Kiriakos Hadjiioannou

Kiriakos Hadjiioannou graduated from the State School of Orchestral Art and holds a masters degree in choreography and performance from the Department of Theatrical Studies at the University of Giessen (Germany). A multidisciplinary artist, he divides his time between teaching, research, and choreography. His works combine elements from various artistic realms, transgressing monolithic, inflexible understandings of the art of dance, as in his triptych “Higher States”, which treats transcendent mental states and which was awarded the June Johnson Dance Prize (specifically for “Hyperion,” “Higher States” Part 2). Beyond his collaborations with educational institutions abroad (La Manufacture – Haute école des arts de la scène, Lausanne) and the important support he receives from the Swiss Arts Council ProHelvetia for his choreographic research, Hadjiioannou continues to experiment as a performance artist, both in his own works and in collaborations with visual artists, cinematographers, and other choreographers of international repute. He then incorporates these experiences and experimentations into his own writing, which at times tends toward cinematographic and artistic performance (“Or Who Owns the World”) and sometimes toward a kind of futuristic ritual, which aims to uncover repressed or unknown aspects of physicality.