PARTICIPANTS | YEAR 1 | U(R)TOPIAS ACADEMY OF CHOREOGRAPHY

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PARTICIPANTS | YEAR 1 | U(R)TOPIAS ACADEMY OF CHOREOGRAPHY -

  • Aggelos 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. …

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  • Antonia Pitoulidou

    Antonia Pitoulidou (b. 1991, Thessaloniki) is a graduate of the Professional School of Dance Kafantari and TEFAA Thessaloniki. She has experimented with a variaty of dance styles from a variety of cultures with an interest in street culture combined with contemporary dance. Antonia has actively participated in street dance battles, both as a performer and …

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  • Antonis Vais

    Adonis Vais was born in Athens, Greece in 1984. His passion for music moved him since childhood. First time he attended a dance class was at the age of 17. In 2006 he got admitted at the Greek State School of Dance where he graduated in 2009, awarded with the Koula Pratsika Foundation Scholarship. During his studies he danced for the Hellenic …

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  • Dimitris Baltas

    Dimitris Baltas is a digital artist, performer & lighting designer. He has studied contemporary dance in various studios in Athens and London. He has also participated in workshops and seminars on acting. In 2014 he started training on aerial acrobatics. In 2023 he presented the interactive mixed reality dance performance Gerridae, at Akropoditi Dance and …

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  • Elina Demirtzioglou

    Elina Demirtzioglou was born in 1997 in Istanbul and graduated from the National School of Dance. She has collaborated as a dancer with various artists, including Christos Papadopoulos, Ioannis Mantafounis, Markella Manoliadi, Candela Capitan, Katerina Foti, among others, participating in performances in Greece and abroad. Additionally, she has …

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  • Katerina Delakoura

    Katerina Delakoura is a dancer, choreographer, and dance educator. She studied dance and choreography at HZT Berlin and P.A.R.T.S Bruxelles, and physics/astrophysics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She works both as a solo artist and in collaborative constellations with other artists such as Magdelena Meindl, Iro Grigoriadi, Aabshaar Wakhloo …

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  • Mairi Giannoula

    Mairi Giannoula was born in 1999 and she’s an honors graduate of Greek National School of Dance. She has attended workshops with distinguished dance and performing artists such as Christian Rizzo, Moriah Evans, Jone San Martin, Flora Detraz, Erez Zohar, Fernando Suels Mendoza, Euripides Laskaridis, Linda Kapetanea, Jon Bond, Luca-Andrea Lino …

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  • Nefeli Theodotou

    Nefeli is 25 years old and she was born in Athens. She started dancing when she was 5 years old and she has been trained in Ballet, Latin, Oriental, Hip – Hop , Bollywood and Commercial. In 2016 she participated in the Greek TV show ‘’So You Think You Can Dance’’ and she finished in the 2nd place. Her professional career as a dancer started …

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  • Rafaela Tsobanoudi

    Rafaela Tsobanoudi was born in Serres, Greece in 1997. She graduated with honours from the drama school of National Theater of Northern Greece (2020) and the department of Music Science and Art of the University of Macedonia (2022, specialisation: violoncello and contemporary music/teaching methods). She works as an actress, musician and …

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  • Sabina-Andrea Allen

    Sabina Andrea Allen holds dual nationality from Thessaloniki, GR and Detroit, USA. Initially, she studied Theater at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR. However, she later transferred her studies and graduated from Deree, The American College of Athens, Greece, earning a BA Hons in Contemporary Dance Practice, 2021 with a full-year merit scholarship…

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  • Savvina Xhaferaj

    Savvina Xhaferaj is a dance artist. She was born in Athens to Albanian parents. She studied dance at National School of Dance where she graduated from in 2023. During her studies, she attended seminar courses with: Nicole Ishimaru (Netherlands Dance Theater), Adi Zlatin (Batsheva Dance Company), Fernando Suels (Tanztheatre Wuppertal), Linda Kapetanea…

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  • Stella Spyrou

    Stella Ariadne Spyrou was born in Pau, France in 1984. She is a choreographer and an African diaspora dance instructor. She has a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics of the University of Patras (2009) and a BA diploma in Contemporary Dance Practice Department of the American College of …

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