- ACADEMIC CAREER

09/2010 – 06/2014 BA in "Primary Education" – University of Thessaly, Greece
Thesis: "The Implementation of Creative Dance in School Teaching: Pedagogical and Didactic Dimensions"

10/2015 – 09/2018 MA in "Dance Studies" – Free University of Berlin
Thesis: "The Perception of the Disabled Body in Contemporary Dance: On the Way to a Change in Perception?"

08/2018 – 08/2019 Dance Pedagogy and Choreography Training – Tanz-Zentrale Leipzig

11/2020 – 10/2021 Further Education in Early Childhood Education – DPFA Leipzig

 

- ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES

Choreography
"Gruselwusel" (Children's Play), Artistic Direction: Vasiliki Bara & Babette Büchele for Club LABA, Theater der jungen Welt, Leipzig (2024)
"The Person I Am" (mixed-abled), Artistic Direction: Vasiliki Bara for Tanzlabor Leipzig, LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Leipzig (2023)
"Lust", Artistic Direction: Vasiliki Bara for Leipziger Tanztheater, Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig (2023) // Werk2, Leipzig (2024)
"The Dream" (mixed-abled), Artistic Direction: Vasiliki Bara for Tanzlabor Leipzig, LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Leipzig (2022) "From the Other Side", Artistic Direction: Vasiliki Bara, LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Leipzig (2021)
"A Piece of God", Artistic Direction: Vasiliki Bara, LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Leipzig (2019)

Choreographic Assistance
"The Last Knights of Grünau", Artistic Direction: Georg Genoux for Theater der jungen Welt, Robert-Koch-Park, Leipzig (2023)
"HOLOBIONTINNEN", Artistic Direction: Eva Hintermaier, Simon Klaus, LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Leipzig (2023)
"Dialog", Artistic Direction: Vivien Reichel for IceLab Leipzig, Film (2022)
"Who Knows?", Artistic Direction: Mandy Unger for M.over Company, UT Connewitz, Leipzig (2021)

 

Dance
"No Tomorrow", Artistic Direction: Mandy Unger for M.over Company, LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Leipzig (2024)
"We Hope This Helps", Artistic Direction: Ildikó Tóth & Jone San Martín, LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Leipzig (2024) "maibaumschwof", Artistic Direction: Irina Pauls, Site-specific Performance, Leipzig (2024)
"Das Kafkahaus", Artistic Direction: René Reinhardt, Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig (2024)
"We Will Not Be Moved", Artistic Direction: Alexis Blake for Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Site-specific Performance, Leipzig (2023)
"PLATTE", Artistic Direction: Mandy Unger for M.over Company, Site-specific Performance, Leipzig (2022) // Phoenix Theater Festival, Erfurt (2024)
"Klare || Kante" (mixed-abled), Artistic Direction: Marlen Schumann for Tanzlabor Leipzig, LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Leipzig (2022) // tanz*werk Kassel, Kulturhaus Dock 4, Kassel (2023)
"Streams of Consciousness" (Film), Artistic Direction: Mandy Unger for M.over Company, Dresden (2022)
"Composition and its Tellings", Performance Project with Maya M. Caroll, Tanzfabrik, Berlin (2019)
"Do You Have One?", Artistic Direction: Maria Paizi, Promenade of the 9th ADVP Athens, Fine Arts University of Athens (2018) "Conqueer My Personal Space", Artistic Direction: Maria Paizi, Fine Arts University of Athens, Athens (2018)
Participation in the exchange project "How to Dance in Times of Crisis?", Leadership: Luna Park, Berlin & Athens (2018) "We Ghosts", Artistic Direction: Maria Sanchez Alonso, Urban Space, Berlin (2018)
"The System of Animality" (Film), Artistic Direction: Vasiliki Bara, Berlin (2017)
"Valeska’s Blind Date", Artistic Direction: Meg Stuart, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2017)
"Die Tanzfabrik", Artistic Direction: Britta Wirthmüller, Uferstudios, Berlin (2017)
"The Prepared Body", Artistic Direction: Deborah Hay, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2016)
Site-specific Performance in Volos on the Occasion of International Day Against Racism, Artistic Direction: Maria Tsouvala (2015)
"Look Me in the Eyes", Artistic Direction: Maria Tsouvala, Site-specific Performance in Volos (2014)

 

- DANCE PEDAGOGY AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Professional Training Leipzig, 4fT e. V. (2023)
Workshop "Space and Rhythm" and "Giving and Receiving" at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle: Design Department (2023)
Workshop "Inclusive Methods of Dance Teaching" within the training "Instructor for Free Dance in the Mixed-Abled Area" of Tanzlabor Leipzig (2022 and 2023 in collaboration with poet and writer Max Greyson)
Free mixed-abled Dance at Tanzlabor Leipzig (2019-2023)
Training for the Semi-Professional Company and the Senior Company (50+) of Leipziger Tanztheater (2022-2023)
Dance Theater Club for Teens (2019/2020) and Inclusive Dance and Theater Club for Children 10-14 Years (2023/2024) at Theater der jungen Welt
Improvisation Workshop within the training "Dance Pedagogy and Choreography" at Tanz-Zentrale Leipzig (2022) Workshop "Movement Research and Choreography for All Levels" at Etage Leipzig (2020)
Contemporary Dance, Improvisation, Ballet, Creative Children’s Dance at dance schools Leipziger Tanztheater, Tanz-Zentrale Leipzig, Flugfisch, Tendance, and others (2018-2023) Educator at Leipzig International School (2020-2022)

 

- GRANTS
"Plásmata", #TakeHeart Process Funding, Fonds Darstellende Künste (2023)
"Plásmata", DIS-TANZ-SOLO, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (2023)
"Creatures", Work Stipend, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (2023)
"Creatures Inclusive", #TakeHeart Residency in Cooperation with HELLERAU, Fonds Darstellende Künste (2022) "Creatures", #TakeHeart Residency in Cooperation with LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Fonds Darstellende Künste (2022)

 

- RESIDENCIES / SHOWINGS
"From the Other Side", 4fT Dance Platform Leipzig, Residency and Showing (2022)
"Plásmata", 2nd PLATFORM STUDIOTRADE euro-scene leipzig, Showing (2022)
"Creatures", you are warmly invited - version #6, Showing (2022)

 

- PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS
"Speaking Figures", Workshop by Max Greyson, Cologne (2022)
"Beyond Expectation: Stretching the Physicality of Dance", Berlin (2017)
"Cut & Paste: Dance Advocacy in the Age of Austerity", Athens (2015)
"Teaching and Learning… in the Dark: Education in Cinema - Cinema in Education", Volos (2015)
"Meeting for the International Mother Language Day", Volos (2014)
"Event on Intercultural Diversity", Volos (2013)
"Free Activities in the Forest", Volos (2013)
"8th Panhellenic Conference on Didactics of Natural Sciences and New Technologies in Education", Volos (2013)

 

- LANGUAGES
Native Language: Greek
Other Languages: German (C2 Level), English (C2 Level)