Androniki Marathaki

Born in Athens, Androniki Marathaki studied Conservation of Arts and Antiquities, as well as Dance, in Greece. After receiving a grant from the National State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (IKY), she continued her studies abroad in MA level and since then evolved her own practice as research in choreography and dance making. In her work, she cultivates a necessity for a continuous update in the relation of dance, social mechanisms and perceptual potentialities, questioning even her own personal identity as dancer, dance maker and dance teacher.

Over the last years, she focuses on dance making and has received funding from various organizations to present the fourfold performances of the thematic “Love & Revolution” – “Anomaly of the least” (J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, 2016), "Proseuxes/Praires" (2017), A masturdating (Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, 2018), “Hi Jack.Hijack!” (5th Young Choreographers Festival/ Onassis Cultural Center, 2018)–

and the twofold performances of the thematic “it's not about if you will love me tomorrow” – “it's not about if you will love me tomorrow_Part 1” (Greek Ministry of Culture, 2019), “it's not about if you will love me tomorrow_Part 2” (Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2019).

Engaged in research themes for long periods of time, she collaborates with the artists Lambros Pigounis, Nysos Vasilopoulos, Filippos Vasileiou, Vitoria Kotsalou, as well as with a standard group of performers. Her recent performances elaborate through movement-scapes and flows of movement in an effort to allow the indications of humanity and nature to appear, while she uses triviality and fractals as expanding symmetries of Dance and Life.

Informed by the above, she establishes her personal practice for dance improvisation, collaborates with the theater director Konstantinos Ntellas and holds workshops for children, adults and mixed groups of professional and non-professional dancers. As an educator for the program “Dancing to Connect,” she is a close associate of Onassis Cultural Center.

Motto: “Dance is not a medium to express something. Dance can be present or not present.”