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Christiana Kosiari
RUNWAY
Presented by Onassis ONX
photos: Pinelopi Gerasimou
“A detailed portrayal of a woman consumed by the very standards she is trying to resist” – Springback Magazine
A woman maniacally jogs in place, a practice as much for her health as for self-torture. Μusic monitors the metronome of her steps. Inspired by the runway of international fashion, RUNWAY explores the array of behaviors and transformations of a woman striving for her era’s dominant beauty standards. The glamor of the catwalk morphs into a mannered and absurd march, as the performer walks, runs, stumbles, applies make-up, fixes her hair, stumbles on her heels, and only barely recovers her balance in a race against the terrifying corrosion of time. In RUNWAY, the treadmill transcends its use as a beauty and wellness tool, evolving into an existential prison, a torture instrument, a conveyor belt for standardized products with predetermined expiration dates, a grotesque and absurd plank above the abyss.
Note: This production contains nudity and is appropriate for mature audiences only.
SCHEDULE
Friday, January 10 @ 3pm
Saturday, January 11 @ 5pm
Monday, January 13 @ 7pm
Tuesday, January 14 @ 7pm
NB: RUNWAY and A {room} of One’s Own will be presented together, back-to-back. Tickets purchased to one show will provide a seat for the other.
Run time: 40 minutes
VENUE
Onassis ONX
645 5th Avenue, Lower Level of the Olympic Tower
NYC, NY 10022
Access:
Visitors can enter the Olympic Tower from either 51st Street or 52nd Street, between 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue. Once inside the lobby, follow the signs directing you to the lower level for Onassis ONX. The Olympic Tower offers two accessible entrances: On 52nd Street and 5th Avenue through the main doors of Olympic Tower and at 51st and 5th, via the elevator in the lobby. To access the elevator in the lobby, Please notify a Security Officer at the Olympic Tower front desk. ADA-compliant restrooms are available on the lower level near Onassis ONX. Service animals are welcome at Onassis ONX. Please notify an Onassis ONX employee, and ensure that service animals are appropriately trained and remain under control at all times.
CREDITS
Choreographer and Performer: Christiana Kosiari
Dramaturgy: Dimitra Mitropoulou
Assistant Choreographer: Katerina Foti
Original Music: Jan Van Angelopoulos
Set Design: Evangelia Therianou
Costume Design: 2WO+1NE=2
Lighting Design: Vaggelis Mountrichas
Production Management and Line: TOOFAREAST / Christos Christopoulos
Tour Technical Manager on behalf of Onassis Stegi: Stavros Kariotoglou
Tour Coordinator on behalf of Onassis Stegi: Christina Liata
Commission and Produced: Onassis Stegi
The UTR presentation is co-produced by Onassis Stegi & Onassis ONX
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Born in Athens, Christiana Kosiari is a professional dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. She graduated from the Greek State School of Dance in 2012 and from the Athens University of Economics and Business in 2008. From 2021 to 2022, she participated in the U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography in the context of 2023 ELEVSIS European Capital of Culture, where she presented two works, Bouboulina and Bouboulina’s. In the 2022/23 season, she was selected to continue her studies at the Academy for a second year and present Bouboulines as site-specific work in July of 2023. As a choreographer, she premiered RUNWAY at the Onassis Dance Days 2024 at the Onassis Stegi in February 2024. In August 2024, RUNWAY was hosted in a Residency Program by the association Credixa/Anima Fluo in Bologna, Italy. Kosiari presented her previous work Chained at the Arc for Dance Festival 15, the Dance Laboratory Rhodes 7, the Patras Art Festival 3 and the Masdanza Dance Festival 28 in the Canary Islands, where she received the second prize from the jury. She has choreographed two video dance projects, Sink and Bouboulina, which have been presented at various festivals in Greece and abroad, including the Dance Days Chania, the Athens Video Dance Project, the Patras Art Festival, the Land Art Moving Biennial Video-dance Contest in Portugal, the Emergentia in Switzerland, the Lift-Off Global Network in England, and many others. As a dancer, she participated in MA by Romeo Castellucci and toured Lamenta with the Siamese Dance Co from 2021 to 2023. She has attended many workshops in Greece and abroad and has been teaching dance since 2007.
CREATION + FUNDING
The tour is supported by Onassis Stegi’s Outward Turn cultural export program. Onassis Stegi in Athens serves as the hub of the Onassis Foundation’s cultural activities. It encourages the talent and energy of local and international artists to thrive and sparks conversations that aim to shake and shape society. Onassis Stegi is a center of global contemporary culture that, through a series of initiatives and works, promotes dialogue about democracy, social and environmental justice, racial and gender equality, and LGBTQIA+ rights. Through the Outward Turn cultural export program, Onassis Stegi strengthens the presence and status of artists in every corner of the world and throughout Greece, forging innovative networks tightly intertwined with the nexus of the international scene, both with and for the πartists. At the same time, its productions and co-productions travel across borders to promote contemporary Greek culture. Over the last twelve years, more than 90 works of theater, dance, and music produced or co-produced by the Onassis Stegi have amassed more than 1,000 performances in 52 countries and approximately 200 cities worldwide.
