Christiana Kosiari

Christiana Kosiari is a professional dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer born in Athens. She graduated from the Greek State School of Dance in 2012 and from the Athens University of Economics and Business in 2008. In 2021–22, she participated in the U(R)TOPIAS Choreography Academy in Elefsina, where she presented two works, “Bouboulina” and “Bouboulina's.” In the 2022–23 season, she was selected to continue her studies at the Academy for a second year and present "Bouboulines" as a site-specific work in July 2023.

As a choreographer, she presented her piece "Chained" at several festivals, including Arc for Dance Festival 15, Dance Laboratory Rhodes 7, Patras Art Festival 3, and Masdanza Dance Festival 28 in October 2023, where she won the second jury award. She also choreographed the video dances “Sink” and “Bouboulina,” which were presented at various festivals, such as Dance Days Chania, Athens Video Dance Project, Patras Art Festival, Moving Images Videodance Festival (Cyprus), Land Art Moving Biennial specializing in video-dance (Portugal), Zêzere CineDança Festival (Portugal), Emergentia (Switzerland), and Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions (UK).

As a dancer, she participated in Romeo Castellucci's “MA” and is currently touring with Siamese Dance Co's project “Lamenta.” She has been continuously attending seminars and teaching dance since 2007.