PROFILE

Elena Antoniou is a dance and performance artist from Cyprus. She graduated with honours from the Greek National School of Dance and London Contemporary Dance School, where she was a member of the Edge dance company. She was awarded scholarships by the Koula Pratsika Foundation and the DanceWeb Programme at ImpulsTanz Vienna.

She has presented her work in Italy, Greece and Germany, and has collaborated with prominent organisations such as Onassis Stegi, the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), NEON Culture & Development Organisation, and the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.

Since 2021, she has worked as a performer with internationally acclaimed choreographer Maria Hassabi. Additionally, she has collaborated as a choreographer and movement director with theatre directors and companies in Greece and Cyprus. She was nominated for the Creator of the Year Award at the 2024 Cyprus Theatre Organisation (THOC) Awards and won the Choreography Award for the play Diary of a Madman. She has also been nominated for the same award for the play Beckettx5 by theatre group Solo for Three.

She focuses her artistic research on the physical and emotional limits and how sociopolitical factors impact her being as a human artist. Using her body and movement as tools, her aim is to identify the impact, study, elaborate and communicate it with the beholder, within a framework of an abstract dialogue. Body and movement exist in space as materials with different textures and dynamics, evoking in each given time the constant transition between the sound and the visual environment.