POP UP
SOLO DANCE FESTIVAL

POP UP
SOLO DANCE FESTIVAL

22 & 23 March 2025 | 21:30

Plyfa

The first POP UP Solo Dance Festival in Athens is an innovative dance festival that brings on stage the uniqueness of each creator/dancer and their personal expression. The festival will include two shows, in which four solo performances will be presented, as well as accompanying dance workshops that will provide the audience with the opportunity to explore movement and enrich their kinetic language.

The main goal of the festival is to highlight the uniqueness of each human, through individual creation and personal expression. The dancers are invited to create and express themselves through their own bodies and performances, thus offering a true and authentic look at the intimate power of dance.

The theme of the festival for this first event is "A matter of passion", examining the relationship of human existence and creation with passion and its multiple manifestations. What does it mean to experience a passion, to suffer from it, to follow it, and how can this shape the kinetic and emotional expressions of the body? On the occasion of this theme, the festival seeks to serve as a platform where the creators can share and examine their personal relation and contradictions around the concept of passion.

The festival aspires to establish a new and recurring creative outlet for the city, which will support and enhance the creativity of the dance community through self-creation and self-expression, while at the same time opening the dialogue on important themes concerning contemporary dance and the uniqueness of each individual within the arts.