Christina Mertzani
Christina Mertzani
EDUCATION
2004 Athens State School of Dance, Diploma (Teacher, Dancer, Choreographer) 2012 Academy of Ancient Greek and Traditional Chinese Medicine,
Diploma (Homeopathy, Chinese Medicine, Nutrition)
AWARDS
2017 "Voodoo doll", 2nd Price at Pole theatre Poland Pro - Drama, Choreographing the
Pole Dancer Amaryllis Koukoulerou, Gdansk, Poland
2016 "no title", 2nd price at the 1st National Ballet and Contemporary Competition by
Choreographing for the Hip Hop dancer Nicole Syrianou, Athens, Greece.
2004 "without trace", 3 ni 3 video dance competition, British Council, Athens, Greece 2001 2nd price at the Hellenic Student Dance Competition, Athens, Greece
2001 1st price at the Eptanisa Student Dance Competition, Corfu, Greece
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORK
2024 Choreographing "no dress" for the second year of Artez University ni Arnhem- Netherlands.
2023 Choreographing "13 floors below ground" for the second year of Folkwang University of Arts in Essen - Germany.
2023 Creation-Performance project for b12 festival in Berlin.
2022 Creation of "Apotypoma" founded by the Greek Ministry of Culture and the National Opera of Greece performed in Ancient Olympia- Greece.
2021 Choreographing for Copenhagen International Dance Festival in Copenhagen Denmark. 2021 Guest Choreographer for the 3rd year students of Danceworks Berlin in Germany.
2019 "13 floors below ground" at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Kong/ China
2019 Guest Choreographer at Beijing Dance Festival, Beijing, China
2018 "Unikate" presented at Dock 4, Kassel, Germany
2017 Guest choreographer for the Dance Youth Club of the Staatstheater Bielefeld, Germany 2017 Choreographer for the pole Dancer Amaryllis, Pole theatre Poland Pro - Drama, Gdansk, Poland
2016 Choreographing the artist Karoline Stachele, Freiburg, Germany
2016 "run away" presented at the International dance festival "one small step", Corfu, Greece 2015 "Alternative Bodies" presented at Dock 4, Kassel, Germany
2015 "Cube" - "Athens Video Dance Festival", Athens, Greece
2015 Cofounded free fall company
2014 "transformations" presented in Kassel Staatstheater, Kassel, Germany
2012 "metamorfosis" 17th MASDANZA choreographic Competition, Spain
2008 "Katá Tónous", company V.VOID, Thessaloniki, Greece
2005 Co Founded the non profit corporation V.VOID, Athens, Greece 2004 Choreographed the video dance "Without Trace"
TEACHING
Christina has taught company class at the following dance companies: Sasha Waltz &Guests, State theater of Kassel, State theater of Braunschweig, State theater of Oldenburg, State theater of St. Gallen, State theater of Heidelberg, State theater of Osnabruck, State theater of Bern, State theater of Mainz, Landestheater Sachsen, Company Toula Limnaios, Oper Graz Austria and many more companies and dance studios.
Others
2023 Rehearsal director for the Staatstheater Kassel for the creation "Battleground" and the Choreographer Hou Ying.
2021 Rehearsal assistant at the Staatstheater Braunschweig ni Braunschweig- Germany for the Choreographers Henrietta Horn and Rainer Behr.
2010-18 Directing the international dance festival "one small step" in Corfu, Greece.