ONASSIS STEGI 2019-20 | ANNUAL PROGRAM | ONASSIS.ORG

Illustration Kostis Kounadis

Photo Christos Sarris

The bridge enters your field of vision, the road before you dips downhill, and you see road signs, street lights, pavement, apartment buildings, AC units, often pigeons, and the whole dirty familiarity of the city.

Athens.

This is more or less the view all Athenians see—our world, through the lens of an urban chaos that makes our city what it is. A beguiling capital that proudly wears the signs of life on its body.

Onassis Stegi stands amidst this urban poetry not as a haughty building, but more as a curious, adventurous figure that, for nearly a decade, has desired to discover the city, the world, life itself. And that’s precisely what it does.

This year, Onassis Stegi is just as curious, just as sensitive, local, and global. Its events spark conversations, take positions on democracy, social justice, the environment, our digital present, our image-heavy reality, New York, Los Angeles, the Middle East. It asks questions but avoids didacticism; it reconsiders, remembers, enjoys.

It all begins by a bridge in Neos Kosmos.

And ends in the continual search for a new world.

The Stegi team

Photo Alaa Ghosheh, Nefeli Myrodia

The space and program of Onassis AiR (Artists-in-Residence) create an ever-growing artistic community of peers in the center of Athens.

A place where all the participants can work, think, and eat together, without striving for the next project, the next premiere, the next production.

A community and space in close contact with the city. A community that has the ability to pause, in order to rethink how it functions and creates.

Onassis AiR is a program that offers time. Time to learn, to change or go deeper, by doing and undoing or non-doing.

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Improtech 2019 Apocalypse Thanos Papakonstantinou Soundscapes Compositions ALLLOY Τetttix Transeurope / Eyesculture Happiness Machine Klangforum Wien Elephant & You Should Have Seen Me Dancing Waltz Rabih Mroué & Dance On Ensemble I'm Positive Mixed Realities Masterclass Elenit Euripides Laskaridis Tom in Greece (Tom à la ferme) Sarantos Georgios Zervoulakos Atlas Athens Granma. Trombones from Havana Stefan Kaegi — Rimini Protokoll “The Birds” by Aristophanes Nikos Karathanos “Τhe Birds” in Chile Nikos Karathanos

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Practical Encyclopedia. Detours Lenio Kaklea The Taming Georgia Mavragani & Dimosthenis Papamarkos Music Bridge over Syngrou Avenue, vol. 5 Congo Faustin Linyekula Open Day Enter Achilles Ballet Rambert & Sadler’s Wells — Lloyd Newson (DV8) Movement (1920—2020) Songs of Rebellion Brigitta Muntendorf & Michael Höppner Data Garden Kyriaki Goni Interfaces Conference Cultural Exchange Rate Tania El Khoury The Sea Between My Soul Raed Yassin

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Birds — The Movie Babis Makridis

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Erotic Postcards from Greece Anestis Azas New Symphonic Music Athens State Orchestra at the Onassis Stegi Dancing to Connect A Tribute to Georges Aperghis Stones & Bones RootlessRoot Borderline Festival Hellenic Film Academy Award Ceremony Onassis Youth Festival Dimitris Papaioannou The City Talks Back Theatrum Mundi Big Bang Festival 6 Culture & Sustainability Onassis Stegi and Julie's Bicycle Athens Pride 2020 Performance of the 65+ Dancing Group The Great Provocateur – Part II Dimitris Papadimitriou A Musical Correspondence Giorgos Sarantaris and Melissanthi The Hellenic Project

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A Symphonic Work by Dimitris Papadimitriou The Hellenic Project European Programs Interfaces European Media Art Platform Big Bang European ARTificial Intelligence Lab Europe Beyond Access Reshape Moving Borders Sounds Now Studiotopia Transmissions

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Musical Fairytales for Narrator and Orchestra for Carnival The Hellenic Project

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IMPROTECH 12

Music — Talks & Thoughts Improtech 2019

From Paris to Athens. From music improvisation to digital intelligence.

Two cities unite through a series of meetings that build bridges between art and science.

Improtech is a workshop-festival dedicated to Music Ιmprovisation in relation with “Digital Intelligence”: sophisticated live technological systems interacting in a creative way with human musicians. After a connection from Paris to New York then Philadelphia, Improtech Paris-Athina (ikPA’19) will link the two legendary cities in a powerful arc of art/ science encounters, with lectures, workshops, demos and concerts involving international improvisation legends and the young scene from Paris, Athens and other countries.

With the support of Onassis Stegi, IRCAM and the National University of Athens, ikPA'19 will flourish on the explosive encounter of prominent research labs and scholars, well known artistic personalities of Jazz, contemporary creation, traditional music, with talks covering a diversity of knowledge fields such as computer music, artificial intelligence, robotics, musicology, philosophy and critical studies. A unique opportunity for intercultural and interdisciplinary encounters among research and creation communities, with not-to-miss high points during the three evening concerts.

Curated by Gerard Assayag, Christos Carras, Marc Chemillier, Anastasia Georgaki / Produced by Onassis Stegi, IRCAM, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens / Supported by Collegium Musicae / Sorbonne Université, Institut Français,

26—29.09.19 Onassis Stegi & EKPA

DJAZZ / Special thanks Jeff Joly (POPMYFILM)

Illustration Kostis Kounadis

Photo Nick Knight Apocalypse, Thanos Papakonstantinou

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The Second Coming, the four hoursemen, the seven seals, the Lamb of God, 666.

One of the most influential and also most confounding texts in human history provides material for a contemporary on-stage ritual.

Theater Apocalypse

It has been exciting imaginations since the first century CE, summoning utopias, dystopias, and revolutionary movements. It is divine prophecy? Escatological preaching? A message of patience, belief, and hope in a better future? A call to insurrection? What’s certain is that this ominous phantasmagoria is a world-changing text.

APOCALYP

03—06.10, 09—13.10 & 16—20.10.19 Main Stage

THANOS PAPAKONSTANTINOU

“Behind every insurrection is the desire for a radical reformation of humankind and of the world.

Behind every move toward reforming humankind and the world is the violence of the harvest.

Behind the violence of the harvest is the hope for rebirth.

Behind the hope for rebirth is the joy of destruction.

Behind the joy of destruction is the fear of death.

Behind the fear of death is the belief in beauty.

Behind the belief in beauty, there is light.

The myth of the Apocalypse is a kind of parable for the constant transformations of the human faith in a better world to come.”

Concept & Direction Thanos Papakonstantinou / Translation Michaela Pliaplia /Set & Costumes Design Niki Psychogiou / Music Composition & Electronics Programming Panos Iliopoulos / Music Supervision & Direction, Church Organ Markellos Chryssicopoulos / Movement Design Nadi Gogoulou / Lighting Design Christina Thanasoula / Sculpture Alekos Bourelias / Assistant to the Director Constantina Aggellopoulou / Assistant to the Set Designer – Costume Design Marina Mourtzi / Assistant Lighting Designer Semina Papalexopoulou / Sound Manolis Aggelakis / Hair styling Constantinos Koliousis / Make up Constantina Paspali / Performers Alexia Kaltsiki, Marianna Dimitriou, Kalliopi Simou, Eleni Moleski, Kleopatra Markou, Thanassis Dovris, Sotiris Tsakomidis, Marios Panagiotou, Miltiadis Fiorentzis, Yorgos Dikaios / Participating also Pantelis Kalogerakis, Constantina Kaltsiou, Loukas Kyriazis, Maria Manta, Yiannis Batsis, Grigoria Oikonomaki, Rafael Sidiropoulos, Constantina Scandali, Dimitris Charalampopoulos, Evi Chroni / Musicians Eleftheria Togia (viola), Alexis Karaiskakis (cello), Dimitris Tigkas (double bass), Kostas Gatsios (clarinet/ bass clarinet), Spiros Moschonas (trombone), Thodoris Vazakas (percussion), Constantinos Tsiolis (live electronics) / Participating also Pantelis Kalogerakis, Constantina Kaltsiou, Loukas Kyriazis, Maria Manta, Yiannis Batsis, Grigoria Oikonomaki, Rafael Sidiropoulos, Constantina Scandali, Dimitris Charalampopoulos, Evi Chroni / Production Management & Line Production Phorminx / Produced by Onassis Stegi

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Video stills Nick Knight

PSE

A director of the new generation, with an idiosyncratic visual sensibility, Thanos Papakonstantinou pays close attention to the Apocalypse of John, takes inspiration for a contemporary ritual, and notes:

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WEAR YOUR HEADPHONES, DOWNLOAD THE APP “MY CITY, MY SOUNDS” AND EXPERIENCE THESSALONIKI THE WAY EIGHT EUROPEAN COMPOSERS DO, THROUGH THE LENS OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC.

October 2019 — June 2020 Thessaloniki

This is the soundscape of Thessaloniki, a city mapped through eight points of inspiration for eight composers from across Europe. The White Tower, the Navarinou Square, the Arch of Galerius (Kamara), the Church of the Acheiropoietos, the church of Hagia Sophia, the Roman Forum, the Aristotelous Square, and the Thessaloniki Port become milestones in a walkabout that resembles an open-air concert, “performed” for your ears only! Soundscapes Compositions is an artistic act that aspires to bring –local and international– audiences in touch with contemporary music, by creating new connotations in a city that continues generating stories, sounds, and walks.

All over the city and free and available anytime, the application “My City, My Sounds” gives everyone the opportunity to listen to a city, in the “here-and-now” of contemporary music creation. The application “My City, My Sounds” was developed in collaboration with ZKM | Center for Art and Media and is available on App Store.

Composers Christina Athinodorou, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Michalis Paraskakis, Lambros Pigounis, Carola Bauckholt, Ηuihui Cheng, Simone Movio, Niels Roensholdt / Recordings dissonArt ensemble Jannis Anissegos (flute), Alexandros Stavridis (clarinet), Lenio Liatsou (piano), Theodoros Patsalidis (violin), Greta Papa (violin), Chara Sira (viola), Vassilis Saitis (violoncello), Yiannis Chatzis (contrabass) / Music Director Vladimiros Symeonidis, Christina Athinodorou The event is part of the Interfaces project co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union

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SOUNDSCAPES COMPOSITIONS

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Our chemical elements: African rhythms, Japanese theater, Greek Macedonian and Peruvian folk music, punk and metal. Our instruments: mockery, rawness, innerness, ecstasy.

A (music) show dealing with "otherness," beyond or even against what we usually define as "contemporary classical music." Stamatis Pasopoulos, starting from the ecstatic Macedonian "zygies," pursues a reinvention of the zurna-davul duo. Beat Furrer blends the sound of the flute with that of the double bass into a single instrument, inspired by the Peruvian Pan Flute, while Dmitri Kourliandski's music is born of indistinct strokes and rasps. Iannis Xenakis sets to music Cassandra's scene from Aeschylus's "Agamemnon", with the baritone playing the roles of both the Chorus and Cassandra in a schizophrenic mono-/dialogue. Nikos Galenianos arranges Metallica's "Battery" for TETTTIX and, finally, the invasion of punk through Ofir Klemperer's work shatters all solemnity.

ALLL

18—19.10.19 Upper Stage

Music ALLLOY

ΤΕΤΤΤΙX

23 Program Stamatis Pasopoulos, “Havasí” (2017) / Beat Furrer, “Ira-Arca” (2012) / Dmitri Kourliandski, “Inside the Movement” (2004) / Iannis Xenakis, “Kassandra” (1987) / Nikos Galenianos, arrangement of Metallica's “Battery”, for ΤΕΤΤΤΙX (2019) / Ofir Klemperer, “A Love Song” (2007) / ΤΕΤΤΤΙX Ana Chifu (flute), Eirini Amanatiadou (clarinet), Rhea Pickios (bassoon), Guido de Flaviis (saxophone),

LOY Sissi Makropoulou (harp), Katerina Konstantourou (piano), Mislav Režić (guitar), Stamatis Pasopoulos (accordion), Panagiotis Ziavras (percussion), Charis Pazaroulas (double bass), Michalis Paraskakis (composer/voice/accordion), Nikos Ioakeim (composer), Nikos

Galenianos (composer) / Participation in “A Love Song” Ofir Klemperer (voice) and in “Havasí” Panagiotis Koliavasilis (percussion) / Artistic Direction-Programming: Michalis Paraskakis, Nikos Ioakeim, Nikos Galenianos / Realization Michalis Paraskakis, Nikos Ioakeim / Stage direction Anastasia Chintzoglou / Video Anastasia Chintzoglou, Olga Sfetsa / Lighting Eleni Choumou / Set Design Olga Sfetsa

SURPRISING MIXTURES AND TRANSFORMATIONS BEYOND WHAT WE CALL CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC

Five workshops conducted by Matteo Balduzzi & Panayiotis Lambrou, Diana Blok, Mishka Henner, Moritz Neumüller and Clare Strand; addressed to (visual) artists or anyone who considers oneself as an avid photographer they aim at further developing one’s photographic practice, by offering a varied approach to the medium and covering a wide spectrum of topics –spanning from portraiture to urbanism, from the wordimage relationship to appropriating on-line resources and creating photobooks.

All workshops during the program, are focused on a handson experience, while also providing theoretical guidelines and inspiring discussions guaranteed to challenge the participants’ prior mindset. Most of them are also designed to result in an original production (work or/and publication). The workshops are organized in the context of Transeurope – a European platform on photography and visual arts including workshops, portfolio reviews and exhibitions.

Organised by EuroMare, Eyesculture / Supported by Onassis Stegi

PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS

TRANSEUROPE / EYESCULTURE

Work detail Clare Stand, “The Discrete Channel with Noise” (2018)

24 Collaborations TRANSEUROPE workshops 31.10—03.11, 03—06.11, 21—24.11 & 27—29.11.19 Onassis Stegi & Onassis Library

Five workshops conducted by great photographers and artists doubting their own works, while they rethink and twist photography as a medium.

01—02.11.19 Main Stage, Exhibition Hall -1

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HAPPINESS MACHINE

24 HOURS OF BLISS WITH THE KLANGFORUM WIEN

The current economic system is being put to the test and a key question arises: are we actually happy with it? The interdisciplinary project “Happiness Machine. 24 Hours of Bliss with the Klangforum Wien” revolves around the alternative economic model "The Economy for the Common Good", created by Christian Felber. The performance reaches far beyond the classical concert format, consisting of a 24-hour music marathon and parallel film screenings.

Ten female film-makers and ten female composers from Europe join forces to create ten short films about the possibility of a new economic model. Through animated films, concerts, performances and discussions, the Klangforum Wien invites the audience to enjoy the art of music, sparking conversations between musicians, performers, speakers and guests on the future of the Western World.

Klangforum Wien / Piano Joonas Ahonen / Percussion Björn Wilker / Sound Design Peter Böhm & Markus Urban / Film Projection Martin Repka / Musical Direction Konstantia Gourzi / Conductor Yalda Zamani / With the Support of Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Vienna, Federal Chancellery Republic of Austria / Sponsor Erste Bank / The event is part of the Interfaces project co-funded by the Creative Europe program of

Photo Judith Schlosser

the European Union

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A 24-hour marathon of music and screenings. A musical reflection on today’s economy, filled with discussions, concerts, animated films and a sleepover. A day of absolute happiness. And then what?

Photo Dorothea Tuch

— ELEPHANT

— YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN ME DANCING WALTZ

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RABIH MROUÉ & DANCE ON ENSEMBLE

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What does a war leave in its wake? Rabih Mroué —political, harsh, poetic— returns to the Onassis Stegi with two choreographies that treat a trauma shared by all humanity.

Dance Elephant & You Should Have Seen Me Dancing Waltz

Elephant Concept & Direction Rabih Mroué / In artistic collaboration with Ty Boomershine and Jone San Martin (Dance On Ensemble) / Lighting Design Patrick Lauckner, Tanja Rühl / Sound: Mattef Kuhlmey / Costume Sophia PiepenbrockSaitz / Assistant to the Director Jacqueline Azarmi / Cast Ty Boomershine, Jone San Martin / Production DANCE ON/ DIEHL+RITTER / Coproduction HAU Hebbel am Ufer / Produced for the DANCE ON Festival with support from the Capital Cultural Fund / Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union as part of DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON / DANCE ON is an initiative

by DIEHL+RITTER gUG funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media / Premiere 28 February 2018, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2) You Should Have Seen Me Dancing Waltz Concept & Direction Rabih Mroué / In Collaboration with the Dance On Ensemble / Cast Anna Herrmann, Emma Lewis, Christine Kono, Marco Volta / Lighting Design Arno Truschinski / Sound Mattef Kuhlmey / Costume Sophia Piepenbrock-Saitz / Assistant to the Director Clarissa Omiecienski / Production: DANCE ON/DIEHL+RITTER / Co-production Onassis Stegi (Athens), Kampnagel (Hamburg) Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media DANCE ON is an initiative by DIEHL+RITTER gUG funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the

08—10.11.19 Main Stage

Media / Premiere 8 November 2019, Onassis Stegi

One of the most important artists on the world stage, the deeply political visual artist, director, and performer Rabih Mroué creates work for DANCE ON ENSEMBLE, with one of the evening’s two pieces making its world premier at the Onassis Stegi.

“Elephant” oscillates between a sense of isolation and a yearning for human connection.

Two bodies move in labyrinth patterns, trying to reach each other in vain. Jumping backwards and forwards in time, they find themselves searching for moments of togetherness while at the same time experiencing the inevitability of loneliness.

His new work “You Should Have Seen Me Dancing Waltz” confronts the dancers with the news of our daily violence, natural disasters and politics. How do current events affect – and infect– the dancers’ bodies? What is their impact on a physical level? Do they change how we move? These questions will be negotiated in very personal ways, dealing with the impact of words describing their movements.

Photo Jubal Battisti

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I'M POSITIVE

I’m Positive

The science has progressed. So society should follow.

POSITIVE VOICES SOUND STRONGER, AT THE ONASSIS STEGI

13—14.11.19 Main Stage & Upper Stage

Organised by Onassis Stegi & Positive Voice

Again this year, first-person accounts of the experience of living with HIV take center stage in the two-day event I’m Positive, organized in collaboration with Positive Voice, the Association of People Living with HIV in Greece.

groups on 13 and 14 November on the Upper Stage, the event aims to combat stigma, to defeat prejudice, to encourage us all to accept the people around us and begin to create a better society.

Just before World AIDS Day 2019, HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals will speak out with daring and sincerity about their lives, in an open conversation on 14 November on the Stegi’s Main Stage. Through personal narratives, as well as two days of film screenings for school

Children and teens will have the opportunity to speak with members of the HIV-positive community about issues of sexual health, as well as about the challenges and prejudices these individuals face.

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SEX EDU

UCATION

CONFERENCE

First, you get educated. Then, you educate.

The Onassis Foundation invites scientists, specialists and academics, to a seminar about Sexual Education in schools. So that young people can grow in an educational system that understands them.

Photo Christos Sarris

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MIXED REALITIES MASTERCLASS

20—21.11.19 Exhibition Hall -1

Athens is connected to New York in a twoday workshop for artists who work with Augmented (AR) and Virtual (VR) Reality technologies. In collaboration with pioneering artists New Reality Co, Wearable Media, and Sarah Rorthberg, the participants explore the way in which way technology amplifies the embodied experience, enlivening our senses and offering multiple pathways for engagement.

The participants of this workshop will be professionals who have already presented accomplished work and research on AR and VR technologies. Through trials, experimentations, new practices, and a design exercise that will culminate in the creation of an original piece, the participants will develop their professional skills and knowledge, and respond to the challenges posed by today’s art and technology landscape.

How virtual is the reality we live in today?

What are the stories worth narrated in the present? A two-day workshop on the art of AR and VR, paving the way for new incentives.

Credits Milica Zec (New Reality Co), Winslow Porter (New Reality Co), Hellyn Teng (Wearable Media), Yuchen Zhang (Wearable Media), Sarah Rothberg, Karen Wong (New Museum), Stephanie Pereira (NEW INC), Kelsa Trom (NEW INC) / Co-Production Onassis Stegi, NEW INC / Working Language English / Participation Information www.onassis.org / digital@onassis.org

Illustration Theodoros Koveos

Collage Loukas Bakas ELENIT, Euripides Laskaridis

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ELENI EURIPIDES LASKARIDIS

Conceived & Directed by Euripides Laskaridis / With Amalia Kosma, Chara Kotsali, Manos Kotsaris, Euripides Laskaridis, Thanos Lekkas, Dimitris Matsoukas, Efthimios Moschopoulos, Giorgos Poulios, Michalis Valasoglou, Fay Xhuma / Music & Sound Design Giorgos Poulios / Costume Design Angelos Mentis / Set Design Loukas Bakas / Lighting Design Eliza Alexandropoulou / Dramaturgy Consultant Alexandros Mistriotis / Associate Movement Director Nikos Dragonas / Technical Director Konstantinos Margas / Production Manager Rena Andreadaki A project by Euripides Laskaridis // Osmosis

28.11—01.12 & 04—07.12.19 Main Stage

Produced by Onassis Stegi-Athens (GR) / Supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings Program / Coproduced by Théâtre de la Ville-Paris (FR), Biennale de la Danse de Lyon 2020 (FR), Teatro della Pergola-Florence (IT), Teatro Municipal do Porto (PT), Festival TransAmérique-Montreal (CA), Les Halles de Schaerbeek-Brussels (BE), Teatre Lliure-Barcelona (ES), Malraux, Scène Nationale Chambéry - Savoie (FR), Théâtre de Liège (ΒE) and additional coproducers to be finalised / In collaboration with Julidans-Amsterdam (NL), ICI—Centre Chorégraphique National Montpellier - Occitanie (FR) / Funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports / In association with EdM Productions and Rial&Eshelman World Premiere 28 November 2019, Onassis Stegi (Athens)

The body is the medium through which Euripides’ spaces come to life. The action always evolves and revolves around characters who are touchingly real and painstakingly realised, yet unashamedly imaginary. Through them open new territories that are – by sudden turns – hilarious and heart-rending, grotesque and affecting, frightening and absurd.

RELIC (2015) was a domestic scene, its lone mortal lost in a terrestrial world after the end of reason. TITANS (2017) created an alien space for two, its co-dependent deities inhabiting a metaphysical realm in a time before reason. The new tragic comedy by Euripides, ELENIT, looks to further expand this universe. An ensemble piece for three creatures and a machine, it introduces too a chorus of many bodies to create an endlessly-animated backdrop to the action, a scrolling tableau that is also a world of its own.

It will forgo all reason to forge a space without past or future.

A monumental machine interested only in the urgency of the moment. A place where the things we know we knew are now behind.

EURIPIDES LASKARIDIS EXPANDS HIS SCENIC UNIVERSE WITH A NEW PIECE MADE FOR MANY BODIES. A SPACE WHERE THE THINGS WE KNOW WE KNEW ARE NOW BEHIND. “ELENIT” IS A TRAGIC COMEDY, WITH CHARACTERS WHO ARE TOUCHINGLY REAL AND PAINSTAKINGLY REALISED, YET UNASHAMEDLY IMAGINARY. CHARACTERS THAT EXIST IN A MACHINE INTERESTED ONLY IN URGENCY OF THE MOMENT.

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Euripides Laskaridis uses notions of ridicule and transformation to explore the perseverance of humankind in the face of the unknown. His works are marked by a sense of contained chaos: deep and detailed dives that tap into who we are by staying true to the specifics of a most personal vision. Unconventional and non-linear, they play with the possibilities of what lies all around – breaking, distorting, reforming and fiddling with commonplace materials and the detritus of everyday life to create the unexpected.

Photo Sarantos Georgios Zervoulakos Tom in Greece (Tom Ă la ferme)

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A psychological thriller? A meditation on mourning? Or a detailed dissection of a stifling society? The rising young director, Sarantos Georgios Zervoulakos, draws us into a tragicomedy of unveiled lies, repression, and violence amidst the backdrop of today’s Greece.

Translation Amalia Kondoyianni / Director Sarantos Georgios

A successful, cosmopolitan gay man, Tom travels to the Greek countryside to attend his lover’s funeral.

Concept

Zervoulakos / Set & Costume Design Tina Tzoka / Music Amateurboyz / Lighting Design Nikos Vlassopoulos / Assistant to the Director Stella Rapti / Dramaturg Lisiane Durand / Head of Production Rena Andreadaki / Cast Tom: Antonis Primikyris, Agathe: Renia Louizidou, Francis: Lefteris Polychronis, Sara: Eva Maria Sommersberg / Produced by Onassis Stegi

Theater Tom in Greece

Shattered by his loss, he meets the deceased’s family for the first time: the mother, who has no idea who Tom is and what he meant to her son, and the brother, whose main concern is to hide the truth at any cost.

Despite the “toxic” environment, Tom appears loath to leave, even as relations among the different characters, beset as they are by power games and repressed desires, devolve into pathology. Gradually, the blurring boundaries between violence and lust lead to a tragicomic unveiling of truth, repression, and violence.

TOM IN

12—15.12, 18—22.12 & 25—29.12.19 Upper Stage

TOM À LA FERME

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“HOMOSEXUALS LEARN TO LIE BEFORE THEY LEARN TO LOVE.”

— Michel Marc Bouchard

GREECE TEXT: MICHEL MARC BOUCHARD DIRECTION: SARANTOS GEORGIOS ZERVOULAKOS

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ATLAS Composers Carmine Emanuele-Cella, Dimitris Kamarotos, Valerio Tricoli / Video creation and video flow control during the concert Marina Gioti / Set Design and Audio Installations Design at Stegi’s foyer (Karlsruhe/Sound Tree, Paris/Sound Tree) Eva Manidaki / IRCAM Computer-music design Benjamin Levy / Coproduction IRCAM/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou, Onassis Stegi and ΖΚΜ / Coproduction coordination IRCAM-Centre Pompidou / The event is part of the Interfaces project co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.

Athens concert: Music Composition, Sound Dramaturgy, Sound Design, Special Audio Constructions, Performance Dimitris Kamarotos / Technical sound support and sound check during the concert Kostas Bokos / Creation and mix of microcameras field inside the concert’s instruments Vassilis Kountouris / Set Design Eva Manidaki / Set Designer Assistant Evgenia Makroglou / Lighting Design Yannis Drakoularakos / Assistant to the Composer Eleni Kavouki / Technical sound support of Dimitris Kamarotos’ IRCAM workshops Jeremie Bourgogne / Workshop ATLAS - ATHENS soundscape recordings support, theory and practice of cityscape recordings Yannis Antypas, Kostas Bokos / Dramaturgy Consultant Nikos Flessas / Workshop participants & special recordings (June – October 2019) Vassilis Alexopoulos, Manos Dimogerontakis, Dafne

13.12.19 Main Stage

Farazi, Thalia Ioannidou, Dimitris Karageorgos, Lina Karayanni, Alexandros Katsanis, Eleni Kavouki, Barbara Koutiva, Magda Lambropoulou, Flora Malla, Despina Tsafou / Production Manager Christina Pitouli / Operations Manager Despina Burdeka / Technical Manager Lefteris Karabilas / Line Producer Despina Sifniadou / IT Manager Konstantinos Apollonios / Software & Media Administrator Konstantinos Diamantis / Network Administrator Ioannis Chazakis / Sound Engineer Dimitris Samaras

Three composers present three different works in three concerts that take place simultaneously in three cities. Synchronized video and sound recordings unite Athens, Karlsruhe, and Paris in real time, to create a soundscape that breaches the bounds of geography. How can we change the way a city sounds?

Artwork Marina Gioti

The world premiere of “ATLAS Athens: A Sound Cartography of Europe” was realized with the support of three European foundations (ZKM, Onassis Stegi, and IRCAM).

Composed by Dimitris Kamarotos, the piece “Music Is the City,” to be presented in the Athens concert, consists of a flâneur’s travelogue of recordings, transfiguring the city, through its sounds, into a fantastical version of itself.

A classical orchestra is set on stage, but the musicians are missing. The city sounds, diffused in the concert hall, cause the instru-

ments to vibrate, adding their own particular timbre into the Athenian soundscape. At prearranged moments, the concert incorporates sound and visual material from Karlsruhe and Paris. Converging in this way, the three cities turn into a collective, vibrant, and all-inclusive body that welcomes us in. An ATLAS - Athens Soundscape Recordings group was trained and equipped by Onassis Stegi, in order to collect the city sounds we listen to in the concert. Project ATLAS was first conceived by the composer, mathematician, and researcher Carmine Emanuele Cella.

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ATHENS

Illustration Kostis Kounadis

Aristotle Onassis started out with a vision in his luggage and conquered the world.

Ever since 1978, the Onassis Foundation has released potential, having offered more than 7,000 scholarships. Through its Scholarship Program, it supports brilliant minds and bold ideas.

YOUNG, 26 YEARS OLD IN SEARCH OF AN OPPORTUNITY

Aristotle Onassis, 26 years old in Argentina, starting his career

CITIZENS

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DREAMS

100 girls and boys, from 12 to 16 years old, train at the Athenian districts of Ampelokipoi and Lamprini, they get inspired and learn to play as a united team inside and outside the court. Believe in yourself. Aim higher than your height. Farther from your neighborhood.

Register at antetokounbrosacademy.net until October 8, 2019. An Onassis Foundation collaboration with Nike and the Eurohoops Organization.

WELCOME

Photo Christos Sarris

19—21.12.19 Main Stage

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STEFAN KAEGI – RIMIΝI PROTOKOLL

GRANMA.

TROMBONES FROM HAVANA

Stefan Kaegi, co-founder of Rimini Protokoll, turns back time by 60 years, in order to recreate the myth of the Cuban revolution. This time, History isn’t written by Castro and his comrades, but by their grandchildren.

Four of the descendants of the comrades who would change the landscape of Cuba in the sixties mount the stage of the Onassis Stegi to play their ancestors.

But the adventures of that older generation assumes another dimension as they meet the hopes of the young people who are now in charge of writing History.

Legends and reality, utopias and dystopias, revolutionaries of a bygone era and young people of today, past and future meet in a courageous piece of documentary theater. In a Cuba which is continuously changing, as answers are urgently sought for contemporary sociopolitical questions, the pre-revolutionary music of Havana is still playing.

Stefan Kaegi, a founding member of Rimini Protokoll, boards the legendary yacht “Granma” to recreate the Cuban utopian vision and its disappointments, 63 years later.

A REVEALING LOOK AT CUBA FROM THE 1956 REVOLUTION TO TODAY Concept & Direction Stefan Kaegi / Stage Aljoscha Begrich / Video Mikko Gaestel / Composition Ari Benjamin Meyers / Sound Design Tito Toblerone, Aaron Ghantus / Dramaturgy Aljoscha Begrich, Yohayna Hernández / Costumes Julia Casabona / Technical Direction & Lighting Design Sven Nichterlein, Hans Leser (on tour) / Production Management Maitén Arns / With Milagro Álvarez Leliebre, Daniel CrucesPérez, Christian Paneque Moreda, Diana Sainz Mena / Video Collaboration Marta María Borrás / Dramaturgical Collaboration Ricardo Sarmiento / Assistant Director Noemi Berkowitz / Assistant Stage Design Julia Casabona / Production Assistants Federico Schwindt, Dianelis Diéguez / Internship Joana Falkenberg (Stage), Ignacia González (Direction), Lenna Stam (Costumes) / Touring Management Maitén Arns, Federico Schwindt (on tour) / Subtitles Meret Kündig, Federico Schwindt (on tour) / Translation Meret Kündig, Franziska Muche, Anna Galt, Marta Vukovic, Adrien Leroux (Panthea) / Trombone lessons Yoandry Argudin Ferrer, Diana Sainz Mena and Rob Gutowski / Research Cuba Residencia Documenta Sur, coordinated by Laboratorio Escénico de Experimentación Social: Maité Hernandéz-Lorenzo (investigadora y periodista), Karina Pino Gallardo (residente), José Ramón Hernández Suárez (residente), Ricardo Sarmiento Ramírez (residente), Taimi Diéguez Mallo (residente) y Miriam E. González Abad (productora) / A Production of Rimini Protokoll and Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin in coproduction with Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Festival TransAmériques (Montréal), Kaserne (Basel), Onassis Stegi (Athens), Théatre Vidy (Lausanne), LuganoInscena-Lac (Lugano), Zürcher Theaterspektakel (Zyrich), Festival D’Avignon / Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Senate Department for Culture

Photo Dorothea Tuch

and Europe / In collaboration with Goethe Institut Havanna

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What if the Cuba of Fidel Castro could live again?

What if the generation of young Cubans were dreaming of a different utopia? What if trombones replaced guns?

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THE BIRDS NIKOS KARATHANOS

Theater “The Birds” by Aristophanes

BY ARISTOPHANES

Translation Giannis Asteris / Direction Nikos Karathanos / Adaptation Nikos Karathanos, Giannis Asteris / Sets – Costumes Elli Papageorgakopoulou / Music Αngelos Triantafyllou / Lighting Design Simos Sarketzis / Movement Amalia Bennett / With Douglas Froog Alves de Paula, Thanasis Alevras, Stefania Goulioti, Vasiliki Driva, Nikos Karathanos, Ektor Liatsos, Christos Loulis, Amalia Moutousi, Amalia Bennett, Kostas Berikopoulos, Konstantinos Bibis, Tuany Nascimento, VN Dançarino Brabo, André Oliveira DB, Marlon Brando de Oliveira Santos, Klelia Renesi, Giannis Sevdikalis, Angelos Τriantafyllou, Martha Frintzila / Live music Sofia Efkleidou, Michalis Katachanas, Dimitris Klonis, Vasilis Panagiotopoulos, Dimitris Tigkas / Assistant Director Marisha Triantafyllidou / Assistant to the Director Ioanna Bitouni / Assistant to the Set Designer Myrto Lamprou / Sound Engineer Kostis Pavlopoulos / Production Assistant Tzela Christopoulou / Hair Design Chronis Tzimos / Make-up Alexandra Mita / Stage Manager Giannis Kritikos / Construction of the props "Trees" Socrates Papadopoulos / Set Construction Lazaridis Scenic Studio, Socrates Papadopoulos / Special Costume Construction Despoina Makarouni, Socrates Papadopoulos /

29—30.12.19 Main Stage

Translation in English Orfeas Apergis / Executive Producer POLYPLANITY Productions / Yolanda Markopoulou & Vicky Strataki

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Right before Nikos Karathanos’s “The Birds” fly off to Chile and the biggest performance festival in Latin America, they land on the Stegi’s Main Stage for two days, in a collaboration between Greek and Brazilian actors.

Come see the group Passinho Carioca from Rio, together with Nikos Karathanos, Christos Loulis, Amalia Moutousi, Stefania Goulioti, Martha Frintzila, Thanasis Alevras and other “birds.”

Photos Nikos Karathanos, Marisha Triantafyllidou

This performance was never just a performance.

It always resembled its setting: a floating island, somewhere between a Greek beach and the Amazon, full of pines and tropical vegetation, traveling outside of place and time, beyond national borders, states and forms of government.

After its premiere at Epidaurus in 2016, “The Birds” flew to St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, where the unprecedented happened: a Greek production was declared one of the best ten theater productions of 2018 by "New York Magazine".

Now, entirely revamped, accompanied by a film

by Babis Makridis inspired by the performance, and preparing for the international festival circuit with an accompanying educational program in tow, the Onassis Stegi’s performance combines the Brazilian dance group Passinho Carioca, from the favelas of Rio, with Nikos Karathanos and Christos Loulis, now flanked by Amalia Moutousi, Stefania Goulioti, Thanasis Alevras and Martha Frintzila, as well as a dozen other actors, musicians, and dancers from Greece.

Photos Nikos Karathanos, Marisha Triantafyllidou

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The next stop for the GreekBrazilian “Birds,” right after Athens and the Onassis Stegi, is the Santiago a Mil International Festival in Chile: “The Birds” will be performed at one of the leading theaters in Santiago, the Teatro Municipal de Las Condes in January 2020.

This is, moreover, the philosophy of the prominent festival, which over the past 25 years, since 1994, has produced 1,065 shows from Chile and about 500 from 25 other nations, before 11,825,830 audience members, in 20 Metropolitan Region neighborhoods in Santiago and in 15 other cities around Chile. Artists including Pina Bausch, Ariane Mnouchkine, Royal de Luxe, Robert Wilson, Christoph Marthaler, Jan Fabre, Krystian Lupa, Ivo van Hove, Romeo Castelucci, Lemi Ponifasio and Thomas Ostermeier have appeared at the festival.

THE BIRDS IN CHILE

64 Theater — Onassis Stegi on Tour “The Birds” in Chile 17—20.01.20 Santiago a Mil International Festival—Chile

Nikos Karathanos’s “The Birds” at the Santiago a Mil International Festival in Chile, in January 2020.

65 Photo Kiki Papadopoulou

Nikos Karathanos in Rio de Janeiro, April 2019 Photo Marisha Triantafyllidou

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68 Cinema The Birds or How To Be One

Movie still Konstantinos Koukoulios

A film by Babis Makridis / Based on Aristophanes’ “Birds” and on the Onassis Stegi production of the same name, directed by Nikos Karathanos and translated / adapted by Giannis Asteris and Nikos Karathanos / Director of Photography Konstantinos Koukoulios / Editor Marios Kleftakis / Music The Little Thieves, Angelos Τriantafyllou / With Aris Servetalis, Nikos Karathanos, Stratos Papadakis, Christos Loulis, Michalis Sarantis, Ektor Liatsos, Galini Hatzipaschali, Emily Koliandri, Elena Topalidou, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Alexandra Aidini, Maria Diakopanagioutou, Vasiliki Driva, Giannis Sevdikalis, Haris Fragoulis, Konstantinos Bibis, Giannis Kotsifas, Babis Makridis, Isavella Alopoudi, Grigoria Metheniti, Kostas Berikopoulos, Aggelos Papadimitriou, Foivos Rimenas / Produced by the Onassis Foundation in collaboration with Neda Film

A hybrid film, at the edge of documentary, fiction, and political fantasy, by cinematographer Babis Makridis, of “L” (Sundance Film Festival 2012) and “Pity” (Sundance Film Festival 2018, Best Film, Greek Film Academy 2019).

The film “The Birds or how to be one” draws its inspiration from the archetypical myth of Aristophanes’s “The Birds,” Nikos Karathanos’s production, and its participants, filming them off stage, in real spaces and natural environments—from lava fields in Iceland to the plateaus of Patagonia, and from Times Square to the Egyptian pyramids.

Everything takes place in a universe of fluid “everyday” routine, among theater people, ornithologists, and pragmatic recluses who all dream of flying.

BABIS MAKRIDIS

BIRDS THE MOVIE

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A film by Babis Makridis that is also an escape manual. How to become a bird in nine steps.

What comes first?

Break open your shell.

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Photo Christos Sarris

Lenio Kaklea’s practice explores the possibilities of an “expansive” choreography. Whether addressing her audience oneon-one in her installation art, or abiding by the conventional theatrical compact, she never stops pushing against the everchanging boundaries of her practice. In so doing, she builds complex dialogues among dance techniques and the other arts, as well as the broader contexts that shape them. Her new work, “Practical Encyclopedia.

Detours”, is centered, as the title itself suggests, on the mundane gesture, our physical everyday activities, and in so doing creates a contemporary portrait of Europe.

The origin for this work traces back to 2016, when the choreographer, in the company of writers and critics, conducted 600 interviews, thus collecting a series of narratives about the habits, rituals, and transactional mores of her interviewees.

For her new stage work that will be presented in Athens in January, Lenio Kaklea formed a group of three more dancers that joined the choreographer on stage.

In charting the dispersion and proliferation of the techniques of body and gesture adopted by Europe’s citizens/residents, the four dancers draw an experiential portrait of contemporary European life before our very eyes.

PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. DETOURS LENIO KAKLEA

The body is the medium through which Lenio Kaklea traces the contours of Europe’s contemporary landscape.

Photo Maria Toultsa

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A portrait of the complexities of the European experience brought to life through the language of the body; a work that speaks to the everyday practices of Europe’s residents by giving voice to the silent forces that shape us.

Concept & Choreography Lenio Kaklea / Performance Jessica Batut, Nanyadji Ka-Gara, Lenio Kaklea and Elisa Yvelin / Dramaturgy Lou Forster / Sound & Technical Direction Éric Yvelin / Set & Lighting Design Florian Leduc / Costumes & Props Alexia Caunille / Production & Distribution Teresa Acevedo / Administration Agnès Henry - extrapole / Production abd / Coproduction Biennale de Poitiers Traversées in partnership with le TAP Scène Nationale de Poitiers, CCN d’Orléans, Centre Pompidou/Spectacle Vivant in partnership with the festival Faits d’Hiver, Centre national de la danse, Le Quartz/Scène Nationale de Brest in partnership with Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Art Danse CDCN Dijon, Onassis Stegi Athens, PACT Zollverein/ Essen, Far˚ festival des arts vivants de Nyon / With the support of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (France) and Tanzhaus/Zurich

Photo Christos Sarris

GEORGIA MAVRAGANI & DEMOSTHENES PAPAMARKOS

16—19.01 & 22—26.01.20 Main Stage

Theater The Taming

THE TAMING

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After the success of “Giak”, award-winning author and historian, Demosthenes Papamarkos writes, while Georgia Mavragani directs, a contemporary parable about how the human word tames and subjugates the world.

Yet death is something that we can only pretend to know, and so it remains perpetually untamed – foreign to our sense of space, time, the word.

Historian and writer, Demosthenes Papamarkos, in his first collaboration with Onassis Stegi, writes “The Taming” (2019) a parable about how human narrative tames and subjugates our world.

Georgia Mavragani directs a play that wavers between conjuring the past and bearing witness to the present. Myth and history – Homer’s “Odyssey”, Virgil’s “Aeniad”, Aeschylus, Herodotus, the dead Sybil’s speech to Odin, and testimonies by contemporary refugees – are all interwoven so as to underscore our tendency to use “mourning” as both raw material for artistic creation and object of aesthetic fascination.

What, in the end, does mourning reveal to us about human nature?

Written by Demosthenes Papamarkos / Direction Georgia Mavragani / Original Music Composition & Sound Design Haris Neilas / Set & Costumes Design Artemis Flessa / Assistant Director Niki Doulgeraki / Collage Constantinos Chaidalis

Production Management Rena Andreadaki / Produced by Onassis Stegi

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Where is the entrance to the underworld? Some say that it can be found in the depths of a cave, while others at the outer limits of an unknown sea.

This is what human beings create stories about.

Illustration Zahos Eleftheriadis

80 Music Music Bridge over Syngrou Avenue, vol. 5

MUSIC BRIDGE OVER For the fifth consecutive year, the “Music Bridge over Syngrou Avenue” initiative brings together Stegi and Panteion University for a rich series of concerts including landmarks of the contemporary music scene and fresh new talents that dare venture into unexplored territory.

The first day presents a panorama of works for voice in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: a selection of German lieder, excerpts from Ligeti and Unsuk Chin operas, and compositions where language is treated as phonemes or voice is combined with electronics (February 5th).

05—07.02.20 Panteion University

On the second night, an open upright piano, a harpsichord, a Rhodes piano, a toy piano, and a violin share the stage to create completely unexpected musical combinations (February 6th).

To conclude, we have the rich soundscapes of a woodwind quintet conveying distinguished Italian composer, Marco Stroppa’s, meditations on the signal date, September 11th; Peteris Vasks’s vision of flight and freedom; and the work of various Greek composers (February 7th).

Wednesday 5 February The adventures of the voice 1st concert (20:30) Fanie Antonelou: soprano Apostolos Palios: piano Anton Webern “Vier Lieder” op. 12 (1915-17) / Wolfgang Rihm Brentano-Phantasie (2002)* / Isabel Mundry “Anagramm” for soprano and piano (2000)* / György Ligeti “Der Sommer” (1989) / György Ligeti “Mysteries of the Macabre” (1974-77, 1992) / Unsuk Chin “snagS&Snarls” (2003-04, 2014) – extracts** 2nd concert (21:30) Anna Pangalou: mezzo-soprano Luciano Berio “Sequenza III” for voice (1965) / Cathy Berberian “Stripsody” (1966) / John Cage “Song Books” (1970) – selections / Georges Aperghis “Récitation IX” (1977-78) / Ann LeBaron “Eurydice’s Death” for voice and electronics (1982/2019)* / Μeredith Monk TBA*/ Katerina Tzedaki “Crystal Forest” - an Onassis Stegi commission for voice and electronics (2019)** / Salvatore Sciarrino “Due Arie Marine: No. 2 Tempesta” for mezzo-soprano and real-time synthesized sounds (1990)*

A tribute to György Ligeti; a cartoon in song; a grotesque operatic Alice; a harpsichord fast-forwarding through four centuries of music; a toy piano; new works commissioned by Onassis Stegi and works that articulate a contemporary political sensibility.

Thursday 6 February Keyboards Χ 5 (and one violin)

Friday 7 February (20:30) Winds X 5

1st concert (20:30) Annini Tsiouti: grand piano, upright piano, toy piano

Aeolos Woodwind Quintet Vangelis Stathoulopoulos: flute Ioannis Tselikas: oboe Angelos Politis: clarinet Georgios Faroungias: bassoon Spiros Kakos: horn

Christina Athinodorou “RE:MAINS” for multipianist (2013-15)* / Einojuhani Rautavaara “Music for Upright Piano” (1976)* / John Cage “Suite for toy piano” (1948) / Brice Catherin “Numéro 2” version for piano and electronics (2006)** / Frederic Rzewski “Piano Piece no. 4” (1977) 2nd concert (21:30) Duo Vita Βrevis Zoe Pouri: violin Panos Iliopoulos: harpsichord, Rhodes piano, electronics Dario Castello Sonata Prima à Sopran Solo "Sonate Concertate in Stil Moderno, Libro II" for violin and continuo (1629) / György Ligeti “Continuum” for harpsichord (1968) / Panos Iliopoulos “ΚΗΑΟΝ”* for harpsichord, Rhodes piano and electronics (2015) / Pierre Boulez “Anthèmes I” for violin solo (1992) / Panos Iliopoulos “ΜVA” for violin, harpsichord and electronics (2013)

György Ligeti “Six Bagatelles” (1953) / Yannis Ioannidis “Actinia” (1970) / Gregory Emfietzis “Fear (not)” (2014)* / Pēteris Vasks “Music for the Fleeting Birds” (1977) / Stylianos Dimou New work, Onassis Stegi commission (2019)** / Marco Stroppa “Opus Naineleven – 5 Requies per la democrazia” (2004/2019)***

* Premiere in Greece ** World premiere *** World premiere of the revised version Project Head Lorenda Ramou Professor in charge (Panteion University) George-Michael Klimis

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12—14.02.20 Main Stage

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NGO FAUSTIN LINYEKULA TEXT: ERIC VUILLARD

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Dance – Theater Congo

The Congolese choreographer, Faustin Linyekula, weaves a rich tapestry of story-telling, song, and dance that takes us on a journey through the meandering paths of world history, in particular the violent colonization of the Congo.

That Congolese artist Faustin Linyekula’s work is embroiled in politics goes without saying.

His trajectory as a choreographer has drawn on myriads of stories from his homeland – stories brought to life through the body. In his latest work, Congo, he leads us down the meandering paths of History, in particular the violent colonization of the Congo as recounted by author Eric Vuillard.

Linyekula draws on aspects integral to everyday life in his culture – oral storytelling,

song, and dance – and makes them central to his work. Mixing Vuillard's words, movements and songs from the Equateur forest, where most of rubber tree plantations were, his work speaks of and to a common, accessible human experience. Faustin Linyekula, Pasco Losanganya and the actor Daddy Kamono evoke memories that bear witness to longsilenced truths about the bloody empire of the King of Belgium Leopold II, who turned a territory 80 times larger than his own kingdom into the “land of the damned.”

85 Photo Elise Fitte-Duval

Artistic Direction Faustin Linyekula / Text Eric Vuillard, Actes Sud pub, with Daddy Moanda Kamono, Faustin Linyekula, Pasco Losanganya / Music Franck Moka, Faustin Linyekula / Light Manager Koceila Aouabed / Production Studios Kabako – Virginie Dupray / Coproduction Kunstenfestivadesarts Bruxelles, Théâtre de la Ville / Festival d’Automne - Paris, Le Manège, Scène nationale de Reims, HAU Hebbel am Ufer – Berlin, Ruhrtriennale, Vidy-Lausanne Theater, Holland festival Amsterdam / With support from the Centre National de la Danse – Pantin, Centre Dramatique National de Normandie-Rouen and the KVS Brussels

Illustration Kostis Kounadis

88 Music Open Day: Musical Ecologies 16.02.20 Multiple Stages

OPEN MUSICAL ECOLOGIES

Music is ambiance, space… who we are.

The musical selections for this year’s annual “Open Day,” draw directly and indelibly not only from the world around us but also from our very hearts.

Musical Ecologies: a multifaceted interaction of artists, performers, and audience members; a musical offering that engages major intellectual movements of the 20th century, including the ecology of mind, as defined

by Gregory Bateson in his book “Steps to an ecology of mind”, and Félix Guattari’s “ecosophy.”

Nothing ought to be taken for granted in today’s world: terms such as “sound,” “noise,” “music” must be interrogated and redefined so as to better describe the complexities of our present moment. What constitutes music? What are the practices that shape its performance? How to characterize both the personal and collective experience of listening to it? These are all questions at the heart of the contemporary artistic enterprise, shaped as it is by a range of heterogeneous encounters and conjunctions that, in turn, engender new and captivating musical languages.

In short, our “Open Day” musical performances propose a new look at what we understand as sound art.

For yet another year, “Open Day” opens Stegi’s doors to the public and invites young and old alike to roam freely through our spaces in order to forge personal pathways through the multifaceted world of sound.

Concept, Composition, Musicological & Directorial Oversight, Realisations, Orchestrations, Organization Anargyros Deniozos / Musical Director Andreas Levisianos / Organizational Oversight / Curation Valia Rassa / Production Assistant Sergios Sinanis / Lighting Elina Sfountouri, Thalia Velegraki / Electronics Nikos Palamaris / Production Manager Christina Pitouli / With The Ensemble Continuum (@Athens), The Ionian Festival Ensemble, Ergon Ensemble

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Photo Hugo Glendinning Enter Achilles, Ballet Rambert & Sadler’s Wells — Lloyd Newson (DV8)

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BALLET RAMBERT & SADLER’S WELLS — LLOYD NEWSON (DV8)

A work by Lloyd Newson (DV8 Physical Theater) Choreography Lloyd Newson with the performers (past and present) / Set Design Ian MacNeil / Composer Adrian Johnston / Creative Associate Hannes Langolf / A Rambert & Sadler’s Wells co-production in association with Onassis Stegi, Athens / Co-produced with Festspielhaus St Pölten, Grec Festival de Barcelona i Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Théâtre de la Ville - Paris / Chaillot - Théâtre national de la danse / Re-creation Premiere Festspielhaus, St Pölten (Austria) / Premiere International Run Onassis Stegi Athens / Age 15+ / No latecomers / No filming or photography

“LLOYD NEWSON'S POWERFUL AND SPECTACULAR NEW WORK, ‘ENTER ACHILLES’, IS ABOUT VIOLENCE AND VULNERABILITY OF MANLINESS – FUNNY, MOVING, DISTURBING”.

Twenty-five years after legendary dance iconoclast Lloyd Newson (DV8) first dragged British pub culture kicking and yelling onto the stage, Rambert and Sadler’s Wells present Newson’s reworking of this landmark physicaltheater production.

As pertinent now as it was when first staged in 1995, “Enter Achilles” lifts the lid on “the straitjacket of what’s deemed to be masculine” (The Observer), examining the terrors and tenderness of beer-soaked testosterone.

“Violent, ugly, politically incorrect and hilarious” (The Australian) “Enter Achilles” toured 18 countries and was made into a TV film winning many accolades including an International Emmy and Prix Italia. It now returns to the stage with a new cast, selected by Newson, in his first-ever collaboration with another company, the world-renowned Rambert.

– The Sunday Times

ENTER ACHILLES

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One pub, eight blokes, a stacked jukebox and a load of pints. It was always going to kick off. “Enter Achilles” wrestles with the notion of masculinity, through the funny, provocative and disturbing actions of eight men during an evening in a British pub.

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MOVEM A FESTIVAL BETWEEN AND BEYOND BORDERS

21—23.02.20 In & Out of the Onassis Stegi

The Onassis Stegi, in support of the free movement of people, ideas, and culture, invites us to imagine our common future in an open world beyond borders, beyond racial and gender restrictions.

“Movement” explores human mobility in the Mediterranean and beyond, from the interwar period to the present (1920-2020), through a series of lectures, concerts, film screenings, and a digital platform for archival and live material that will be simulcast throughout the festival.

From 1920 on, wars, colonialism, deteriorating economic conditions and the pursuit of a better way of life, the acceleration of

technological change, and environmental disasters have played a decisive role in the mass movement of people.

The phenomenon of human mobility, which is as old as humanity itself, leads us to a conclusion: Human life cannot be detached from the freedom of movement, which is an indispensible precondition for the free and necessary exercise of humanity’s creative and productive capacity.

(1920 – 2020)

Curated by DETACH (Voltnoi & Quetempo)

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Illustration Kostis Kounadis

PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER

On the other side of the Atlantic, we open discussions, argue, fight and take a stand in relation to anything that restricts freedom, democracy and life. BAM, Public Theater, New York Public Library, St. Anne’s Warehouse, Pioneer Works, prominent cultural institutions in New York City, are partnering with Onassis USA to make the local global and the global local.

Video still Christos Sarris

Video Still Warped Type

102 Music Songs of Rebellion

SONGS OF Composition Brigitta Muntendorf / Stage Direction Michael Höppner / Set, Costumes & Mask Design Jule Saworski / Video Warped Type (Andreas Huck and Roland Nebe) / Sound Direction Maximilian Estudies / Technical Production Manager, Light Lukas Becker / Musicians/performers Louis Bona (viola), Evdoxia Filippou (percussion), Till Künkler (trombone), Carola Schaal (clarinet), Małgorzata Walentynowicz (synthesizer), Brigitta Muntendorf and Michael Höppner / Supported by Kunststiftung NRW,

29.02.20 Main Stage

Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa (Spartenoffene Förderung), Rudolf Augstein Stiftung / The event is part of the Sounds Now project co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union

BRIGITTA MUNTENDORF & MICHAEL HÖPPNER

Composer Brigitta Muntendorf and director Michael Höppner create a contemporary melody of rebellion.

Yellow Vests, Pegida, "Fridays for Future"...

Europe is in turmoil. Angry bourgeoisie as pop culture? The beginning of the end? The beginning of a real change?

For “Songs of Rebellion”, the composer Brigitta Muntendorf and the director Michael Höppner create a "Community of Practice" consisting of various ensembles and artists, expose themselves to the individual and collective power of the song and stage its

ambivalent relationship to diverse forms of uprising. The contradictory, resisting and affirmative, transitory or even lost existence of the protest song as a stimulant, cult, myth, gesture of uproar or party music makes this special song type appear as immortal as it is infinitely vulnerable.

“Songs of Rebellion” unfolds an experiential space of musical, theatrical and medial links of resistance and dedication, in which escapism and agitation, art and politics, contemporary music and pop, contemplation and action can always be a fanfare as well as a lullaby of rebellion.

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REBELLION

106 Multimedia Installation — Exhibition Data Garden

It is well-known that plants store information in their DNA. Yet, how could humanitygenerated digital information also be stored in the plants’ genetic code? Is it possible for such a procedure to create the conditions for the birth of new synergies and forms of cohabitation, in order for a new kind of sensitivity and care for the environment and multi-species to emerge?

“Data Garden” is a multimedia exhibition that reveals a narrative based on fictional elements and scientific facts. The plant Micromeria acropolitana, which grows on the hill of Acropolis in Athens, as well as the recently executed first experiments on digital data storage in plant DNA, are the main components of this narrative.

This work examines the potential of new synergies between nature, human, and artificial intelligence, and predominantly in regard to the handling and the energy imprint of data storage. “Data Garden” highlights the importance of recognition and acceptance of non-human types of intelligence, both on a physical and technological level, as well as the perspective of collaboration with them.

DATA

26.03—08.04.20 Outside the Onassis Stegi

KYRIAKI GONI

Concept & Artistic Creation Kyriaki Goni / Curated by Daphne Dragona / Production Management Prodromos Tsiavos, Ηeracles Papatheodorou / Produced by Onassis Stegi

Κολάζ Κωνσταντίνος Χαϊδαλής

GARDEN

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HOW “NATURAL” CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BE? DATA AND ALGORITHMS SPROUT UP IN THE CENTER OF ATHENS, IN AN EXHIBITION WHERE MICROMERIA ACROPOLITANA, A PLANT THAT GROWS IN THE ROCK OF ACROPOLIS, PLAYS THE LEADING ROLE.

Video still Christos Sarris

Art, architecture, culture, everyday people and artists of the world. Beirut has the same quirks as Athens, our city. Artistic Residencies, Fellowships, and collaborations with the most influential Lebanese artists, such as Walid Raad, Rabih Mroué, Akram Zaatari, Hatem Imam, Ali Cherri, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, motivate the Onassis Foundation to always return to Beirut.

WE ALWAYS RETURN TO BEIRUT

‫عامليني مثل‬/‫ للتعاونات مع فنانني لبنانيني‬،‫ من االقامات الفنية للمنح‬.‫ يف بريوت نفس امللذات التي يف مدينتنا اثينا‬،‫ والعامرة والثقافة والفنانون والناس من كل البلدان‬،‫الفن‬ .‫ تلك هي االسباب التي ت ُعيد دامئًا مؤسسة أوناسيس إىل بريوت‬،‫وليد رعد وربيع مروة وأكرم زعرتي وحاتم امام ومايا مومنة وعيل رشي وجوانا حجي توما وخليل جريج‬

05—06.03.20 Upper Stage & Foyer

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INTERFACES

CULTURAL SYNERGIES, CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

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Curated by Christos Carras, Theodora Vougiouka The event is part of the Interfaces project co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union

Contemporary culture is shaped through discussions, encounters, exchanges. Four years after its official launch, the Interfaces program culminates in an international conference that brings together Creative Europe in its entirety.

The INTERFACES Final Conference “Cultural synergies, creativity & innovation� is a two-day international event that explores how cultural synergies could contribute to innovation and creativity in the field of culture.

promoting the transnational mobility of artists and professionals and fostering capacity building through innovative approaches to creation, management and marketing for the cultural sectors.

The conference will bring together representatives from projects funded by Creative Europe program, cultural practitioners and policymakers to discuss, re-think and re-use strategies on strengthening audience development as a means of improving access to European cultural and creative works,

The Conference includes insights, perspectives and tools developed during the four-year large-scale cooperation project INTERFACES, coordinated by Onassis Stegi with the support of the Creative Europe program, and connects these with other initiatives, projects and collaborations in Europe and beyond.

06—08.03.20 Exhibition Hall -1

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A LIVE PERFORMANCE ABOUT BORDER CROSSING

The cruellest of borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life.

The death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarisation of faraway border villages.

“Cultural Exchange Rate” is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria. One marked by war survival, valueless currency collection, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards the colonial and national borders.

06—08.03.20 Exhibition Hall -1

The audience is invited to immerse their heads into one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.

“Cultural Exchange Rate” is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.

TANIA EL KHOURY

CULTURAL

Design Fadi Tabbal / Graphic Design Jana Traboulsi / Live Video Editing & Motion Graphics Ali Beidoun / Cinematography Luke Bryant and Tania El Khoury / Spanish Translation Ziad Chakaroun / Archives El Khoury Family Papers (Lebanon and Mexico), Archivo General de la Nación (México), SRE - Acervo Histórico Diplomático (México) / Co-commissioned by Bard Fisher Center (New York), Spielart Festival (Munich), and Onassis Stegi (Athens)

Lebanese live artist Tania El Khoury recites the universal, neverending story of migration, through a family diary of the borders.

EXCHANGE RATE

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Production Design Petra Abusleiman / Research Ziad Abu-Rish, May Haider, Mariam Saada, Alexander Mayagoitia / Sound

Illustration Gustav Mützel The Sea Between My Soul, Raed Yassin

13—15.03.20 Main Stage

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THE SEA BETWEEN MY SOUL

RAED YASSIN

Concept & Direction Raed Yassin / Music & Lyrics Alan Bishop / Scenography Hussein Baydoun / Lighting Design Charlie Åström / Produced by Onassis Stegi

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Taxidermy animals take the stage and sing about the long history of death in the Mediterranean Sea. Can their absurd singing reveal the world around us?

Photo Raed Yassin

A cross between theater, sculpture, light installation, and rock concert, “The Sea Between My Soul” captures Raed Yassin’s multi-disciplinary practice succinctly. Placing the Mediterranean sea at the center of a long history of death and killing, a large number of taxidermy animals will be ‘singing’ on stage about their own deaths, vocalized by Sun City Girls’s Alan Bishop. No longer just mute mounted skins, the animals are animated and made alive by this morbid anthropomorphic display. They act as the witnesses of this death, as the embodiment of death themselves, and as the narrators of this enduring violent reality. Their fake marble eyes and dry fur will invoke a cataclysmic vision of the Mediterranean region today.

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EROTIC POSTCARDS FROM GREECE ANESTIS AZAS

18—22.03, 25—29.03 & 01—05.04.20 Upper Stage

A show on the touristic image of Greece that wavers and oscillates between documentary and fiction. Sea, sun, stars, sand, sex amid the ruins of ancient Greek civilization: the entanglement of tourism and eroticism today, or Greece as erotic fantasy.

What is the connecting thread that ties together satyrs with enlarged phalli, orgies depicted on ancient amphora, and those sexy, contemporary images flooding Instagram with their alluring backdrops of turquoise waters and dramatic sunsets? How did the myth of the “Greek lover” come about? Can Greekness be captured in a souvenir?

In their first collaborative writing project, Anestis Azas and Lena Kitsopoulou create a fictional documentary performance based on the relationship between tourism and eroticism, which, although rooted in the realm of the real, quickly leaps into the highest order of fabulation.

Direction & Research Anestis Azas / Text collaboration Lena Kitsopoulou / Dramaturgy Prodromos Tsinikoris / Set Design Eleni Stroulia / Lighting Design Eliza Alexandropoulou / Sound Design Panagiotis Manouilidis / Assistant to the Director Eleana Tsichli / With George Vourdamis, Hara Kotsali, Theano Metaxa and others / Produced by Onassis Stegi

The erotic postcard, an object serving a variety of purposes – ranging from the practical to the humorous and fetishistic – provides the narrative hub for a show that doubles as a collective selfie unveiling the workings of sexuality as national monument and national identity as touristic product.

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A house among palm trees. A ping-pong table. Comfortable chairs. A view and an appetite for discussion.

Until recently, Paul Holdengräber conversed with some of the most famous people in history – from Patti Smith to Jay-Z, from Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, and from Werner Herzog to Mike Tyson – usually in the New York Public Library. Now, as the Executive Director of Onassis LA (OLA), he carries on his unexpected meetings for the Onassis Foundation in a welcoming home in Los Angeles.

OLA HOUSE

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NEW SYMPHONIC MUSIC The title of Calliope Tsoupaki’s new composition, “Salto di Sappho”, combines allusion to the legend that Sappho leapt to her death off a cliff in Lefkada with the composer’s personal memories of her first trip to Holland. The composer creates an antiphonal effect between the soloists' duo consisting of an ancient Greek and a Renaissance instrument (Pan Flute and recorder), and the body of the symphonic orchestra, by drawing elements from both byzantine and medieval music.

Chaya Czernowin’s composition, at times delicate and diaphanous, at times robust and dynamic, depend on continual fluctuations in the density of sound. Indeed, the exceptional skill with which she choreographs the movement of sound in space is utterly captivating and a true auditory treat.

At the core of Dimitrios Skyllas’s musical inspiration are hymns of funerary and Epitaphic lamentantion, traditional laments from the region of Epirus and ancient Greek tragedy. From this core, he creates an utterly contemporary symphonic sound rooted in the meaning of sacredness and rituals of lamentation.

WORKS BY CALLIOPE TSOUPAKI, CHAYA CZERNOWIN, DIMITRIOS SKYLLAS

Works / Calliope Tsoupaki “Salto di Saffo” (2018) / Chaya Czernowin “At the Fringe of our Gaze” (2012-13) / Dimitrios Skyllas “Kyrie Eleison” (2019) / Soloists Erik Bosgraaf (recorder), Matthijs Koene (Pan Flute) / Conductor Vladimiros Symeonidis

These three Greek premieres take orchestral sound in completely unexpected directions.

Instrumental timbres drawn from the deep wells of musical time –Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Renaissance– characterize works

by Kalliope Tsoupaki and Dimitrios Skyllas.

Chaya Czernowin’s exceptional mastery, on the other hand, is evident in the sensations she engenders from the creation of a unique acoustical space.

Photos Astrid Ackermann (Chaya Czernowin), John Kolikis (Dimitrios Skyllas), Michiel van Nieuwkerk (Calliope Tsoupaki)

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“KYRIE ELEISON”, THE FIRST GREEK COMPOSITION EVER COMMISSIONED BY THE BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

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DANCING TO Teenagers speak with their bodies, think with their hearts, and come together through a dance that is as daring as themselves.

22.03.20 Main Stage

Sometimes, the only thing you need in order to communicate or eliminate prejudice, bullying, and fear, is a simple choreography.

Ten junior and senior highschools from Athens and Kalamata allow the power of contemporary dance to invade the school’s classrooms, gyms, corridors, and yards. Professional dancers visit these schools, share their knowledge and guide the students to create a dance performance, which they will present at the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi.

Photo Christina Georgiadou

After seven successful years, we are well aware that dance brings people together.

This is why the Onassis Stegi, still drawing inspiration from the brainchild of New York's Battery Dance Company and with the perennial support of the U.S. Embassy in Athens, will keep “Dancing to Connect” – the same way 45 countries in the world do, in the framework of the titular program.

HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE NEEDED TO SHAKE ONASSIS STEGI? With members of the group of dancers who have participated over the past years Ioanna Apostolou, Nontas Damopoulos, Nikoleta Karmiri, Candy Karra, Alexander Laskaratos, Androniki Marathaki, Yiannis Nikolaidis, Aris Papadopoulos, Martha Pasakopoulou, Dimokritos Sifakis, Elena Stavropoulou, Antonis Strouzas, Maria Fountouli, Ilias Hatzigeorgiou / In collaboration with the Kalamata International Dance Festival and the Municipality of Kalamata

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O CONNECT

Illustration Kostis Kounadis

Photos Yiorgos Kaplanidis

Activities for students 0-107 years old.

More than 50 cycles of Onassis Foundation educational programs, in dozens of different fields, enhancing the imagination, empowering sensitivity and strengthening the will. For yet another year, we get up off the couch and release our potential on the city’s streets, on school desks, wearing VR glasses, entering the Onassis Library, including people with or without disabilities, dancing. Shall we?

WORK OUT FOR SOUL. IT FEELS GREAT.

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A TRIBUTE TO GEORGES APERGHIS

Onassis Stegi and the Athens Conservatoire continue their successful collaboration by honoring the distinguished Greek composer, Georges Aperghis, who will celebrate his 75th birthday with us. Events include a months’-long seminar, a master class, and concerts.

26—29.03.20 Athens Conservatoire

After the lasting impression made by the tribute to Olivier Messiaen in 2019, Onassis Stegi once again joins forces with the Athens Conservatoire for a tribute to Georges Aperghis’s music theater universe. The composer Nicolas Tzortzis, who studied under Aperghis and masterminded the entire program for the tribute, will lead a team of musicians, actors, and dancers in the creation of a new version of “Énumérations” (1988) based, of course, on Aperghis’s original work (26.03).

Françoise Rivalland, percussionist and close collaborator of Aperghis’s, will teach a master class on music theater works in addition to participating in a concert for voice, percussion, and accordion with Angèle Chemin and Vincent Lhermet (27, 28.03). Lenio Liatsou, who recently recorded Aperghis’s works for piano, will perform a recital (28.03). The tribute will close with a concert by participants in the master class (29.03). Ιt is the first time in Greece where Aperghis's work is transmitted by himself and distinguished collaborators to a new generation of artists.

DECODING THE UNIVERSE OF THE LEADING GREEK COMPOSER

Photo Patricia Dietzi

General supervision of the Tribute Georges Aperghis / Tribute planning Georges Aperghis, Nicolas Tzortzis, Françoise Rivalland / Coordination Lorenda Ramou / Coordination (Athens Conservatoire) Nikos Athineos / With the participation of Georges Aperghis, Nicolas Tzortzis (seminar tutor), Françoise Rivalland (percussion/cimbalom/masterclass tutor), Angèle Chemin (soprano), Vincent Lhermet (accordion), Lenio Liatsou (piano)

Photo Kevin Deery & Mike Rafail Stones & Bones, RootlessRoot

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Collage Constantinos Chaidalis

Dance Stones & Bones

STONES & BONES

Artistic Directors & Choreographers Linda Kapetanea, Jozef Fruček / Set Design & Visual Contributors Peter Randall, Thomas Randall / Composer Vassilis Mantzoukis / Sound Designer Christos Parapagidis / Lighting Designer Periklis Mathiellis / Costumes Designer Isabelle Lhoas / Texts Ioanna Nasiopoulou / Videographer & Photographer Mike Rafail / Production Management & Touring Cultόpια / Produced by Onassis Stegi

Five performers, accompanied by live music, face off on stage against eternity’s material, marble, creating a poem about the human struggle with time and space, with gravity and decay.

The five performers begin their quest in the mythic cosmic ocean of endless possibilities, of boundless forms, shapes, and dimensions, and end up working with the basic Pythagorean foundations of cosmic creation and geometry. Spheres, cubes, tetrahedrons, icosahedrons… An archetypical universe unfolds on stage as these creators sink into the shape and weight of objects, knowing that everything will end because the human presence is always fleeting.

With “Stones and Bones,” RootlessRoot attempts to create a theatrical experience free of fake objects. They show us the human body in actual conditions of creation, trying to make human life more dense in the present moment and to carve a mark that will prove to the future that they once existed.

A WORK FOR FIVE PERFORMERS AND THE MARBLE ETERNITY OF POETIC CREATION

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ROOTLESSROOT

RootlessRoot are returning to the Onassis Stegi.

This time, they pit their bodies against one of nature’s harshest materials: marble.

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BORDE BORDE

09—12.04.20 In & Out of the Onassis Stegi

Music Borderline 2020

NO BORDERS. NO BOUNDARIES. JUST SOUND.

Borderline Festival and the Onassis Stegi complete this year their first decade together, presenting yet another restless program that explores the new musical trends of East and West. Once again this year, it stands against the prevailing tendencies of segregation, challenging boundaries, borders and all sorts of walls that rise between us. At the heart of the program are diversity, independent production, marginal music scenes and collectives, underground music, and practices that lie on the threshold of academicism.

Following the avant-garde thread of the second half of the 20th century and its diverse branches in contemporary 21st century practices, the Borderline Festival brings together artists from the fields of electronic and electroacoustic music, contemporary composition, sound art, and free improvisation.

After its collaboration with the Irtijal Festival in Beirut, Borderline maintains strong communication bonds with Middle East countries and supports new collaborations between Greek and foreign artists. A versatile and inclusive festival that highlights the multifaceted dimension of sound by treating noise as a carrier of meaning.

Curated by Michalis Moschoutis

Production Management Christina Pitouli

“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.

It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.”

– Jacques Attali

[2020]

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ERLINE ERLINE

Photo Alex Angouridakis

The leading festival in contemporary electronic sound returns in May 2020, with more stages, a loud line up, and a nonstop music marathon. In Athens, we know how to dance.

15.04.20 Main Stage

HELLENIC FILM ACADEMY AWARD CEREMONY — 2020 IRIS

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143 Collage Constantinos Chaidalis

For yet another year, the Hellenic Film Academy honors the best Greek films of the year, by giving away the Iris awards. The award ceremony, to be held one more time at the premises of the Onassis Stegi, gathers the entire film community and constitutes this year’s leading event.

Established and emerging filmmakers, contributors, actors and actresses, and institutional associates meet at the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi, to honor and be honored. For the tenth time in succession, Onassis Stegi supports the Hellenic Academy Awards, in an effort to showcase the most daring voices of Greek national cinema.

A night dedicated to Greek cinema, which scales up, evolves, and conquers a special place in international festivals.

Powerful stories, documentaries, short films, headliners, and first-time directors remind us that cinema is a vibrant form of art, which continuously opts for provocation, challenging, and emotion.

Photo Pinelopi Gerasimou

24—26.04.20 Upper Stage

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ONASSIS

[2020]

Future is more than a word. It’s the young people who jump on stage, in an effort to release their powers and strongly express what they feel. You see, in Onassis Youth Festival 2020, teenagers don’t get censored.

The festival, where teenagers take center stage, is back this year, to get you travel back in time and back to everything that is now part of History.

Production and Artistic Supervision Myrto Lavda /

On the occasion of an official account of History, but also of its alternative versions, teenagers take part in a series of workshops held in the school premises; they’re called to create something new, thus they urge to step onto the Upper Stage of the Onassis Stegi, to write a manifesto that can stay alive for the next 200 years.

Production Coordination Eleanna Semitelou, Leonidas Panagopoulos / Collaborators Aris Laskos & Anastasia Giannaki, 4frontal (Thanasis Zeritis & Aristea Stafylaraki), Cheek-Bones (Stefanos Achilleos & Angelika Stavropoulou), Yorgos Valais & Yiannis Nikolaidis, Aris Balis & Vasilis Magouliotis, Katerina Giannopoulou & Vasilis Safos, Antonis Antonopoulos et al. / Produced by Onassis Stegi

Drawing inspiration from contemporary and hybrid forms of writing, testing the boundaries between reality and fiction, and discovering new territories and ways of writing, this festival will give teenagers the opportunity to take the future in their own hands – exactly as they want it.

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YOUTH FESTIVAL

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DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU Over 70,000 people, in 36 countries and 4 continents, saw "The Great Tamer", the first international co-production by renowned Greek director/choreographer, Dimitris Papaioannou. May 6, 2020 will see the launch, at Onassis Stegi, of the international tour of his new work, which will remain untitled, open, in progress until then.

Last spring, more than 500 performers and dancers from all over the world auditioned for Dimitris Papaioannou. Those who made the cut will begin rehearsals with him in January 2020. The premiere of his second international co-production is expected in May of the same year, at Onassis Stegi.

06—10.05, 13—17.05, 20—24.05 & 27—31.05.20 Main Stage

Until then, silence. There can be no title for a work that is in progress in every sense.

Or as Dimitris Papaioannou himself has said: “My works evolve during rehearsal, they are not composed beforehand. I prepare material only in order to kickstart the process – and most of the time, I throw it out. I’ve resolved to not know what the outcome will be ahead of time, to trust in the process. In the end, if I am lucky, the work reveals itself, and I try to understand it, to perfect it. I reserve the right to change it all at the last moment. That’s why it is difficult for me to talk to you about something before it has actually come to completion. What’s the use of plans and pretensions? Art is praxis. If I talk about it, I will only either mislead you or betray the work.”

A production of Onassis Stegi / First performed at Onassis Stegi, Athens, May 2020 / Co-produced by Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2020 (Lyon), Dance Umbrella / Sadler's Wells Theater (London), Fondazione Campania dei Festival - Napoli Teatro Festival Italia (Naples), Grec Festival de Barcelona (Barcelona), Luminato Festival Toronto / Canadian Stage / TO Live (Toronto), Porto Rivoli (Porto), Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen (Recklinghausen), Stanford Live / Bing Concert Hall (Stanford), Théâtre de la Ville - Paris / Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (Los Angeles) / With the support of Festival Aperto (Reggio Emilia), HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts (Dresden), Lithuanian dance information center (Vilnius), National Arts Centre (Ottawa), ONE DANCE WEEK Festival (Plovdiv), P.P. Culture Enterprises Ltd (Tel Aviv), Teatro della Pergola – Firenze (Florence), Torinodanza Festival / Teatro Stabile di Torino - Teatro Nazionale (Torino) With funding from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports / Executive producer 2WORKS / Dimitris Papaioannou is supported by MEGARON – THE ATHENS CONCERT HALL

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“MY WORKS DO NOT PRE-EXIST. THEY COME OUT OF NOWHERE.”

Photo Dimitis Papaioannou

– Dimitris Papaioannou

Photo Christos Sarris

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THEATRUM MUNDI

THE CITY TALKS BACK

26—28.06.20 Outside the Onassis Stegi

Music — Talks & Thoughts The City Talks Back

To be politically engaged is to have one’s voice ‘heard’. How and where, though, does this hearing happen? Whose voices are heard, in the street and on the political stage? How are architecture and urban space used to amplify or even silence different voices?

A project that will bring together architects, anthropologists, and acoustic ecologists to reveal the assemblages of voices in different spaces in the city, through a research residency producing documentation and a critical analysis. Working with this material, performers and architects will collaborate on a production residency to create and record interventions that show how urban space could help transform unheard words into political speech.

Athens –a migrant-welcoming city that has seen radical protest as well as the birth of modern democratic processes– will be our laboratory and theater. In June 2020, a Manifestation at Onassis Stegi will bring together these diverse practitioners to share performances and presentations that show how the city talks back. However, the propositions are also intended as provocations for cities across the world, that are becoming infrastructures for resistance against regressive tendencies at national and global scales, and all materials from the project will be made available as an online publication.

Curated by John Bingham Hall, Christos Carras, Marta Michalowska / Organised by Onassis Stegi & Theatrum Mundi

Illustration Thodoros Koveos

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Illustration Kostis Kounadis

154 Music Festival for Children Big Bang Festival 6 16—17.05.20 In & Out of the Onassis Stegi

BIG BANG THERE’S ONLY ONE RULE: FUN! CONCERTS, SOUND INSTALLATIONS, PARTIES, AND WORKSHOPS, ADDRESSED TO KIDS BETWEEN 0 AND 12 YEARS OLD.

For the sixth consecutive year, the European music festival for kids between 0 and 12 years old transforms the Onassis Stegi and the whole neighborhood around it into an endless music adventure.

In this festival, every question has the same answer: music. On stage, in the foyers, in the corridors, the elevators, but also outdoors – far from the premises of the Onassis Stegi and out in the neighborhood. Musicians from all over the world become one group of friends, joining forces with children, parents, and mates. This band only aims at having fun, through games and whimsical experimentation.

For the sixth consecutive year, the European music festival for infants and kids defies “dos and don’ts” and asks adventurous young girls and boys to try out new things, hear, play, sing, and dance. Besides, nobody knows how to have fun and let go with the sound of music like kids do!

So come aboard! The Onassis Stegi holds the door open for high-decibel sounds and the active participation of each child.

Photo Andreas Simopoulos

Curated by Christos Carras, Myrto Lavda, Wouter van Looy /

For the full festival program visit our website, onassis.org.

Members Onassis Stegi (GR), Zonzo Compagnie (ΒΕ), Centro

The program will be announced in February 2020.

Cultural de Belém (PT), Opéra de Rouen (FR) & Opéra de Lille (FR), BOZAR (ΒΕ), Insitituto de la Cultura y las Artes Sevilla

Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the

– ICAS (ES), The ARK (IR), Wilminktheater & Muziekcentrum

European Union

Enschede (NL), Eesti Kontsert (EST), City of Reykjavik (IS), AAP-Μedia (BE) / Big Bang Festival is a coproduction of the Onassis Stegi and Zonzo Compagnie, and is part of the European Network of BIG BANG Music Festivals.

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FESTIVAL 6

Poetry is our common language. The Cavafy Archive of the Onassis Foundation is digitized, made bilingual and accessible from anywhere in the world. With more than 2,000 archival records, manuscripts of Cavafy poems, printed improvised editions, prose texts, articles, studies, and notes of the poet. Discover the digital collection of the Cavafy Archive and download its handwritten font at cavafy.onassis.org

C.P. Cavafy

158 04—06.06.20 Onassis Stegi

Talks & Thoughts Culture & Sustainability

CULTURE & SUSTAINABILITY

An interdisciplinary symposium examining the role that the cultural sector can play in the fight for social and environmental sustainability.

Photo Christos Sarris

ONASSIS STEGI IS GREEN. TOGETHER WITH JULIE’S BICYCLE IT IS REDUCING ITS ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT.

Organized by Onassis Stegi / In collaboration with Julie’s Bicycle / Supported by The British Council (Greece)

Two years after the launch of our sustainability program here at Onassis Stegi, in collaboration with Julie’s Bicycle –a London based charity that supports the creative community to act on climate change and environmental change– we are inviting artists, scientists, activists and cultural practitioners to gather in Athens for an interdisciplinary symposium including various parallel events. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss in public the role of the cultural sector in this most urgent fight to preserve our earth. Environmental protection is a cultural issue.

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Living in an era when the human impact on the climate and ecosystems is rapidly becoming catastrophic, cultural institutions need to be at the forefront of the effort to achieve environmental sustainability.

Onassis Stegi is committed to embedding sustainability in its activities at all levels.

This includes reducing our own environmental footprint, contributing to social awareness, developing good practices through education and the arts and joining forces with environmentally active people and organizations throughout the world.

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ATHENS PRIDE

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FROM ONASSIS STEGI TO SYNTAGMA SQUARE. WE WON’T STOP UNTIL WHAT IS TAKEN FOR GRANTED BECOMES SELF-EVIDENT.

Photo Alex Angouridakis

It is all a matter of education. Onassis Stegi retains a vocal stance through the years, by trigerring discussions, challenging stereotypes, and fighting against social oppression.

Onassis Stegi remains close to the LGBTQI+ community through different actions and interventions, both in Athens and on a global scale. The official coming out of the Onassis Stegi’s happened in 2015, when it first became an official supporter of Athens Pride. Ever since, Onassis Stegi is present (#parousa) annually, happily witnessing the number of participants growing.

This year, the Onassis Stegi supports the 16th Athens Pride and prepares a series of actions, calling everyone to fight for their rights to express themselves. The more voices, the louder the message.

Photo Stavros Habakis

Photo Stavros Habakis

12—14.06.20 Main Stage

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PERFORMANCE OF THE 65+ DANCING GROUP

WELCOME TO ATHENS OF YESTERDAY, OF TODAY, OF TOMORROW Concept & Choreography Patricia Apergi Set Design and Costumes Anastasia Douka / and others

Following seven years of workshops and rehearsals, the group “Young” Dancers 65+ fill the stage with energy, lust for life, and movement. Dance has no age for the Onassis Stegi, and this performance is merely a proof.

Seven years ago, they entered the Onassis Stegi, filled it with energy, and became the first “young” dancers aged 65+. These feisty, persistent individuals have proven what we already know: that the body can dance forever, as long as “there’s not a single gray hair in [one's] soul.”

Today, these people gat back on stage once more and voice their personal narratives about the neighborhoods of Athens that grow old with them. Both life and the stage are all theirs.

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WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF ATHENS AND MEET THEIR RESIDENTS, WHO DANCE FOR THE DAYS THAT WENT PAST AND FOR THOSE THAT ARE COMING UP.

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Photo Christos Sarris

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The Onassis Foundation establishes the Onassis National Transplant Center, next to the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center.

The first specialized hospital in Greece for solid organ transplants, which will also house the Onassis Pediatric Unit, to provide high quality services in Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. A hospital for all – children and adults, insured and uninsured.

TWO IS BETTER THAN ONE

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HELLENIC

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PROJECT

Photo Andreas Simopoulos

22—23.11.19 Upper Stage

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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND POETRY CYCLE

“THE GREAT PROVOCATEUR” DIMITRIS PAPADIMITRIOU [PART II] Part II of a cycle of songs devoted to freedom in all its forms – intellectual, moral, aesthetic, and even, at times, sexual; to poetic heresy and insurrection, to uncompromising contestation.

To those socially marginalized provocateurs and their relentless quest for an untarnished, pure, and absolute truth that automatically subjects everyone and everything, including themselves, to the stringencies of a constant, transcendental Inquisition. For there is nothing more murderously antisocial than strong, unadulterated doses of absolute truth. Aristophanes, Villon, Embiricos, Cavafy, Koropoulis, Lapathiotis, Leontaris, Brecht, John Donne, Palamas, Rilke, Sachlikis are but a few of the protagonists in this cycle dedicated to poetry’s great provocateurs.

“The Great Provocateur – Part II,” closes the cycle that composer, Dimitris Papadimitriou, first conceived of in December 2018. The songs from the first part of the cycle were performed on Onassis Stegi’s Upper Stage in February, 2019.

The Contemporary Music and Poetry Cycle provides support for new compositions of song cycles by established or emerging composers that draw from particular moments in the history of world poetry. The HELLENIC PROJECT suggests the themes that our composers then use as their inspiration.

Direction of cycle Dimitris Papadimitriou, Rallou Vogiatzi, Tassos Rosopoulos, Kostas Fasoulas / Composer Dimitris Papadimitriou / Literary Direction Giorgos Koropoulis

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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND POETRY CYCLE

Music A Musical Correspondence

A MUSICAL CORRESPONDENCE

GIORGOS SARANTARIS AND MELISSANTHI

The song cycle that comprises "A Musical Correspondence" conveys the intimate exchange at the heart of Giorgos Sarantaris and Melissanthi's (Eve Chougia-Skandalaki) friendship. The letters exchanged by the two artists bear witness to their unique relationship. Melissanthi’s existential anguish and the deep interiority of her language come face to face with the dead-end world and tormented love of Sarantaris’s poetry.

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Two young composers outline the contours of this “amorous” friendship, using their music to excavate the erotic footprint of the poets’ platonic relationship.

A musical reading of the way the poets’ emotional landscapes shape their writing, “A Musical Correspondence” is the voice of the poets’ interiority.

In Februrary 2019, the first part of the cycle captured the lover’s dialogue between Kostas Karyotakis and Maria Polydouri. The two song cycles by Kostas Makras and Chrysostomos Karantoniou drawn on the poets’ special relationship to retell it in the language of music.

The Contemporary Music and Poetry Cycle provides support for new compositions of song cycles by established or emerging composers that draw from particular moments in the history of world poetry. The HELLENIC PROJECT suggests the themes that our composers then use as their inspiration.

Direction of the Cycle Dimitris Papadimitriou, Rallou Vogiatzi, Tassos Rosopoulos, Kostas Fasoulas / Composers Nefeli Liouta, Kostas Makras

The latest chapter of our popular “Musical Fairytales for Narrator and Orchestra” series brings us newly commissioned works inspired by myth, folklore, or characters from the Greek Carnival traditions.

The Repertoire Creation Cycle of the HELLENIC PROJECT commissions new musical works for children and, indeed, all the family. Dimitris Papadimitriou’s “Aesop’s Fables,” Tassos Rosopoulou’s “The Water Lily,” Achilles Guastor’s “The King’s Horn,” are but a few of the ten Fairytales for Narrator and Orchestra created to date. New works by our composers – Achilles Guastor, Kostis Kritsotakis, Nefeli Liouta, Dimitris Tripanis, Tassos Rosopoulos and Dimitris Papadimitriou – have been performed by the Friends of Music Chamber Orchestra, the Athens State Orchestra, and the Ventus Ensemble. These works draw for inspiration on the Greek folk and oral storytelling traditions, myths, and proposals submitted by our target audience, children.

Artistic direction for the cycle Dimitris Papadimitriou, Rallou Vogiatzi, Kostas Fasoulas, Tassos Rosopoulos / Composers Aggelos Aggelou, Tassos Rosopoulos / Writers Kostas Fasoulas, Flou company (Eleni Dafni, Veronica Davaki, Dimitris Magginas, Rozalia Michalopoulou) / Stage Direction Paris Mexis

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FOR CARNIVAL

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Music A Symphonic Work by Dimitris Papadimitriou

REPERTOIRE CREATION CYCLE

A SYMPHONIC WORK

BY DIMITRIS PAPADIMITRIOU

Composer Dimitris Papadimitriou / Conductor Giorgos Petrou

This year, the HELLENIC PROJECT once again features a new symphonic work by composer Dimitris Papadimitriou. The orchestra will be led by distinguished maestro Giorgos Petrou. In the context of this cycle, Dimitris Papadimitriou, founder of the HELLENIC PROJECT, has presented a total of eight long-form symphonic works in the past nine years.

Six works for orchestra and two theme-based suites: eighteen in total interlinked pieces of symphonic music that also stand alone as contemporary works. “Aesop’s Fables,” “Satyricon,” “Chronicle of an early Autumn,” “Epitaph Days,” are a few of Papadimitriou’s theme-based compositions that were presented as part of the cycle since 2013.

The HELLENIC PROJECT’s creative mission is to foster the composition of new repertoire. Our musical themes are conceived with the aim of inspiring new works by established or emerging artists. By commissioning these works we not only provide support for their creation, but also facilitate the sharing of germinating creative visions and ideas with our artists. This endeavor relies on Onassis Stegi’s generous and substantive support.

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Artistic Direction Dimitris Papadimitriou, Rallou Vogiatzi /

18.02—31.05.20

The classic novel turns into a musical, directed by Yannis Kakleas and composed by Dimitris Papadimitriou. One of the most important literary works on life in the sea and whaling, materializes and moves to the stage of the Pallas Theater, using 3D graphics and holograms to take the Athenian public to places they will not find on any map.

It is not down in any map; True places never are. – Herman Melville, “Moby Dick� (1851)

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EUROPEAN PROGRAMS

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INTERFACES

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Eight countries join forces in this innovative interdisciplinary project which seeks to introduce audiences to cutting-edge work by musicians and sound artists. With the support of the Creative Europe program, Interfaces brings together nine partners from the UK, Germany, France, Cyprus, Belgium, Romania, Austria and Greece to explore innovative ways of introducing audiences to the forefront of contemporary music. To achieve this goal, the network will be staging a wide range of activities: new forms of performance in innovative spaces using new media, educational activities, audience development research, conferences and artist residences. The large volume of original work created in the context of the program will be presented to the public at live events and via the web portal interfacesnetwork.eu.

NEW MODELS AND PRACTICES FOR AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN EUROPE

The Interfaces network coordinator is the Onassis Stegi (Greece).

The network includes the following partners De Montfort University (UK), European University Cyprus | EUC (Cyprus), IRCAM (France), ZKM | Zentrum fĂźr Kunst und Medientechnologie (Germany), CREMAC (Romania), Q-O2 (Belgium), Ictus (Belgium), Klangforum Wien (Austria) / Project managers Christos Carras, Dora Vougiouka / With the support of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

M-Cult (Finland), Bandits-Mages (France), Werkleitz Centre for Media Art (Germany), Onassis Stegi (Greece), RIXC (Latvia), WRO Center for Media Art Foundation (Poland), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Spain), IMPAKT (The Netherlands), Foundation for Art & Creative Technology / FACT (UK) / With the support of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

A PARTNERSHIP OF 11 EUROPEAN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AIMING TO SUPPORT UP-AND COMING MEDIA ARTISTS IN ORDER TO CREATE NEW WORKS The Onassis Stegi continues to support artistic practices positioned between art, science and technology through its participation, along with ten other partners, in the European Media Art Platform (EMAP). The platform provides up-and coming media artists working in the fields of visual and digital arts, design, film, sound or video with the chance to participate in 2-month residencies and to create new works to be presented at festivals and other events in partner countries.

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The platform’s members are Ars Electronica (Austria), Kontejner (Croatia),

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ADVENTUROUS MUSIC FESTIVAL FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

The European network Big Bang aims to entirely improve the quality of music for children in Europe through exploration and adventure. The network brings together 12 cultural institutions around Europe to work together for a common mission: to present the elaborate world of music in an imaginative and adventurous way, through a colorful musical program of concerts, installations and workshops with Big Bang musicians from different genres and styles.

The Big Bang network consists of Zonzo Compagnie (Belgium), Centro Cultural de Belém (Portugal), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Opéra de Rouen and Opéra de Lille (France), BOZAR (Belgium), Insitituto de la Cultura y las Artes de Sevilla – ICAS (Spain), The Ark (Ireland), Wilminktheater & Muziekcentrum Enschede (The Netherlands), Eesti Kontsert (Estonia), City of Reykjavik (Iceland) and AAP-media (Belgium) / With the support of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

for Promotion of Science (Serbia), Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation (Spain), Kersnikova Institute/Kapelica Gallery (Slovenia), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Spain), Science Gallery (Ireland), The Culture Yard (Denmark), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Le lieu unique (France), Waag Society (The Netherlands), SOU Festival (Georgia), Hexagon Scène National Arts Sciences (France), GLUON (Belgium) / With the support of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

THE EUROPEAN LAB FOR ART AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, FOR A CONSCIOUS SOCIETY The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab brings AI related scientific and technological topics to general citizens and art audiences in order to contribute to a critical and reflective society. The project focuses on aspects beyond the technological and economic horizon to scrutinize cultural, psychological, philosophical and spiritual aspects. From the perspective of cultural operators in Europe, the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence. An extensive activity programme in the form of exhibitions, labs, workshops, conferences, talks, performances, concerts, mentoring and residencies is fostering interdisciplinary work, transnational mobility and intercultural exchange.

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The network includes the following partners Ars Electronica (Austria), Center

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EUROPE BEYOND ACCESS Europe Beyond Access is a four-year program between seven major European theater and dance organizations. The program supports disabled artists to break the glass ceilings of the contemporary theater & dance sectors; to internationalize their artistic innovations and their careers; to develop a network of leading mainstream organizations with a commitment to present and commission at the highest level; to build European audiences interested in highquality innovative work by Europe’s disabled artists; and to develop tools and understanding in the wider performing arts market.

A EUROPEAN PROGRAM AIMING TO BRING DISABLED PERFORMING ARTISTS INTO THE MAINSTREAM OF THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL SCENE

The core partners of the project are British Council (UK), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Holland Dance Festival (The Netherlands), Kampnagel (Germany), Per.Art (Serbia), SkĂĽnes Dansteater (Sweden) and Oriente Occidente (Italy) / With the support of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

The network includes the following partners Onda - Office national de diffusion artistique (France), ACT Association (Bulgaria), Alt Art Foundation for Alternative Art (Romania), Artemrede (Portugal), Bunker (Slovenia), British Council (UK), Center for Culture in Lublin / East European Performing Arts Platform (Poland), Flanders Arts Institute / Kunstenpunt (Belgium), Goethe Institut Barcelona (Spain), Institut umění Divadelní ústav / Arts and Theater Institute (Czech Republic), Onassis Foundation / Onassis AiR (Greece), Pogon Centre for Independent Culture and the Youth (Croatia) / Pro Helvetia (Switzerland) / With the support of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

REFLECT, SHARE, PRACTICE, EXPERIMENT RESHAPE is a research and development project that brings together arts organizations from the Euro-Mediterranean to jointly create innovative organizational models and reflect on concrete answers to performing arts’ crucial challenges.

By increasing the knowledge, competences and reactivity of intermediary organizations in relation to today’s artistic experimentations, RESHAPE aims to influence public policies and integrate future policy instruments.

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HOW CAN CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC EXPERIMENTATION INFLUENCE PUBLIC POLICY?

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The network includes the following partners HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts (Germany), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg (France), Ringlokschuppen Ruhr (Germany), SPRING (The Netherlands), Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal), Instytut Sztuk Performatywnych (Poland) / With the support of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

THE ART OF BREAKING THE BORDERS THAT SEPARATE PEOPLE FROM ARTISTIC PRODUCTION Moving Borders is a cooperation project among seven European production houses, festivals and public bodies in the sphere of performing arts. The partners will examine new ways of producing performing art projects while approaching and involving a broader spectrum of individuals and communities focusing on so far underrepresented groups.

Moving Borders will use artistic methods to initiate encounters between people of different origins and social milieus.

MOVING BORDERS

A NETWORK OF PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY SOUND ART CAN CHANGE OUR WAY OF LISTENING IN EUROPE

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SOUNDS NOW Sounds Now is a network of European music festivals and cultural/music centers that promote contemporary music, experimental music and sound art. In this project, we are concerned with the way in which curation reproduces the same patterns of power and exclusion that are dominant at all levels of our societies. Sounds Now aims to actively stimulate diversity within our professional field and thus open up the capacity and possibility for different experiences, conditions and perspectives in shaping the sonic art that reaches audiences today. The project includes a range of actions including labs for curators, learning programs run by artists, composers and experts, new productions, symposia and research.

The network includes the following partners Musica (Belgium), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (Norway), November Music (The Netherlands), SNYK (Denmark), SPOR FESTIVAL (Denmark), Time of Music (Finland), Transit Festival - Festival 2021 (Belgium), Wilde Westen (Belgium) / With the support of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

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The network includes the following partners BOZAR (Belgium), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Ars Electronica (Austria), Gluon (Belgium), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaciรณn Industrial (Spain), VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands), CENTRUL CULTURAL CLUJEAN (Romania), Laznia Center for Contemporary Art (Poland) /

ART MEETS SCIENCE

With the support of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

STUDIOTOPIA STUDIOTOPIA is a speculative and creative journey addressing sustainable development through the converging views of art and science. It offers a residency program designed for a new generation of artists interested in collaborating with scientists as well as a process to engage with specific audiences in a creative way. Our intention is to challenge the hierarchy between the arts & empirical sciences predominant in the 20th century, and challenge the technological and scientific determinism by enabling artists and other communities to input experimentally creative, critical and societal ideas. Through a series of residencies, pop-up labs, research activities, exhibitions, talks and cultural events, STUDIOTOPIA stimulates this endeavor by creating a fertile context for change and bundling the forces of multiple actors to realise concrete breakthroughs.

The Transmissions project brings together two partners from the opposite ends of Europe (Greece & Norway) in a series of actions that involve an extended ecosystem of large and small institutions. Through a three year programme of residencies, educational programmes and cultural events, the project will enable artists and cultural professionals in the field of contemporary music and sound art from Norway and Greece to learn from their counterparts and present their work in a new context.

The project is coordinated by Onassis Stegi (Greece) in partnership with Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (Norway) / With the support of the EEA Grants and the Norwegian Financial Mechanisms 2014-2021.

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GREECE – NORWAY. WHAT HAPPENS TO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND SOUND ART WHEN IT TRAVELS?

"O Captain! My Captain!", Walt Whitman (1865)

The people of Olympic Shipping & Management S.A., the shipping company of the Onassis Group, travel far to bring thousands of scholars to letters, art and science through the Onassis Foundation Scholarship Program. And they don’t stop there. Because every trip around the world’s seas returns as an investment in health, culture and education to the Greek society.

O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

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ONASSIS FOUNDATION Board of Directors Anthony S. Papadimitriou President and Treasurer of the Board Constantinos Grammenos Vice-President of the Board Dennis M. Houston Vice-President of the Board Florian Marxer Vice-President of the Board

Marianna Moschou Secretary of the Board Paul I. Ioannidis Honorary Vice-President – Life Member

Who we are

Stefanos P. Tamvakis Member of the Board

Dimitri V. Nanopoulos Member of the Board Peter Livanos Member of the Board Michael Spyros Sotirhos Member of the Board Simon Critchley Member of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins Member of the Board James Stavridis Member of the Board Paul Holdengräber Member of the Board Nikolaos Karamouzis Member of the Board

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ONASSIS FOUNDATION Culture Division

Educational Programs

Afroditi Panagiotakou Director of Culture

Myrto Lavda Head of Educational Programs

Dimitris Theodoropoulos Culture & Strategy Advisor

Leonidas Panagopoulos Eleanna Semitelou Educational Programs Assistants

Onassis AiR (Artists-in-Residence) Ash Bulayev Onassis AiR & Fellowship Program Manager Nefeli Myrodia Creative Producer and Program Dramaturg ONASSIS STEGI Christos J. Carras Executive Director Chronis Lillis Chief Operating Officer Artistic Programming Christos J. Carras Curator of Music Programs Katia Arfara Curator of 2019-20 Theater & Dance Program Poka-Yio Visual Culture Executive Consultant Pasqua Vorgia Talks & Thoughts Program Coordinator

Communication & Marketing Onassis Group Demetres Drivas Communication & Marketing Manager Haris Giakoumakis Elisavet Pantazi Kanella Psychogiou Campaign Managers Alexandros Morellas Campaign Manager – Health Creative Nikos Athanasopoulos Creative Leader Christos Sarris Moving Image Specialist Constantinos Chaidalis Senior Designer Theodoros Koveos Georgia Leontara Jilian Viglaki Graphic Designers Content

Dimitra Dernikou Vassilis Panagiotakopoulos Christina Pitouli Konstantina Soulioti Producers

Alexandros Roukoutakis Content Leader

Iliana Dimadi Dramaturg

Elizampetta Ilia-Georgiadou Valia Papadimitraki Copy/Editors

Estelle Papadimitriou Associate Dramaturg Christina Liata Head of International Co-Productions & Tours

Christina Kosmoglou Content Manager

Giota Loura Website & Publications Editor Social Media

Marina Troupi Performing Arts Program Assistant

Vassilis Bibas Social Media Manager

Networking Department

Margarita Grammatikou Social Media Editor

Dora Vougiouka Networking and Outreach Coordinator Veroniki Petmeza Assistant in Networking Dpt

Who we are

Alexandra Chryssanthakopoulou PR Executive

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Commercial Department

Information Technology

Nikos Rossolatos Commercial Manager

Kostas Apollonios IT Manager

Ioanna Tousiadou Sales Executive

Kostas Diamantis Software & Media Administrator

Media Office

Giannis Chazakis System & Network Administrator

Katerina Chortaria-Tamvaki Vaso Vasilatou Media Officers

Who we are

Nefeli Kavalieratou Media Office Assistant

Thodoris Giannakopoulos System Administrator Theater Technical Department

Events

Lefteris Karabilas Theater Technical Manager

Daniel Vergiadis Events Manager

Philip Hills Deputy Technical & Touring Manager

Elena Choremi Events Producer

Rebecca Stamou Theater Technical Department Administrative Assistant

Digital Policy & Development

Giannis Dovas Giannis Kritikos Vasia Christodoulou Stage Managers

Prodromos Tsiavos Head of Digital Policy & Development Iraklis Papatheodorou Digital Policy & Development Coordinator Katerina Varda Digital Policy & Development Assistant Ioanna Margariti Digital Programs Executive Financial Services Charis Gizas Finance Manager Theofilos Nikolaou Accounting Manager Vassia Filippopoulou Pinelopi Kemerli Dimitris Tsokalis Accountants Anna Hirceaga Accounting Assistant Myrto Giannakopoulou Accounting Assistant / Administrative Assistant Nikos Mitilineos General Duties Supplies Antonis Seitelmann Supplies Manager Katerina Makedona Supplies Assistant

Areti Antonatou Spyridoula Mylona Dressing Room & Hospitality Fotis Andrianopoulos House Electrician Kyriakos Xanthopoulos Assistant Electrician Giannis Gliatis Alexis Politis Thodoris Tsachalos Sound Technicians – Operators Stefanos Papoutsakis Panagiotis Pepas Alexander Tzovaras Assistant Sound Technicians – Operators Iakovos Darzentas Chief Theater Engineer Stelios Bourdis Stage Engineer Aggeliki Dimitrakopoulou Fly Operator – Programmer Giannis Kougias Assistant Fly Operator Leonardo Cela Tasos Karathanos Alexis Kassianos Panagiotis Konstantopoulos Panagiotis Koutsoumanis Elias Martakis

Facility Maintenance Department

Kostas Alexiou Antonis Kokkoris Lighting Technicians – Operators

Andreas Branis Panagiotis Generalis Mechanical Engineers

Stavros Kariotoglou Pantelis Michas Sobchy Mohamed Ali Vaggelis Mountrichas Michalis Nannos Pavlos Pappas Giannis Psarros Assistant Lighting Technicians – Operators

Eleni Keratsa Administrative Assistant

Efthimios Tikellis Assistant Production & Video Engineer Vassilis Korobilis Constructions & Repairs Technician

Giorgos Raptis Head of Facility Maintenance Department

Dimitris Bougioukos Nikos Issis Electricians Vasilis Chatzielefheriou Electrician Assistant Vaios Mammos Plumber Petrit Moula Heracles Zervas Technicians Front of House Management

Ihor Davyda Sipitco Dimitru Christos Giakoumis Vladimir Iachimenco General Duties

Evangelos Constantis Front of House Manager

Line Production

Manos Chatzakis Front of House Leading Facilitator

Despina Bourdeka Operations Manager Despina Sifniadou Irilena Tsami Savvas Paraskevas Line Producers Iordanis Chatzivasilakis Backliner

Niovi Polychronidou Front of House Coordinator

Warehouse Management Dimitris Babiniotis Head of Warehouse Fabio Bellis Warehouse Assistant Safety & Security Georgios Moschos Nikos Papalazarou Safety & Security Specialists Dimitris Stamatopoulos Theodoros Vavalekas Safety & Security Administrator Ioanna Angelopoulou Kostas Argiris Anastasios Korobilis Paraskevi Ntagiakou Christina Prentzia Anastasia Sampani Georgios Zacharis Safety & Security Agents

Who we are

Panagiotis Hajisavas Efstratios Toganidis Production & Video Engineers

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Panagiotis Matsioris Christos Mavros Kostas Petronanos Assistant Stage Engineers

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TICKET INFORMATION The Onassis Stegi supports unlimited access to culture for everyone.

• more tickets at 7€ for selected productions • residents of neighboring areas to the Onassis Stegi are eligible for tickets at 7€ * • tickets for the unemployed and people with disabilities (AmeA) at 5€ for all productions • reduced ticket prices in all zones • significantly discounted tickets for groups of 5-9 individuals (small group) and 10+ (large group) • early bird tickets for selected productions • lower prices for combo tickets (i.e. combinations of productions))

Ticket info

*Tickets for Our Neighbours The Onassis Stegi has special tickets for residents of: Neos Kosmos, Koukaki, Nea Smyrni, Palaio Faliro, Kallithea.

Reduced price tickets for students enrolled at educational institutions, people aged 65+, Onassis Stegi Friends, groups of people, societies and institutions, soldiers, holders of the European Youth Card, parents of three and more children.

Special prices for the unemployed and their children (up to 17 years old), as well as for people with disabilities and their escorts.

The discount will be given on presentation of an amenity bill or certificate of residence from the municipality.

Tickets can only be bought either online or at the box office on presentation of ID and a utility bill in the locals resident’s name.

before the presale for the general public. If the presale arrangements for a particular production are different, an announcement will be made on our website. Early bird presale begins at the same time for both the general public and Friends, approximately 2 months before the premiere.

It applies to all productions open for Early Bird purchases. The above applies to all productions, unless stated otherwise in the Onassis Stegi program or website.

The dates on which tickets become available for presale are posted on our website, onassis.org.

CONTACT Tickets Line Tel.: +30 210 900 5 800 Mon-Sun 9:00-21:00 infotickets@onassis.org Onassis Stegi Friends Line Tel.: +30 213 017 8200 TICKET SALES POINTS Online For online ticket sales, please visit our website, onassis.org.

Onassis Stegi Friends can buy tickets through their digital profile. By logging in with their personal ID and password, they can unlock discounts and presale opportunities.

Purchases can be made using credit and debit cards – Amex, Visa, MasterCard & Diners.

Onassis Stegi Box Office Syngrou 107 The box office opening hours can be found on our website, onassis.org.

Purchases can be made using credit and debit cards – Amex, Visa, MasterCard & Diners.

Purchases are limited to what is available at the time of purchase; there are no limitations on the choice of seat.

Third Party Points of Sales At the Public stores network (cash only) At the IANOS book store at Stadiou street (cash only)

When the regular ticket for an event costs 7€ or less, the special price for residents of neighboring areas does not apply.

TICKET PICK UP

Every local resident is entitled to purchase one (1) ticket per production.

In the case of families, a civil status document listing all family members should be presented to the box office along with the public utility bill in their name.

Each member of the family is entitled to one ticket per production.

Presale Tickets Presale begins 3 weeks before each event. For Onassis Stegi Friends, presale begins a week

e-ticket The service is available for purchasing tickets online or by phone.

Save your e-ticket on your smartphone or print it and you can proceed straight to the auditorium.

This service is not available for certain types of reduced-price tickets.

Prepaid ticket machines (Kiosks) for printing your ticket are available on the first floor of the Onassis Stegi.

For more information, visit our website, onassis.org, or call Tel.: +30 210 900 5 800.

TICKET INFORMATION Tickets can only be refunded under certain conditions If a production, or part of it, is cancelled, an announcement on the Onassis Stegi website will include instructions on how to claim refunds.

Tickets can only be cancelled or refunded up to 30 minutes before the start of the performance for which they were purchased. On the day of a performance, on-line, telephone and third-party ticket sales end 30 minutes before the scheduled start time. During the last 30 minutes, tickets can only be purchased from the Onassis Stegi box office.

Reduced ticket prices • Reduced-price tickets are available for students enrolled at educational institutions, both public and private, in Greece and abroad.

• Young people under 26, people with disabilities (PWD) and their escorts, people over 65, people registered as having three or more children, and members of the military are entitled to reduced-price tickets.

• A discount is also available for the unemployed on presentation of an unemployment card at the Onassis Stegi Box office. The relevant identification (student IDs etc.) must be presented both when the tickets are bought and on entry into the auditorium.

• Onassis Stegi Friends enjoy a discount.

• Small groups of 5-9 people and large groups of 10+ are also entitled to special prices.

• There is a 20% discount for holders of a European Youth Card on all Onassis Stegi's productions (but not for third-party productions).

Seats for People with Disabilities: Seats are available in the stalls, the dress circle and the balcony.

GENERAL INFORMATION Start times MAIN STAGE 20:30 UPPER STAGE 21:00

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These times hold for all performances unless stated otherwise on the programme or the Onassis Stegi website.

Entry to Talks & Thoughts events: Entrance to Talks & Thoughts event is free on a strictly first-come-first-served basis. The distribution of numbered entrance tickets begins one (1) hour before each event.

With the support:

GETTING TO THE ONASSIS STEGI By bus/trolley-bus: Take bus or trolley-bus and get off at ‘Panteion’.

On the Metro: Take the ‘red line’ (Line 2: Anthoupoli -Elliniko) and get off at ‘Syngrou-Fix’.

ACCESSIBILITY Wheelchair access is via the ramp on the building’s side entrance at the corner of Leontiou and Syngrou.

Upper storeys are accessible via the elevator, and there is wheelchair access to all the Centre’s auditoria and galleries.

107 Syngrou Avenue 117 45 Athens Τ: +30 213 017 8000 e-mail: info@onassis.org onassis.org

Ticket info

Onassis Stegi Box Office Receive your ticket by providing the credit card used to make the purchase, your identity card or reservation reference number.

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Publication Director Afroditi Panagiotakou Creative Director Nikos Athanasopoulos Publication Consultant Alexandros Roukoutakis Publication Editor Christina Kosmoglou Art Direction Christos Sarris Graphic Design Konstantinos Chaidalis, Theodoros Koveos, Georgia Leontara, Jilian Viglaki Content Implementation Grid Office Production Director Yiannis Alexandropoulos Texts (Onassis Stegi Copy Team) Iliana Dimadi, Margarita Grammatikou, Elizampetta Ilia-Georgiadou, Valia Papadimitraki, Estelle Papadimitriou Translations Patricia Barbeito, Alkisti Efthymiou, Karen Emmerich, Geli Mademli Publication Coordinator Ismini Gatou Content Coordinator Giota Loura

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