Bio & CV
Roula is a dancer and performer, based between Stockholm Sweden and Crete Greece. Her work is focused on moving, as a way of coming together, with her own senses and with others. She explores dancing as an embodied exploration of the potentiality of being present, being affected, and affecting.
Roula’s first encounter with dance was at an early age through Cretan folk dances, which she continues to enjoy practicing at every social opportunity. Her education includes different contemporary dance techniques and somatic practices. She graduated from the bachelor program of dance performance at Stockholms University of the Arts in 2023.
As a performer, she has worked within different formats such as durational, site-specific as well as video performances, stage pieces, dance theater and dance theater for kids (mainly in group pieces) and she has performed in festivals such as MyWildFrag, All of Greece One Culture, International Art & Literature Festival by Kazantzakis Museum and Caravan next. She has worked with choreographers such as Przemek Kamiński, Yared T Cederlund, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Mia Habib, Liz Kinoshita, Apostolia Papadamaki, Anna Mesquita, Leandro Zappala, Konstantinos Tsakirelis. Between 2014 and 2020 she was a member of the Echtagi dance-theater collective, creating and performing live and video dance pieces for 4 years.
During the last 2 years, she is busy defining her own artistic research around topics of identity, the female body, restrictions vs desires, imagination and fiction. In her teaching practices, she is exploring techniques from partnering, floor work, folk dances.
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Complete Curriculum Vitae below
Education
Stockholm university of arts, Stockholm, Sweden
Dance Didactics in Contemporary times 2023 | 30 credits
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Stockholm university of arts, Stockholm, Sweden
BA Dance Performance, 2020 -2023 | 180 credits
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Stockholm university of arts, Stockholm, Sweden
Course in Performative strategies and collective learning, 2021|7.5 credits
Curated by Sandra Noeth & Farah Saleh |Stockholm University of arts
Programs and Residencies
Hot Bodies by ICC Burgas, Veliko Tarnovo, Sofia Bulgaria
Program for emerging choreographers |2024 -4 weeks
Björkö Konstnod, Björkö, Sweden
Program Magnitude - Where the forest meets the sea |2022 -6 weeks
https://bjorkokonstnod.se/magnitudeartists
Gula Villan, Stockholm, Sweden
Own artistic research: Grounded fragility- treeing practice | 2022 -1 week
Vitlycke performing art center, Tanumshede, Sweden
Own artistic research: Grounded fragility- treeing practice| 2022 -1 week
Own work and Collaborations
Better.| dance performance, Hot Bodies program by ICC, Burgas-Veliko Tarnovo-Sofia Bulgaria 2024
Beat by Beat| dance performance Weld Stockholm, 2024
Lost and Found |with Mira Jochimsen, Weld Stockholm 2024
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Art e Miss| BA Graduation work, mentoring by Shirley Harthey Ubilla SKH Stockholm, 2022
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Echtagi |10 Stops around China 'Dragon Dance', Kazantzakis Museum 4th International Art & Literature, Crete Greece,2019
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The dancer of Baku | Video installation, International Art & Literature Festival "Travelling... Russia" / Kazantzakis Museum Crete Greece, 2018
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Echtagi |Cabaret Revolte, A Night in the Underworld, Crete Greece, 2017-2018
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Echtagi |Aeschylus’ Eumenide, Greek tragedy performance, Crete Greece,2016
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Echtagi |Karagiozis and the Accursed Serpent, Dance Theater with puppetry, for children & adults, Crete Greece, 2015
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Echtagi |The Nelken Line,Video. Participation in the DANCE! project of the Pina Bausch Foundation, Crete Greece,2017
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Echtagi |Prometheus, Dance performance, Program «CARAVAN NEXT. Feed the future: Art moving cities», Crete Greece, 2016
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Echtagi |An Asch meal Video Participation in the 60seconds dance competition, Crete Greece,2016
Awarded by runner-up and audience awards in Norway and the audience award in Denmark
Performing in the work of others
Ellen Söderhult| How to do things with romance- a prologue, Bradjupa festival, Blekinge, 2024
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Anna Källblad | Calling we are here, Sala 2024
Przemek Kamiński | Weld extended project, Weld Stockholm, 2023
Yared T Cederlund | The time in between the peaks, Dansenshus Stockholm, 2023
Ofelia Jarl Ortega | Billy, Dansenshus Stockholm, 2023
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Mia Habib | LICA #3 Lund International Choreography Assembly, Lund, 2023
Mira Jochimsen | How to make room for moving?, BA Graduation work, SKH Stockholm, 2022
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Nelia Naumanen | They have lost all hope and behind hope they found new spaces, BA Graduation work, SKH Stockholm, 2022
Bigert & Bergström|Tipping Point, Performance/installation, Djurgården Stockholm Sweden, 2022
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Liz Kinoshita | Radical Empathy, Performance, SKH Stockholm 2022 (As part of my studies in SKH)
Myrto Delimichali | RAW – Materials for Distortion, Performance, SKH Stockholm 2022
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QUARTO Anna Mesquita, Leandro Zappala| COMMUNAL ROPE "as a promise of what is yet to come", Durational Performance, Stockholm city-Weld, MDT & Dansens Hus, 2021 (As part of my studies in SKH)
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Apostolia Papadamaki | All is One|Anamnesis |Remembering our ancient future, Site-specific Performance, festival ‘’All of Greece One Culture’’/ Archeological site of Zakros, Crete Greece, 2021
Ofelia Jarl Ortega | Scenario, performance, festival ‘’MyWildFrag’’ MDT Stockholm, 2020 (As part of my studies in SKH)​
Other work experience
Sikkinis Dance Center Heraklio, Greece
assistant rehearsal director for productions in dance and theater, 2024
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Afia Festival Stockholm, Sweden
Budget analyst & accountant 2022-2023
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Sikkinis Dance Center Heraklio, Greece
Trainee, assisting with ERASMUS+ “Cooperation Partnerships” project «RELAY – Thinking Artistic Material in Music and Dance»
and performances in the house 2023
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Teaching 2023-now
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