Choreographer and architect engineer, Kyriaki sculpts dance as a constantly transforming space. She composes vibrating ephemeral universes made of movement, transformative spatial installations, digital interactive media, materials and objects. Wishing to share a space of co-existence, her work incorporates the audience’s engagement as one of the materials which is often composed together with the performative elements, proposing each time a new intermedia universe that seeks to be discovered.

Turning the spotlight to us humans, her work pivots on our relationship with the natural or man-made environment and our bond with others, looking for explanations on how we obtain our multifaceted human identity and appreciate our fluid nature. She’s curious to address experiential quests through research and translation of phenomena and processes indicated by physics, architecture, phycology, mechanics and crafts, a fact which inevitably makes her work and creative team to be interdisciplinary.

Each choreographic work proposes a unique poetic universe where she wishes to narrate the function of the cosmos through an ensemble of bodies, materials and creative mediums by studying all the possible ways of their relation and interaction.  Her creative process is a lab where the body is in the centre and her collaborators perform as researchers who discover the variety of its textures, dimensions and meanings.

Choreographing as an architect, her work is an invitation to live together a bodily experience, to inhabit a space where all the mediums perform as bodies in movement, to immerse to a visual environment in levitation.

In 2024 she presented 4 + ENA, a function of dance and science at Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, which was initiated during Experiment A interdisciplinary residency at Flux Laboratory Athens. Focusing on testimonies, stories and bonds between people, she staged the intermedia dance performance “LOOM”, an interpretation of the art of weaving produced by the Athens Concert Hall in 2022. In 2021, she created the Augemented Reality Application DANCEWALK, a digital work for Athens’ archaeological sites and the architecture and dance research project ARCHIDANCE. Her work is taking place under the auspices and the financial support f Greek Ministry of Culture.

Her work has been hosted in Europe with support from institutions such as the Whitechapel Gallery, Watermans Arts Centre, Michaelis Theatre Roehampton University, UK Young Artists National Festival, Architectural Association, Αrchitecture Centre Vienna ΜQ, 4th Biennial of Interior Design Krakow, 1st Larnaca Biennial, Medientheater ZKM Karslruhe, Athens Video Dance Project, Central Saint Martins London, Brighton University, TU Berlin.

As a dancer she has collaborated with Sasha Waltz and Guests, among others.

She has been trained in dance at Greek National School of Dance (KSOT) and in architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (MSc) and TU Berlin, supported by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKKY).  Combining both disciplines, she completed the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Spatial Performance and Design (distinction), with a double Architectural Association Bursary as an exceptional candidate. She currently work for the programme as a Studio Master, while teaching her practice.

She has taught architecture, choreography and interdisciplinary composition at various universities in the UK. Based in Athens, she also works as a set designer, costume designer and production manager. She has received the i-portunus fund of the Creative Europe program and the One Dance UK Observership Award 2017. In 2022 she attended the workshop Capital Connections, held by Eleusis 2023 | European Capital of Culture.

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kyriaki@nasioulas.gr