| Artist ArchiveNATASSA ZOUKA
Choreographer
She graduated from the Greek National Theatre Drama School in 1974. As co-founder of the “Theatro tis Anixis” (Spring Theatre), she participated in all its productions, with her most prominent work being Electra, for which she was both choreographer and leading actress. At the same time, she studied at the State School of Dance for three years, expanding her interest in body theatre and choreography. In 1980, winning a scholarship from the A. Onassis Foundation, she went to France and was privileged to study with Jacques Leqoc for two years, at a school famed for the state-of-the-art methods and techniques of artistic creation (directing, choreographing, acting, plastic arts). While in Paris, she took part in the performance of Slieman – episodes ignores, (Slieman – Unknown Episodes) with Antoine Vitez playing the part of Palais Chaillot.
In 1983, she returned to Greece and worked as paedagogist and choreographer in children’s and acting workshops. She taught mask, movement and improvisation. In 1990, she created “Chorotheatro” (Dance Theatre) which she still runs until today and which receives financial aid from the Ministry of Culture and I. F. Kostopoulos Foundation.
Her productions are: Music for a while, Fos Parathirou (Light from a Window), Paramithia tou Kosmou (Fairytales of the World), Fthinoporines Mitropolis (Autumn Metropolises), Chaplin, Luna Muerta (Dead Moon), Ta Tragoudia tis Gis (Songs of the Earth), To Vlema tis Gis (The Look of the Earth), Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Ballads).
She is a member of Spiros Sakas’s Vocal Art and Research Studio. In 2004, she was chosen to participate as choreographer in the three-year research programme entitled Modern Dance and Ancient Drama Dance in Paris (Royaumont Foundation) and directed by choreographer Susan Buirge, once again supported by the Onassis Foundation. The outcome of that research was a film; Sta Ihni Mias Alis (Following the Traces of Another Woman), based on Sophocles’s Antigone and on the work of humanist Greek photographers Costas Balafas and Voula Papaioanou. It was premiered in Paris in January 2007. In 2008-2009, she co-produced Stin Kopsi tou Fengariou (On the Moon’s Edge).
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