Erato Tzavara

Erato Tzavara is a video artist/performer, educator and independent researcher specialising in video design for theatre, moving image techniques for live performance, and embodiment in relation to digital media. With a background in Psychology (BA, Panteion University, GR) and Media (MA in Image and Communication, Goldsmiths College, UK), she has been working with digital image composition and media dramaturgy in dialogue with the moving/acting body in physical space, within a vibrant international network of collaborations in theatre, dance, music and fine art.

She is currently a member of the PEERS Programme for Emerging Artistic Researchers 2024–2025 (Institute of Performing Arts and Film, Zurich University of the Arts). Her research, between liveness and the digital, the tactile and the virtual, the human and non-human, utilises participatory practices, somatic techniques and multimedia performance iterations that place the body as the primary sensing-recording-relating apparatus.

Selected collaborations as video designer include: After the Party by Yolanda Markopoulou (National Theatre of Greece, 2024); The Animalia Trilogy by Wakka Wakka Productions (Figurteatret, 59E59, NO, US, 2021–2025); Heidi’s Dream by GNOUS! (Onassis Cultural Center, GR, 2023); Orchestrascope by Zonzo Companie (Centro Cultural de Belém, PT, 2022); Wires, Strings & Other Things by Wouter van Looy & Brian Irvine (The Ark, IR, 2022); Grenz.land by 12hDance & Albrecht Ziepert (DE, KOR, 2020–2023); The Forest by Sophia Marathaki (Athens and Epidaurus Festival, 2021); Selfy Apocalypse by Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis (Athens, GR, 2021); Ilektra by Aris Biniaris (Art Theatre Karolos Koun, 2021); E-fyga – Minor Asia by Yolanda Markopoulou (Elefsis Cultural Capital, GR, 2019–2023); Labros by Sophia Marathaki (Theater of Neos Kosmos, GR, 2019); AMID by Chrysanthi Badeka (Athens, GR, 2019); Oliver Twist by Konstantina Nikolaidi (Ellinikos Kosmos, GR, 2019); Heimatfront by Ms. Shrichtmaccher (DE, 2016–2018); Apothemata: Inventory by Tzeni Argyriou and Vassilis Gerodimos (Elefsis Cultural Capital, GR, 2018); In a Gadda da Vida by Dimitris Tsiamis (BIOS, GR, 2018); The Incredible Voyage by Angelos Frantzis (Onassis Cultural Center, GR, 2016–2018); Aomori by Chrysanthi Badeka (Athens, GR, 2016); and Scratch Bam! by GNOUS! (Onassis Cultural Center, GR, 2014–2016).