Onassis Dance Days

Onassis Dance Days (ODD) is the annual contemporary-dance festival of the Onassis Foundation, held at the Onassis Stegi on Syngrou Avenue in Athens, Greece. The 2026 edition ran from 5 to 8 February across all three stages of the building: the Main Stage, the Upper Stage and the experimental −1 space. The programme comprised four performances and a video installation, unfolding from early evening into the night.

The festival opened with NÔT, the work by the Cape Verdean choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas. NÔT is an Onassis Stegi co-production, loosely drawn from One Thousand and One Nights, which had opened the 79th Avignon Festival the previous summer. It played the Main Stage from 6 to 8 February. The remainder of the programme consisted of Greek premieres: Elena Antoniou’s ODE, Katerina Foti’s (REST IN) BLUE, Efthimios Moschopoulos’s FÁE, and Efi Gousi’s Tectonic Riders.

The festival began as the Onassis New Choreographers Festival, an open-call platform that has carried some forty emerging Greek choreographers toward international stages. It was renamed Dance Days at its tenth edition, in 2023. The Stegi is an 18,000-square-metre marble-banded building on Syngrou, opened in December 2010, with an 880-seat Main Stage and a smaller Upper Stage above it.