Georgios Kotsifakis
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Born in Heraklion Crete, Greece on 12th of October 1988. Graduated with distinction from the Professional Dance School of Rallou Manou in Athens, Greece and from the Amsterdam School of Arts (MTD) . He has also been accepted in the first year of the international dance school P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels in 2008 and got a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece in 2010.
As a dancer he has collaborated with many companies and artists in Greece and abroad such as DV8, RAMBERT, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jan Fabre, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Gothenburg Dance Company, Dimitris Papaioannou, Andonis Foniadakis, Christos Papadopoulos, Alexandra Waierstall, Lenio Kaklea, the National Theatre of Greece, the Greek National Opera and others.
As an assistant choreographer, he has worked for Opera de Lyon and Dance On Ensemble in Berlin.
As a dance teacher, he has given dance workshops and taught as a regular teacher at the Greek National Opera Professional Dance School , at Brancacio Danza in Rome at the Rallou Manou Professional Dance School,at the Horohronos Professional Dance School, at the Aktina Professional Dance School and other institutes and schools.