About

I am an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working as choreographer, curator, videographer, movement educator and dance performer. My practice includes making and writing about installations, mediated dance performances and works created for the screen. My research interests lie in interdisciplinary and experimental practices across dance, architecture, visual arts and media with focus on the social and body-spatial forms emerged from the intersection of expanded choreography, architecture and the screen. In 2018, I was awarded my PhD in Interdisciplinary Choreographic Research from the University of Roehampton, which was fully funded by a university scholarship.

Since 2011, I am co-founder of futuremellon/NOT YET ART, an art-research roaming collective which enables me to choreograph relationships between artists and embark on curatorial explorations, such as the [SET. me free] Dance & Movement on Screen (2016-2020), a platform focused on screendance curation, education and mentoring. My own works have been presented in several countries and in various venues such as Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2015 at PQ Show & Tell (CZ); Schiume Festival of Performing Arts 2013 (IT); Undisciplining Dance Symposium (NZ); International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy (FR); Light Moves Screendance Symposium (IRL); La Danza in 1 minuto video-dance contest (2014); Athens Video Art Festival 2009 (GR) & Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (GR); The Experimental Media and Movement Arts (EMMA) Lab & IDACO NYC (USA). From  2020 to 2022, I was supported by Creative Europe’s Migrating Artists Project-Challenging Dance and Cinema across Europe (mAPs) for co-creating a dance film on the theme of POWER. The mAPs film collection of the entire project has been presented in venues a.o. the 12th Avant-Garde Film Festival (GR); Short Waves ISFF (PL); Cinedans + Screendance IMZ (NL).

As a dance performer, I have been selected to attend the Arsenale della Danza Master Class program of the Biennale of Venice (2011, 2012) where I have been exposed to Central European dance aesthetics that further inform my moving and teaching practice. From 2006 to 2008, I studied Contemporary Dance Technique with Abigail Yager and Ming-Lung Yang, who are former members of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, and both of them have influenced me in profound ways. I have performed reconstructions of Trisha Brown's works under the direction of Abigail Yager, and I have also collaborated a.o. with Bojana Cvejic and Christina De Smedt (Spatial Confessions, Tate Modern, UK), Ismael Ivo (Biennale of Venice, IT/BR), Virgilio Sieni (Biennale of Venice / Arte Del Gesto Nel Mediterraneo, IT), Laura Boato (a.o. Festival Oriente Occidente, IT), Vito Alfarano (Moving the City/Biennale of Venice, IT), Ming-Lung Yang (Riffe Center Theatre, USA),  Norah Zuniga-Shaw (EMMA Lab, USA) and several Greek dance companies: Xsoma Dance Company, Drosa Maza, Dame Blanche.

I have been invited to teach as Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Dance at the University of Roehampton (UK), Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (UK) and IUAV University of Venice in subjects such as Creating Events Spaces, Mediated Choreography, Perspectives on Dance and Screendance. From 2007-2009 I was awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship for teaching at the Elective Dance Program of The Ohio State University (USA). My teaching experience also includes courses in Contemporary Dance Technique, Dance Composition, Dance Theory and Dance Pedagogy gained in contexts such as the Department of Choreography at Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music and several Greek Dance and Drama Conservatories. In 2021, I was awarded a Research Grant for the Creative Europe project Dancing Museums-The Democracy of Beings from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice where I also worked as a Research Assistant for the SPIN project Memory in Motion: Re-Membering Dance History (2019–2022).

My articles and reviews about experimental and interdisciplinary choreographic practices have been published in peer-reviewed international journals and book anthologies and I am currently collaborating with Culture Vulture, a site for arts journalism on the internet, the global theatre portal The Theatre Times and Springback Magazine.

Also, I have a long-standing experience in transferring movement ideas and principles to adults and children inside community-based environments. During 2016, I became a Certified Contakids Instructor in order to transmit to young children and their guardians alternative ways of experiencing movement.