Artists

Anna Pangalou is a vocal soloist who experiments through the boundaries of classical vocal practices and the new forms created by experimental sound practices. She has studied classical singing in Cannes, Vienna, Rome and Athens. Prizes and scholarships include the Alexandros Onassis Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation and the International 'Dimitri Mitropoulos' Singing competition 2004. She has appeared as a soloist in Greece, Austria, Germany, Italy, France, Egypt, Turkey and the United States performing Opera, Lied, Oratorio, New Musical Theatre and Contemporary Music. She specializes in avant-garde contemporary music and performs, teaches and participates in artistic projects throughout the world.

Ana Sánchez-Colberg is a Puerto Rican choreographer, dancer, researcher, author and dance educator. In 1989 she founded Theatre enCorps, an award-winning dance theatre company that has toured extensively and received critical acclaim internationally. Ana has been teaching in some of the world’s leading performing arts schools and directed/produced several festivals, workshops and dance seminars across Europe and the Americas. She is currently based in Athens, Greece, where she is developing another international project that will link Athens to six other cities around the world through dance and technology.

Adonis Vais is a graduate of the Greek State School of Dance and a recipient of the Koula Pratsika Foundation scholarship. He has collaborated with Dimitris Papaioannou, Oktana Dance Theater, Jukstapoz, Dorit Weintal and Dansmakers Amsterdam.In 2011 he was a member of cie.Toula Limnaios, and from 2012 until 2016 he was co-creating, touring and performing internationally as a freelance artist with the Sasha Waltz & Guests company. Since 2017 he is researching, choreographing and dancing through his own unique universe.

Aris Papadopoulos and Martha Pasakopoulou are dance makers and performers with a background in Architecture and Chemistry respectively. They began working together in 2016 bringing their individual interests and aesthetics into a common discussion around constructed space, performer-viewer proximity, humor, absurdity and rhythm. With their first work touching.just they have been selected as Aerowaves Twenty18 Artists and are currently researching on their upcoming project Lucy. tutorial for a ritual as artists in residency supported by Duncan Dance Research Center - Athens, Garage Performing Arts Center - Corfu and KLAP Maison pour la danse - Marseille.

Christos Mouchas studied at the University of Sussex. So far, his practice includes digital collages, videos, installations and performance. He has exhibited work at the Marina Abramović Institute and K-Gold Temporary Gallery, and has collaborated with Christian Dior fashion house, AnOther magazine, Digitaria and Harper’s Bazaar China, among others. He is the creator of Ubicouture, a platform of digital collages that combines fashion and art imagery. In 2017 he participated in Whitechapel Gallery and NEON’s curatorial exchange programme in London and currently curates a series of art interventions at Talkin’ Heads salon.

Dimitris Tsesmelis is an actor, singer and musician. He studied theatre at the Athens Conservatoire and is currently a Theatre Studies final-year student at the University of Athens. His studies also include piano, vocal training and contemporary dance lessons, and is the recipient of the Alexis Minotis Bequest scholarship (2014-25) awarded by the National Bank of Greece. He has been an active theatre performer since 2015. He is a founding member of "Lynx Theatre Group" and of "Agnwstoi Dyo" musical collective.

Eleftheria Panousi is a graduate of the Fine Arts School at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and is currently studying at a course on performance at the Continuous Education Centre of Athens University. She has participated in the 8th Athens Video Dance Project, in the 8th Student Biennial of Greek Fine Art Schools, at Art Athina / Platform Project with the group Event Horizon and other exhibitions in Thessaloniki, Athens and Florina.

Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis is a choreographer, dancer, video artist, curator of platform MĒTA and teacher. He studied dance in Greece and graduated from the State School of Dance in 2014. Since then he has created several video-dance projects presented in festivals in Greece and abroad. In 2016 he started a research on the concept of “reframing” which led to the creation of the “selfy” series in 2018. As a dancer he has been a member of the Hellenic Dance Company and Aerites dance company. He is a founding member of 'tripodium' collective and also teaches yoga.

Ioanna Gerakidi is a writer and curator. She holds a BA in Media and Communication Studies from the University of Athens and an MA in Critical Studies from then Sandberg Instituut. She has collaborated with the Athens Biennale, Hot Wheels Projects, Athens Digital Arts Festival, 3 137 Artist Run Project Space, LIMA and Amsterdam Art, among others.

Lia Haraki is a contemporary artist using the body as her main tool, based in LImassol Cyprus. Her performances are presented on stage, in site-specific settings, in museums and galleries locally and internationally. Her work has been supported by the Aerowaves network, Act Your Age EU Programme and the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture. She is a resident artist at Dance House Lemesos and one of the founding members. In 2013 she was one of the artists that represented Cyprus at the Venice Biennale with her solo Tune In (Special mention for the Cyprus and LIthuanian pavilion). She is the creator of The Performance Shop, which was selected in 2016 as one of the best 25 dance practices by the European Dancehouse Network. Lia is a lecturer at the dance Programme of the University of Nicosia.

Marina Genadieva studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts and at Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria. In addition to her painting, she is active in installation and performances. She has participated in exhibitions and other events (5th Contemporary Art Biennale of Thessaloniki, 7th Student Biennale of Greek Fine Art Schools, Theocharakis Foundation, ROOMS by Kappatos Gallery e.a.). Her work has been published in the catalogue of the INPA 4 competition at MANIFEST Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She has performed in Greece, Austria, USA and Germany.

Marios Hatziprokopiou is a poet, performer and scholar. His studies include history and theatre in Thessaloniki, visual arts in Paris, a master’s in social anthropology at EHESS in Paris and a PhD in performance studies at Aberystwyth University, UK. Since 2012 he collaborates with Geopoetics group (Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Dimitria Festival e.a.). Using language as a starting point, his practice extends into voice, the body and public space, acting in the intersections between fiction and “objective truth”, artistic creation and scientific research. His first poetry book titled “Topic Tropics” is to be released in 2018 by Antipodes publishers.

Νadi Gogoulou studied dance in Athens and Statistics in Piraeus. As a dancer she has collaborated with Christos Papadopoulos, Medie Megas, director Thanos Papakonstantinou, Patricia Apergi (as a creative contributor in "Planites") and many others. She has choreographed for the theatre and her video-dance work has been presented at the Athens Video Dance Project and the 1st Moving Images International Video Dance Festival. Her choreographies have been presented at Arc for Dance Festival, EDN Athens, KET Art Space, Akropoditi DanceFest, Kinono Art Festival and elsewhere. She currently develops her own research through the ongoing project “Late Night Impro”.

Nefeli Kadinopoulou Asteriou graduated with honours from State School of Dance in Athens in 2015. Shortly after she joined SEAD’s Bodhi project and toured in Europe, New York and Israel. She has collaborated with many choreographers, including Ian Kaler, Antonis Foniadakis and Anastasia Valsamaki. Her work Where Is Your Sister is supported by Brut/Vienna.

t.a.a.g. collective (the anonymous artists group) is a newly founded group of artists that wishes to reconsider the concept of authorship in artistic creation, through participatory actions and works that activate the spectator. The desired anonymity is not a publicity stunt but aims at finding a place of being in art, a way of life that corresponds to the non-distinction between politics and aesthetics, work and play.

Thanasis Kritsakis has studied theatre at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and at Giessen University. He is currently an MA student in political sciences and sociology at Athens University. He has directed four plays, one of them based on Euripides’ Bacchae, and his work has been presented at Dimitria Festival and elsewhere. As a director he has participated in a masterclass by UTE and Maly Theatre in Moscow. As an actor he has collaborated with directors Stella Michaelidou, Glykeria Kalaintzi and Kostas Isaaikidis. As an assistant director he has collaborated with Cezaris Grauzinis, Giannis Anastasakis and Roger Bernat.