Alexandros Nouskas Varelas was born in Athens, where he is currently based. He graduated from the National School of Dance (KSOT) in 2018 and the Faculty of Spanish Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. As a dancer, he has worked with the Hellenic Dance Company, Christos Papadopoulos, and the dance companies Ki omOs Kineitai and Griffón Dance Company, in performances presented in theatres and festivals both in Greece and abroad, including: Athens & Epidaurus Festival, theatre VIDY (Switzerland), Theatre de la Ville (Paris, France), Les Halles (Avignon, France), International Theater Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Le Lieu Unique (Nantes, France), Dampfzentrale (Bern, Switzerland), I Teatri Reggio Emilia, Le Quartz (Brest, France), and the Culturgest cultural centre in Lisbon. Several samples of his work (MaErD, corridor, Guido, LiVing room and safe sLEEPING) combine the movements of the human body and the connotations these give rise to with the narrative tools employed in cinematography, editing and dramaturgy. His work has been screened in various festivals across Greece and Europe, such as the Athens Video Dance Project, the ScreenDance Festival in Stockholm,the SzólóDuó festival -Ork_Kota_Platform in Budapest and the International Dance Film Festival in Brussels. He has collaborated with Costa-Gavras as assistant choreographer in the film Adults in the room and has worked as assistant director in Elpiniki Voutsa Reνtzepopoulou’s film Who will be eaten. He has been awarded a scholarship for the Return Trip Project, organized jointly by the Athens & Epidaurus Festival and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. He has also been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).