STELLA DIMITRAKOPOULOU
Dance
Stella Dimitrakopoulou is a dance and performance artist. She obtained her PhD with the thesis «(Ιl)legitimate Performances: Copying, Authorship and the Canon» (Trinity Laban, London, 2016). In her MA in Dance Theatre «The body in performance» (Laban, London, 2009) she worked with food as a means of investigating the intermingling public and private spaces. Since 2014 she has been co-running the project «Philosophy on our feet» and has organized the 2nd International Symposium Performance Philosophy School of Athens (2017) in collaboration with EMST and the Performance Philosophy Network. She has taught dance in universities (Trinity Laban, University of Peloponnese), in schools, festivals and educational programs (Workcamp in Performance and Choreography).
As a performer she has worked with Tino Sehgal, Dora Garcia, Synthesis 748, Les Gens d’Uterpan, William Hunt, Lea Anderson and others. She also works as a dramaturg (A priori dance co, Luna Park) and as project manager (Anna Adhal, Tino Sehgal). IKY, ARTWORKS (SNF Artist Fellowship Program), DanceWEB and NEON have supported her work. Selected works: «Ondes Particulaires» (2018), «Without respect but with love» (2016), «The Last Lecture (a performance)» (2011/2016), «m my me» (2012), «Frauen Danst Frauen» (2011). As founding member of Trio Collective: «Trio Collective: A self-Interview» (2015), «Another Chair Dance» (2011), «re-re-twothousandth-ree» (2011), «Trio» (2009).