Marianna Kavallieratos

Marianna Kavallieratos is a choreographer and dancer. She studied dance and choreography at The Place – London Contemporary Dance School and continued her studies at SUNY Purchase in New York with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation. In 1992, she began collaborating with director and visual artist Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center in New York, performing in productions such as
“T.S. Eliot”, “Une Femme Douce”, “Persephone”, “The Days Before: Death, Destruction and Detroit III”, “Wings on Rock”, “Prometheus”, “Relative Light”, “Alceste” (Christoph Willibald Gluck), “Odyssey”, and “Sonnets”.

Ιn collaboration with and supported by prominent institutions and organizations such as the Onassis Cultural Center, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Spoleto Festival, and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, her choreographic works have been presented worldwide, including “Ever After”, “Bastet”, “Τhey”, “Stations”, “Recalculate”, “Auto Run”, and “Moment”, as well as site-specific projects in Athens and New York. A life-changing collaboration in her career was “As One” by Marina Abramovic at the Benaki Museum, which was organized by the NEON organization for culture and development, during which she created the long-duration performance “Skin”.

She has also worked extensively in theater as a choreographer with directors such as Robert Wilson Lydia Koniordou, Stathis Livathinos, Giannis Kalavrianos, Euripides Laskaridis, Dimitra Tripani, and many others, as well as with the company HERMES. Alongside her artistic practice, she has taught contemporary dance and choreography at the Greek National School of Dance, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, The Watermill Center in New York, and various drama schools in Athens, and has led numerous dance and choreography workshops.

Her work is primarily human-focused, exploring the dynamics and individuality of her collaborators and enriching the power of the human being, whether alone or as part of a broader community.