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GOLDEN AGE

KONSTANTINOS RIGOS

A co-production with the Belgrade Dance Festival

Available for on-demand streaming from 1 December 2025 until 30 April 2025

Στο https://www.nationalopera.gr/GNOTV/en

Ballet

Ticket: 10€

Following its triumphant world premiere at the Belgrade Dance Festival and its successful performances at the Greek National Opera in May 2025, Golden Age-a co-production of the GNO and the Belgrade Dance Festival, created by Konstantinos Rigos-will be presented on GNO TV.

With Golden Age, the GNO Ballet Director, Konstantinos Rigos, creates a never-ending party. Inspired by the references, obsessions, and images that have marked him, the dance vocabulary he has made up himself, and the diverse music styles constantly playing in his headphones, he creates a manifesto of a generation that rushes forward to sweep everything away. The performance attempts to map a new age that promises everyone happiness, while also acknowledging that sadness, melancholy, and the struggle for acceptance are always present. Golden Age brings us a new messiah who promises to subvert everything, along with numerous new deities who lay claims over our ephemeral vows.

Golden Age aims to speak about the present and future of dance, while also serving as a reflection of a mixtape of Rigos' 35-year-long career, where the concepts of irony and nostalgia seem to be identical. From his time at the National School of Dance (KSOT), the spring of Greek dance in the 1990s, and the Dance Theatre Company OKTANA, to his work at the Art Theatre, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the National Theatre of Greece, the Athens Festival, and the Greek National Opera, Konstantinos Rigos' iconoclastic imprint transcends the boundaries of dance and converses with the art forms surrounding it. His artistic identity remains restless, subversive, provocative, sharp-edged, and brimming with emotions.

Concept, choreography, set, track selection: Konstantinos Rigos
Music: Ted Regklis
Dramaturg: Erie Kyrgia
Art installation: Petros Touloudis
Costumes: Daglara
Lighting: Christos Tziogkas
Video: Vasilis Kehagias

Dancers (Athens)
Vangelis Bikos
Manex Alberdi, Yannis Gantsios, Stavros Ikbal, Elena Kekkou, Yannis Mitrakis, Elton Dimrochi, Petros Nikolidis, Marita Nikolitsa, Daniele Pecorari, Stefano Pietragalla, Marta Rivero de Miranda, Ariadni Filippaki, Anna Fragou, Yorgos Hatzopoulos, Despina Chrysostomou

With a 10-euro ticket, viewers can enjoy this production from the comfort of their homes at tv.nationalopera.gr/en, at any time they choose, on their computer, ipad, TV or mobile phones. The ticket offers the possibility to access the performance for an unlimited number of times over the course of a 30-day period starting from the first streaming.

Lead Donor of the Greek National Opera and Founding Donor of the GNO TV

Stavros Niarchos Foundation