• 1st New Choreographers Festival @ Onassis Cultural Centre

Five talented, up-and-coming choreographers will showcase their art at the New Choreographers Festival, organized for the first time by the Onassis Cultural Centre, on February 1-2 (and 6-7). The festival brings an exciting programme featuring four new productions along with some surprising collaborations and original points of view.

Elpida Orfanidou with Juan Perno, Paul Blackman and Christine Gouzeli, Lenio Kaklea, Panagiota Kallimani are the promising young artists, who have already given credits of their work through their collaborations with established choreographers and important venues on the international dance scene.

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• American Beauty @ Onassis Cultural Centre

The Camerata’s much-anticipated meeting with one of Greece’s finest conductors, Loukas Karytinos, promises a magical musical journey through the United States’ classical music repertoire. American Beauty concert, features all the key elements of the musical production of the 20th century New World: neoromanticism, minimalism and symphonic jazz. The night’s repertoire includes Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin and Philip Glass. At the Onassis Cultural Centre, on February 4.

E X H I B I T I O N S

The exhibition of the new artist Andro Wekua, entitled Pink Wave Hunter, was inaugurated yesterday (29.01) at the Benaki Museum. Andro Wekua whose work is popular in European and American museums, draws his inspiration from his childhood memories of Sukhumi, Georgia. His work is the architecture-sculpture reconstruction of the city of his childhood, by using various media (plaster, wax, bronze, wood) to create a fluid urban landscape with the memory of the seaside of Sukhumi. The exhibition is the product of the collaboration between the Banaki Museum and the DESTE Foundation which aims to promote new and radical developments in contemporary art practice and introduce upcoming artists to a wider public.

The exhibition of Tassos Triandafyllou Identities. Baloukli and the Romioi [Greeks] in Constantinople, 19th c. will run at the Byzantine and Christian Museum until April 27. The artist presents fifteen works (graphite on paper), in which he imprinted fifteen gravestones that today pave the courtyard of the Greek-Orthodox Monastery of Baloukli in Constantinople. Since the works created by Triantafyllou provide valuable information about the Community of the Romioi (Greeks) of the 19th-c. Constantinople, the Museum accompanied these works with relevant information and archaeological material from its Permanent Collections. In this way the contemporary creation is incorporated into the sociopolitical context of the 19th c.-Constantinople, and the exhibition acquires non-chronological, geographical, sociopolitical and artistic relevance.