Fellow Year: 2022

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 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 (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.

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).