Elena Antoniou (CY)

Elena Antoniou is a Cyprus based dance artist. She graduated from the National School of Dance in Athens (GR) and received a Postgraduate Diploma in Performance as a member of EDge dance company at the London Contemporary Dance School “The place” (GB). Elena is also a scholarship recipient of the “Koula Pratsika” foundation of Athens (GR) and was granted the Danceweb Program Scholarship at the ImpulsTanz Vienna in 2006. As a choreographer, Elena has presented several pieces in collaboration with the artist Polys Peslikas: This is what you get (2008), 4.73mht (2011), 4.29mhtx3 (2011), the meeting (2012), Dying as a country (2013), FIRST ARCH (2014).

She is moreover an award-winning artist having received the Choreography Award by the Cyprus Theater Awards in 2008 and was once more nominated in 2012.