About
Athens, 1991)
Angelos Papadopoulos (he/him, they/them) is a choreographer, director and performer. They are the founder of Cicada’s Call Dance Company.
Angelos’ choreographic and other related digital and performance work look to create impactful experiences for audiences where the body is foregrounded as a key site of social, political, and aesthetic ideas. The term body includes the conscious and emotional aspect and function of it. Influenced by the cultural milieu of Athens, his work explore intricate layers of self-hood in the context of cultural background, intimacy, sexuality, and personal displacement. By utilizing dance, texts, along with elements of performance and digital material, personal narrative and storytelling, his practice aims to observe and scrutinize each different project he is engaged with.
His works, performed or in the form of short films or installations, have been presented at cultural institutions and platforms such as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, Tanzahoi International Dance & Dance Film Festival (Audience Award) and the Act International Festival (Guggenheim Museum Βilbao, Residency Award).
He studied Economics at the Athens University of Economics & Business, Dance at the State School of Dance and the Greek National Opera Dance School. In September 2022, he graduated with honors from MRes Choreography & Performance, University of Roehampton (London), where he was awarded an alumni referral scholarship. Additionally, he was awarded Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artworks Fellowship (2020-21) and Stegi Onassis Cultural Center Fellowship to attend ‘Camping Festival’ at the Centre National De La Danse (Paris, 2021).
