Anastasio Koukoutas, Author at Springback Magazine

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Anastasio Koukoutas, Greece

Anastasios was born in Mytilene, Greece. He studied Communication and Marketing (BA) and Performing Arts Management (MA). From 2007 to 2015 he was co-editor for the publications of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival and currently he is a writer-contributor to many major theatres and institutions including Onassis Cultural Centre among others. He is a dance critic and theorist, writing critical essays on dance and reviewing performances for Greek dance portals (dancepress.gr and dancetheater.gr). As a writer, he has also been a member of Springback Academy (2015, 2016, 2018), a group of young critics from Europe formed under the aegis of Aerowaves. He teaches Dance History and works as dramaturgy consultant for performances in theatre and dance. As a performer, he has collaborated with Virgilio Sieni (Venice Biennale della Danza), Denis Savary (Athens Museum of Contemporary Art), Pierre Bal Blanc (Documenta14).

Media by Anastasio Koukoutas

Chara Kotsali and Christina Skoutela in borborygmi. © Karol Jarek

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Athens Epidaurus Festival: a selection of styles by Greek dance artists

‘Zoom In!’ EDN Atelier on Dance and Craft at DDRC, April 2019

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In defence of continuity: the Duncan Dance Research Center

Euripides Laskaridis, Lapis Lazuli. Photo © Elina Giounanli

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Euripides Laskaridis: Lapis Lazuli

Party scene from Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza, young woman stands on a bar with one arm raised, fist clenched. Around her partygoers are revelling, behind her a Martini sign.

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Dance+: La Grande Bellezza

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The splatter dance of Smac McCreanor

The final scene of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up

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Dance+: Blow-Up

dance scene in Jim Jarmusch’s Permanent Vacation

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Dance+: Permanent Vacation

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Visible and erased: the case of the ‘Alzheimer’s ballerina’

Young woman book covering face

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The leap into the abyss and the need to heal again

‘is it my world?’ in Rome 2020, by italian performance group kinkaleri

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kinkaleri: is it my world?

Beach dance in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

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Dance+: Moonrise Kingdom

Dancer in 'The Crater', a performance practice in Athens, 2020

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Being together apart: the hollowing of the post-quarantine public

Iro Vasalou, Becoming with Animal. Photo © Andreas Simopoulos

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New Choreographers Festival Athens

a kitchen tango lesson in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together

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Dance+: Happy Together

The three children begin their dance performance in Yorgos Lanthimos's 2009 Dogtooth

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Dance+: Dogtooth

Perfomers in Sofia Mavragani’s Afterwords, showing illuminated mouths

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Sofia Mavragani: Afterwords

Lenio Kaklea, holding mirror on stage in A Hand's Turn

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Caught in the act of seeing

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Dance+: Mauvais Sang

El Conde de Torrefiel in La Plaza. Photo © Els De Nil

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Towards the ‘ironic spectator’

Solo dancer Katerina Andreou in BSTRD

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Katerina Andreou: BSTRD

Christos Papadopoulos Opus

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Christos Papadopoulos’s Opus: in search of the dialectics of music and movement

Woman and man in dark green against dark background. Side by side, looking down.

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