RUNWAY BY CHRISTIANA KOSIARI
Photo by Pinelopi Gerasimou
Photo by Pinelopi Gerasimou
Photo by Pinelopi Gerasimou
Photo by Pinelopi Gerasimou
Photo by Pinelopi Gerasimou

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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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.

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