Eleonora Siarava is a choreographer and the artistic director of Per_Dance Choreographic Research Platform. She holds a Dance Μaking and Performance Master of Arts from Coventry University (UK); an MA in Choreography and Performance from Justus Liebig University (Germany); and a BA in Psychology from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. She has presented her work in Greece and internationally. Her work The Body and the Other~, which premiered at Temps d’Images Festival held in Tanzhaus NRW (2020), was supported by the program Transfer International of the North Rhine-Westphalia Secretariat for Culture and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the same German state. For the same project, she received Creative Europe’s artistic mobility grant I-Portunus and collaborated with Düsseldorf University’s Mixed Reality and Visualization Institute (MIREVI) on aspects of the work relating to digital technology. She worked as a performer in the presentation of Marina Abramović’s A different way of hearing at Alte Oper Frankfurt concert hall and was a resident choreographer at the Centre for Choreographing Development (SE.S.TA, 2019) in Prague in the context of the Interdisciplinary Incubator program; and at Isadore and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center in Athens. She participated at Creative Europe’s project Moving Digits: Augmented Dance for Engaged Audience (2018-2020), and was a fellow of the START program, offered jointly by Robert Bosch Stiftung & Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki. As a choreographer, she is interested in abstraction in dance and her intention is to create enigmatic, multilayered performances through experimentation with aesthetic forms, imaginary and real spaces, overlapping temporalities, multisensory perception, hybridity and the concept of atmosphere. Her site & time-specific choreographic installation Step-in was presented at Thessaloniki Concert Hall. Ever since 2020, her work is supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. She has created the pieces Who knows where the time goes-potential destination #1 and Blue Beyond and developed the choreographic research UnderScore, Choreographic Objects and more. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.