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International Contemporary Dance Festival ARC FOR DANCE 2026: Artists from 10 countries present 17 premieres inspired by #rupture

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The International Contemporary Dance Festival ARC FOR DANCE, one of the most vibrant meeting points for contemporary dance in Greece and abroad, returns for its 17th edition from May 15 to 25. Drawing inspiration from #rupture, artists from 10 countries present 17 dance performances, in world or Greek premiere, hosted over 10 days at the Olympia Municipal Music Theatre Maria

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Tiago Rodrigues returns to Onassis Stegi with two performances, a masterclass, and a talk

Onassis Stegi continues its tribute to the work of Portuguese director, playwright, and Artistic Director of the Avignon Festival, Tiago Rodrigues, while also continuing its exploration of one of the central themes of this year’s programme: family bonds. Following The Way She Dies (The Dance of Lovers), which Rodrigues directed

Iron Traces: An Embodied Return to Serifos’ Mining Landscape

A site-specific dance performance reactivates memory, resistance, and collective experience in the

National Theatre Live brings All My Sons to the Megaron

The Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall presents, on Tuesday, April 28,

“BONES” at PLYFA: Tetis Nikolopoulou’s choreographic work explores the relationship between structure, support, and fracture through the human body

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The choreographic work BONES, presented at PLYFA from May 2 to May 10, explores the relationship between structure, support, and fracture through the human body. The body appears as a living system, constantly adapting to pressure, reshaping itself in order to endure. The creative process began with observing the body

Herodeion 2026: This Year’s Artistic Programme Announced – Farewell Celebrations

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The artistic programme of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus has been announced. When Emperor Hadrian ascended to the throne in 117 AD, a young, stammering student of rhetoric appeared at his camp on the Danube to greet him. That seventeen-year-old boy would go on to become not only one of

JUNE JULY – The new performance by choreographer Eleonora Siarava at PLYFA

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JUNE JULY is a cosmology of the Now, of our microcosm and the macrocosm, drawing references from sci-fi and retrofuturism. A performance about nostalgia, anticipation and time, unfolding through the creation of choreographic haikus, condensed, fleeting, fragmentary impressions. It takes its initial inspiration from the groundbreaking graphic novel/comic Here (2014)

First images from the performance “Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk”, directed by Savvas Stroumbos at the GNO Alternative Stage

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Franz Kafka’s final short story “Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk” (1924) is transformed into a piece of music theatre through a new, ambitious production by the Greek National Opera’s Alternative Stage. The music is composed by the distinguished composer Charalambos Goyos, while direction is by Savvas Stroumbos, known

Bacchae at Epidaurus: Javor Gardev reimagines Euripides with The Tiger Lillies

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A bold international co-production between the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the Ivan Vazov National Theatre of Bulgaria and the NTNG explores the clash between reason and ecstasy There is a question that could be formulated in a metaphorical, Nietzschean language as follows: “Is it possible, even if only within the framework

“The Garden of Earthly Delights”: Spyros Kouvaras at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus

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The Municipal Theatre of Piraeus presents the new creation by choreographer Spyros Kouvaras and the Greek-French contemporary dance company Synthesis 748 Dance Co., titled “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, for six performances only, from April 16 to April 21, at the Omega Stage. Drawing inspiration from the iconic painting by

“A Voracious Shadow”: A new work by Mariano Pensotti at Onassis Stegi

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Mariano Pensotti returns to Onassis Stegi for his third staging, offering a narrative charged with intensity and tenderness, unrelenting suspense and biting sarcasm. The internationally acclaimed Argentinian director and writer presents his latest work, adapted to Greek, featuring award-winning young actors Giannis Niarros and Kostas Nikouli as climbers, actors, and sons

Anna Bolena: Gaetano Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece returns in a new GNO production

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The Greek National Opera presents a new, captivating production of Anna Bolena, conducted by Jacques Lacombe and directed by Themelis Glynatsis. The performance will run for six shows at the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the GNO at the SNFCC starting on 26 March 2026. As part of the 2025/26 season’s key

Carmen returns: Georges Bizet’s timeless opera in a new international co-production

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In the context of the 2025/26 season’s theme, the Greek National Opera presents, for the first time in Greece, a faithful revival of the world premiere of Carmen that was held at the Opéra Comique in Paris in 1875. After years of research into the director’s notebook and the designs of the

“My Husband”: The stage adaptation of Rumena Bužarovska’s short stories, directed by Maria Magganari, at WOW – Women of the World Athens

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The staged adaptation of the short-story collection My Husband will be presented on Friday, 27 March, as part of WOW Athens 2026, marking the opening of the festival and creating a space for collective reflection on gender, relationships, and contemporary female identity. Following the staged reading, the festival’s first keynote talk will take place, featuring Rumena

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