YIANNIS TSIGKRIS

He graduated from the GNO Professional Dance School and completed his master studies in London Contemporary Dance School. He has cooperated in Greece with the choreographers Mariela Nestora, Lenio Kaklea, Iris Karayan, Persa Stamatopoulou, Vitoria Kotsalou and with Andonis Foniadakis, Konstantinos Rigos and Almalibre.co. He has worked with Michael Kliën in RICE (Hydra island), FLUX Laboratory (National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens) and with the visual artist Yannis Varelas. In the UK he has worked with Joe Moran at the Sadler’s Wells, Paolo Mangiola, Eleesha Drennan, Jenni Wren and has danced works by Merce Cunningham in Barbican Gallery. He participated in the 6th Festival of Young Choreographers of the Onassis Stegi and has collaborated with the GNO in opera and ballet productions. In 2022 he received the danceWEB scholarship for the international festival ImPulsTanz in Vienna. He has been awarded by ARTWORKS and participated in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Support Program in 2022.