The rich and innovative four-day programme includes 25 performances in unique venues around the city, with the participation of more than 100 active and promising choreographers and dancers from Europe and Asia. In addition, 150 dance professionals from all over the world are expected to come to Elefsinato attend the popular event, while parallel actions will transform the city into an international hub of contemporary dance.

Spring Forward is a cross-border celebration of dance, hosted every year since 2011 in different European city. The event is organized by Aerowaves, the largest European contemporary dance network, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary. The goal of Spring Forward is to showcase a new generation of dancers and choreographers from all across Europe and to create a European network of contemporary dance, with the participation of choreographers, upcoming and professional dancers, journalists, artists and lovers of contemporary dance. It is worth mentioning that some of the most important Greek choreographers have presented their works in previous Spring Forward events: Patricia Apergi, Anastasia Valsamaki, Iris Karayan, Euripides Laskaridis, Sofia Mavragani, Aris Papadopoulos, Christos Papadopoulos and Martha Pasakopoulou.

Each June, Aerowaves issues an Open Call to dance professionals to present their performances at each year’s Spring Forward. For this year’s event, 40 dance professionals gathered in person at Kultur-Betriebe Burgenland in Eisenstadt (Austria) from the 29th to the 31st of October, 2021, to study hundreds of dance works by young creators and select the best emerging choreographers and dancers for the event in Elefsina. Find out more information about the 22 artistic groups selected here.

This year’s edition of Spring Forward takes place in Elefsina, as part of Moving Europe, a programme by 2023 ΕΛΕVΣΙΣ that focuses on young people and dance, with the main objectives of creating a dialogue between Greek and international artists, actively supporting young and emerging choreographers and cultivating a new audience for dance in the city, beyond the boundaries of the title of European Capital of Culture.

For more information here.