Androniki Marathaki

Androniki Marathaki is a choreographer, performer and dance teacher. With the support of the State Scholarship Foundation she started her artistic research in choreography and dance improvisation. Maintaining flexibility in what dance can mean and pushing the boundaries in dance facilitation and choreography, she is interested in the various ways humans perceive movement and in doing so shape cultural forms and social relationships in different contexts. So far she has presented her research on movement flows, kinetic landscapes, landscapes shaped through relationships, the regulatory mechanisms of the body and the sensory communication of self and communities (Love & Revolution, it's not about if you will love me tomorrow , holy purple, Let's be comfortable in our own skin). For the last three years, under the title "Let's be comfortable in our own skin" she has been developing a dance improvisation practice that cultivates the relationship between sensory stimuli and movement. Through a desire to continue moving without pain and maintaining the pleasure of dance, this dance practice informs her new research theme of the “pain-movement-pleasure” triangle. Her latest performance was presented at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2023 and was supported by NEON, the Ministry of Culture and Sports, Island Connection Residency Program and Unplugged Dance. This year she completed the research project "performing pleasure" supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sport, while her research and the group's research was also hosted by Cochlea Studia with the choreographer's workshop "On pain: sensitizing, decentralizing, transforming". This year she organizes and curates the nightscores, thus cultivating a network of international and Greek artists, contemporary and not, through the periodic visiting of scores with a group of people from different fields and disciplines. Part of her research was presented at TWIXTlab: art, anthropology & the everyday in collaboration with the Duncan Center for the Study of Dance and her lecture is part of the online archive for artistic research in Greece. https://www.andronikimarathaki.com/