AEF2025: HEART MOMENT

The Athens Epidaurus Festival celebrates its 70th edition in 2025, with 95 days of artistic brilliance featuring over 3,000 artists from 14 countries. From iconic venues in Athens like the Herodeion, Pireos 260, and the revived City of Athens Lycabettus Theatre, to the grand finale in Epidaurus, the festival brings the world’s top performances to Greece’s stages.

This year’s programme includes world premieres, new commissions, and exciting artistic strands such as Contemporary Ancients, which reimagines Greek tragedy, and Fierce Women in Performance, exploring gender and power. The GRAPE – Greek Agora of Performance platform highlights emerging Greek talent, while the Subset Festival brings experimental sounds to the stage. Cycles Roots revisits folk traditions with a fresh twist.

Check out our curated picks from this year's programme here.

Choreographer Alexandra Waierstall returns to the Festival with a new work that’s all about connection—real, fragile, and deeply human. After making a mark in 2021 with ANNNA³. The Worlds of Infinite Shifts, she’s back with HEART MOMENT, a performance shaped by each city it lands in—and now it’s Athens’ turn. 

Each version of HEART MOMENT is made for the city it’s in, and the Athens edition brings Waierstall together with local dancers to create something truly one of a kind. It’s tender, raw, and built on the idea that movement can be a form of care—an open conversation between bodies.

With a beautiful score by Hauschka, the Oscar-winning composer behind All Quiet on the Western Front) this performance offers a pause—a moment to feel, reflect, and reconnect in a world that often keeps us apart.