Katerina Andreou

Katerina Andreou, born in Athens, is based in France and makes dances, music and choreography. 
She graduated both from the Law School- University of Athens, and the State School of Dance in Athens. As a scholar of the greek foundation “K.Pratsika”, she attended the program ESSAIS in CNDC d’ Angers in 2011, under the direction of Emmanuelle Huyhn, and holds today a master degree of Paris 8 on research and choreography.

She participated in the project TRANSFABRIK France-Allemagne, a research on curating and programming between France and Germany, directed by Franz Anton Cramer and Yvanne Chapuis . She was member of the collective Emanticipation, a project initiated by Emmanuelle Huynh et François Quintin, and she participated in the event with other invited artists at the Lafayette Anticipation Foundation in Paris (2014). She had the Danceweb scholarship to attend Impulstanz Festival in Vienna in 2015. 
She collaborated among others with DD Dorvillier, Anne-Lise Le Gac. Emmanuelle Huynh, Lenio Kaklea, Bryan Campbell, Ana Rita Teodoro, Dinis Machado, Jocely Cottencin, Iris Karayan.

In her own work, she is interested in exploring states of presence sorting out from a constant negotiation between contrasted tasks and universes, often questioning the paradigm authority vs autonomy and seeking an illusion of free will on stage. 
She oftens designs the sound of her own performances and considers sound and music as a performative and dramaturgical tool.

She was awarded with the price Prix Jardin d’Europe, in ImpulsTanz Festival in 2016, for her solo piece A kind of fierce. For her following solo BSTRD, created in 2018 and still on tour today, she has been nominated among the Aerowaves Twenty19 artists.

More recently she has created the duet Zeppelin Bend with Natali Mandila, a project that started as a Live Works project in Centrale Fies in Italy in 2019 and finished in 2021, during the COVID pandemic season …. Its online premiere took place in Pompidou Center in February 2021.

In the summer of 2021 she responded to an invitation for a project intiated by MIR Festival in Athens, and created the performance in situ Rave to Lament,  presented in its outdoor version with a tuned car in Athens, and in an underground parking lot version in FAR Festival in Nyon.

With a high interest in pedagogy in arts, she shares her practices and tools in different schools, such as Ecole Superieur des Beaux Arts de Paris, Ecole Superieur d’Architecture de Nantes, Fontys Academy in Tilburg, and she recently created upon invitation NEVADA, a group piece for 13 students of the Conservatoire de Danse et Musique in Lyon, which premiered in June 2021.

She is associated artist in CCN de Caen for the years 2022-2025 and in the Master Program EXERCE in CCN de Montpellier where she takes part in the design and developement of the pedagogical program.

She is a Panorama Artist of the network DNA – Departures and Arrivals.