About

Xenia Koghilaki works in the field of performing arts as a dancer and choreographer. She holds an MA in “Solo/Dance/Authorship” (MA SODA), from Berlin University of the Arts (HZT-Berlin/Udk) and she has previously studied dance (National School of Dance) and architecture (Technical University of Patras) in Greece. She lives and works between Athens and Berlin.

Xenia puts the body in the center of her interest, exploring concepts of collectivity, embodiment and belonging in relation to dance and choreography, while her practice focuses on challenging the triptych: power – knowledge – body.

She has presented personal work in Uferstudios Berlin (“Bang Bang Bodies”), Berlin Gallery Weekend (Parken ist Bewegung Festival: “Go ‘head baby!”), Studio Alta (collaborative work:“Nudes and Conspiracies”), Arc For Dance Festival and K-Gold Temporary Gallery (“JunkDance”), Breaking Art Performances and Arc For Dance Prime Movers (“From public to hidden”), InProgress Feedback Festival (“Multiple Choice”), ONC#8 Onassis Cultural Centre (collaborative work “Besuch”). As a performer, she has worked together with Kat Válastur (“Diana Even” and “The FarNear”), André Uerba, Chto Delat, Porson’s Khashoggi, and Hellenic Dance Company, among others.

Her work has been supported by Dis-Tanz-Solo Des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Residenzförderung of Fonds Darstellende Kunste (in collaboration with HAU-Berlin), Goethe Institut Berlin and the Greek Ministry of Culture. She is a Danceweb scholarship holder of Impulstanz Vienna International dance festival (2021) and she has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.

PRESS:

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/theater/festival-sophiensaele-mateusz-szymanowka-programm-headbanging-und-lesbische-lust-die-tanztage-berlin-sind-zurueck-li.306081?fbclid=IwAR3Jq1VrWgmYdebwJDSxpNeB1YfVn1Zoz5dzs-lr2x3KnPbqZQWI1JfDuqo

https://tanzschreiber.de/en/centripetal-performance/?fbclid=IwAR27OndH9y6PB_xbNzdXxly4rQuHJ37Eak_vXDhOjl9I4XJfapFFTfW9ocs

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/mehr-entschleunigung-die-tanztage-berlin-dlf-kultur-23dfa264-100.html?fbclid=IwAR2WAVinNx39pptWsCcvFTV0dsRfRSJqyrhW4-zEsS0MZYpZQvYuqJdDCoc

https://www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitrag/2023/01/berlin-tanztage-sophiensaele-headbangen-lapdance-performance-mental-health.html?fbclid=IwAR1qiMB5SSCxn7BWEPLekb7mvPvzAgcQDFYyaJgX6RWVzUB-y-120TUGUxg

DRIVING FORCES

reciprocity, negotiation, relationships

different translations between questions

problems, irritations, choices

and their spatial-temporal reflection

shaping connections, linkages, and “assemblages”

creating sharable and traceable mechanisms

details matter

encountering.

inhabiting

sustaining

making

and unmaking