Konstantinos Papanikolaou

Konstantinos Papanikolaou holds a master’s degree in dance from the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. As a dancer and performer, he has collaborated internationally with Gerard & Kelly and Alexandra Bachzetsis, has taken part in Munich, Lyon, and Birmingham’s Biennales, and has also performed at various venues including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hellerau, Dresden; The Place, London; and Mercat des Flors, Barcelona. In Greece, he has worked with the choreographers Patricia Apergi, Jenny Argiriou, and Mariela Nestora, and has collaborated on theater plays with Argiris Pandazaras, Circe Karali, Eleni Efthimiou, and Eleftherios Veniadis, among others. His debut choreographic work, “The Diving Horse and Other Mythologies,” was presented at the Onassis Stegi’s New Choreographers Festival in 2021. Part of his project’s research and development, titled “A User’s Manual,” which was presented during the Onassis New Choreographers Festival (ONC9) in 2022, took place at TROIS C-L (Luxembourg) and Le Grand Studio (Brussels), in the framework of the annual support by the Grand Luxe network. This was followed in 2023 by his work, “The Correction,” with financial support from the Ministry of Culture and the MIRfestival, while his latest work, entitled “Sufficiently Creative,” was presented at the Athens Festival in co-production with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (2025). He has been awarded by ARTWORKS (2021) and is a Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program.

Konstantinos Papanikolaou is an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2025/26 through the Dramaturgy Fellowship.