CHOREOGRAPHER ELEONORA SIARAVA RESIDENT ARTIST AT UNIARTS HELSINKI, FINLAND
Eleonora Siarava was resident choreographer at UniArts Helsinki for the development of her artistic work and experimentation with methodological tools, composition devices and creative media.
Eleonora Siarava is a choreographer working between Greece and Germany. She has presented her work in Greece and internationally. She creates enigmatic multilayered performances experimenting with aesthetic forms, imaginary-real spaces, overlapping temporalities, hybridity, atmospheres. For her piece The Body and the Other~ premiered at Tanzhaus NRW, TEMPS D’IMAGES Festival, was supported by the program »Transfer International« of NRW KULTURsekretariat of Germany, Ministry of Culture and Science of NRW, artistic grant I-Portunus/Creative Europe and collaborated with Mixed Reality and Visualization Institut for the implementation of digital technology. Since 2020 is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Greece. She created the pieces BLUE BEYOND presented in National Theatre of N. Greece, Tanz:digital/ITI Berlin, Frankfurt LAB Emerging Artists 2023, Who knows where the time goes-potential destination #1 (Roes theatre, residency at SE.S.TA Centre for Choreographing Development/Interdisciplinary Incubator, Prague), I am Dancing in a Room (MOMus-Stereoma Festival). She participated in Moving Digits/Creative Europe project for Dance and Digital Technologies, Tanzhaus Düsseldorf & STL Tallinn (2018-2020). Siarava has been awarded the S. Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS 2022-2023 in the field of Choreography, was fellow of START/Robert Bosch Stiftung & Goethe Institut and resident choreographer at UniArts Helsinki, Finland 2025 and ITI International Theatre Institute Germany/Motion Bank, Berlin, 2024. Her works have been included in the Media Library for Dance and Theatre – ITI International Theatre Institute Germany, one of the most extensive audiovisual documentation archives for the performing arts in Germany. Currently, she is preparing her upcoming piece (June July-working title) that will premiere in 2026.
