Ariadne Mikou, Author at Springback Magazine

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Ariadne Mikou, Italy

With a background as a performer and an architect, Ariadne Mikou (PhD, University of Roehampton London) is a Greek-born dance artist-researcher and independent dance and screendance curator based in Italy. In parallel to her creative practice, she collaborates with artists and festivals for documentation and educational processes and with academic institutions for research projects such as Dancing Museums-The Democracy of Beings and Memory in Motion: Re-Membering Dance History. She publishes interviews and dance reviews, contributes to academic journals and book anthologies that explore dance, digital performance, expanded choreographic practices and site interventions and she is also an Editor for the international portal The Theatre Times. Currently, she conducts research on dance archives as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice for the project CHANGES - Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society.

Media by Ariadne Mikou

Danse Macabre! by Jacopo Jenna. © Roberto De Biasio

review, article

‘Get Back to Dance’ – necessity or nostalgia?

Terminal Beach by Moritz Ostruschnjak. © Franzisca Strauss.

review

‘For a New Beauty’: Gender Bender festival 2024

Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon in Mycelium by Christos Papadopoulos. © Agathe Poupeney

review

Highlights from Roma Europa Festival 2024

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou in All of my love. Photo © Ceccon

review, article

Three choreographers from Onassis Stegi at B.Motion 2024

Ilenia Romano in Suspended Time. Photo © Thierry De Mey

article

Catching dreams suspended in time

Manon Santkin in RUSH by Mette Ingvartsen. Photo © Bea Borgers

review

Mette Ingvartsen: RUSH

Cosmorama by Nicola Galli with Giulio Petrucci at LAC Cultural Center. Photo © Studio Pagi

review, article

Building on dance & architecture: Lugano Dance Project 2024

Joy Enjoy Joy by WArd/waRD-Ann Van den Broek. Photo© Rio Staelens

review, article

Equilibrio Festival 2024, Rome

Loredana Canditone in Trespass. Tales of the Unexpected. Standing alone with crossed hands, she faces the darkness with her back to us. Her blouse with golden and dark blue sequins shines like the wings of a butterfly and her black hair is almost assimilated with the dark background. Photo © Carolina Farina

article

Trespass to access: opening up for visual impairment

Stuporosa by Francesco Marilungo. Photo © Claudia Pajewski

review, article

Short Theatre 2023: Ante-mortem and posthumous choreographies

Première by Andrea Costanzo Martini with Balletto di Roma. Photo © NID Platform

review, article

NID – New Italian Dance Platform 2023

Dance On ensemble in Mellowing by Christos Papadopoulos. Photo © Jubal Battisti

review

Christos Papadopoulos: Mellowing

Jaskaran Anand and Daria Greco in Sport. Photo © Carolina Farina

review

Salvo Lombardo/Chiasma: Sport

Karrasekare by Igor × Moreno at Teatro Vascello, Rome. Photo © Piero Tauro

review

Igor × Moreno: Karrasekare

Two men and two women form a crisscross of coloured bodies (red, blue, greem) on pink and green op-art floor.

review

Dimitris Mytilinaios: Repair

A man and woman in dark shirt and trousers against a backdrop of brick columns. He extend his right arm straight out, his left arms folded so that his hand touches his nose and mouth. She leans on his shoulder, throwing a questioning glance towards the camera.

review

Fuori Programma Rome: focus on Israel

Simona Bertozzi, Onde. Photo © Luca Del Pia

review

Simona Bertozzi: Onde

Two seated nude figures in near darkness, face each other, arms extended to embrace each other's shoulders

article

Orbita – Rome’s contemporary dance season

review

Eleonora Siarava: Blue Beyond

Hands Up: Agnietė Lisičkinaitė at B.Motion 2022. Photo © G. Ceccon

review

Place of freedom? B.Motion 2022

Topshot of woman in pink-purple tunic dress lying with arms open and smiling face on purple confetti background

article

Presente Futuro 2022

Ehs came from another planet by Amalia Bennett and Antigone Gyra. ©South Space for Photography

review, article

Dance Days Chania 2023:
The Conscious Body