{"id":4650,"date":"2026-02-11T14:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbalticdance.lt\/?post_type=mec-events&p=4650"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:44:50","slug":"christos-papadopoulos-greece-my-fierce-ignorant-step","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/newbalticdance.lt\/en\/renginiai\/christos-papadopoulos-greece-my-fierce-ignorant-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Christos Papadopoulos (Greece) \u2013 MY FIERCE IGNORANT STEP"},"content":{"rendered":"Tickets<\/span><\/a><\/span>\n

Duration: 60 min.<\/b><\/p>\n

Recommended age: 12+<\/b><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The new work by the minimalist Greek choreographer, who already took part in the festival in 2024, explores how movement becomes a song, one in which the dancers\u2019 bodies pulsate\u2014and 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

The work is inspired by collective sonic memories: not by specific music, but by the feeling it leaves within us. A landscape that lives within us, travels with us, and allows us to instantly revisit a moment from the past that has never really passed. Everything is still here. Or at least, this is what the work explores: the truth of the youth, momentum, and courage; a truth that, if we consider it fleeting, quaint, or charming, will be forever lost\u2014and along with it, the meaning of our world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy Fierce Ignorant Step\u201d<\/b> resists conformity with a cascade of forms, with an insatiable longing for the present, the future, and the past, with a desire for a life that is bold, laborious, and entirely humane, made of our fragile, insignificant flesh.<\/span><\/p>\n

The work brings to the fore qualities that have always been present in Christos Papadopoulos\u2019 oeuvre, but the emphasis shifts radically here. Specific themes and materials have concerned him from the beginning, but now they are clearly discernible and among them is the idea of \u201ctogetherness,\u201d the simple initial point where both politics and love seem to appear. That is why the performers dance together in this work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Christos Papadopoulos’ note<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cHow can there not be anger with everything going on around us? How can one bear this reality? The political situation, the rise of the far right, corruption, wars that we have now come to accept as a kind of political normalcy, environmental destruction\u2014all the things we once believed we would never have to live through are here.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this bleak reality, where the lines of dystopia have already been crossed, I\u2019ve recently found myself reverting to my adolescent years. I remember that lust for life, the speed, the unwavering drive, the sense that anything was possible. That fearless confidence that the world was in front of us, open, and ours, and that we would live it the way we desired and deserved.<\/span><\/p>\n

This work is my attempt to revisit that feeling. To find it again. And with it, to regain that strength, that optimism, and that sense of \u201ctogether.\u201d I have to remind myself that hoping is already an act of resistance and that such courage was neither na\u00efve nor quaint at all. It was true. And it still is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Christos Papadopoulos<\/b> studied dance and choreography at SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam, theater at theDrama School of Greece\u2019s National Theater, and Political Sciencesin Athens. He is a founding member of the dance group \u201cThe Lion and the Wolf.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His first works, “<\/span>OPUS<\/span><\/a>” and “<\/span>ELVEDON<\/span><\/a>“, were met with great acclaim when presented at the Porta Theater in Greece. “<\/span>ELVEDON<\/span><\/a>” was the first choice of Aerowaves \u201916 and was later presented in Paris, Amsterdam, and other European cities. “<\/span>OPUS<\/span><\/a>” was chosen by Aerowaves \u201918, and soon after began its international tour.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>LARSEN C<\/span><\/a>” (2021), an international coproduction, has already been presented to more than 25 venues and festivals across Europe. In 2023, he created the work “<\/span>MELLOWING<\/span><\/a>” for the prestigious dance company Dance On and, later on, “<\/span>MYCELIUM<\/span><\/a>” for the Lyon Opera Ballet and the Biennale de la Danse Lyon. These works are touring worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n