Glorious Epic Wet

Contemporary dance performance

En–Knap and Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia

Premiere 29 April 2026, National Gallery, Slovenia

The performance lasts 35 minutes without intermission.

Concept and choreography Sofia Mavragani
Co-creation and dancers Tina Habun, Fiona Macbride, Carolina Alessandra Valentini, Nika Zidar, Mattia Cason, Matija Franješ, April Veselko, Tjaša Bucik, Tara Ukmar, Semina Rizou, Sebastian Zamaro
Original music Thalia Ioannidou
Costumes Katarina Markov
Production En–Knap and Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia
With the support of the European Commission, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City of Ljubljana and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

The production is part of the European Cooperation Project Moving Balkans, a dynamic collaboration of dance professionals from across the Balkans. The mission of the platform is to elevate contemporary dance in the region and position it competitively within Europe. Through a regional partnership network, showcases, artist mobility initiatives, workshops, co- creations, and capacity-building activities, we empower dance professionals and raise awareness of the vibrant dance scene in the Balkans. The project is co-funded by the European Union.

Glorious Epic Wet is a stormy choreographic work by Sofia Mavragani that reimagines heroism in a time of instability. Expanding from a duet into a group constellation, it dissolves the singular hero into a shifting collective body. It asks who carries collapse as dominant power narratives erode, replacing sovereignty with fragile plurality that negotiates survival together. Water—material and metaphor—shapes the terrain, sustaining and threatening, connecting and destabilising, altering balance, rhythm, and resistance. Bodies slip, support, collide, and reorganise, recalibrating between solidity and exposure. Collectivity emerges not as harmony but as adaptation under pressure, oscillating between cohesion and fracture. The work proposes a different epic written by many bodies navigating instability, with interdependence, endurance, and fleeting solidarities. 

Sofia Mavragani is a choreographer and co-founder of the artists’ network Fingersix. She graduated from ArtEZ (Arnhem) and the Athens University of Economics and Business. Her works, such as Glorious Epic (2024), Chorus (2023), and Speechless (2018), have been presented at festivals and venues worldwide, including the Athens–Epidaurus Festival, Documenta 14, FIBA Buenos Aires, and within the Aerowaves network (2019). She also develops projects in improvisation and composition that bring together artists from different disciplines and take place across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Oceania.