Xenia Aidonopoulou

Xenia Aidonopoulou is a dramaturg and director. She creates performances in the boundaries between theatre and dance, creating narratives that reflect the human experience and are expressed in the confluence of text and movement. She holds a PhD and she graduated from the School of Drama of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in Theatre Directing (Middlesex University of London). Since 2002, she has worked extensively for the National Theatre of Greece, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the Onassis Stegi, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, the Athens International Dance Festival and smaller art institutions. Since 2005, she has had an ongoing collaboration as a dramaturg with choreographer and director Konstantinos Rigos, the current artistic director of the Greek National Opera Ballet and Oktana Dance Theatre. In 2018, she moved to the UK and started working as a freelance dramaturg and director. She has collaborated with various choreographers and directors including Sivan Rubinstein, Georgia Tegou, Michalis Theophanous, Susan Kempster, Kate Flatt, Krishna Zivraj-Nair, Alexandros Efklidis, Simos Kakalas, Konstantinos Arvanitakis, Lenio Kaklea, Victor Arditti.