Fellow Field: Dance

Myrto Grapsa (b. 1986, Athens) is a graduate of the National School of Dance in Athens (KSOT, BA Honours) and studied at the Department of Theatre Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She also holds a postgraduate degree from the London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS). As a performer, she has worked with a number of choreographers, companies, and institutions, including: Marianna Kavallieratos, Kiriakos Hadjiioannou, Jorge Crecis, Jonathan Lunn, Christos Papadoopoulos, Brendan Fernandes, Athina Vahla, Simonetta Alessandri, Brandon la Belle, Andrew Hardwidge, English National Opera, Royal Opera House, Greek National Opera (GNO), National Theatre of Greece, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Hellenic Dance Company and Trumpet Creepers. She has worked as a performer and movement director for theater productions, collaborating with directors Rufus Norris, Yiannis Kakleas, Manos Vavadakis, Aris Laskos, Katia Gerou, as well as with the companies Oper(O) and Terre de Semis. As a choreographer, she has presented her work at Onassis Stegi, Greek National Opera, The PLACE (LCDS, London), Athens Biennale, Athens Dance Festival, New Choreographers Festival at Onassis Stegi, Athens Video Dance Project, at GNO’s online platform GNO TV, and at the German TV network 3Sat, among others. She has participated in International Festivals in Greece and Europe as well as in workshops of acclaimed artists (Hofesh Shechter, Jasmin Vardimon, Dimitris Papaioannou, Andonis Foniadakis and Chisato Ohno, among others). Since 2017, she is the artistic director of Artiria Athens, a performing arts lab in the center of Athens. Since 2012, she has been teaching dance at KSOT and at other professional dance studios in Athens. She is a faculty member of the Greek GNO Professional Dance School, Athens, where she teaches contemporary dance and theory of dance. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.

Yiannis Tsigkris (b. 1989, Athens) graduated from the Greek National Opera Professional Dance School (2012) and completed his Master of Arts in London Contemporary Dance School (2014). In Greece, he has collaborated with Mariela Nestora, Lenio Kaklea, Iris Karayan, Persa Stamatopoulou, Vitoria Kotsalou, Andonis Foniadakis, Konstantinos Rigos, Yannis Adoniou, as well as with Almalibre.co, Michael Klien (at R.I.C.E. on Hydra island), FLUX Laboratory at the National Museum of Contemporary Art and visual artist Jannis Varelas. In the UK, Yiannis has collaborated with Joe Moran (Sadler’s Wells), Paolo Mangiola, Eleesha Drennan, Jenni Wren and has danced works by Merce Cunningham at the Barbican Gallery in London as part of the exhibition Dancing Around Duchamp (2013). He has attended a research lab led by UltimaVez and Wim Vandekeybus in Brussels (2018). He danced at the New Choreographers Festival 6 held at Onassis Stegi and has collaborated with the Greek National Opera in opera productions and as an assistant choreographer. In 2022, he received a danceWEB scholarship to attend ImPulsTanz Vienna International Festival. He has attended workshops held by the dance companies DV8, Rosas and Hofesh Shechter Company and by choreographers Benoit Lachambre, Mathilde Monnier, Laura Aris, Maya M. Carroll, Sita Ostheimer, Abigail Yager, Chisato Ohno, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Milan Heirich. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.

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.

Eleonora Siarava is a choreographer and the artistic director of Per_Dance Choreographic Research Platform. She holds a Dance Μaking and Performance Master of Arts from Coventry University (UK); an MA in Choreography and Performance from Justus Liebig University (Germany); and a BA in Psychology from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. She has presented her work in Greece and internationally. Her work The Body and the Other~, which premiered at Temps d’Images Festival held in Tanzhaus NRW (2020), was supported by the program Transfer International of the North Rhine-Westphalia Secretariat for Culture and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the same German state. For the same project, she received Creative Europe’s artistic mobility grant I-Portunus and collaborated with Düsseldorf University’s Mixed Reality and Visualization Institute (MIREVI) on aspects of the work relating to digital technology. She worked as a performer in the presentation of Marina Abramović’s A different way of hearing at Alte Oper Frankfurt concert hall and was a resident choreographer at the Centre for Choreographing Development (SE.S.TA, 2019) in Prague in the context of the Interdisciplinary Incubator program; and at Isadore and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center in Athens. She participated at Creative Europe’s project Moving Digits: Augmented Dance for Engaged Audience (2018-2020), and was a fellow of the START program, offered jointly by Robert Bosch Stiftung & Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki. As a choreographer, she is interested in abstraction in dance and her intention is to create enigmatic, multilayered performances through experimentation with aesthetic forms, imaginary and real spaces, overlapping temporalities, multisensory perception, hybridity and the concept of atmosphere. Her site & time-specific choreographic installation Step-in was presented at Thessaloniki Concert Hall. Ever since 2020, her work is supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. She has created the pieces Who knows where the time goes-potential destination #1 and Blue Beyond and developed the choreographic research UnderScore, Choreographic Objects and more. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.

Sophia Danae Vorvila is based between Athens and Brussels. She is a graduate of the Aktina Higher Professional Dance School (2015), the Department of Psychology at Panteion University of Social and Political Science (2016) and has completed (with distinction) the postgraduate research and choreography program of the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp in 2021, where she studied under a scholarship. As a performer, she has collaborated with several collectives and choreographers exhibiting whose practice is firmly rooted in contemporary dance, improvisation and performance, such as Hildegard de Vuyst, Jenny Argyriou, visual artist Jannis Varelas, the Little Things Orchestra, Simon Van Schuylenbergh, and Fotini Stamatelopoulou. She is part of the Belgian collective of artists Ne Mosquito Pas, with which she has taken parts in festivals in Antwerp, Brussels and Kortrijk. Since 2016, she has been collaborating with Romeo Castellucci for the project Democracy in America, as one of the four core dancers for the show’s international tour, while in 2022 she worked with him again on Mozart’s choral piece Requiem, which was presented in Wiener Festwochen festival and at the Royal Theatre La Monnaie in Brussels. Between 2021 and 2022, she interned with choreographer Meg Stuart (CASCADE and Solos and Duets, Kaaitheater) and attended intensive workshops with her in Brussels, Paris and Vitoria-Gasteiz. Her artistic practice is inextricably linked to improvisation and instant composition. In July 2021, she performed at the DANSAND! festival and starting collaborating with the modern art museum Mu.ZEE in Ostend. At the moment, she is developing her own choreographic work which oscillates between discomfort and pleasure, gathering fragments of memory and micro-histories and documenting everyday life through movement and text. In 2022, in collaboration with Aliki Leftherioti, she presented the performance project this_is_a_never_ending_sunday.jpg at Kaaistudio’s theater in Brussels, with the support of the organization Soroptimist International Antwerp, the King Boudain Foundation in Brussels, the research center workspacebrussels and the residency program P.A.R.T.S. Summer Studios. Since 2020, she has been collaborating with fellow performer Christina Skoutela on the multidisciplinary performance MELKMARKT 27, in collaboration with KAAP center in Bruges. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).

Damianou Eleni Ellada (b. 1992, Volos) started her professional education at the National School of Dance in Athens in 2010. Ιn 2013, she received a scholarship for the three-year program offered by P.A.R.T.S. international dance school in Brussels, graduating in 2016. The same year, she received a scholarship for the exchange program at the École des Sables in Senegal, where she was taught contemporary African dance. As a dancer, she collaborated with various companies and choreographers, including: Radouan Mriziga, Mohamed Toukabri, Anne Linn Akselsen, Yuika Hashimoto, Jérôme Bel, Fabrice Mazhliah, Francesco Scavetta, Ultima Vez και Hellenic Dance Company. She has danced in festivals (Alkantara Festival, Portugal; Spring Festival, Netherlands; Festival d’Automne à Paris, France; kunstenfestivaldesarts, Belgium; Oktoberdans, Norway; New Empathies, Germany, etc.), theaters (deSingel, Belgium; Kaaitheater, Belgium; Wexner Center for the Arts, USA; Radialsystem, Germany; Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Greece) and museums (Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA; and Z33, Belgium). She has been an artist in residence at Pact Zollverein (Germany), Saaren Kaartano (Finland) and Les Brigittines (Belgium), among others. Since 2017, she has been teaching improvisation and composition to professionals and amateurs and working as a dramaturge in Greece and Belgium. She has also studied fashion design, which she has been practicing since 2018, designing and making dance and theater costumes. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).

Christina Reinhardt (b. 1990, Athens) graduated with distinction from the National School of Dance in Athens and from Rallou Manou Higher Professional Dance School. She is currently studying art theory and history at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASKT). As a dancer, she has collaborated with choreographers Mariela Nestora, Maria Koliopoulou, Iris Karayan, Aria Boumpaki, Medie Megas, Katerina Skiada, Christos Xyrafakis and Jοão Cidade, among others; and with visual artists Florent Frizet and Martin Creed. As a member of the Hellenic Dance Company, she has performed in pieces by Pascal Rioult and Martha Graham —with Martha Graham Dance Company in New York and Greece. She has performed in several festivals (Athens & Epidaurus Festival, ARC for Dance Festival, etc.) and taught contemporary dance and improvisation in a number of dance schools and studios (Dance Cultural Centre, Rallou Manou Higher Professional Dance School, International Dance Center Zawirowania in Warsaw, etc.). In 2022, she sat on the jury board of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports for the local graduate professional dance school entry exams. She was lead actress in the prize-winning short film The Song of the Whale by Aspa Siokou. She has acted as coordinator for an interdisciplinary conference jointly organized by ASFA and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and has worked as an art mediator and curator’s assistant in art exhibitions. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).

Christina Karagianni is a dancer, performer and researcher based in Athens. She is a graduate of the National School of Dance in Athens (2010) and holds a Master’s in Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy from the University of Utrecht (2015). As a dancer and performer, she has collaborated with the following visual artists and choreographers: Amy Pickles, Clara J:son Borg, Nova Melancholia (Vasilis Noulas and Kostas Tzimoulis), arisandmartha, Iris Karayan, Vassilea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Vera Sofia Mota, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Michelle Moura, Michael Klien, Stella Dimitrakopoulou, and Nefeli Myrtidi, among others. Recurring questions that feed her research concern the transformative potential inherent in dance,‬ the ways of evaluating the labor of the dancing body and ‬the distribution of authorship. Her article ‘The Notion of Dialogue in Re-enacted choreographies’ has appeared in the journal Dance Research published in the Netherlands (2017). Since 2020, she is a member of the collective research and artistic project in progress called WordMord together with Franck-Lee Alli-Tis aka Vassilea Stylianidou, Aggeliki Diakrousi, Stylianos Benetos aka Oyto Arognos. WordMord asks questions about the relationship between language, technology, trauma and violence. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).

Aris Papadopoulos graduated from the Athens School of Architecture (NTUA, 2009) and the National School of Dance, Athens (2012). He is active in the fields of dance and performing arts in Greece and Europe as a dancer, devising performer and maker of his own work. As a dancerperformer he has worked with the multidisciplinary companies ARBONAUTS (UK), HIMHERANDIT Productions-Andreas Constantinou (Denmark), INSIEME IRREALI – Pietro Marullo (Belgium) and with artists Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Vitoria Kotsalou, Dora Garcia, Clara J:son Borg, Alessandro Carboni and Michael Klien. As the co-founder of arisandmartha company he has been selected by the European dance platform Aerowaves, has presented work at the Athens & Epidaurus Festival (2018, 2019), Kalamata International Dance Festival (2019) and has toured extensively in Europe. His work has been supported by Aerowaves and the European Dance Network, FLUX Foundation (2019) and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports (2018-2023) for dance productions and artistic research. In 2020, he participated in the Onassis AiR-Critical Practices international artistic research program. As an independent artist he is interested in the reciprocity between the moving body and the urban landscape and is exploring walking practices and methodologies around the audio-walk format. He has presented performative, site-specific and research work in Athens (Scanning the Walkscape, Onassis AiR, Onassis Stegi; IN-QUARRY_an extended choreographic research, available online) and Denmark (Queering the Walkscape, The Genderhouse Festival 2021; AARIVAL, as part of the project Walking Landscapes proposed by Københavns Internationale Teater’s Metropolis initiative 2021). He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).

Amalia Kosma (b. 1985, Athens) studied dance at the Higher Professional Dance School of Anna Petrova (Athens), at Folkwang University of the Arts (Essen, Germany) and at the National School of Dance in Athens (graduating with honours). In addition, she holds a BA in Sociology from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. As a dancer/performer, she has worked with artists Euripides Laskarides, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Iris Karayan, Tzeni Argyriou, Sofia Spyratou, Thomas Moschopoulos, Thanos Papakonstantinou and others. She has performed in several international festivals, including: Julidans Festival (the Netherlands), Lyon Dance Biennale (France), Dublin Dance Festival (Ireland), Romaeuropa Festival (Italy), Aerowaves Spring Forward Festival, Kalamata International Dance Festival, and Athens and Epidaurus Festival. She has worked as a movement director for theatrical performances at the National Theatre of Greece, the Greek National Opera and the Athens Concert Hall. She performed and was also part of the choreographic team for the opening ceremony of the European Games Baku 2015 in Azerbaijan under the artistic direction of Dimitris Papaioannou. Between 2011 and 2019, she was a member of the teaching faculty of the National School of Dance in Athens. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).

Konstantina Barkouli-Gavri (b. 1994, Athens) graduated with honors from the National School of Dance in Athens (2015) and the American College of Greece (2021), where she acquired her BA in Communication and Film Studies with the support of a Harvey C. Krentzman scholarship (2017-2021). As a dancer, she has collaborated with the following artists and companies: Hellenic Dance Company, Stella Spyrou, Stathis Doganis, Anastasia Valsamaki, Myrto Delimichali, Isabella Margara, Syndesmos Chorou, Chto Delat collective, Nadi Gogoulou, Athanasia Kanelopoulou, Dimitrios Mytilinaios, Giorgos Eftimiou. Maria Koliopoulou (Prosxima Dance Company), Mariela Nestora (Yelp Dance Company) and Stavros Zafeiris. She has performed in several international festivals, including: International Contemporary Dance Festival of the Canary Islands (Μasdanza), Athens Biennale, Aerowaves Festival, Athens & Epidaurus Festival (2017, 2021), Fast Forward Festival (Onassis Stegi), Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival and Dance Days Chania. She has taken part in initiatives held in the context of the EU inclusive dance programs IDANCE (2017) and Europe Beyond Access (2021). In addition, she has attended workshops led by Boris Charmatz, Stopgap Dance Company, Matija Ferlin and Arco Renz (Camping festival held in Centre national de la danse, 2022). She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).

Xenia Koghilaki (1990) develops both collaborative and solo works at the intersection of dance, choreography, and performance. Berlin-based since 2019, she holds an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship (MA SODA) from the Inter-University Center for Dance, Berlin University of the Arts (HZT/UDK). She is a graduate of the Department of Architecture, University of Patras and of the National School of Dance in Athens. Xenia puts the body in the center of her interest, exploring concepts of collectivity and belonging, in relation to dance and choreography, while her artistic interest focuses on challenging the triptych: power – knowledge – body. Her work has been awarded a DIS-TANZ-SOLO scholarship by the Federal Association of Dance in Germany (DTD) and has been supported by Goethe-Institut Berlin and the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports. In 2021 she was awarded a danceWEB scholarship to participated in ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival, while in 2022 (April-May), she was selected for the residency program of Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) in Berlin, which she completed with the support of a “Residenzförderung – Fonds Darstellende Kunste” grant. She has presented her work in Uferstudios Berlin (Bang Bang Bodies); Parken ist Bewegung Festival (Go ‘head baby!); Studio Alta cultural center in Prague (Nudes and Conspiracies); Arc For Dance Festival 11 and K-Gold Temporary Gallery in Athens (JunkDance); as part of the Breaking Art: Performances program at the Athens Concert Hall and in Arc For Dance Festival 15 (From public to hidden); InProgress Feedback Festival in Athens (Multiple Choice); New Choreographers Festival 8 at Onassis Stegi (collaborative work Besuch). As a performer, she has worked with Kat Válastur for the works Diana Even (HAU, 2022) and The FarNear (Bode-Museum, Berlin, 2022); André Uerba (as part of the event series Flutgraben Performances in Berlin); Chto Delat (Fast Forward Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre); and with the companies Porson’s Khashoggi and Hellenic Dance Company, among others. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.

He was born in Athens in 1986. He has been engaged in a number of individual and team sports as well as in classic championship disciplines (400 metres hurdles), receiving nationwide accolades. He then entered into the dance studies. He graduated from Despina Grigoriadou Professional Dance School (2011) and from the School of Physical Education and Sport Science of Athens with specialization in «Chorus Dance» and «Greek Traditional Dances» (2019). He has collaborated with: Christina Sougioultzi, Patricia Apergi, Mariza Vinieratou, Iris Karayan, Tzeni Argyriou, Sofia Mavragani, Christos Papadopoulos, Charis Kousios, Natassa Avra, Filippos Vassiliou among others, participating in performances in Greece and abroad. He has danced for the European Aerowaves Network as well as Patricia Apergi/ Dopa, Harry Kousios /Man II and Christos Papadopoulos/ Elvedon. Ιn 2018 he participated in Onassis’ educational program for students «Dancing to Connect» and in the Motion Workshop for people with and without vision impairments «IDANCE» as an assistant choreographer (2016). He is interested in a combination of sports and dance and in its artistic imprint in performative practices.

Dimitris Mytilinaios is a graduate of the State School of Dance (2012-2015) and holds a Μaster exerce-ICI-CCN Université III Paul-Valéry-Montpellier- with a scholarship from Onassis Foundation, a two-year program directed by Christian Rizzo in the field of choreography. He has collaborated with DD Dorviller, Laurent Pichaud, Jenifer Lacey, Nadia Lauro, Alix Demorant, Myrto Katsiki, Volmir Cordeiro, João Fiadeiro. He has also worked with Anastasia Valsamaki, Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis, Iris Karayan, Eve Chariatte, Jurij Konjar, Romeo Castellucci, Yvonne Rainer. He has presented the choreographic works: «Variations in 200 steps» in CND Paris (Camping 2017) and ICI-CCN Montpellier, «Performer la Recherche», a collaborative project by Laurent Pichaud in Laboratoires d’Aubervillers (2017) and Place de la Danse Toulouse (2018), «Drifting Experiment» in Dance Days Chania 7, «Softly with this score», ICI-CCN Montpellier (2018), «Hardly the same: a dance guide to mess up body & mind» in Athens (2019).

Nikos Kalivas was born in 1988, studied Mathematics at the University of Patras and Dance at the professional dance school Aktina. As a dancer, he has worked with choreographers such as Annie Vigier, Frank Apertet, Antigoni Gira, Betty Dramisioti, Xaris Mandafounis, Giannis Antoniou, Patritsia Apergi, Konstantinos Rigos, Leyya Mona Taiwil, Xaris Kousios and more. As a choreographer he created «TripTap», «Psychord», and «RoomsToLet». In 2018 he was selected by Aggeliki Stelatou as an upcoming choreographer and worked at Munich Biennale Platform in collaboration with Onassis Culture Center. In 2019 he co-founded RopisCo and choreographed «Dépaysement» at Onassis Culture Center at the Festival of Young Choreographers. Since 2015 he has been teaching contemporary dance and improvisation at the professional dance school Aktina and other schools.

Eftychia Stefanou (born 1992) is a Greek performer. She has a BA in Physical Education and Sports Science specialized in “Movement and Dance Therapy”. She did a case study on how rhythm and dance can affect a fourteen-year-old boy with multiple disabilities and autism. She did the four-year study program at SEAD where she performed repertory works by Akram Khan, Wim Vandekeybus and Yvonne Rainer. For her final work “Solo Project” at SEAD, she studied and performed “Trio A” by Yvonne Rainer. During her studies she was invited from the choreographer Barnaby Booth to perform «Loyal Prophets of an Indifferent God» at «The Place», in the frame of «Resolution 2018» in London. Right after SEAD she worked and performed with the Belgian director Jan Lauwers -Need Company for the opera piece «L’incoronazione di Poppea»– Salzburg Festspiele. With the Slovenian choreographer Mala Kline she co-choreographed and performed 2 solo works, «Song» – CoFestival and «song lines» Spider Festival in Ljubljana. In May of 2019 she collaborated with the choreographer Alexandra Waierstall and the artist Rita McBrid for the performance «Bodies and Structure» which premiered at Tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf and also took place later on at the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau.

Elton Petri is a dancer/performer/choreographer, born in Albania and raised in Greece. He started his dance education in Athens during his studies at the Medical Laboratories Department of the Τechnological Educational Institute of Athens. He studied at the State School of Dance in Athens and at the SEAD in Salzburg, from where he graduated in 2016. During and after his studies he worked with artists such as Alix Eynaudi, Meytal Blanaru, Milan Tomasik and Zsuzsa Rozsavolgyi, Willi Dorner, Hans Fredewess, Milla Koistinen and Kosmas Kosmopoulos.

Andi Xhuma studied dance at the National School of Dance in Greece (2009-2012). Since his graduation he has worked with choreographers and dance companies such as Yiannis Antoniou, Hannes Langolf, Ermira Goro, Konstantinos Rigos, Anton Lachky, Cocoon dance Company, DV8 physical theatre. In 2015 he started creating personal works on live stage and video with his short film «Normal day» winning awards in North America, Australia and Europe. In 2018 he made his debut as a choreographer along with Christos Xyrafakis with the show «OΚ, that’s you» at the Onassis Cultural Centre.

Martha is a Greek dance artist from based in Athens and London. She holds a BA in dance from the Professional Dance School of N. Kontaxaki and a Chemistry degree from the University of Athens. In 2010, she completed an MA in Performance as a member of EDge at London Contemporary Dance School with an interest in improvisation scores. She has collaborated with various choreographers such as Wally Cardona, Robert Clark, Eva Recacha, Michael Klien, Seke Chimutengende, Leila McMillan, Sung Im Her, with the companies backsteinhaus production (GER), Requardt & Rosenberg (UK), David Dorfman Dance (USA) and with the artists Tino Sehgal (Palais de Tokyo/ Athens Roman Agora/ Tate Modern), Stefanos Tsivopoulos (Kalfayan Galleries) and Marina Abramovic (Benaki Museum/ Serpentine Gallery), where she re-performed two of her archival works Cleaning the Mirror and Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful during AS ONE exhibition in Athens. She has received scholarships by A. Onassis, I. Kostopoulos and Schilizzi Foundations and in 2015 she was a Danceweb scholar by Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. Lately she experiments with her own work and in 2017 she created the work touching.just with Aris Papadopoulos with which they were selected as Aerowaves 2018 Artists, created the company arisandmartha and continued with the works Five Steps to Save the World (2018) and Lucy. tutorial for a ritual (2019). Currently, she is an ARTWORKS Fellow 2019-2020 and participates in the  SNF Artist Fellowship Program.

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).