Katerina Foti

Katerina Foti is a dance artist based in Athens. She researches gestural and pedestrian movement, inspired by daily routines and developing the material through a theatrical process and from a feminist point of view. She develops her dance practice working as a choreographer, a movement director, and a performer, having collaborated with the National Theater of Greece, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Stegi, and with many dance festivals across Europe.Her latest solo work “The Kitchen Dance: A House Trance Vocabulary,” created in the residency program “Academy of Choreography U(R)TOPIAS” of 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, was presented in its full version at the Theseum Theater in Athens, Greece (November 2023) and in short version as a site-specific performance at 2023 Eleusis (June–July 2023), whereas lately it launched its international tour, starting from the Istanbul Fringe Festival (September 13 and 18, 2024), as well as its Greek tour, starting from the Dimitria Festival located in Thessaloniki (October 1, 2024).During the same program, she also created the dance film “The Kitchen Dance: An Off-Beat Arrival,” which has already participated at “La Città dell'Utopia” International Film Festival in Rome, Italy (2024), at the Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival, where it won an honorable mention (February 2024), and at the sessions of the First-Time Filmmakers Showcase of the Lift-Off Global Network 2023.

Katerina Foti is an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2024/25 through the Dramaturgy Fellowship.