AEF2025: Weathering

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.

Faye Driscoll’s Weathering isn’t your typical performance. It’s a hypnotic blend of dance, sound and installation — a living composition that shifts and reshapes before your eyes. Since its 2023 premiere, this striking work has brought the acclaimed American choreographer to wider European audiences, earning praise on both sides of the Atlantic.

In Weathering, bodies remain in continuous contact, forming and reforming like a landscape sculpted by time and breath. Movement is slow, weighted and connected — a choreography of resistance and surrender. Layers of sound, liquid, scent and light build around the performers, drawing the audience into a shared, sensory world.

As The New York Times puts it: “It doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen before, nor can you imagine thinking it up.”