RUNWAY

By Christiana Kosiari

A solo piece on a treadmill that never stops, a speed race against the corrosion of time.

A solo piece on a treadmill that never stops, a speed race against the corrosion of time.

A woman indulges maniacally in jogging in place—in this health practice as much as self-torture. Someone is monitoring her like a metronome of her steps: the composer Jan Van Angelopoulos, live, along with his keyboards and electroacoustic soundscapes.
Inspired by catwalks, “RUNWAY” explores a woman’s array of behaviors and transformations based on the era’s dominant beauty standards. Catwalks morph into a form of silly walks as the performer walks, runs, stumbles, puts on make-up, fixes her hair, stumbles on her heels, and recovers her balance in a race against the corrosion of time and the terror it induces.
The treadmill is used as a beauty and wellness tool, as well as an existential prison, a torture instrument, and a conveyor belt for standardized products with expiration dates. It is eventually elevated to the symbol of a grotesque and absurd catwalk.

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CHRISTIANA KOSIARI

Credits

Choreography & Performance: Christiana Kosiari 

Dramaturgy: Dimitra Mitropoulou
Assistant Choreographer: Katerina Foti
Lighting Design: Lampros Papoulias 
Original Music Composition & Performance: Jan Van Angelopoulos 
Set Design: Evangelia Therianou
Costume Design: 2WO + 1NE=2
Production Management & Line Production: TooFarEast
Commissioned & Produced: Onassis Stegi 
Supported by the Onassis Stegi “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Program and Supported by Next Stage, European Union – a Creative Europe Project.

Special thanks: Olivier Dubois, Christian Rizzo, Christos Polymenakos—Body/Word Performance Writing Mentoring, Vangelis Mountrichas, Christos Christopoulos, Ioanna Papakosta, Penelope Koufopoulou, Maria-Angela Katsikali Kosiari, Anastasia Tsopelaki, Pavlos Christophoros.

Past & upcoming tour dates:

RUNWAY | Theater Amalia | Thessaloniki, Greece | 24 November 2025

RUNWAY | Moving Balkans Contemporary Dance Platform | Ljubljana, Slovenia | 10 May 2025

RUNWAY | Under the Radar | New York, USA | 10,11,13,14 January 2025

RUNWAY | Scena Natura – Crexida | Bologna, Italy | 1 September 2024

RUNWAY world premiere | Onassis Dance Days | Athens, Greece | 23,24,25 February 2024

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.