photo: Pinelopi Gersimou
My Fierce Ignorant Step by Christos Papadopoulos (2025)
Lighting Design
My Fierce Ignorant Step by Christos Papadopoulos - a 59-minute work for 10 performers. The piece was first presented at Onassis Stegi in Athens, Greece in May 2025. It is currently touring around the world.
A performance about the euphoria of being alive. Ten dancers create an ecstatic soundscape and the choreography emerging from it. Memories and listens, voices and bodies, all resonate like musical instruments, gradually building toward a shared exhilaration. The minimalist Greek choreographer’s new work explores how movement becomes a song, one in which the dancers’ bodies pulsate—and through them, potentially, the bodies of the audience. An optimistic, extroverted, and enchanting new work about the first times we met, laughed, lived. About our passionate beginnings.
the work was presented at (currently on tour):
Onassis Stegi (Athens, Greece)
One Dance Festival (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Festival de Marseille (Marseille, France)
Julidans (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Grec Festival de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
Romaeuropa Festival (Rome, Italy)
Fondazione I Teatri Reggio (Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Festival de Otoño (Madrid, Spain)
December Dance / Concertgebouw Bruge (Bruge, Belgium)
Théâtre de la Ville (Paris, France)
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CONCEPT & CHOREOGRAPHY
CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS
DANCING AND COLLABORATING
THEMIS ANDREOULAKI, MARIA BREGIANNI, AMALIA KOSMA, GEORGIOS KOTSIFAKIS, SOTIRIA KOUTSOPETROU, TASOS NIKAS, SPYROS NTOGAS, IOANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU, DANAE PAZIRGIANNIDI, ADONIS VAIS
DRAMATURGY CONSULTANT
ALEXANDROS MISTRIOTIS
ORIGINAL MUSIC
KORNILIOS SELAMSIS
ASSOCIATE COMPOSER
JEPH VANGER
SET DESIGN
CLIO BOBOTI
COSTUMES DESIGN
MARIA PANOURGIA
LIGHTING DESIGN
STEPHANOS DROUSSIOTIS
VOCAL TRAINING
APOSTOLIS PSICHRAMIS
ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER
SEVASTI ZAFEIRA
ASSISTANT TO THE SET DESIGNER
AGGELIKI VASILOPOULOU-KAMPITSI
ASSISTANT TO THE COSTUMES DESIGNER
PANAYIOTIS RENIERIS
COORDINATION AND LINE PRODUCTION
ZOE MOUSCHI – RENA ANDREADAKI
TOUR LIGHTING HEAD
ALEXANDROS MAVRIDIS
TOUR SET MANAGER
MARILENA KALAITZANTONAKI & AGGELIKI VASILOPOULOU-KAMPITSI
SOUND ENGINEER
KOSTIS PAVLOPOULOS
TOUR MANAGER
KONSTANTINA PAPADOPOULOU
A PROJECT BY
CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS // THE LION AND THE WOLF
SPECIAL THANKS TO
EURIPIDES LASKARIDIS, SOTIRIS MELANOS AND FILANTHI BOUGATSOU
COMMISSIONED & PRODUCED BY
ONASSIS STEGI
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
DANCE REFLECTIONS BY
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
CO-PRODUCERS
THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE (PARIS, FRANCE), JULIDANS (THE NETHERLANDS), ROMAEUROPA FESTIVAL (ITALY), THÉÂTRE D'ORLÉANS / SCÈNE NATIONALE (FRANCE), LAC LUGANO ARTE E CULTURA (SWITZERLAND), DECEMBER DANCE CONCERTGEBOUW BRUGGE (BELGIUM), ONE DANCE FESTIVAL (BULGARIA), FESTIVAL DE MARSEILLE (FRANCE), I TEATRI DI REGGIO EMILIA (ITALY)
Supported by the Onassis Stegi Touring Program.
Christos Papadopoulos with “My Fierce Ignorant Step” is nominated for the Fedora Van Cleef & Arpels dance prize 2025.
With the financial support of the Ministry of Culture
photos by Pinelopi Gerasimou, Clio Boboti