Evie Demetriou

Evie is a dance maker and performer based in Cyprus.

Evie’s work reflects on topics related to  social justice and politics of care. Her work can be characterised by the desire to question the role of the person in society while challenging the boundaries of conventional dance.  Through a multidisciplinary approach of dance, theatre and performance art Evie’s Demetriou work poses questions on social stereotypes, womanhood, patriarchy, identity, gender and sexuality often from a feminist perspective with a playful approach.

Her main focus, to communicate her research with the audience, brings to her work humour, interactivity with the audience, and bold but different approaches to her work every time.

Her choreographic works are performed in various venues in Cyprus and are invited in international festivals and theatres in Italy, Latvia, Romania, Sweden, Germany, Kenya, Ireland, Turkey, Greece, Croatia, Lithuania, Spain, France, Iceland, South Korea, Morocco.

She has co-directed and performed in dance and underwater films that have been presented and awarded from many international festivals.

Evie studied dance at the Trinity Laban Centre Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and with scholarship at Limon Institute and Dance Space Centre in New York.  She recently finished her MA in Choreography, a joint masters degree from Codarts Univesity of the Arts, Rotterdam and Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Tilburg Holland.

As a performer she collaborated with Alain Buffard, Felix Ruckert, Rosemary Lee, Athina Vahla and with many Cyprus based choreographers.

She is a 2004 Danceweb scholarship recipient (Impulstanz Festival) and a scholarship recipient from the E-motional European Programme 2011-2014.  She was an invited artist for the European project “Act Your Age” , a European collaboration between Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Italy), Dutch Dance Festival (Holland) and Dance House Lemesos (Cyprus). She was selected to represent Cyprus in the Bienale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Bari, Italy.

Evie is a co-founder of En drasi, the umbrella that supports her choreographic work. She  has an active role in creating collaborations and exchanges with artists and organisations around the world.  She is also active in developing the art of performance/dance in Cyprus as one of the founding members of Dance House Lemesos.

En drasi

En drasi is the umbrella for the choreographic work of its founders Emily Papaloizou and Evie Demetriou. Established in 2004 En drasi is producing works for stage, site specific and videodance works. It has also an active role in education both with community programmes as well as a series of teaching programmes. It is supported by the Cultural Services of the Sub-Ministry of Culture and is one of the Founding Members of the Dance House Lemesos member of the EDN Network.

 

 

 

 

 

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