Eleonora Siarava
Choreographer, performer, artistic director
About
Eleonora Siarava is a choreographer working between Greece and Germany. She is the artistic director of Per_Dance Choreographic Research Platform.
She studied ‘Dance Μaking and Performance’ (MA-Distinction, Coventry University) and attended the MA Choreography and Performance-Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany under the direction of Bojana Kunst and MA/CoDE-Academy for Music and Performing Arts of Frankfurt (2016-2018, Erasmus+ Program & guest researcher). She holds a BA in Psychology. She has presented her work in Greece and internationally in various festivals and venues such as 11th and 13th Festival of Greek Choreographers, Make>Shift Festival, Megaron Concert Hall, Dance Days Chania/International Contemporary Dance Festival, stART- commission by Goethe Institut and Robert Bosch Stiftung et.al.
For her piece The Body and the Other~ premiered at Tanzhaus NRW, TEMPS D’IMAGES Festival (2020) was supported by »Transfer International« of NRW KULTURsekretariat-Germany, Ministry of Culture and Science of the of State of Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany, I-Portunus artistic mobility grant/Creative Europe and collaborated with MIREVI Mixed Reality and Visualization Institut (Media Department, Düsseldorf University) for the implementation of digital technology. The piece was also presented in a video exhibition at TANZ: DIGITAL by NEUSTART KULTUR Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, International Theatre Institute Germany, Bethanien Art Gallery (Berlin 2023).
In her work she is interested in abstraction in dance and her intention is to create enigmatic multilayered performances carrying various levels of interpretation though the experimentation with the relationship between aesthetic forms, imaginary and real spaces, overlapping temporalities, multisensory perception, hybridity, atmospheres.
Since 2020 is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Greece. She created the pieces Who knows where the time goes – potential destination #1 and BLUE BEYOND (National Theatre of N. Greece 2022 / TANZ: DIGITAL video exhibition by Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, International Theatre Institute Germany, Bethanien Art Gallery, Berlin 2023 / Frankfurt LAB-Emerging Artists Program 2023, Frankfurt 2023) and developed the choreographic research ‘UnderScore, Choreographic Objects and more’ (ZZT Köln/Center for Contemporary Dance/Cologne University of Music and Dance [RELAY- Erasmus+], 2023. Her site & time specific choreographic installation “Step-in” was presented at Megaron Concert Hall in the framework of Enclosures | Pass-throughs Project.
She worked as a performing artist for the project of Marina Abramović ‘A different way of hearing’ at Alte Oper Frankfurt (2019), was resident choreographer at SE.S.TA Centre for Choreographing Development for Interdisciplinary Incubator 2019 (Prague), Duncan Dance Research Centre for the project UnderScore (Athens 2022) and fellow of START by Robert Bosch Stiftung & Goethe Institut (Βerlin-Stralsund-Stuttgart).
She was part of “Moving Digits” Creative Europe project for Dance and Digital Technologies, Tanzhaus NRW & Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava Tallinn, 2018-2020 (https://movingdigits.eu/). She was selected as a choreographer for ‘Tools of Transformation’ Atelier of the European Dancehouses Network (HELLERAU, Dresden, 2022) and for ‘TANZ: DIGITAL – Process, Dynamics, Discourse’ for the artistic research in dance and digital technologies (NEUSTART KULTUR Dachverband Tanz Deutschland & International Theatre Institute Germany, Berlin 2023). She participated at Ruhrtriennale Festival in {Hello World} project of ArtEZ and attended the ‘Resources Lab of Motion Bank’/William Forsythe (Academy for Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt). Motion bank is an on-line platform about Documentation and On-line Digital Scores of Dance initiated by choreographer William Forsythe. Her video dance “co-topia on screen” was presented at Off Borders Festival/MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts, Wicklow Screendance Laboratory (Ireland), 1st International Screendance Festival Freiburg (Germany), 28th Quinzena de Dança de Almada –International Dance Festival-Video Dance Showcase at Goethe-Institut Lisbon in a special session for artists & productions from Germany including screening and project presentation (Portugal).
She has taught at Das Plateau-Frankfurt, Tanznetz | Freiburg – Professional Training/E-WERK, Professional Dance School of Thessaloniki, as a guest lecturer at the Theatre Studies Department of the University of Peloponnese, Centre for Dance Research/Coventry University et.al.
Eleonora Siarava has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS 2022-2023 in the field of Choreography.
In September 2024 she was resident choreographer of Motion Bank & ITI-International Theatre Institute Germany in Berlin supported by Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.