Natasha Handa-Martin

A body percussion artist and dance anthropologist primarily interested in combining socio-cultural research with performance and vice versa. She holds a BA in Sociology from Panteion University and an MA in Dance Anthropology and Ethnodanceology and was the first Greek graduate and fellow of Choreomundus: International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage from a consortium comprising the University of Technology and Science of Norway, University of Auvergne (France), University of Szeged (Hungary), and University of Roehampton (London). Over the past decade, she has taught and performed with and for vulnerable communities, including unaccompanied minors, the elderly, and people with disabilities. She has collaborated with dance and music festivals, international organisations and foundations, and has worked hard to make her workplaces intercultural and intergenerational. Fascinated by how people move to the beat and the kind of beat that makes them move, she is exploring new ways to communicate non-verbally and tell stories through sound and movement. Her artwork touches on cross-cultural coexistence, historical moments of oppression, the joy of finding your own music and the interplay between the geometry of space and time.