Vitoria Kotsalou

Vitoria Kotsalou has studied psychology at the University of Reading in the UK and is a self-taught dancer and choreographer. She is a founding member of the non-profit initiative R.I.C.E. and the RSOD School of Dance on the island of Hydra. She is a close collaborator of the choreographer Michael Klien and an active member of the En Dynamei Ensemble since 2014. As a choreographer, she has composed the works “Day Out of Time,” “Mount,” and “Rite of Spring – A Map.” As a dancer, she has made some significant collaborations with Androniki Marathaki, Mariela Nestora, and Agni Papadeli Rossetou. She teaches dance to children, adults, and mixed-ability groups, and also works as a choreographer for theater performances. She explores dance as a form of intelligence, a mode of existence that characterizes all living beings and reaches the true nature of things. Inspired by the study of different practices, philosophies, and collaborations, her thinking extends to social choreography, through which she observes the world and at the same time devises works that convey the possibility of change or of expanding the way the world is perceived and operated.