostensible rage.

Following the successful staging of “to be possessed” in Bogotá, Colombia, Chara Kotsali traveled to Rhodes as part of the Dance Laboratory, this time carrying with her the piece “IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE,” presented on September 10. The work, which premiered at Onassis Dance Days 2025, sets out on a new dance marathon about the ambivalent relationship of the individual and collective body with history. In October, Kotsali’s international tour continues in Portugal, where “to be possessed” will be performed on October 9 and 10 at Minde’s Materiais Diversos – an arts association connecting performing arts with local communities.

What happens when you bring the nightlife of a Greek village into a concert hall in Amsterdam? That’s exactly what “Nightwater” explores, in a new production by Thanasis Deligiannis, Yannis Michalopoulos, and their team, which had its world premiere at Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw between September 12 and 14. Following “ÉNA-ÉNA” and “Xirómero / Dryland,” Greece’s official participation in the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Deligiannis attempts a fresh approach to the Greek countryside with an installation-performance inspired by today’s Greek rural cultures.

Elena Antoniou continues her dynamic international trajectory with “LANDSCAPE,” making two new stops: Rome’s Short Theatre on September 13–14, and London’s Dance Umbrella, one of the most influential contemporary dance festivals in the UK, on October 24–25. The piece, first presented on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage in March 2023 as part of Onassis Dance Days 2023, continues its international tour, with Antoniou reflecting, as a female creator, on the interaction with 21st-century patriarchal cultures.

The choreographic work “MOS” by Ioanna Paraskevopoulou – which has already conquered European stages – adds two new destinations to the artistic map of Onassis Stegi's “Outward Turn”: the Circular Festival της Vila do Conde in Portugal on September 20, and FITLO – the Ibero-American Theatre Festival of La Rioja, in Logroño, Spain, on September 30. “MOS” was first presented as part of the Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9 (ONC 9) in March 2022, at the Upper Stage of the Onassis Stegi. This is a duet where the choreographer herself and her co-dancer Giorgos Kotsifakis enter into discourse with a disparate series of images and seek to impart their own transcription in space.

Christiana Kosiari participated in Novi Sad’s TanzPlatz Fest in Serbia, on September 27 – a festival renowned for its bold curatorial choices. With her piece “RUNWAY”, which premiered at Onassis Dance Days 2024 at the Onassis Stegi, the choreographer and Onassis AiR Fellow for 2025/26 embarks on another sprint on a treadmill that never stops, a speed race against the corrosion of time. It is a study on a woman’s array of behaviors and transformations, based on the era’s dominant beauty standards.

Following its journey to Avignon with the Onassis Stegi Touring Program, Dimitris Karantzas presented “The House” on September 30 at the GIFT – Georgian International Festival of Arts in Tbilisi. The performance we first saw on the Upper Stage of the Onassis Stegi in October 2023, “opens its doors” once again — addressing questions of violence, the addiction to image, and the dissolution of illusions.

“MAMI” by Mario Banoushi, which had its world premiere on February 6, 2025, at the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi and was later acclaimed at the Avignon Festival in July 2025, continues its brilliant international tour, making stops at major theatrical stages and institutions across Europe. Its next stop is in northern Europe, and more specifically at Finland’s ESPOO Theatre, on October 9, 10, and 11. Drawing inspiration from personal experience, Banoushi builds an unholy shrine to the relationship between mother and child: to celebrate it, to exorcise it, to adorn it with offerings and curses, to fall in love with it. Besides, in the artist’s own words: “I have always said that birth is love in reverse.”

Choreographer Patricia Apergi presents “The House of Trouble” on October 9 at Aschaffenburg’s Stadttheater in Germany. The work, created by Apergi and her dance company Aerites and first presented on the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi in May 2023, attempts, through the “outbursts” of the era, to reveal to us that we can still have a good time despite our lack of harmony and disagreements.

Christos Papadopoulos travels to Brooklyn with “Larsen C” from October 16 to 18, on the occasion of Powerhouse: International. The acclaimed Greek choreographer becomes again an observer of the movement of the minimum which, in its interiority and repetition, produces life. “Larsen C” is a party in homage to the silent transition of bodies. It is “a metaphor”, comments the choreographer himself, “of life that, invincible, goes on.”