Xenia Koghilaki

Xenia Koghilaki is active in the field of performing arts as a dancer and choreographer. She is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance and the Department of Architecture at the University of Patras. Since 2019, she has lived and worked in Berlin, where she completed her postgraduate studies at the MA Solo/Dance/Authorship (SODA) program of the Inter-University Center for Dance Berlin (HZT). Her choreographic practice engages with issues re-examining the moving body's aesthetic, political, and social aspects.

In January 2023, she participated in the Tanztage Berlin festival in Sophiensaele with her work “Bang Bang Bodies” which she later presented in Athens as part of the Onassis Dance Days in March 2023. Her work has also been presented at Studio ALTA in Prague (the collaborative piece “Nudes and Conspiracies”), the ONC8 Onassis New Choreographers Festival – ONC8 (the collaborative piece “Besuch”), the Arc for Dance Festival 11 and K-Gold Temporary Gallery (“JunkDance”), and elsewhere. As a dancer, she has worked with Kat Válastur (“Strong-Born,” “Diana, Even,” and “The FarNear”), André Uerba, the Chto Delat collective, the Porson’s Khashoggi company, and the Hellenic Dance Company, among others.

Her research work has been supported by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland’s (German Dance Association) DIS-TANZ-SOLO scholarship program, the Goethe-Institut Berlin, the Fonds Darstellende Künste (residency funding in collaboration with HAU-Berlin), and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. She was a danceWEB scholarship program participant at the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival in 2021 and was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.

Xenia Koghilaki is an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2023/24 within the framework of the Transmissions project, that is supported by the EEA Grants and the Norwegian Financial Mechanisms 2014-2021.