D A N C E

A very different version of Shakespeare's classic drama Romeo and Juliet will be staged at the Athens Concert Hall on May 22-23, courtesy of the hip-hop group Trafic de Styles. Seven hip-hop dancers, a circus performer and an actor - choreographed by Sebastien Lefrancois - bring some 'street' to the stage, revamping the story of literature's most famous star-crossed lovers to the sounds of electronica and classical music.

Internationally acclaimed artist Dimitris Papaioannou makes his Onassis Cultural Centre debut with his much-anticipated new work Still Life, from May 23 to June 8. In his latest work, he goes back to where everything starts - the body - and reminds us that art can conjure magic out of the most minimal of means. And the audience watches on, entranced. Participating artist are Servetalis, Drossos Skotis, Michael Theophanous, Argyris Pandazaras, Kalliopi Simou, Pavlina Andriopoulou and Dimitris Papaioannou.

 MUSIC

Athens State Orchestra will stage its 20th concert "Brahms Cycle" at the Athens Concert Hall on May 23. The concert will be held with the support of the German Embassy in Athens and the repertoire includes the composer’s Piano Concerto no 2 and Symphony no 4. Nikolai Demidenko plays the piano. Christoph Poppen is conducting.

E X H I B I T I O N S

365 the project by Constantinos Varvitsiotis is a unique personal diary full of color, narrations and emotions which will be running until May 24, at Zoumboulakis Galleries. The exhibition is the visual diary of an entire year of his very eventful year. Daily life has the central role in his journal, as well as random moments that pass by unnoticed. The cultural differences between New York, where he lives, and Greece are also captured in this series of works. All the works, illustrations of thoughts, images, sounds, senses and flavors, have been created digitally and are being presented for the first time off line.