Eliane Roumie is a half-Greek, half-Syrian artist born and raised in Athens. She studied business administration at Royal Holloway, University of London (BSc) and at Bath University (MSc); and completed her dance training at Tanzfabrik contemporary dance center in Berlin, danscentrumjette school in Brussels and Aktina Higher Professional Dance School in Athens. She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Physical Theatre for Dancers and Actors from the Jasmin Vardimon Company in collaboration with the Royal Holloway University of London. She is also a Pilates teacher certified with the Comprehensive Teacher Training Certification by the American Academy of Body Arts and Science International. As a dancer and performer, she has collaborated with Marina Abramović, Dominique Duszynski, Sita Ostheimer, Sevim Akpinar, Yelp Danceco., Nostalghia Theater Co., Pavlos Kourtidis and more.Her own choreographic work has been presented at Haut Scene Young Choreographers Festival (Copenhagen); Video Dance Project Festival, Our Festival 5 and Our Festival 6 (Athens) and as part of the project As One at the Benaki Museum also in Αthens. Her latest work, ιντεκάλ انتقال, was performed at the following festivals: Dance Days Chania (Crete, Greece); SoloDuo international dance festival (Köln, Germany); SOLO contemporary dance festival (Ankara, Turkey); dance and performance arts festival On_Bodies (Cyprus); Arc for Dance Festival (Athens); and at Solocoreografico festival in Frankfurt, where she was awarded the Special Jury Award. Eliane was invited by the international platform Tanzplattform Rhein-Main to participate as a resident and present her work at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt. She was also selected to present her new work entitled 25km at the 2023 ELEVSIS European Capital of Culture in collaboration with the Academy of Choreography U(R)TOPIAS and its artistic director, Patricia Apergi. She continues to dance, create and teach the techniques of contemporary dance, physical theater and Pilates to students of all ages. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.