Thanasis Deligiannis

Thanasis Deligiannis is a Greek composer and theater maker based in Amsterdam.

Between 2017-2019 he was artist-in-residence at Gaudeamus, in the context of the program Nieuwe Makers by the Performing Arts Fund NL. In 2018 he was assistant to Heiner Goebbels at Manchester International Festival, while in 2017-2018 he worked at the Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch Company as a member of Dimitris Papaioannou’s creative team. Since 2018 Thanasis teaches at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He has worked as assistant artistic director for the Nieuw Ensemble between 2011-2014 and artistic coordinator of the Atlas Lab for intercultural music between 2011-2016.

In 2013 he co-founded the Amsterdam-based company I/O along with a team of artists of various backgrounds, focused on the creation of crossover performances.

The Amsterdam-based I/O company is a team of artists who create crossover performances with a focus on sound. Their work brings together new technologies and the interaction among different art disciplines. Among I/O’s interests are the exploration of hybrid artistic forms and the constant redefining of the dialogue between the audience and the artwork. Core members of I/O are Thanasis Deligiannis, Roelof Pothuis, David Jonas, George Dumitriu, Kaja Draksler, and Danai Belosinof.