Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8
We’re here, dancing away
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YouTube Premiere
The works of this online edition of the Onassis New Choreographers Festival will premiere on the Onassis Channel on YouTube over the weekend of March 20 and 21, 2021.
Please see the program section below for when each work will screen (date and order).
Introduction
In a time when all the world stays connected online, the firmly-established Onassis New Choreographers Festival is moving into the digital realm to present eleven new works undaunted by dualistic notions of “pop versus high art”. Here, the body meets the hybrid and groundbreaking world of contemporary dance, and a new generation of Greek artists make their debut.
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For two days, we’ll be pressing pause on quarantine to feel the pulse of young artists – in motion, with emotion, and back in motion once more. The Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8 is stepping off the stage to connect with audiences in the only place we can currently be “together”: online, via the Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel.
Taking “we’re here, dancing away” as their rallying cry, a new generation of artists are presenting works created over the last two months that use movement to record the present moment and our current situation, giving us their takes on everything we’re thinking, feeling, and going through. And because there are many voices that need to be heard right now, this year’s festival consists of eleven new arts projects, all of which sprang from an open call inviting artists to create original works using digital means.
Vasilis Vilaras (“RED RIDING SHOES”), Nadi Gogoulou (“The Cooking-with-Nadi Show”), Myrto Delimichali and Stathis Doganis (“Pose_Transpose”), Irini Kalaitzidi (“yaGrid”), the Besuch Team (“Besuch”), Anna Papathanasiou (“Axel’s Just Dreaming”), Ioanna Paraskevopoulou (“All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap”), Konstantinos Papanikolaou (“The Diving Horse and Other Mythologies”), Natasha Sarantopoulou (“ILISSOS / limbo eξótica”), ody icons (“YES HALLO HI”), and the Stereo Nero Dance Co. (“442, or A Game Without Score”) are all choreographing Athens, Greece, and the entire world in this strange year that is 2021.
Saturday 20 March | 20:00-22:00 (UTC+2)
"Axel’s just dreaming", 16’
"YES HALLO HI", 4’
"All she likes is popping bubble wrap", 17’ 37’’
"yaGrid", 10’ 18’’
“The Diving Horse and Other Mythologies”, 34’ 54’’
“ILISSOS / limbo eξótica”, 10’ 17’’
Sunday 21 March | 20:00-22:00 (UTC+2)
"442, or A Game Without Score", 53’
"RED RIDING SHOES", 8’ 44’’
"The cooking-with-Nadi show", 19’ 33’’
"Besuch", 26’ 46’’
"Pose_Transpose", 1’ 36’’ (Estimated website browsing time 26’ 30’’)
Filmmakers, scientists, programmers, digital media artists, and even YouTubers, influencers, and bloggers all now collaborate closely with choreographers. While not all artists have turned into tech-freaks overnight, more than a few are experimenting with artificial intelligence and working with interfaces, touch sensors, and GoPro cameras, as well as chat rooms, selfies, and social media stories, thus digitally (and otherwise) expanding the hybrid and groundbreaking world of contemporary dance.
Fully aware of the contradictions and functions artists are being forced to face and take on in this time of pandemic-induced suspended animation and digital ferment, the form of this year’s festival is not forced by the impossibility of presenting works live but rather driven by a constant of our own devising. Back in 2016, with an exhibition titled “Digital Revolution”, we opened a discussion on how art is made in a time when everything – from socializing to flirting – takes place within the context of pervasive, non-stop networking. Last spring, we created a digital time capsule capturing the “here and now” – the “ENTER” series. And now we’re welcoming key representatives of a new generation of artists, at work in the Greek contemporary dance scene, onto our digital stage.
—Iliana Dimadi
—Konstantinos Tzathas
—Steriani Tsintziloni
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