PATRICIA APERGI

Choreographer

Patricia was born in Athens. She completed her education in the branches of dance, theatre and  choreography at the Kapodistrian University in Athens (philosophical school), the Niki  Kotaxaki dance school, the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis and the Middlesex University  in London. Ιn April 2006 she found the Aerites dance company, with which she has choreographed the  pieces: Hero (2020), Polittes (Citizens Defeated) (2018), Cementary (2017), TANZheimer (2014), Planites (2013), Era poVera (2012), The Manifest of the Other (2010), d.opa!  (dopamines of post-Athenians) (2009), Ferry Tales (2009), Apolost (2008) and Anorexia  Socialis (2007). She has toured the pieces with Aerites dance company in various dance  festivals around the world. She has choreographed theatrical plays and operas (Κaterina Evangelatos, Yiannis Houvardas, T. Papakonstantinou, Τ. Kakoudaki, Α. Chilakis, 4frontal et al.). In 2015, she choreographed the opera The Tales of Hoffmann for the Opera of Perm (Russia), directed by Katerina Evangelatos under the musical direction of Teodor Currentzis. In 2017, she was invited as a guest choreographer to the dance company EgriBiancoDanza (Turin), where she choreographed Prometheus and the Rebels of Today. In 2018, she choreographed the installation Τhe Primary Fact of visual artist Hikaru Fujii in the context of the 5th Fast Forward Festival of the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens and the piece Polittes (citizens defeated, revisited) at the Ancient Stadium of Epidaurus with 90 students of dance and theatre from all over the world, in the context of Athens and Epidaurus festival. In 2019 she was invited as guest choreographer to the Aterballetto company in Regggio Emilia, Italy, where she created a piece for 30 dance students in the frame of Agora project. In 2021 she is creating a choreography for the Greek National Ballet. She was selected as modul-dance artist of the European network EDΝ for the period 2013– 2014, and as an associate artist at Maison de la danse (Lyon) for the period 2016–2017. She is Director of Cultural Events and teaches dance and theatre at the Leonteios School in  Athens, and teaches choreography at the professional dance school Anna Petrova – Maro Marmarinou. She has taught improvisation and choreography workshops at the Dance  Cultural Centre in the context of ARC for Dance Festival, and has been teaching the dance  program for 65+ at the Onassis Cultural Centre. Since 2019 she is part of the Board of Directors at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. She is a co-writer of the book History of Theatre and Theatrical Education (Greek Ministry of  Education, Educational Centers for Adults, 2007) and a member of the International Festival  of Emerging Artists (London, 2008).
Aerites Dance Company  
The company was established by Patricia Apergi in April 2006. The art of dance, in the case of Aerites, is not only about “morphology”, type of ‘’movement” or “means of expression”. The group focuses on experimenting and producing performances based on theoretical, dramaturgic and movement research. The aim of Aerites Dance Company is to create artistic actions as a result of the synergy between dance, performing arts, poetry, theatrical practice and new technology. With the work d.ΟPΑ! (dopamines of post-Athenians), Aerites were chosen by the Greek General Secretariat for Youth to represent Greece at the 14th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Skopjie, 2009). d.OPA came in 1st and was selected to take part in the 4th Platform for Contemporary Dance at the prestigious Athens Concert Hall (2010). In 2010, Aerites Dance Company was also selected among the top ten “priority” dance companies of Aerowaves in London.

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