Ιn a space where orientation collapses and certainty dissolves, choreographer Antonia Economou invites audiences into The Great Nothing—a new dance performance premiering on February 5, at Tzamia Krystalla, an Athens-based venue devoted to performativity as both a method and a framework for creation.

Drawing its poetic and conceptual core from one of the most enigmatic phenomena in the universe—the Boötes Void, also known as “The Great Nothing”—the work unfolds in a landscape of apparent emptiness that is anything but void. Here, familiarity feels distorted, time fractures, and meaning hovers between presence and disappearance.

On stage, reality bends. Front becomes back, beginnings bleed into endings, and distance loses its measure. Economou constructs a broken triptych suspended in space and time, where the strange quietly turns ordinary and where desire, fear and tenderness coexist without resolution. In this dim, shifting terrain, dreams emerge as “midnight movies of the mind,” narrating riddles that resist clarity and explanation.

Bodies appear confined yet alert, isolated yet haunted by layers of memory. Fear—of loss, of separation, of the void itself—fills the space with invisible presences: ghosts of the real, the remembered and the imagined. Within these existential “cages,” the body becomes the last remaining archive, holding traces of what once existed and what never came to be.

Photo by Christos Andrianopoulos

n her choreographer’s note, Economou points to the Boötes Void—also known as “The Great Nothing”—one of the largest and loneliest regions in the observable universe, a cosmic absence marked by darkness and immense distances rather than true emptiness. For her, this vast void becomes a metaphor for separation and abrupt loss: a “space without space,” akin to the solitary and isolated cages we increasingly inhabit today. In this condition of emotional suspension, she suggests, we are persistently called to forget—numbed, immobilized, and drifting through a contemporary nothingness that mirrors the universe’s most desolate expanse.

Info
Tzamia Krystalla, Athens
Premiere: February 5, 2026

Performances: Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays until February 28, 2026

Tickets can be found online here.