Ariadne Mikou

Ariadne  Mikou is an independent artist-researcher of Greek origin and dance  specialist currently residing in Italy. She is interested in  experimental practices through dance, architecture, visual arts and  media. She has presented her work in various venues and contexts such as  the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2015 at PQ Show  & Tell (CZ); Schiume Festival of Performing Arts (IT); Danse  indisciplinée Symposium (NZ); Festival international de vidéodanse de  Bourgogne (FR); Light Moves Screendance Symposium (IRL); IDACO NYC  (USA).

As  a performer, she has collaborated with Abigail Yager (Trisha Brown  Dance Company), Bojana Cvejic and Christina De Smedt, Virgilio Sieni,  Ismael Ivo, Laura Boato, among others. She is co-founder of  futuremellon/NOT YET ART, and currently co-curator of [SET. me free]  Dance & Movement on Screen, an emerging projection platform.As an  educator and movement specialist, she has collaborated with prestigious  institutions including La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, IUAV  University in Italy. Her articles and reviews on experimental and  interdisciplinary choreographic practices have been published in several  international journals and book anthologies with Culture Vulture, an  internet arts journalism site, and the world theater portal The Theatre  Times as editor for dance in Italy and Greece.

In  2018, she obtained her PhD in Interdisciplinary Choreography fully  funded by the Research Centre of the University of Roehampton (UK). She  holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Ohio State University (USA),  supported by the National Scholarship Foundation of Greece  (IKY/Erasmus/Erasmus+) and a position as a Higher Education Assistant.  She also holds a Diploma (attached to the Bachelor and Master degrees)  from the School of Architecture of the Aristotle University of  Thessaloniki (GR).

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