© Michalis Athenidis

I live and work in Athens, Greece.
I am a mother of one daughter.
I am a theatre maker, landscape performance artist and practice – based researcher.
I am fascinated by moments when reality is revealed as a poetic dream of presence, a vast, cosmic reservoir of deep-time experience.

I create embodied, spatial and non-linear dramaturgies as contemplative containers.
I work with a process-based artistic practice grounded in deep listening, kinesthetic delight, mindfulness, awareness and togetherness.
My creative practice focuses on embodiment, instant improvisation and  performance writing drawing tools from Dharma Art, BMC®, Grotowski-based actor training, Barbara Dilley’s Contemplative Dance Practice, the Six Viewpoints, Moment Work and Anna Halprin’s movement in the natural environment.

Since 2012, I have been developing with Geopoetics site-based, site-specific, landscape and walking performances.
I understand landscape as an event of interrelationship — a field of interconnectedness between human and more-than-human elements.
I have been looking at Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the idea of indigeneity, working toward feminist, post-colonial performance frameworks that challenge neoliberal, colonized modes of understanding a place.

I have worked in theatrical productions and performances both as an independent creator and as a collaborator within major cultural institutions such as Onassis Stegi, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Greek National Opera, Athens Biennale and Pafos European Capital of Culture.
My research has been published in the USA, UK, and Greece.

I have studied Contemporary Performance (MFA) at Naropa University in Colorado and Acting (BFA) at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
I hold a PhD in Performance Practice entitled: Geopoetics, a mindfulness (sati) site-specific performance practice, from the University Of Exeter (2017).
Ι have been honored with the Fulbright and Onassis scholarships.
Since 2013, I have been teaching acting, directing, and contemporary performance practices across academic, artistic, and community-based contexts in Greece and Europe.

For a full CV please send a request at info@annatzakou-geopoetics.com.