eleni vasilonikolou
bio
Eleni Vasilonikolou (b. 1996) is a choreographer and interdisciplinary artist-researcher based in Utrecht and Athens. With a dual background in dance/choreography (AKTINA Professional Dance School) and engineering (NTUA), she explores the ArtScience domain, focusing on the intersection of expanded choreography, embodied practices, and systems theory. Her artistic interests engage with themes of techno-ecologies, embodied cognition, and collective knowledge production. She is a recent alumnus (2025) of the Master's in Performance Practices at ArtEZ University of the Arts (Arnhem, Netherlands) with specialisation in choreography.
Her choreographic work has been presented in Greece (Athens), the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Arnhem), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (Belfast) [2019-2025]. For the last five years, she has actively collaborated with the University of Thessaly, facilitating Erasmus+ proposals as a choreographer alongside other artists focusing on cultural and performance projects.
Her current research, “Embodying Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Choreography,” investigates how playful, body-based engagement can foster interdisciplinary connections within the discourse of systems. Under this initiative, Eleni disseminates her research through workshops, performance lectures, and performances in Athens and abroad. Her upcoming project continues this line of inquiry by exploring how choreographic practice can embody and interrogate decentralized, networked, and emergent systemic logics shaping digital and physical realities. Rooted in post-internet aesthetics, the project proposes choreography not only as a metaphor for systems but also as a functional systemic structure, foregrounding the body as an active agent that bridges abstract digital flows with lived, embodied experience.
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artistic statement
I believe in choreography as more than movement – as a way of thinking, sensing, and organising life. I embrace complexity not as something to be reduced but as a condition to be explored. I seek transparency not as exposure, but as an ethics of openness, relation, and accountability. I honour temporality as the pulse of becoming, the ever-shifting ground that shapes bodies, systems, and meaning itself.
My practice is a commitment to making space for multiplicity, for bodies to become networks of inquiry and imagination. I choreograph to resist linearity, to question hierarchies, and to model ways of being that are co-creative, emergent, and alive to the systems we inhabit and embody. Through movement, research, and interdisciplinary experimentation, I aim to build temporary architectures of possibility – spaces where we can gather, think-feel, and reimagine the infrastructures of our shared realities.
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