Under the Radar | Runway @ Onassis ONX
“Runway" by Christina Kosiari Shown as part of Under the Radar’s Under Construction Program @ Onassis ONX
“A detailed portrayal of a woman consumed by the very standards she is trying to resist” – Springback Magazine
WHEN: - Friday, January 10 @ 3pm - Saturday, January 11 @ 5pm - Monday, January 13 @ 7pm - Tuesday, January 14 @ 7pm WHERE: Onassis ONX, 645 5th Avenue, Lower Level
A woman maniacally jogs in place, a practice as much for her health as for self-torture. Μusic monitors the metronome of her steps. Inspired by the runway of international fashion, RUNWAY explores the array of behaviors and transformations of a woman striving for her era’s dominant beauty standards. The glamor of the catwalk morphs into a mannered and absurd march, as the performer walks, runs, stumbles, applies make-up, fixes her hair, stumbles on her heels, and only barely recovers her balance in a race against the terrifying corrosion of time. In RUNWAY, the treadmill transcends its use as a beauty and wellness tool, evolving into an existential prison, a torture instrument, a conveyor belt for standardized products with predetermined expiration dates, a grotesque and absurd plank above the abyss.
Note: This production contains nudity and is appropriate for mature audiences only.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Born in Athens, Christiana Kosiari is a professional dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. She graduated from the Greek State School of Dance in 2012 and from the Athens University of Economics and Business in 2008. From 2021 to 2022, she participated in the U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography in the context of 2023 ELEVSIS European Capital of Culture, where she presented two works, Bouboulina and Bouboulina’s. In the 2022/23 season, she was selected to continue her studies at the Academy for a second year and present Bouboulines as site-specific work in July of 2023. As a choreographer, she premiered RUNWAY at the Onassis Dance Days 2024 at the Onassis Stegi in February 2024. In August 2024, RUNWAY was hosted in a Residency Program by the association Credixa/Anima Fluo in Bologna, Italy. Kosiari presented Chained at the Arc for Dance Festival 15, the Dance Laboratory Rhodes 7, the Patras Art Festival 3 and the Masdanza Dance Festival 28 in the Canary Islands, where she received the second prize from the jury. She has choreographed video versions of Sink and Bouboulina which have been presented at various festivals in Greece and abroad, including the Dance Days Chania, the Athens Video Dance Project, the Patras Art Festival, the Land Art Moving Biennial Video-dance Contest in Portugal, the Emergentia in Switzerland, the Lift-Off Global Network in England, and many others. As a dancer, she participated in MA by Romeo Castellucci and toured Lamenta with the Siamese Dance Co from 2021 to 2023. She has attended many workshops in Greece and abroad and has been teaching dance since 2007.
ABOUT UNDER THE RADAR:
Under the Radar is the United States' premier festival of experimental theater and performance art. As a long-time New York City-based platform for cutting-edge work hailing from around the globe. Produced by ArKtype with Festival Director Mark Russell, UTR has been reimagined in its 20th annual season as a city-wide celebration that incisively speaks to our moment. Rather than being tied to a single host institution, Under the Radar's current iteration is curated collaboratively with an array of renowned arts organizations and curators, each harnessing the connective nature of the festival format to introduce some of the world's most innovative multidisciplinary voices to wider audiences. The 2025 edition of UTR will include over 33 distinct programs at 24 theater spaces, presenting more than 250 performances in only 16 days from January 4 to 19. The depth, breadth and excellence of this year's festival serves as proof that collaboration can power the American theater through this era of existential crisis into a reinvigorated future of conjoined artists ready to embrace diversity, challenge and reinvention.
