Kyveli Kouvatsi

Kyveli Kouvatsi lives and works in Lefkada, where her practice continues to shift, learn, and take shape through daily life—between facilitating workshops and collective processes, co-shaping dance education and somatic movement programs, administrative and organizational work, cooking, and an ongoing wish to spend more time farming and touching the earth. Her practice centers on cultivating contexts through dance, inviting people to flourish through embodied experience. Since 2022, together with Yorgos Sioras Deligiannis, she has been developing Paleohori, an eco-art space in her home place of Neohori, Lefkada, dedicated to practices grounded in nature, community, and movement. Her practice is rooted in somatic movement and dance improvisation through the prism of experiential anatomy, influenced by practices of ecology, permaculture, and somatics. She understands embodied awareness as a slow, deep, and political process, unfolding through listening, sensing, and staying with what is present in the body, cultivating listening within and between bodies, as a practice that extends toward the world. The workshops she holds are approached as a watery, living bubble: a flexible and receptive space that adapts to those who enter it, inviting each person to shape and nurture their own practice rather than receive knowledge to wear. Through practices of attention, touch, improvisation, and reflective movement, participants are encouraged to trust the body’s innate capacity to move, shift, fall, recover, regulate, and express. Within this framework, there are no right answers or mistakes—only exploration through honest self-observation, active listening, and respectful relation with others and the environment. The work opens toward presence, fluidity, and embodiment, moving through play, renewal, and the simple joy of being. She is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance (2021) and is currently completing her studies at the School of Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.