Eleana Alexandrou obtained the DasArts Master of Theatre from the Amsterdam School of Arts in 2016. In 2009, she completed her BA in Dance and Choreography at Bath Spa University, UK. She is a 2013 DanceWEB scholar. Since April 2023, she is the Artistic Director of Lemesos 2030 European Capital of Culture - Candidate City where she designs and leads the bidding process and bid book composition for Lemesos. She works as a performer since 2004, performance maker since 2011, writer since 2015. She is the co- founder of bytheway productions (2014), an interdisciplinary and applied arts non-profit company. Her work was presented at the Cyprus International Contemporary Dance Festival, the Open House Festival, the Cyprus Choreography Platform, the NicosiaPoPUp Festival, the Come Together Festival in Amsterdam, at Dance Days Chania, the Athens Festival, the Operaestate B-Motion Festival of Bassano del Grappa, Italy. Her performance work ‘In a nutshell’ (2015) was a finalist at the Arte Laguna Prize 16.17 and was presented at the Venice Arsenale. Close collaborator of .pelma.Lia Haraki, Center of Performing Arts MITOS and Dance House Lemesos. Between 2017 and 2023, she was the president of Nea Kinisi, the representative organisation for dance companies, dancers and choreographers of Cyprus. In 2018 she was a resident artist in the Moving the New programme of Dance House Lemesos, starting a research project (RE.move) on the position of dance in her work as a research and performance medium. A first public presentation was made in October 2018 at the Open House Festival.