Katerina Foti

Katerina Foti is a dance artist based in Athens and a postgraduate student in the MA program “Greek and World Theater: Dramaturgy—Performance—Education” at the Department of Theater Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She researches movement based on human gestures, inspired by daily routines, and develops the material through a theatrical process and from a feminist point of view. She develops her dance practice working as a choreographer, movement director, and performer, having collaborated with the National Theatre of Greece, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Stegi, and many dance festivals across Europe.

Her latest solo work, “The Kitchen Dance: A House Trance Vocabulary,” was presented at the Theseum Theater in Athens (November 2023), as part of the 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, where it was originally developed in the context of the residency program “Academy of Choreography U(R)TOPIAS” (June–July 2023), at the Istanbul Fringe Festival (September 2024), at the Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki (October 2024), at “A Festival in Samothraki” (June 2025), at the Kalamata Dance Festival (July 2025), and at ION On Move 2025 (November 2025).

During the “U(R)TOPIAS” program, she also created the dance film “The Kitchen Dance: An Off-Beat Arrival,” which has screened in international festivals.

Katerina Foti was an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2024–25 through the Dramaturgy Fellowship.