Athens \u2022 9 and 10 October 2021
\nAcropolis Museum -National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST)
\nStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) – Greek National Opera<\/p>\n
Brussels \u2022 9-11 December 2021
\nReggio Emilia \u2022 July 2022<\/p>\n
The Greek National Opera Ballet presents MicroDances<\/em> at three emblematic venues in Athens on 9 and 10 October. A five-hour wandering through dance along the axis of Syggrou Avenue, from the Acropolis Museum at Makrygianni to the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) at Fix and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) at Delta Falirou.<\/p>\n MicroDances<\/em> is held as part of the project An Ideal City<\/em>, which aims to research and explore the possibilities of dance as a public art that is rooted in the urban web of three cities: Athens, Reggio Emilia and Brussels. The project An Ideal City<\/em> was launched in October 2020 and will be completed in July 2022. It is the fruit of the collaboration of three European dance organisations, Fondazione Nazionale della Danza \/ Aterballetto (Reggio Emilia), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels), and the Greek National Opera Ballet and it is co-funded by the EU programme Creative Europe, which aims at supporting Europe\u2019s cultural and creative industry. The GNO Ballet programme is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to the Greek National Opera.<\/p>\n MicroDances <\/em>consists of short dance performances, from 6 to 10 minutes long, designed for one or three dancers and for small spaces. They were commissioned from artists from very different backgrounds and with very varied influences, who were called upon to create a rich and diverse choreographic environment. In the first phase of the programme works by eight Greek and thirteen foreign choreographers will be developed in an organic relationship with select museum\/cultural venues in three cities. In the second phase they will be rearticulated according to each different city\u2019s public space and the special way it converses with bodies and history.<\/p>\n On 9 and 10 October audience members will have the possibility to follow a five-hour route with 21 stops that will be divided into the four institutions hosting the works: the halls of the Acropolis Museum, the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), the parking, Stavros Niarchos Park and Lighthouse of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), as well as the Foyer, the backstage of the Stavros Niarchos Hall, and the rehearsal rooms of the Greek National Opera.<\/p>\n The route will start every day from the Acropolis Museum at 11.00, 12.00 and 13.00, it will continue to the EMST and will conclude at around 16.00, 17.00 and 18.00 respectively, at SNFCC and GNO\u2019s venues. Audience members will be transported from one venue to the other by a minibus leased by the GNO.<\/p>\n The relationship between spectacle and spectator is thus redefined dynamically and according to the specificities of each venue, the elements of each choreography and the succession of all the parts of the overall wandering experience \u2013 a narration that runs through the city, the stories, and the different bodies it is made of.<\/p>\n An Ideal City<\/em> aims at bringing out the public art of dance in three European urban landscapes with a strong historical and symbolic character, Athens, Reggio Emilia and Brussels. More specifically, with this project the three organisations aim to:<\/p>\n -experiment through an alternative presentation and enjoyment of dance performances in urban spaces with very different atmospheres<\/p>\n -explore the body\u2019s possibilities to narrate the multiple urban and social transformations<\/p>\n -create performances that can be transformed according to different locations, perspectives and cultural contexts, as well as through the process of being \u201ctranslated\u201d by different participants, viewers and interlocuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Athens \u2022 9 and 10 October 2021 Acropolis Museum -National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) – Greek National Opera Brussels \u2022 9-11 December 2021 Reggio Emilia \u2022 July 2022 The Greek National Opera Ballet presents MicroDances at three emblematic venues in Athens on 9 and 10 October. 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