Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre Studies (on tenure)
Subject: "Dance: History - Theory - Practice"
9th floor, office 912
Telephone: 210 727 7928
Email: tsintzi@theatre.uoa.gr
Office hours: Wednesday 12.30-14.30
Page at academia.edu: https://en-uoa-gr.academia.edu/SterianiTsintziloni
A graduate of the State School of Dance Art and of the Department of Primary Education (University of Crete), she obtained an MA in Dance Studies from the University of Surrey (UK) supported by an Onassis Foundation Scholarship. In 2013 she was awarded a PhD from the Department of Dance of the University of Roehampton (UK) with the thesis: "Modernising contemporary dance and Greece in the mid-1990s: three case studies from SineQuaNon, Oktana dancetheatre and Edafos Company".
She has taught at the undergraduate program of the Departments of Theatre Studies, University of Patras and the University of Athens, as well as at the Professional Dance School of the Greek National Opera and the State School of Dance. She also teaches at the Postgraduate Programs "Performing Arts" of the Hellenic Open University and "Sports Tourism, Event Organization, Dance" of the Democritus University of Thrace.
From the academic year 2023-24, she serves at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Athens, at the rank of tenure Assistant Professor with the subject: Dance: History, Theory, Practice. She has participated in the Scientific and Organizing Committees of Conferences and Workshops of the Department, while she has undertaken the curation of the thematic tribute on "Dramaturgy of Dance in the 21st Century" in the academic journal Paravasis (issue 21).
She is a principal investigator in the interdisciplinary and collaborative research project "Thymeli": A Dynamic Multimedia Open Access Dictionary for the Performing Arts (ELIDEK, Implementing Body: Department of Theatre Studies, University of Peloponnese, Scientist: Elena Papalexiou). She has participated in academic research programs as well as in artistic research programs. She has presented in academic symposia, workshops and conferences in Greece and abroad. Her research, teaching and writing work focuses mainly on the history of theatrical dance in Greece (20th-21st century), on issues of archive and memory in dance, and on contemporary artistic practices.
As a dance scholar, she has been the dance curator of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival (2016-2019), an invited co-curator of the Onassis Stegi Young Choreographers Festival (2021) and a programming and research associate of the Kalamata International Dance Festival (1998-2015). She was a member of the Dance Committee for ARTWORKS, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Support Program (2021), and Vice Chair of the Committee for Dance Funding of the Ministry of Culture (2022-2024).
In 2020-2021 she was awarded a Scholarship by the Visiting Artists Program of the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS Washington). She was also nominated for the British Council Graduate Award of British Universities (2024), in the category "Culture-Innovation".
As a dramaturg and scholar, she worked with dance artists (Androniki Marathaki, Alexandros Stavropoulos etc.) whose works have been presented at the Athens Festival, the Onassis Stegi and has been invited as a mentor for young choreographers by the U(R)TOPIAS Choreography Academy (Contemporary Dance Group Aerites and Eleusis 2023), and the Onassis Air program. She has been collaborating with institutions and networks such as I. & R. Duncan Dance Study Center, Dance Days Chania, European Dancehouses Network (EDN), New Italian Dance Platform (NID), One Dance Festival (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) etc.
Her monograph Under the Shadow of the Parthenon. Dance at the Athens Festival of the Cold War (1955-1966) was published by Kapa Publishing (2022) and was nominated for the 2023 State Literary Awards in the category of essays. As an Academic Advisor and Editor she has contributed to the publication of the first collection of translated into Greek texts on dance theory Present Bodies.An Introduction to Dance Theory (2024, University Studio Press) published with the financial support of the John F. Costopoulos Foundation, as well as the textbook Dance and Movement in Contemporary Actors' Education (2023), published by the Drama School of the National Theatre, co-funded by Greece and the European Union (ESPA 2014-2020). Her texts have been published in national and international academic journals, collective volumes, conference proceedings and dictionaries.
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
Monograph
Tsintziloni, Steriani (2022) Under the Shadow of the Acropolis. Dance at the Athens Festival during the Cold War (1955-1966). Athens: Kappa Publishing House
Academic editor
Chapters in books, collective volumes and catalogues
Articles in journals
