Dance

Weddings in Turkey will be held over the summer season, as Turkey will begin allowing people to slowly crawl out of isolation and lockdowns, although they will not resemble any wedding pre-COVID-19 life.

Carnaval La Land, a special event featuring musical theater, flash mobs, Afro-Brazilian percussion, samba, tango and many more surprises, will be happening in Syntagma Square on Friday, February 28.

Director, dancer and choreographer Lloyd Newson and the British Rambert Dance Company present "Enter Achilles," a physical theater performance which tackles the subject of masculinity and the stereotypes surrounding it, on the main stage of the Onassis Stegi in downtown Athens.

The Athens Big Band present their "The Swing Era" at the Maria Callas Olympia Municipal Music Theater. The show will also feature the Athens Lindy Hop dance company and musicians Jennie Kapadai and Stavros Romanos.

Local DJ, producer and musician RSN and his Electric Quartet will appear on stage at Faust bar in downtown Athens on Friday, January 17, where they will be performing numbers from his 2018 album "Strange Eyes" as well as earlier works. RSN's music is influenced by hip-hop, jazz, soul, funk and trip-hop.

The world-renowned Bejart Ballet Lausanne returns to the Athens Concert Hall with Maurice Bejart's "Magic Flute," which is being staged in Greece for the first time. In his take on the famous Mozart opera, the legendary French-born choreographer juxtaposed the innocence of childhood with the structured rigidity of the adult world. Shows start at 8 p.m.

"When every village has internet, TV, and every child listens to popular music, I think that this old world is vanishing," Kalezic-Radonjic told BIRN.

The National Folklore Fair "Rozhen 2019" began on July 19. This year it will run until July 21, reports BNT. 

More than 3,500 folklore artists and 80 craftsmen will present their folk dances, songs and artistic works until Sunday on the meadows of Rozhen.

Meet the next generation of dancers, as students from the Greek National Opera's dance school perform self-choreographed and classical works at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC). Under the leadership of Yannis Dontsakis, the school offers courses in classical ballet, modern and contemporary dance, pas de deux, dance theory, choreography and more.

Hailed as one of the greatest living choreographers, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has created a performance for Bach's Six Cello Suites, which she is bringing to Athens just days after Yo-Yo Ma presented his take on the series in the Greek capital.