Anastasia is a community dance artist, choreographer and educator based in Athens, Greece. She began her training in Greece and continued her vocational studies in London, graduating in 2014 with a Postgraduate Diploma in Community Dance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire.
She is the founder of InMotus Dance, through which she combines her passion for dance education with her work as a choreographer and performer across festivals, installations, and interdisciplinary projects. Since 2010, she has performed extensively in site-specific works and collaborated with artists and choreographers in the UK, Spain, and Greece.
As a performer, Anastasia has worked with UK-based choreographers including Mathias Sperling (Walking Piece, Big Dance Festival 2012), Rosemary Lee (Square Dances, Dance Umbrella 2011), and Luca Silvestrini (Crossroads, GDIF 2011). She was a member of Scatter – The Adult Performance Company at The Place, performing works by Tory East and Mickael Marso Riviere.
She has appeared in choreographic labs and festivals across Europe, such as Kalamata International Dance Festival (2014) with Syndesmos Chorou, BIDE – Barcelona International Dance Exchange (2013), and Rosanna Irvine’s Towards a Re-Activation of the Xavier Le Roy Project (2012) at Siobhan Davies Studios. Anastasia has also performed at venues including Bonnie Bird Theatre (Trinity Laban), Sadler’s Wells, and Lillian Baylis Studio in works by Gary Lambert, Alison Curtis-Jones, Akosua Boakye, and Akane Abe.
Anastasia’s collaborations span multidisciplinary projects, including Within the Horizon by architect Quynh Vantu at Hedmark Cultural Museum, Norway (2017) and Mind Your Step | Contact at Bartlett Institute (2015); Ivana Muller’s 60 Minutes of Opportunism at What Now Festival (2013); Adam James’ Mudhead Dance at V22 Gallery and Sanctuaries Project at Jerwood Arts Space, London (2012); Christiana Kazakou’s Displacing Identity at Central Saint Martins Fine Arts Show (2012); Emily Roysdon’s I Am a Helicopter, Camera, Queen at Tate Modern (2012); and Imme Van der Haak’s Beyond the Body exhibition at Dutch Design during London Design Festival (2012).
Anastasia curated and presented work at M.O.T.U.S., an interdisciplinary event at Stour Space Gallery, London. Her piece Mirrored|me was performed at Wandsworth Fringe and the Transition Exhibition at Crypt Gallery (2018), ImpFest at Hornsey Arts Centre (2017), and ELEFEET Dance Festival at Blue Elephant Theatre (2016). Her choreography has also featured at the London Science Festival (Limewharf Gallery) and the You Are Here Project at Tricycle Theatre (2014).
More recently, she has developed multidisciplinary and site-specific works, co-creating Basement -2 with visual artist Eulalia Garcia Valls (La Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, 2022) and participating in Quasi Veu – Hearing Voices, supported by the Arts Centre Tarragona and Catalan Department of Culture (2021).
Her own choreographic practice investigates the relationship between authenticity and the representation of the human body in space. Drawing on her background in both dance and biology, she uses structured improvisation to explore themes of embodiment, perception, and the politics of place.
Deeply inspired by nature, Anastasia creates work that engages with performing ecologies and the body’s relationship to environment—whether in natural landscapes, urban settings, or cultural contexts. Her artistic mission lies in examining how the body responds to and shapes these spaces, often navigating between the utopic and the real. She sees dance as a form of enquiry—one that reveals the emotional and physical ties between beings and the worlds they inhabit.
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