AEF2025: INHALE DELIRIUM EXHALE

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.

Belgian artist Miet Warlop is back in Athens and things are about to get wonderfully weird. After her One Song wowed audiences last year, she returns with INHALE DELIRIUM EXHALE, a mix of dance, performance, and visual art that’s as unpredictable as its title suggests.

On stage: five performers and 1,500 metres of flowing fabric. What unfolds is a bit of ritual, a bit of rave, a bit of dream, a hypnotic, ever-shifting landscape where bodies move, fabric breathes, and emotion spills out in surreal waves. Warlop draws on the idea of the ancient Greek Chorus, but gives it a radical remix: no togas or tragedy masks here—just raw, rhythmic energy that celebrates chaos, collectivity, and everything in between. There’s no traditional story, but there’s loads to feel.