Fellow Field: Dance

ARIA BOUMPAKI

Aria Boumpaki is a dance artist living and working in Athens. Raised on the island of Crete, she decided to move to Athens and study at the Greek National School of Dance (KSOT) at the age of eighteen. After performing for a number of Greek dance companies, she received a scholarship by the Onassis Foundation to continue her training at the Institut Chorégraphique International (ΙCI) (Montpellier, France), where she completed the exerce choreographic research program. Her artistic work engages strongly with the question of community. Exploring dance bodies in different realities, she creates projects that combine a multitude of formats, structures and localities, ranging from conventional stage pieces to exhibitions, site-specific works, community projects, text and video installations. Fascinated by the body and individual physical identity, she often invites non-professional performers to explore or attempt a redefinition of the notion of ‘stage bodies’, as well as that of the reality of ‘being’. She values both instinct and knowledge, investigates movement as consciousness and seeks to introduce tenderness as revolution. Alongside her work as creator and performer, Aria regularly gives workshops and designs pedagogical content. She has collaborated with the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Onassis Cultural Center, Centre Pompidou, the National Theatre of Northern Greece and the French Institute of Athens. Her latest projects are supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports and she is a danceweb scholar for IMPULSTANZ -Vienna International Festival 2020.

IOANNA APOSTOLOU

Ioanna is a dancer born and based in Athens. In 2007 she graduated from the Greek National School of Dance. She received a scholarship from the Pratsikas Brothers Scholarship Foundation and continued her studies in contemporary dance at the Folkwang Hochschule (later renamed to Folkwang Universität der Κünste)in Essen, Germany, As a dancer and performer, she has collaborated with various dance companies and choreographers such as Ioanna Portolou, Angeliki Stellatou, Maria Koliopoulou, Mariela Nestora, Fotis Nikolaou, Marianna Kavallieratos, Persa Stamatopoulou, Lia Tsolaki, Harry Koushos, Myrto Grapsa, Olia Lydaki, Haris Mandafounis and others. Together with choreographer Maria Koliopoulou’s Prosxima Dance Company, she received an award during the 5th Festival Culturel International de la Danse Contemporaine, Algiers (2013), for the piece 21-mneme.  She has been teaching contemporary dance in children, dance students and adults since 2008 and has collaborated with several dance schools and studios in Athens, such as HoroHronos Professional Dance School, Elena Vakalopoulou Dance School, Studio Dan.c.ce, Horos Dance School, etc. Ever since 2017, she has been a member of the Onassis Stegi Dancing to Connect programme, which is addressed to secondary school students.  As a choreographer in theatre performances, she has collaborated with Rafi lyrical theatre company, director Pandelis Dendakis and Marilita Lambropoulou, while she has also served as assistant choreographer to Lia Tsolaki for the opera The Nose, directed by Peter Stein and presented at the Finnish National Opera.

PAVLINA ANDRIOPOULOU

Pavlina Andriopoulou was born in Patras, Greece, in 1982. She trained as a dancer and dance teacher at the Higher Private Professional & Amateur Dance School Niki Kontaxaki in Athens. Following her graduation, she continued training and developing her skills by studying alongside several accomplished choreographers and tutors, including Frey Faust, David Zambrano, Daniel Lepkoff and Wim Vandekeybus. Ever since 2004, she has performed with various dance and acrobatic companies in Greece, for example Vaso Giannakopoulou’s dance company, ki omOs kineitai, Fingersix, Choreftes, etc. She has been collaborating with the Greek director and choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou since 2011, as a performer (The Great Tamer, Still Life, The Garden, Inside) and assistant director/choreographer (Primal Matter, Still Life, Origins, The Garden, The Great Tamer, Transverse Orientation). In 2014, she had her choreographic debut at the National Theatre of Greece. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

GEORGIA PAIZI

Georgia Paizi is a dance-artist based in Athens/Greece, where she makes, teaches and writes on dance and the moving body. Georgia’s current dance practice explores the concepts of language, lexicon and vocabulary as common ground between movement and spoken word practices, tracing the dance in the absence of dance, as well as the contemporary rituals of social dancing in the era of social distancing and the shrinking of public space. Georgia works as a choreographer with the collective COCHLEA res, through which she also organises the programme SynAski/14. COCHLEA res has been receiving funding from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports since 2020. Georgia teaches movement, improvisation strategies and the Alexander technique since 2014 in Greece, London and Berlin. She studied dance in London, Amsterdam and New York (MA Creative Practice – Dance Professional delivered by the organisation Independent Dance at Trinity Laban in London; Alexander technique 3-year training at London Centre for Alexander Technique and Teacher Training), and social sciences and humanities in Greece (MA in Design – Space – Cultural Studies jointly offered by the School of Architecture and the School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the National and Technical University of Athens; BA in Theatre Studies, University of Patras). She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

 

 

ANDREA RAMA

Andrea Rama graduated from the National School of Dance in Athens. In 2010 he cofounded @Porson’s Khashoggi, a contemporary dance company that works with the dimension of time as a fundamental element of movement. His goal is for the choreographic research to become an open process that will involve the public, the artists, the dancers and the non-dancers. His works have been presented in Germany (Berlin, Bonn, Karlsruhe, Reutlingen), France (Paris, Creteil, Metz, Annonay), the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam), Luxembourg, Italy, Finland, Poland, China and Greece (Athens, Patras, Corfu, Chania). In the last eight years, Rama has been developing and teaching the programme Opening Possibilities to dance companies and institutions for professional dancers, professional dance companies and dance houses around the world, including: Henny Jurriens (Amsterdam), Marameo and Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, National Institute of Music & Dance (Warsaw), La Ménagerie De Verre (Paris), Heidelberg Dance Company, Pforzheim Balet (Finland), and the Minsheng Museum in Shanghai. He also works as a movement coach in theatrical productions in Berlin and Athens.
In 2011-2012, he curated five different editions of the festival New Creators’ Fest, which was dedicated exclusively to new choreographers from the Greek dance scene. For two consecutive years, he has been acting as Artistic Director for the Tirana International Music Dance Theater Festival. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

ALEXIS TSIAMOGLOU

Alexis Tsiamoglou holds a BA in Geology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is a dance teacher accredited by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports. Currently, he is attending the Master’s programme Art and Public Sphere at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, offered jointly by the Faculty of Political Science and the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2013, he was awarded a fellowship by the International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICK) in Amsterdam (Emio Greco). He has also been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021). In 2019 he was commissioned by MOMus – Εxperimental Centre for the Arts to create the choreographic installation Possi(ball)ities for the 7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. His latest work, entitled Requiem – a choreographed portrait, was presented in Athens, Thessaloniki and Larisa. In 2013 he featured in Miki Ambrozy’s award-winning film Fabric of Time, which was screened during the Leuven International Short Film Festival. He has collaborated with several choreographers and dance companies, including Christos Papadopoulos, Margarita Trikka, Artemis Lampiri, Sinequanon, Default, Robyn Schulkowsky and Lia Tsolaki. Since 2008 he has been coaching groups of young people on how to create their own dance projects and performances, as part the EU’s Youth in Action and Erasmus+ programmes. The resulting works have been presented in public spaces, prisons, senior homes and cultural centres in Italy, Turkey, Hungary, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Bulgaria and Greece.

ALEXIS FOUSEKIS

Alexis Fousekis is a dancer and performer based in Greece. He studied contemporary dance at the Greek National School of Dance in Athens, obtaining a scholarship for the Martha Graham School in New York upon his graduation. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021). He was part of Robert Wilson’s artistic team for the production, Oedipus Rex (Bach 6 Solo) and for Messiah (soloist at the Mozartwoche 2020 presentation, Haus Für Mozart, Salzburg). He is also a member of the director’s team at the Watermill Center in New York. He has collaborated with several artists, including Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Fruček in Europium; Dionysis Savopoulos and Ermis Malkotsis in Plutus; Konstantinos Rigos in Arkadia; Marianna Kavallieratos in the performances Stream, Death and They; Giannis Kakleas in the plays Acharnes, Killing Game and Cyrano de Bergerac; Thomas Moschopoulos in Mojo; Euripides Laskaridis in Ridicule and Transformation and The Walk; Stella Fotiadi in Hands/Χέρια and Seeking Bliss; Giannis Antoniou in Memoirs of a Sailor for the National Opera of Kuwait; Athanasia Kanellopoulou in Exodus for the 2019 Ramallah Dance Festival; and Michalis Theophanous in Sans Word.

NADI GOGOULOU

Born in 1988, Nadi Gogoulou is a dancer, performer and dancemaker. She studied dance and economics and holds a Master’s in New Performative Practices by the Stockholm University of the Arts. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021). She has worked with Greek choreographers in dance and site-specific performances and creates projects of her own. In addition, she has directed short films which have been screened in various international film festivals and worked as a choreographer in a number of theatre productions. She also gives classes of improvisation based on a style of movement she is developing herself (“Join the Fun”). Rhythm, pattern, repetition, iteration, musicality, virtuosity, playfulness, game, rules and +1-ness are fundamental key words in Nadi’s artistic practice and work. In her latest works —The cooking-with-Nadi show at Onassis New Choreographer’s Festival 8 and B.A.W.L. at Hallen/CCap project space in Stockholm— she has been engaging with the idea of developing a hand-making” methodology, and investigating the thought of methodology being a tool. These explorations are indicative of the keen interest she maintains in methodical questions and of her desire to discover methods that can generate, maintain, inspect and transform. To set formulas for opening up a space which will be hospitable to different perceptions.

DAPHNE DRAKOPOULOU

Daphne is a dancer based in Athens. She was born and raised in Heraklion, Crete. She graduated with distinction from the Greek National School of Dance (2017) and the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2018). In 2019 she was admitted to the Drama School of the Athens Conservatoire, where she is currently pursuing her studies in theatre. As a member of the Hellenic Dance Company (2015-2017), she performed in pieces and repertoires by Martha Graham, Markela Manoliadi and Andonis Foniadakis. She has collaborated, among others, with Persa Stamatopoulou, Millicent Hodson & Kenneth Archer, Jacqueline Fischer, Christos Papadopoulos, Patricia Apergi, Xenia Koghilaki, Nefeli Gioti and Nadi Gogoulou. In 2019 she participated in the educational program entitled Return Trip (jointly organised by the Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2019 and the Italian Fondazione Nationale della Danza/Aterballetto). in Reggio Emilia, Italy, after securing a scholarship from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. . She has also been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021). She has participated in many dance workshops and seminars both in Greece and abroad.

GIORGOS KOTSIFAKIS

Born in Heraklion, Crete, in 1988. He graduated with distinction from the Professional Dance School of Rallou Manou in Athens and from the Amsterdam School of Arts (Modern Theatre Dance program). In 2008, he was admitted to study at P.A.R.T.S. international dance school in Brussels, while in 2010 he received a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation. He is currently studying at the International and European Studies Department of the University of Piraeus in Greece. As a dancer, he has collaborated with many companies and artists in Greece and abroad, including: DV8, RAMBERT, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jan Fabre, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Dimitris Papaioannou, Andonis Foniadakis, Christos Papadopoulos, Iris Karayan, Lenio Kaklea, the National Theatre of Greece, the Greek National Opera (William Forsythe), the State Theatre of Northern Greece, the National Dance Centre Bucharest, Konstantinos Rigos, Nanine Linning, Alexandra Waierstall, Sinequanon, TedX Brussels, Nigel Charnock and others. He has performed in several international festivals, including: Adelaide Festival (Australia, 2020), Julidans festival (Netherlands, 2019, 2018 & 2017),  Aerowaves Spring Forward festival (2019, 2018 & 2016), 16th Dance Biennale in Lyon (2014), Cervantino International Festival (Mexico, 2014), Belgrade Dance Festival (Serbia, 2014), Festival of Avignon (France, 2013), International Festival of Buenos Aires (FIBA, Argentine, 2013), Sesc Pinheiros São Paulo festival (Brazil, 2012), Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Impulstanz Festival (Austria, 2012), Rovereto Contemporary Dance Festival (Italy, 2011), Kuopio Dance Festival (Finland, 2011), and World Expo 2010 Shanghai. Under the artistic direction of Dimitris Papaioannou, he performed at the opening ceremony of the 2015 European Games, which took place in Baku, Azerbaijan. In addition, he has participated in the short film Liebestod by Stathis Athanasiou andattended seminars and workshops led by Dafnis Kokkinos (Pina Bausch), Emio Greco, Lauren Potter, Thomas McManus, Milan Herich and Hildegard De Vuyst. He has also been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

KATERINA LIONTOU

Katerina Liontou is a graduate of the National School of Dance (KSOT). Αs a dancer, she has collaborated with the companies of Dimitris Papaioannou, Konstantinos Rigos, Fotis Nikolaou, Harris Mantafounis, Sinequanon, Aggeliki Stellatou, Alexandra Waierstall, Affari Esteri, Lia Tsolaki, Iris Karagian, Cecil Mikroutsikou, Yiannis Nikolaidis, Agni Papadeli Rossetou, Iro Apostolelli, Christos Papadopoulos and Maria Koliopoulou. As a choreographer, she has worked with the directors Michalis Gigintis, Maria Vardaka and Efthimis Christou. She has attended several contemporary dance seminars, studying under teachers such as: Jeremy Nelson, Paul Douglas, Ted Stofer, Ignacio ‘Inaki’ Azpillaga, Antonis Foniadakis, Linda Kapetanea, Josef Frucek, Juan Cruz, Chryssa Parkinson, Martin Kilvady, Tono Lackhy, etc. She has previously taught at the Greek National School of Dance (KSOT) and is currently a teacher at the Superior Professional Dance School Anna Petrova-Maro Marmarinou. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

GEORGIOS MICHELAKIS

Born in Heraklion, Crete (1993). He graduated from the Greek National School of Dance (Athens, 2015) and is currently studying at the Department of Theatre Studies of the School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has collaborated with the following companies and choreographers: MiR Dance Company from Gelsenkirchen in Germany (for the projects Adam & Eve by Roy Assaf, Les noches by Mauro Bigonzetti, Sacre by Ivgi & Greben, L’Orfeo, Notre Dame de Paris and Momo by Giuseppe Spota, Lead me by Fabio Liberti, and Shoot me into the green screen 1 by Antonin Comestaz and Erion Kruja); Athanasia Kanellopoulou (X-odus, 2019); Sharon Fridman Company (Free Fall, 2018); Patricia Apergi /Aerites Dance Company (Cementary and Planites, 2017-2019); Hikaru Fujii (The Primary Fact, 2018); and Anastasia Valsamaki, (Sync, 2016-2017). In theatre, he has participated in performances directed by Fanny Ardant (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Greek National Opera, 2019), Thomas Moschopoulos, (Manon, Greek National Opera, 2018), Stavros Litinas (Salome, Greek National Theatre, 2018), and Michael Marmarinos, (An endless journey, Pantheon Theatre, 2016). He was the choreographer in Manos Vavadakis’ staging of Ubu Roi (Greek National Theatre 2018). He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

ALEXANDROS NOUSKAS VARELAS

Alexandros Nouskas Varelas was born in Athens, where he is currently based. He graduated from the National School of Dance (KSOT) in 2018 and the Faculty of Spanish Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. As a dancer, he has worked with the Hellenic Dance Company, Christos Papadopoulos, and the dance companies Ki omOs Kineitai and Griffón Dance Company, in performances presented in theatres and festivals both in Greece and abroad, including: Athens & Epidaurus Festival, theatre VIDY (Switzerland), Theatre de la Ville (Paris, France), Les Halles (Avignon, France), International Theater Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Le Lieu Unique (Nantes, France), Dampfzentrale (Bern, Switzerland), I Teatri Reggio Emilia, Le Quartz (Brest, France), and the Culturgest cultural centre in Lisbon. Several samples of his work (MaErD, corridor, Guido, LiVing room and safe sLEEPING) combine the movements of the human body and the connotations these give rise to with the narrative tools employed in cinematography, editing and dramaturgy. His work has been screened in various festivals across Greece and Europe, such as the Athens Video Dance Project, the ScreenDance Festival in Stockholm,the SzólóDuó festival -Ork_Kota_Platform in Budapest and the International Dance Film Festival in Brussels. He has collaborated with Costa-Gavras as assistant choreographer in the film Adults in the room and has worked as assistant director in Elpiniki Voutsa Reνtzepopoulou’s film Who will be eaten. He has been awarded a scholarship for the Return Trip Project, organized jointly by the Athens & Epidaurus Festival and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. He has also been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

KONSTANTINOS PAGIATIS

Konstantinos was born in Athens, in 1994 and grew up in a small town in Northern Greece. He is a graduate of the Athens University of Economics and Business. Dancing aside, he has also studied theatre and music. His main dance style is hip hop but he practices lots of other styles as well. As he says, “dance is one” and he doesn’t like to feel confined. He holds a number of national distinctions in what the hip hop scene terms ‘freestyle battles’. He is also a choreographer and holds multiple international distinctions obtained in various dance film festivals around the world, for example in France, the USA, Canada and Greece. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021). He loves creating and tries his best to serve dance with respect and value it deserves.

KONSTANTINOS PAPANIKOLAOU

Konstantinos Papanikolaou holds a postgraduate degree in dance from University Paris 8 | Vincennes – Saint-Denis and has studied psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Ηe has collaborated with Gerard & Kelly and Olivier Marguerit and has taken part in the Biennale of Munich, Lyon and Birmingham. He has performed in various venues across Europe, including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Hellerau (Dresden), The Place (London), Mercat des Flors (Barcelona), etc. In Greece, he has collaborated with the choreographers Patricia Apergi, Mariela Nestora, Jenny Argyriou and in the theatre with Argyris Pantazaras, Kirki Karali, Eleni Efthimiou, Lilly Meleme, Lefteris Veniadis, etc. In 2020 he choreographed and performed the solo Tonight and every night, presented at the ARC FOR DANCE Festival; and in 2021 he presented The diving horse and other mythologies at the New Choreographers Festival in Onassis Stegi. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

MARO STAVRINOU

Maro Stavrinou was born and raised in Volos, Greece. In 2014 she graduated from the Greek National School of Dance and in 2018 from the Department of Theatre Studies of the School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. As a dancer, her professional training was followed by intensive seminars and workshops on contemporary dance technique, choreographic tools and improvisation led by Ohad Naharin in Tel-Aviv; Emanuel Gat in Rome; and Russell Maliphant in London. Since her graduation she has worked with several choreographers both in Greece and abroad, including Andonis Foniadakis, Konstantinos Rigos, Shahar Binyamini, Lenio Kaklea, Jai Gonzales (UnterWegsTheater Heidelberg), Fotis Nikolaou, Evi Souli, Maria Papadopoulou, Anastasia Valsamaki, Manaho Shimokawa, Christos Xyrafakis, Markella Manoliadi; and performed in repertories by Ohad Naharin, Pascal Rioult and Martha Graham. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

ALEXANDROS STAVROPOULOS

Alexandros was born in Patras (1991). Ηe graduated from the Greek National School of Dance in 2014. In 2015 he attended the Martha Graham School Summer Intensive in New York and in 2016 he received his Master’s degree from the London Contemporary Dance School The Place. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021). He has collaborated with several choreographers, including Russell Maliphant, Jasmin Vardimon, Koen Augustijnen, Rosalba Torres Guerrero, Hannes Langolf, Andonis Foniadakis, Anton Lachky, Ermira Goro, Alexis Vasiliou, Patricia Apergi, Fenia Apostolou, Evi Souli, and Fotis Nikolaou. In 2020 he made his first choreographic work entitled Cinderella’s, which premiered at the 13th Arc for Dance Festival and was subsequently selected for the 2021 Aerowaves Festival.

PAGONA BOULMPASAKOU

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.

NASSIA FOURTOUNI

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.

VENETSIANA KALAMPALIKI

Venetsiana Kalampaliki (b. 1991, she/her) works in the field of performing arts as a dancer and choreographer. She explores movement through media such as text and video and develops her artistic practice through interdisciplinary collaborations and through her participation in workshops and festivals of contemporary dance, digital and visual arts, performance and disability arts. She is a graduate of the School of Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2018) and of the National School of Dance in Athens (2016) and is currently studying for a Master in Fine Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2021-22). Her project Recall (2020-21), an Onassis Stegi production developed in the framework of the EU program Europe Beyond Access, was presented at the New Choreographers Festival 7 organized by Onassis Stegi; the Holland Dance Festival in the Hague; the 27th Kalamata International Dance Festival; and at the Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, Skånes Dansteater in Denmark. In 2021, she created the digital group project Besuch at the New Choreographers Festival 8 organized by Onassis Stegi. In 2021-22, she was a resident choreographer at the program K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg, where she conducted research on how she can integrate accessibility services within her artistic practice and presented the piece Phrases at Kampnagel theater.