Steriani Tsintziloni

Steriani Tsintziloni is a dance curator, researcher, and theorist. She has been the Dance Curator of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival (2016-19), and Associate for Programming and Research of the Kalamata International Dance Festival (1998-2015).

A graduate of the State School of Dance (Greece), as well as the Department of Education, University of Crete, she holds an MA in Dance Studies from the University of Surrey, supported by an Onassis Foundation scholarship, and a PhD from the University of Roehampton. For the current 2020-21 season, she is a Fellow at the Visiting Artist Program of the Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS).

She lectures on dance history and theory in professional and academic contexts (University of Athens, University of Patras, Greek State School of Dance, Professional Dance School of the Greek National Opera).

As dance theorist she collaborates with organizations such as the European Dancehouse Network, and the “Isadora and Raymond Duncan” Dance Research Center, and with many artists: Ioannis Mandafounis, Androniki Marathaki, Sofia Mavragani et al. She is a selection committee member of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Award 2020, and has also served as a member of the International Jury for the Italian national platform NID 2019; the National Committee for Dance Funding (National Center for Theatre & Dance 2008-10); and the editorial board for the Performance Studies International Manifesto Lexicon (2011-16). Her research has been published in national and international refereed journals.