PAGONA BOULMPASAKOU
Dance
Pagona Boulbasakou (b. 1995, Amaliada, Greece) is a dancer based in Athens. She graduated from the National School of Dance in Athens (KSOT) in 2018 and is currently studying at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Patras. As a dancer, she has worked with choreographers and directors Christos Papadopoulos, Mariela Nestora, Sofia Mavragani, Thanos Papakonstantinou, Dimitris Mytilinaios, Angelos Papadopoulos and Aria Boumpaki, among others. She has performed in theaters and festivals both in Greece and abroad, including: Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Brest’s national dance scene Le Quartz – Scene Nationale de Brest, Norway’s national contemporary dance stage Dansens Hus in Oslo, Tanztheater International Hannover festival, Greek National Opera, Athens Concert Hall, etc. In 2019, she participated as facilitator/dance educator in the projects Youth Exchange I Youth Exchange II, working with young people with intellectual disabilities in Poggio Mirteto, Italy (Erasmus+ program). She has also attended dance and theatre workshops and seminars with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Julyen Hamilton, Bijoux de Kant and Euripides Laskaridis, among others. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.