Arianna Marcoulides
Arianna Marcoulides is a performer, dancer and choreographer based in Limassol. She has studied dance and choreography at SEAD in Austria and Contemporary Dance Education at HfMDK in Frankfurt am Main. She was selected as a Dance Web participant in 2011. She mostly worked and was active in Cyprus as a performer from 2006 – 2009 and took her first steps into choreography from 2009 onwards. In 2013 she co-founded Bytheway Productions with Eleana Alexandrou and Eva Korae.
In her most recent work, ‘T.C. (Take Care)’, she has been researching the art of handcraft and the process of making as a storytelling device and igniter of memory in both herself and the audience. A practice she has adopted in her research process is influenced by her longtime collaborator Eleana Alexandrou, which is using songwriting as a distillation of concepts and layering in her work. Creative writing also plays a role in her research, usually accompanied by improvisational movement tasks.
She has taken part, with her own work, at Xarkis Festival 2023, Dance Days Chania 2023, 1st Cyprus Choreographic Showcase 2019, the Cyprus Choreography Platform in 2022, 2015, 2011 and 2009. The Open House Festival 2019 with a work in progress and in 2018 and 2017, with a more complete version of her Moving the New residency work of the previous years.
She participated in the Moving the New residency programme in 2016 with ‘Another’s’ Shoes, in 2017 with ‘Nature of the Beast’ and in 2018 with ‘Juno’.
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