Antonis Foniadakis

Priority


Andonis Foniadakis, a Greek of the diaspora with a prominent international career, is making his first appearance at the Athens Festival in a performance of his solo work Priority. The title has both a literal and a symbolic meaning: it refers to a bar back in his teenage years but also to an early experience that has been of seminal importance in his relationship to dance and his search for identity. The starting point and main thrust of the work is precisely this notion of priority, the exploration of the preconscious, here through the use of movement: inceptive, primordial, and stripped to its essence.