GUEST MENTORS | YEAR 4 | U(R)TOPIAS ACADEMY OF CHOREOGRAPHY
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GUEST MENTORS | YEAR 4 | U(R)TOPIAS ACADEMY OF CHOREOGRAPHY -
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Roberto Fratini Serafide
Roberto Fratini Serafide is a dramaturg and dance theorician. He's professor of Dance Theory and Dramaturgy for the CSD (Institut del Teatre, Barcelona), and active as a dramaturg for different international companies in the field of contemporay dance and participatory theatre (Caterina Sagna, Roger Bernat, Philippe Saire, La Veronal/Marcos Morau, Sol Picó, …
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Volmir Cordeiro
Born in Brazil in 1987, Volmir Cordeiro first studied theatre and worked with the Brazilian choreographers Alejandro Ahmed, Cristina Moura and Lia Rodrigues. In 2012 he completed an experimental dance training at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers and in the following years created his first work cycle consisting of the three solo pieces Ciel, Inês and Rue. As a performer, he was involved in projects by Xavier Le Roy, Emmanuelle Huynh, Latifa Lâabissi, Robyn Orlyn among others.
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Paraskevi Tektonidou
Paraskevi Tektonidou (PhD) is a dramaturg, dance researcher, critic, curator, and educator. She has a bachelor's and an integrated master's degree from the Department of Music Studies of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and a master in "Dramaturgy and Performance Studies" of the Department of Theatre of the School of Fine Arts of AUTH. …
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Panos Gkiokas
Panos Giokas was born in 1984 and grew up in Eleusis. He graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2007, continued his postgraduate studies in Marketing (University of Leicester) and Cultural Facilities Management (Hellenic Open University), while in 2017 he received a scholarship from the Hellenic Initiative to participate in the StartMIT program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2014, he started MENTOR, ….
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Nondas Damopoulos
Nontas Damopoulos was born in Athens in 1986. From childhood he was involved in a number of individual and team sports and in athletics (400m hurdles) he competed at championship level. Movement in all its manifestations, from sports to dance, is his main field of interest and creative expression, with which he continues to be actively involved. …
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Nikos Vlasopoulos
Description goes hereNikos Vlasopoulos was born in Athens in 1971. He studied cinema with specialization in directing photography. From 1995-2005 he has worked in several productions in television and cinema. Since 2000 he has been working as a lighting designer for theatre, music, opera and dance performances and has collaborated with the most remarkable and interesting artists, directors and choreographers in Greece. …
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Mario Banushi
Mario Banushi was born in 1998 and lived in Albania until the age of six, before moving permanently to Greece. He studied acting at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory, from which he graduated in 2020. The same year, he made his first short film Pranvera, with which he participated in the 2021 Tirana International Film Festival. His first work as a stage director was the performance Ragada, …
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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, …
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Jonathan Burrows
Jonathan Burrows is a choreographer whose main focus is an ongoing body of pieces with the composer Matteo Fargion, with whom he continues to perform around the world. He is the author of A Choreographer's Handbook (Routledge 2010) and Writing Dance (Varamo 2022) and is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University.
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Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance and is currently studying at the Department of Audiovisual Arts (Ionian University). ….
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Hazem Header
Hazem Header is an Egyptian contemporary dancer and choreographer. In 2021, he founded the Breaking Walls Dance Film Festival, Egypt’s and the region’s first dance film festival. Prior to that in 2017, Hazem launched the Breaking Walls Festival, Cairo’s first international festival for site-specific performances.
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Gintare Masteikaite
Gintarė Masteikaitė is a passionate cultural leader and producer in the performing arts. Since 2017, she has served as the director of the Lithuanian Dance Information Centre and the artistic director of the "New Baltic Dance" festival. In 2019, Gintarė founded the "ConTempo" international performing arts festival, showcasing her vision for innovative cultural programming. …
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Georgina Kakoudaki
Georgina Kakoudaki is a director and theatrologist. Her 25-year professional career in theatre and education reflects the breadth of her experience and expertise. She holds a Master's degree in theatre from the Department of Theatre Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and has authored, participated in and edited publications on directing, cinema and film aesthetics and experiential and theatre education from well-known publishing houses and artistic organizations such as the National Theatre and the Institute of Educational Policy.
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Galateia Kapellakou
Galatea Kapellakou studied at the Athens School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and received a postgraduate degree from the University of Nantes Law School in Intellectual Property Law and from the Athens School of Law (Nantes University of Athens) in International Studies. She completed her doctoral thesis on: "The property rights of the author in the digital environment - A comparative study in Greece and France", at the University of Athens Law School and the University of Nantes (co-supervision procedure).
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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, …
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Caterina Politi
Caterina Politi, is a Berlin-based freelance artist, costume designer, and performer, born in Italy in 1994. She trained at the Balletto di Toscana in Florence. In 2013, she joined the choreographic research group “Antitesi,” led by Arianna Benedetti, and in 2015 became a member of “Junior Balletto di Toscana.” In 2016, she attended professional courses at the D.A.F Dance Arts Faculty in Rome and later joined “Spellbound Contemporary Ballet” (IT) under the direction of Mauro Astolfi and Valentina Marini.
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Anna Tzakou
Anna Tzakou is a theatre deviser, performer and practice-based researcher. She studied contemporary performance in the United States (Naropa University, Boulder, CO). She holds a PhD in Performance Practice entitled: Geopoetics, a mindfulness (sati) site-specific performance practice, from the University of Exeter (UK), where she integrates principles of Buddhism and Geography with American and European methods of post-modern artistic lineages to create a body-landscape performance practice methodology.