NEKYIA

NEKYIA is a performance work by Giannis Aggelakas and Christos Papadopoulos based on the eleventh book of Homer’s Odyssey, the passage in which Odysseus descends to the land of the dead. It is an Onassis Stegi production. The piece was staged at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall across four nights, from 13 to 16 February 2025, the northern run following an Athens premiere on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage two seasons earlier, which sold out.

Giannis Aggelakas is a musician and poet associated with the Greek rock scene. Christos Papadopoulos is a choreographer whose movement work has been presented at the Avignon Festival and the Holland Festival. The performance uses keyboards, voice, and the musical saw, with staging reduced to those elements. The Thessaloniki Concert Hall opened on the Thessaloniki waterfront in 2000 and is the principal concert venue of northern Greece.