ANGELOS PAPADOPOULOS
Angelos Papadopoulos (he/him, they/them) is a choreographer, director and performer.
Angelos’ choreographic and other related digital and performance work look to create impactful experiences for the audience where the body is foregrounded as a key site of social, political, and aesthetic ideas. The term body includes the conscious and emotional aspect of it. Influenced by the cultural milieu of Athens, his work explore intricate layers of self-hood in the context of cultural background, intimacy, sexuality, and personal displacement. By utilizing dance, texts, along with elements of performance and digital material, personal narrative and storytelling, his practice aims to observe and scrutinize each different project he is engaged with.
His works, in the form of live performance or short film or installation, have been presented at cultural institutions and platforms such as Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, Tanzahoi International Dance & Dance Film Festival (Audience Award) and Act International Festival (Guggenheim Museum Βilbao, Residency Award).
They studied Economics at the Athens University of Economics & Business, Dance at the State School of Dance and the Greek National Opera Dance School. In September 2022, he graduated with honors from MRes Choreography & Performance, University of Roehampton (London), where they were awarded an alumni referral scholarship. Additionally, he was awarded Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artworks Fellowship (2020-21) and Stegi Onassis Cultural Center Fellowship to attend ‘Camping Festival’ at the Centre National De La Danse (Paris, 2021).