ABYSS

When:
Saturday, May 23rd , 2026 | 20:30 – 21:30 (doors open at 20:00)

Where:
Black-Box Theatre – Deree the American College of Greece – Gravias 6

Organized by:
The Theatre Program, Department of Music, Theatre & Dance,
The American College of Greece

About the event:

ABYSS is a solo dance performance by Sabina Andrea Allen, performed by Xenia Argyri, that situates fear within a submerged environment. Staged around and inside an aquarium, the work examines how fear is embodied through the feminine, where softness becomes suspect and survival becomes a physical negotiation. Drawing on the greek etymology of ἄβυσσος (“bottomless”), the choreography blends contemporary movement with butoh-inflected stillness, informed by the dual imagery of the jellyfish and Medusa. A layered soundscape: water, techno pulses, opera, lament creates an immersive psychological terrain. After a one month self-funded residency in Berlin (June, 2025) Abyss Premiered at MOVING BODIES Festival in Potsdam, (August 2025), ABYSS offers a stark meditation on vulnerability, containment, and transformation.

About the performer

Sabina Andrea Allen
Artist, Choreographer, Performer, and Visual Designer

Sabina-Andrea Allen is a Greek-American multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, performer, and visual designer. She was selected as an artist-in-residence at the U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography (AERITES), ELEUSIS 23/24, where she choreographed Above the Earth, Beneath the Clouds: Where Angels Float Freely. Her screendance works, including A Dance Goodbye: Nuclear Radio and Dialogus inter Feminas et Natura, have been featured in international festivals. In 2022, she co-founded the physical theatre company Corpus Franca and co-choreographed The Doubles with Eryfili Drakopoulou, a piece inspired by Jean Genet’s The Maids. Since then, she has been co-running the independent art space To Pano Spiti and has collaborated with artists such as Dimitris Vassilakis, Naxatras, Denis Lavant, and Ana Sánchez-Colberg, among others. In 2025, she was selected for Digital on Stage in Maribor, Slovenia (funded by Creative Europe). That same year, in August, her piece ABYSS premiered at Moving Bodies Festival for Dance at Tiefer See, Potsdam. Her earlier work includes the feminist dance-documentary theatre piece Re.Claim (2019). She began her studies in Theatre at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki before transferring to Deree, The American College of Greece on a scholarship, earning a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance Practice (2021). She is currently an MA student in Visual Communication at Vakalo School of Fine Art and Design in Athens.

The event is free and open to the public.

Please register by May 22nd, 2026

For further clarifications, please contact [email protected]