Sufficiently Creative

grape – Greek Agora of Performance of the Athens Epidaurus Festival 2025

When did the obsession with the notion of the “genius artist” begin, and how does it relate to ideas of authenticity, originality, innovation, individuality, and ownership? Why must an artist or intellectual establish their distinctness from their predecessors to be taken seriously? All these questions serve as the springboard for Sufficiently creative, a performance structured as a symposium featuring a lawyer, a choreographer, a dance professor, and an art theorist. Together, they explore why originality and experimentation have become an inescapable prerequisite for every creator. By revisiting legal scandals and iconic choreographies, they argue that this perception works in favour of a competitive, market-driven approach to artistic practice, ultimately fueling the commercialisation of art.

As a performer, Konstantinos Papanikolaou has previously collaborated with Gerard & Kelly, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Patricia Apergi, and Tzeni Argyriou, among others, while he presented his first choreographic work titled The Diving Horse and Other Mythologies at the Onassis New Choreographers Festival in 2021.

With his new choreography—a co-production with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center—he deepens his research on the dance world, its underlying structures and rules, addressing once more the choreographer’s role with yet another performative lecture that evolves into a contemporary contemplation on the very nature of creativity.

grape – Greek Agora of Performance, the successful Agora for the Greek Performing Arts of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, returns for its third consecutive year! Providing a platform for Theatre and Dance creators to showcase their works to representatives of international festivals, cultural institutions abroad, and the wider public, grape aims to systematically promote Greek artistic vision to the international Theatre and Dance scenes.

As part of grape 2025, 8 performances are featured in this year's programme from July 21 July 24.

Artists:

Text—Choreography

Konstantinos Papanikolaou

Lighting design

Nysos Vasilopoulos

Cast—Co-creation

Dimitris Matsoukas, Konstantinos Papanikolaou, Stavroula Siamou, Dimitra Vlagopoulou

Organisation—Executive producer

Athena Geraniou/ Geronima Art Productions

Co-production

Athens Epidaurus Festival, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Donor of the SNFCC Participation: Stavros Niarchos Foundation