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 2027 edition is expected in early February; the festival runs for four days and takes all three stages of the building. The Onassis Foundation has not yet published the 2027 dates or programme.

The festival began as the Onassis New Choreographers Festival, an open-call platform that has carried some forty emerging Greek choreographers toward international stages. At its tenth edition, in 2023, it was renamed Dance Days and broadened to include Greek premieres alongside the work of established international names. The 2026 edition ran from 5 to 8 February across the Main Stage, the Upper Stage and the experimental −1 space, opening with NÔT by the Cape Verdean choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas — an Onassis Stegi co-production that had opened the 79th Avignon Festival the previous summer. The full 2027 lineup is published in autumn, when the Foundation announces the winter cycle.

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.