REVIEWS - INTERVIEWS & MORE
Letter from Rome, January–March 2026
“Dance Dance” across the eternal city. Available at: Dance Context Webzine.
Dance Review [2026]
Choreographies Re-Lived: Virgilio Sieni and Raffaella Giordano at the Orbita|Spellbound Dance Season in Rome. Available at: Dance Context Webzine.
Dance Platform Review [2026]
MIRfestival 2026 - in orbit around Athens. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Platform Review [2026]
Looking for the essence of the New Italian Dance platform. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Event Documentation [2025]
On international performing arts co-operation. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2025]
The symbolic weight of walking: Christos Papadopoulos’ My Fierce Ignorant Step at REF40. Available at: Dance Context Webzine.
Dance Review [2025]
Cristina Kristal Rizzo & Diana Anselmo: Monumentum DA. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2025]
Moritz Ostruschnjak: NON+ULTRAS. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2025]
Salvo Lombardo: Birdsong. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2025]
Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company: Improvisational Quests at the Romaeuropa Festival. Available at: Dance Context Webzine.
Dance Review [2025]
Meytal Blanaru / Scottish Dance Theatre: Ray. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2025]
Alan Lucien Øyen’s Antigone: Between Myth and Invention. Available at: Dance Context Webzine.
Triple bill Review [2025]
EKMAN / LEÓN-LIGHTFOOT / DAWSON – A dance evening of excellence at Rome Opera House. Available at: The Theatre Times.
Event Documentation [2025]
What Makes Us a Network? Available at: Springback Magazine.
Platform Review [2025]
'Get Back to Dance' -- Necessity or Nostalgia? Available at: Springback Magazine.
Festival Review [2024]
'For a New Beauty': Gender Bender festival 2024. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Festival Review [2024]
Highlights from Roma Europa Festival 2024. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Text in Orbita. Corpi in ascolto [2024]
Dall'iperoggetto all'ipercoreografia. L'uso dell'intelligenza artificiale in "The Cloud" di Arkadi Zaides, pp.12–14.
Festival Review [2024]
Three Choreographers from Onassis Stegi at B.Motion 2024. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Interview with Adriana Boriello and Thierry De Mey
Catching Dreams Suspended in Time. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Festival Review [2024]
GRAPE al festival di Atene ed Epidauro: Un focus delle arti performative in Grecia. Availabe at: HYSTRIO.
Dance Review [2024]
Mette Ingvartsen: RUSH. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Festival Review [2024]
Building on Dance & Architecture: Lugano Dance Project. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Text as part of the Dossier: Teatri Antichi (Ancient Theatres)
Cosa resta di un patrimonio immenso? Viaggio in Grecia tra passato e presente. Availabe at: HYSTRIO.
Festival Review [2024]
Equilibrio Festival 2024, Rome. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Interview with Marta Olivieri, Camilla Guarino and Giuseppe Comuniello [2024]
Trespass to Access: Opening Up for Visual Impairment. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2024]
Young Choreographers at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. Available at: The Theatre Times.
Festival Review [2024]
Short Theatre 2023: Ante-mortem and posthumous choreographies. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Platform Review [2023]
NID -- New Italian Dance Platform 2023. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2023]
Christos Papadopoulos: Mellowing. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2023]
Salvo Lombardo / Chiasma: Sport. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2023]
Karrasekare by Igor x Moreno. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Festival reflections [2023]
Oriente Occidente Festival 2023: Layers of Invisibility Calling for Actions. Ways of seeing vis-à-vis the performances at Oriente Occidente. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Festival Review [2023]
Dance Days Chania 2023: The Conscious Body. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2023]
Dimitris Mytilinaios: Repair. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Festival Review [2023]
Fuori Programma Rome: focus on Israel. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2023]
Simona Bertozzi: ONDE. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Interview with Valentina Marini [2023]
Orbita – Rome’s Contemporary Dance Season. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Festival Diary [2022]
Oktoberdans Diary Route 2 . In: Assembly at Oktoberdans International Dance Festival 22. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Dance Review [2022]
Eleonora Siarava: BLUE BEYOND. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Festival Review [2022]
Place of Freedom? B.Motion 2022. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Festival Review [2022]
Presente Future 2022. Available at: Springback Magazine.
Interview with Polina Kremasta [2022]
Project “Mnemedance” | Collection Mnemedance (#Mnemedance16). Available at: Mnemedance
Artist Presentation [2022]
Dance of the Year (Trajal Harrell) | Asteroide Amore. Available at: Teatro Ca' Foscari.
An informal discussion with Italian Choreographer Roberto Castello [2021]
On Dance, Politics and Dance as Labour. Available at: The Theatre Times.
Dance Festival Review [2020]
ConFormazioni Dance Festival 2020. Reporting from Sicily. Available at: The Theatre Times.
Interview with Davide Bombana [2020]
The Newly Appointed Director of the Corps de Ballet of Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Available at: The Theatre Times.
Dance Review [2020]
Choreographer Yasmine Hugonnet at Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo. Available at: The Theatre Times.
International Online Theatre Festival 2020 Review [2020]
A Glimpse into the Physical Theatre Performances. Available at: The Theatre Times.
Dance on Screen Review [2019]
Three Moments from the 58th International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia. Available at: The Theatre Times.
Dance Film-Documentation Review [2019]
"Palermo Palermo." Now, Then & After. Available at: The Theatre Times.
Exhibition Review [2019]
Isadora Duncan and “The Figurative Arts in Italy”. Available at: The Theatre Times.
Opera Review [2019]
WINTER JOURNEY by Ludovico Einaudi / Colm Tóibin / Roberto Andò. Available at: CultureVulture.
Dance Review [2019]
“Annunciation” by Angelin Preljocaj and “Siciliana” by Kor’sia Company. Available at: CultureVulture & The Theatre Times.
ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Mikou, Ariadne [2026] BURN: Physical Storytelling and the Heterotopia of a Loft. In: Programme for BURN, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 70–73.
Mikou, Ariadne [2026] BURN: Narrare con il corpo nell'eterotopia di un loft. In: Programma di sala per BURN, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 58–69.
Mikou, Ariadne [2026] Tracing the choreographic innovation at Rome Opera House. Three case studies from 1990 to 2010. In: Mimesis Journal, 14(1), 7–33.
Mikou, Ariadne [2025] Tracing the Disappeared Videodance Festivals of Italy. In: The International Journal of Screendance,15:1, 136-145.
Mikou, Ariadne [2025] Practices of Embodied Listening: Audio Choreographies and Event-Making. In: The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance edited by Victoria Hunter and Cathy Turner, Routledge, pp. 437–449.
Mikou, Ariadne [2024] Liquid Manifestations of Repertory in the Field of Contemporary Dance-making, Performance Research, 29:1, pp. 42–50.
Mikou, Ariadne [2024] #DANCINGTOGETHERAPART. Lo schermo come luogo di appartenenza durante la pandemia. In: Danza, schermi e visori. Contaminazioni coreografiche nella scena italiana edited by Elena Cervellati and Silvia Garzarella. Dino Audino, pp. 59–68.
Mikou, Ariadne [2024] Live Performing Arts and Documentation. Immersive Technologies & the Case of Aerowaves’ Springback Ringside Project. In: Virtual Ecologies – Digitalitäten und Ökologien im Tanz edited by Yvonne Hardt, Marisa Joana Berg, Anna Chwialkowska, Ulrike Nestler.
Transcript Verlag. pp. 311–323.
Mikou, Ariadne and De Rosa, Sinibaldo [2024] Stories We Perform/Own/Share/Space. In: Lugano Dance Project 2024 Catalogue. Lugano: LAC Lugano. pp. 81–84. Also available at Lugano Dance Project and RESO Dance Network Switzerland.
Mikou, Ariadne [2022] 'Meta-Choreographies' Between the Desktop and the Stage. In: International Journal of Screendance, Vol.13, pp. 15–28.
Mikou, Ariadne [2021] A Casual Meditation for Anywhere and Anytime. In: Moving Spaces. Enacting Dance, Performance, and the Digital in the Museum edited by Susanne Franco and Gabriella Giannachi. Edizioni Ca' Foscari.
Mikou, Ariadne in collaboration with Elisa Frasson, Marisa C. Hayes, Marco Longo, Katja Vaghi [2021] A Forum of Questions for Active Viewing, Learning and Creating on Screen(s) During a Global Pandemic. In: International Journal of Screendance, Vol.12, pp. 240–255.
Mikou, Ariadne [2021] Choréographie "(a)live" et "care": Le cas de Chamber Symphony de Lucinda Childs, au Théâtre Massimo de Palerme. In: Repères. Cahier de Danse, 47, pp. 15–18.
Mikou, Ariadne in collaboration with Elisa Frasson and with the contribution of Anna Alexandre, Marisa Hayes & Franck Boulègue, Chrysanthi Badeka, Lucia De Rienzo, Simona Lisi, Marco Longo and Loránd János [2020] Screendance Narratives from around the Mediterranean Sea. In: International Journal of Screendance, Vol.11, pp. 4–29.
Mikou, Ariadne [2019 ] Demolition: A Destabilizing Force For Transgressing Artistic Disciplines. In: Dancing Dialogues. A Collection of Articles from Choros International Dance Journal (2012-2018), Vol. I, edited by Savrami, K.. Dian Publisher. pp. 231–253.
Mikou, Ariadne [2018] The Dynamics of an Expanded Friendship. Community Making in the Streets of Porto Marghera. In: Danza e Ricerca. Laboratorio di Studi, Scritture, Visioni, Vol. 10, pp. 397–412.
Mikou, Ariadne [2018] Expanding Corporeal and Social Borders on the Site of the Screen. In: Arti dello Spettacolo-Performing Arts Journal, Vol.4,
pp. 106–114.
Mikou, Ariadne [2018] Architectural and Choreographic Diagrams as Processual Modes of Sharing Creative Practices. In: Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice edited by Blades, H. & Meehan, E.. Intellect Books. pp. 180–198.
Mikou, Ariadne [2018] Choreographing Events: Demolition, Trace and Encounter. PhD Thesis. University of Roehampton.
Mikou, Ariadne [2018] Bodies in Confined Sites, or 'When You Go Out, Let Them Know That We Are Not Monsters'. In: International Journal of Screendance, Vol.9, pp. 193–197.
Mikou, Ariadne [2018] Book Review: Choreographies. Tracing the Materials of an Ephemeral Art Form by Jacky Lansley. In: CHOROS International Dance Journal. Issue 7, pp. 72–75.
Mikou, Ariadne [2017] Anarchitextures: Intermedial Encounters On The Screen. In: The International Journal of Screendance, Vol. 8, pp. 70–89.
Mikou, Ariadne [2017] Demolition. A Destabilizing Force for Transgressing Artistic Disciplines. In: CHOROS International Dance Journal, Issue 6, pp.20–34.
Mikou, Ariadne [2016] ‘Non-Finito’ in Contemporary Dance Making. In: Cut and Paste. Dance Advocacy at the Age of Austerity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 266–271.
Mikou, Ariadne [2016] Book Review: Stamatia Portanova’ s 'Moving Without A Body: Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts'. In: The International Journal of Sceendance, Vol. 6 (2016), pp. 213–216.
Mikou, Ariadne [2016] Architecture in Disappearance and the Moving Image. Conference Talk presented at The International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy.
Mikou, Ariadne [2014] Practice in Images. In: Critical Dialogues, Vol. 3 (2014), pp.33–35. Critical Path: South Wales, Australia.