NASSIA FOURTOUNI
Dance
Nassia Fourtouni works in the fields of research, choreography, and dramaturgy. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is a graduate of the Professional School of Dance Despoina Grigoriadou. She completed an MA in Contemporary Theatre, Dance, and Dramaturgy at Utrecht University and an MA in Cultural Studies at KU Leuven. She was a researcher in the post master program of a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) institute in Brussels. She has collaborated with independent artists, including Eleanor Bauer, Ellen Söderhult, Alice Chauchat, Philipp Gehmacher, Ula Sickle, Eszter Nemethi, Laura Pante, Marialena Marouda, Andonis Foniadakis, Antigone Michalakopoulou and Efi Theodorou. Αs a copywriter, she has collaborated with workspacebrussels, Athens & Epidaurus Festival and Kalamata International Dance Festival and has co-written texts with Elena Novakovits and Nina Gojić. She participated in the third cycle of the EU program “Critical Practice (made in Yugoslavia)”. She received the danceWEB scholarship to participate in ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival in Vienna, where she attended a program on visual arts and choreography curated by Tino Seghal. Currently, together with Maria Papadopoulou, she is developing the choreographic research project Embodied Scores: Notes on the absence of touch and completing her training on the Feldenkrais method. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.