Vasiliki Bara works in Leipzig as a choreographer, dancer and dance mediator. She studied Dance Pedagogy and Choreography at the Tanz-Zentrale Leipzig and Dance Studies (MA) at the Freie Universität Berlin. During her master's degree, she took part in the projects "The Prepared Body" by Deborah Hay and "Valeska's Blind Date" by Meg Stuart, which were presented at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. In 2019, she completed her Master's degree with her thesis on the perception of the disabled body in contemporary dance.


Vasiliki presented her choreographic works "A Piece of God" (2019) and "From the other Side" (2021) as well as the mixed-abled productions "The Dream" (2022) and "The Person I am" (2023) at LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Leipzig. In 2023, she also choreographed the piece "Lust" for the company of the Leipziger Tanztheater, which was performed at the Schaubühne Lindenfels and Werk2.


For her artistic work, she has received funding, grants and residencies from the Fonds Darstellende Künste, the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, the Kulturamt Leipzig and 4fT e. V. She has been in the Artist Development Program of LOFFT - DAS THEATER since 2024.


As a dancer, Vasiliki has worked on projects by Alexis Blake, Ildikó Tóth, Irina Pauls, Jone San Martín, Mandy Unger, Marlen Schumann and René Reinhardt.

 

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