Konstantinos Rigos

Born in Athens, he studied economics and graduated from the Greek National School of Dance. In 1990, he founded the Oktana Dancetheatre, many productions of which have toured internationally. His shows have been featured in over 40 international festivals in many cities around the world as well as in Greece (Athens Concert Hall, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, National Theatre of Greece, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greek National Opera, Cyprus Theatre Organisation, Piraeus Municipal Theatre, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, etc). He has been awarded the Greek State Award for Dance (1995, 1996), the Greek State Award for Choreography (1999, 2001) and the Melina Mercouri Award (1997). He was the artistic director of the Dance Theatre of the National Theatre of Northern Greece from 2000 to 2005. He has directed plays from the Greek and international repertoire, musicals, operas, the children’s play Frutopia by Eugene Trivizas and multi-disciplinary productions (Much Ado and Nothing, Bossa Nova, Titanic, Wind for the National Theatre of Greece) in which he combines all of his capacities. Since February 2018, he has been the artistic director of the Greek National Opera Ballet; the first production he choreographed after his assumption of duties was Swan Lake. Since October 2019, he has been president of the school from which he graduated, the Greek National School of Dance.