Concept/ coreography/ performance Elena Antoniou
performance Anna Papathanasiou
music Maria Spivak
dramaturgy Odysseas I. Konstantinou
artistic direction Christos Kyriakides
light design Vasilis Petinaris
style coordination Philippe G. Missas
photography and graphic Saint
international production coordination Alex Papasimakopoulou

With the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development. Supported by ONASSIS STEGI Touring Program. The premiere of the work took place in Cyprus, as part of the "Terpsichore 2025" program of the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Ministry of Culture of Cyprus.

ODE is about togetherness, about no woman being alone. About the ways we can find in order to expand the space that is ours as women. A bodily poem that explores the core of female strength through gaze and movement.

ODE is an act of embodied poetry—dynamic, melodic, distilled. After LANDSCAPE, which for the third year continues to travel to festivals across Europe with the support of the Onassis Stegi Touring Program, Elena Antoniou’s new work follows that path that shifts the gaze, space, time, and the relationship with the spectator.

In ODE, the two artists redefine each institutional venue that presents it as a field of attunement, and stand where rupture and renewal meet. The gaze determines, seeing with an eroticism that claims the right to draw close, to unite. Vulnerability becomes a passage toward another kind of power. Hierarchies and roles recede. Presence asserts itself and becomes sound, movement becomes vibration, and coexistence becomes a form of claiming. As Audre Lorde says, “Your silence will not protect you.”

After the presentation of her work LANDSCAPE at Dance Umbrella 2025, a performance that “isn't a game of gazes, nor an invitation to gaze or desire: it's a protest” (Vito De Biasi, “Harper’s Bazaar Italy”), and having received reviews for her work as a whole, Elena Antoniou returns with ODE, this time to seek the tender core of female power. As Eoin Fenton [“A young(ish) perspective”] notes in his review, “If anyone is to carry on that fine tradition of ‘dance from the vagina,’ as Martha Graham put it, it just might be Elena Antoniou.

Con il sostegno di Onassis Stegi