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25km

Concept • Choreography 

Eliane Roumié


Dance • Performance 

Zoi Efstathiou/Eliane Roumié, Nancy Nerantzi/Christiana Katsimpraki, Marina Tsapekou 


Artistic documentary Cast

Zoi Efstathiou, Nancy Nerantzi, Eliane Roumié, Lea Simonsmeier


Music Composition • Sound Design 

Manos Paterakis


Cinematography • Editing • Photography 

Konstantinos Kalavrezos


Scenography 

Stavros Balis


Graphic Design 

Giannis Shinas


Presentation

The Hellenic Centre, London 2025

Colonus Festival, Athens 2024 

On Bodies Dance & Performance Arts Festival, Dancehouse Lefkosia 2024

Expanded Scenography, Performance and Public Space / International Scientific Conference & Day Conference of Young Researchers, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, 2024

ELEVSIS European Capital of Culture, Elefsina 2023

25km is a multidisciplinary project that centers on walking as a contemporary ritual. The artistic research delves into the concept of ritual, beginning with an exploration of Elefsina, a Greek city historically associated with both spiritual elevation and the degradation of nature. Through a silent, 25-kilometer journey undertaken by four women, the work explores walking not merely as movement, but as an embodied practice fostering reflection on both personal and collective experiences. It investigates how the extended act of walking, its rhythms, physical endurance, and moments of connection with the landscape, can be translated into artistic form.

The project captures the emotional terrain of the journey: anticipation, catharsis, solitude, and shared presence, creating a space to contemplate urgent issues such as migration, social isolation and ecological loss, themes that shape today’s world. The project consists of a dance performance and an artistic documentary, offering both a live and reflective experience of the ritual of walking.

25km was realized within the framework of 2023 ELEVSIS European Capital of Culture and U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography, and was supported by NEON Cultural and Development Non Profit Organization and Organization for Culture, Sports & the Youth of the City of Athens (OPANDA).

Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques:
https://www.critical-stages.org/29/situating-choreographies-of-the-real-in-elefsina-mystery-59-urtopias-academy-of-choreography-dance-myseries-season-2/

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