A performance about the exhilaration of being alive. Ten dancers create an ecstatic soundscape and its choreography. Memories and sounds, voices and bodies resonate like musical instruments, gradually leading to a shared state of elation. The new work by the Greek minimalist choreographer explores how movement becomes a song within which the dancers’ bodies pulse – and, potentially, the spectators’ bodies alongside them. An optimistic, extrovert and captivating new work about the first times we met, laughed and lived. About our passionate beginnings.
How can there be no anger at everything happening around us? How can anyone endure this reality? The political situation, the rise of the far right, corruption, wars that we have now accepted as a political normality, the destruction of the environment – all the things we believed we would never live through are here.
Within this bleak reality, where the limits of dystopia have already been exceeded, I have recently been returning to my adolescent years. I remember that rush for life, the speed, the uncompromising momentum, the feeling that everything was possible. That fearless certainty that the world lay before us, open and ours, and that we would live it as we wanted and as we deserved.
This work is an attempt to retrieve that feeling. To find it again. And with it, to find again that strength, that optimism and that sense of togetherness. To remember that hoping is already an act of resistance, and that this courage was ultimately neither naïve nor quaint. It was true. And it still is.
Awards / Distinctions
Nominee
Fedora Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for Dance
2025 nomination
Christos Papadopoulos and My Fierce Ignorant Step · 2025
Gallery
Concept – Choreography: Christos Papadopoulos
Dramaturgy: Alexandros Mistriotis
Original Music: Kornilios Selamsis
Associate Composer: Jeph Vanger
Set Design: Kleio Boboti
Costumes: Maria Panourgia
Lighting: Stefanos Drousiotis
Vocal Coaching: Apostolis Psychramis
Assistant Choreographer: Sevasti Zafeira
Assistant Set Designer: Angeliki Vasilopoulou-Kampitsi
Assistant Costume Designer: Panagiotis Renieris
Production Organisation and Management: Zoi Mouschi – Rena Andreadaki
Tour Lighting Manager: Alexandros Mavridis
Tour Technical Direction: Marilena Kalaitzantonaki & Angeliki Vasilopoulou-Kampitsi
Sound Recording: Kostis Pavlopoulos
Tour Management: Konstantina Papadopoulou
Dancers and collaborators: Themis Andreoulaki
Dancers and collaborators: Antonis Vahis
Dancers and collaborators: Amalia Kosma
Dancers and collaborators: Giorgos Kotsifakis
Dancers and collaborators: Sotiria Koutsopetrou
Dancers and collaborators: Maria Bregianni
Dancers and collaborators: Tasos Nikas
Dancers and collaborators: Spyros Dogas
Dancers and collaborators: Danae Pazirgianidou
Dancers and collaborators: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
A work by: Christos Papadopoulos // Leon and Wolf
Special thanks: Evripidis Laskaridis, Sotiris Melas and Filanthi Bougatsou
Commissioned and produced by: Onassis Stegi
With the support of: Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Supported by: Onassis Stegi Touring Program
Co-producers: Théâtre de la Ville (Paris, France), Julidans (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Romaeuropa Festival (Rome, Italy), Théâtre d'Orléans / Scène nationale (Orléans, France), LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura (Lugano, Switzerland), December Dance Concertgebouw Brugge (Bruges, Belgium), One Dance Festival (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Festival de Marseille (Marseille, France), I Teatri di Reggio Emilia (Reggio Emilia, Italy), and others to be announced soon
Financial support: Hellenic Ministry of Culture