Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She studied at the Greek National School of Dance and the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at Ionian University. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between audiovisual media and movement, seeking to expand the choreographic field through hybrid methodologies.

She has collaborated as a performer with numerous choreographers and artists, including Iris Karayan, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Katerina Andreou, Lenio Kaklea, Alexandra Waierstall, Andonis Foniadakis, Patricia Apergi, Tzeni Argyriou, and Brendan Fernandes, among others. She has also worked on interdisciplinary projects across theater, film, and visual arts.

Ioanna’s own creations move between stage and screen, often blending sound, image, and movement. Her video project “All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap” (Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8) received awards for Best Sound Design (FIVideodanza, Mexico) and Best Video Art (MIFVIF, Venezuela). She co-directed the video dance “Battle of Fishes,” which was awarded the Best Cinematography (InShadow festival, Lisbon) and Special Recognition (London International Screen Dance Festival). She created the staged duet “MOS” at Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9. “MOS” had its European premiere as part of Julidans NEXT (NL).

Her 10-minute piece, “Coconut Effect,” received the Young Jury Prize at Danse Élargie 2022 and was later restaged with students of the Conservatoire de Paris. The group version premiered in September 2023 at Théâtre de la Ville.

She was an Aerowaves Twenty23 artist with “MOS” and a recipient of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2019–2020). Her most recent works include the solo “All of My Love” (Onassis Dance Days 2024), “Unseen Horses” (a collaboration with Dance Theatre Heidelberg), and “Telos,” co-created with Maria Hassabi, Hannes Langolf, and Ermira Goro. She continues to tour her pieces “MOS” and “All of My Love” and to collaborate as a dancer with other choreographers.

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2025/26 through the Dramaturgy Fellowship.