Katerina Andreou

Katerina Andreou, born in Athens and based in France, is a choreographer and performer. A law graduate, she trained at the National School of Dance in Athens and holds a Master’s degree in choreographic research from Université Paris-VIII. She has worked as a performer with DD Dorvillier, Anne Lise Le Gac, Lenio Kaklea, Bryan Campbell, Dinis Machado, Emmanuelle Huynh, and Ana Rita Teodoro, among others. Her practice develops a specific physicality for each project and seeks states of presence arising from a constant negotiation between tasks, fictions, and contrasting universes, often questioning notions of authority and censorship. The sound environment of her pieces, which she creates herself, forms a central dramaturgical material in her work. Her solo A Kind of Fierce, awarded the Jardin d’Europe Prize at ImPulsTanz in 2016, was followed by BSTRD (2018), Zeppelin Bend (2021) with Natali Mandila, Rave to Lament (2021), and more recently Mourn Baby Mourn (2022), presented in Paris at the Festival d’Automne, where she presented the following year her first group piece Bless This Mess (2024). She is an associate artist at the Centre chorégraphique national de Caen in Normandy and at the Master Exerce programme of the CCN of Montpellier.