I am a choreographer and interdisciplinary performance artist based in Athens. 

I began my training in classical ballet at the Sara Jane Hayden School of Dance in Athens and intensive contemporary dance technique training with Stella Zanou [Choreographer of Smack Dance Company]. I then trained in Performing Arts [BA - De Montfort University], Contemporary Dance [BA - Roehampton University] and Choreography [MA - Dartington College of Arts] in the UK.

I have worked with Sofia Spiratou [Choreographer, Roes Dance Theatre Company] in Athens, CScape Dance Company [Cornwall, UK], Kathleen Bitteti’sMail Art Project [London Biennale 2010] and with Tariq Teguia (independent film director) for Zanj Revolution. 

I have performed my own work, Rock Steady [BIPOD Festival, Beirut], No Tabula Rasa [Delfon13 Arts Space], Rehearsals [Embros Theatre], Routes [Frown Tails Platform], Peace Process #20+ [Theatro  Anapoda Festival] and Routes & Roots project [PSi - Fluid States, Lebanon].

My work is thematically diverse, as I have a broad interest in movement. I explore different approaches to making performance and video work  - collaborating and engaging with artists from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. 

Recently, the core themes of my work explore notions of identity through various perspectives, which have developed into the i.d.Entity project: a theoretical and practical research on the potentials of experiential and objective knowledge as an entity,  to formulate more cohesive understandings of how identity is shaped, constructed and transformed. Originating from Palestine and Lebanon, the crux of my research stems from an auto-ethnographical frame of reference that spirals out into questioning the paradoxical issues of identity and placement in wider and multiple contexts. 

This has largely influenced my practical work, which explores processes of becoming in movement and performance, as my interests focus on developing methods that reveal understandings of cause and effect; the influential factors that inform and transform the ways in which we perceive and relate to certain issues; and the questioning of our individual and collective participation in the ‘realities’ that are created.

I also facilitate workshops for students, actors and more specifically for dancers to personalise their contemporary technique training through improvisation. My teaching methods primarily focus on improvisation for body awareness and exploration of movement stimuli in the creative development of compositions. I also engage with refugee communities and secondary school students through creating workshops that encourage their communication skills, creativity and self-expression.