LANDSCAPE

Cypriot performer Elena Antoniou presents a bold and intimate solo that transforms the body into a living stage. With striking physicality and unapologetic presence, she explores how personal experience can become a shared space — a landscape shaped by desire, exposure and resistance.

Oscillating between pleasure and pain, LANDSCAPE invites us into a world where self-objectification becomes a radical act. Antoniou hypersexualises her form while holding space for trauma, teasing the edges of performance and provocation. The result is a dance that dares to confront the politics of looking — and being looked at.

Antoniou has presented her work across Europe, collaborating with renowned institutions including Onassis Stegi and the Marina Abramović Institute. Her practice spans choreography, performance and movement direction, and she continues to push boundaries with internationally acclaimed artist Maria Hassabi. With LANDSCAPE, she delivers a performance that is both deeply personal and defiantly political — a vital new voice on the contemporary dance stage.

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Elena Antoniou

Dancer & Performance Artist

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UK Premiere

Venue: Shoreditch Town Hall, Assembly Hall
Date: Fri 24 - Sat 25 October 2025, 7pm

Admission: Tickets £18, £15

£10 tickets: Limited number available for every DU show! Access tickets here.

Duration: 51 minutes (no interval)

Age guidance: 16+

Content: Contains haze / smoke

Access: This is a standing event. There will be some seats available for anyone less able to stand. The event is wheelchair accessible.

If you have specific seating needs please get in touch via [email protected] or call 020 7739 6176.

Dance Umbrella Festival 2025 Across London & Online
2 - 31 October

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Credit Andreas Simopoulos for Onassis Stegi

About the artist +

Elena Antoniou

A performer with damp, tousled hair, wearing a black leotard and tights sits on stage with legs outstretched in front of her, looking inquiringly to the side.

Credit Andreas Simopoulos for Onassis Stegi

Elena Antoniou is a dance and performance artist from Cyprus. She graduated with honours from the Greek National School of Dance and London Contemporary Dance School, where she was a member of the Edge dance company. She was awarded scholarships by the Koula Pratsika Foundation and the DanceWeb Programme at ImpulsTanz Vienna.

She has presented her work in Italy, Greece and Germany, and has collaborated with prominent organisations such as Onassis Stegi, the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), NEON Culture & Development Organisation, and the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.

Since 2021, she has worked as a performer with internationally acclaimed choreographer Maria Hassabi. Additionally, she has collaborated as a choreographer and movement director with theatre directors and companies in Greece and Cyprus. She was nominated for the Creator of the Year Award at the 2024 Cyprus Theatre Organisation (THOC) Awards and won the Choreography Award for the play Diary of a Madman. She has also been nominated for the same award for the play Beckettx5 by theatre group Solo for Three.

Her most recent work, LANDSCAPE, is supported by the Onassis Stegi Outward Turn Programme. To date, it has been presented at OPERAESTATE Festival 2024, PRIMAVERA DEI TEATRI 2024, Onassis Dance Days 2023, Fabbrica Europa 2023, Nicosia International Festival 2022, and the Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival 2022.

Cast & Creative +

Elena Antoniou
Creator, Choreographer & Performer
Stavros Gasparatos 
Music & Sound Design
Christos Kyriakides 
Art Direction
Odysseas I. Konstantinou 
Dramaturgy
Vasilis Petinaris 
Lighting Design
Angelos Pattas  
Hairstyle
Alex Papasimakopoulou 
Production Coordination

Credits +

Presented by Dance Umbrella and Shoreditch Town Hall

LANDSCAPE is presented with the support of Onassis Stegi – Touring Program

Venue & Access +

LANDSCAPE access information

This is a standing event. There will be some seats available for anyone less able to stand. The event is wheelchair accessible.

If you have specific seating needs please get in touch via [email protected] or call 020 7739 6176.

Venue

Address

380 Old Street
London
EC1V 9LT

Access information

Lift Use and Wheelchair Users
There is a lift providing step-free access to the basement (The Ditch), ground (Council Chamber, Mayors Parlour) and first floors (Assembly Hall stalls, Large, Medium and Small Committee Rooms). The Assembly Hall stalls can be accessed step-free, however the balcony on the second floor is only accessible via 66 steps with one rest area.

Assistance Dogs and Companion Animals
Assistance dogs are always welcome at Shoreditch Town Hall. If you require the support of other companion animals, please get in touch ahead of your visit so they can ensure they are prepared to accommodate them.

Parking and Travel
Shoreditch Town Hall have a nearby loading bay which allows up to 3 hours parking for blue badge holders. Cars and taxis can drop off directly outside the building.

The closest station with step free access is Shoreditch High Street Overground Station, which is 0.4 miles from Shoreditch Town Hall.

Buses stopping directly outside the building include the 55, 243 and N55.

Facilities
Shoreditch Town Hall have gender-neutral accessible toilets with baby changing facilities. These toilets are located on the ground floor.

Quiet Space
Shoreditch Town Hall’s Quiet Space is available during performances for anyone who needs it. This is a signposted room off of the foyer, on the same level that you will enter the building on. Please speak to a member of staff if you need any help finding the space.

Accessible Performances
Shoreditch Town Hall offer complimentary tickets for those who require an accompanying companion to performances and events that are a part of their cultural programme.

If Shoreditch Town Hall can do anything to make your visit more enjoyable, or if you have any ideas about what we could do better, or if you just want to know more about their access facilities, call 020 7739 6176 or email [email protected]

3D Tour
You can familiarise yourself with the building and the spaces you might be visiting using Shoreditch Town Hall’s 3D tour. This tool has a handy ruler for you to use if you need to take specific measurements of parts of their building.

For more information, click here.

Elena Antoniou LANDSCAPE Limassol (Cyprus)

Live performance