Tour to Thessaloniki and Patras, Greece – Sponsored by the American Embassy in Athens

Photo: Katerina Koutsi Marouda

Arriving in northern Greece in July, we performed Coming Together/Attica at the Moni Lazariston Festival in Thessaloniki. Aside from a downpour of rain during our final pre-show run through, a welcome respite from the heat, our performance was a tremendous success. We then traveled to the Peloponnese at perform at the Patras International Festival where we performed in a Roman Odeon theater from 150 AD perched on top of a steep hill overlooking the Ionian sea. It was magical. We also hosted a workshop at Dansarte – Center for Dance and Arts, a professional dance school in Patras directed by Tatiana Loverdou. The American Embassy in Athens sponsored the tour and produced a beautiful short documentary about our visit to Patras, created by Konstantinos Antonopoulos. Watch here. I am grateful to have received the Stanley J. Seeger Summer Fellowship and funding from the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Humanities Council, and the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton to make the tour happen.