Valasia Simeon

Valasia Simeon is a dance artist, choreographer, and movement educator for people with and without disabilities, who lives and works in Thessaloniki, Greece.

She is a graduate of the National School of Dance (2009) and the School of Mechanical Engineering of the Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia (2005). In 2009, as a scholar of the “Koula Pratsika‘’ foundation, she attended the postgraduate program “Home of Performance Practices” at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands, with a major in choreography, where she researched the relationship between the object and the body and the latter’s potential transformations, with an emphasis on space design.

Approaching movement as design and design as movement, she is inspired by the invisible movements inherent in things we usually perceive as static (e.g., objects, architecture, materials, sculpture) and creates dance theater performances that incorporate elements from both performing and visual practices.

In 2009, she created the work “Daidalus,” a choreographical study on space, which was presented at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.
In 2011, in collaboration with Dansatelier in Rotterdam, she choreographed the project “These Little Nothings,” with which she participated in the Punch Festival of rising choreographers in Amsterdam. Other works of hers have been presented at the Greek Choreographers Festival in Athens, as well as in other European cities.

In recent years, due to a health problem, she has been experiencing mobility problems. As such, she researches mobility capacities within disability, developing a series of sensory practices that aim to articulate and unfold her personal experience with disability.

In the framework of this research, she curates, devises, and supervises mobility workshops for people with or without disabilities all around Greece, to promote the idea of integration and collaboration between all identities.