Onassis

A new playground created by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation for the City of Athens stands out with its vivid colors in Avdi Square, in the downtown district of Metaxourgeio.

The work will be performed at the Onassis Stegi

The Onassis Foundation is supporting the independent Greek music scene with a series of screenings of audience-free concerts from iconic venues like the AN Club and Gagarin 205 in Athens. On January 10, its YouTube channel will be showing a career-spanning set by stoner rock act Nightstalker, live from the Gagarin 205, at 9 p.m.

Fans of the Onassis Foundation's Stegi cultural center needn't feel cut off and can access leading theater and dance productions on its YouTube channel. Apart from landmark productions like Aris Biniaris' "The Bacchae," Akram Khan's "Xenos" and Blitz's "Late Night," the vibrant channel also includes talks and presentations.

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.

Onassis Stegi will be holding a day of free-entrance events, "Musical Ecologies," on Sunday, February 16. The program features a whole host of musicians and performers, and many of the events will be interactive, inviting audience participation.

Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula presents his latest work, "Congo," on stage at the Onassis Stegi. "Congo" is a politically oriented performance which mixes singing, dancing and oral storytelling and recounts the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Linyekula's home country, especially its brutal colonization.

The Onassis Stegi launches the New Choreographers Festival on Tuesday, January 28, which is set to run through February 2. Eight works from young Greek choreographers have been selected to take part in the festival. The experimental choreographies explore new aspects of space and sound and blur the lines between pure dance and performance art. The festival takes places at the Onassis Stegi.

In the latest part of her "Practical Encyclopedia" project, titled "Detours," choreographer Lenio Kaklea explores the everyday gestures and activities of European people. The work emerged from 600 interviews that the Paris-based Greek conducted back in 2016 which enabled her to form a series of narratives about the habits, rituals and transactional mores of her interviewees.

Aristophanes' "The Birds" directed by Nikos Karathanos, at the main stage of the Onassis Stegi cultural center, was voted among the top 10 theater productions in 2018 by New York Magazine.