Akropoditi Dancetheatre

Akropoditi: on tiptoes, softly, silently, carefully but also boldly, above and beyond the fragility of the limits

The Akropoditi Dancetheatre was established in Syros in 2004, on the initiative of Angeliki Sigourou, and since 2005 it has been operating as a Civil Non-Profit Company.

Angeliki Sigourou

Artistic Director of the Akropoditi Dance & Performing Arts Centre
Artistic Administration and Management of the International Dance & Performing Arts Festival Akropoditi DanceFest
Choreographer of the Akropoditi Dancetheatre

Born in Athens, in 1973. She holds a degree from the department of French Language and Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a master’s degree in Linguistics of the Southeastern Mediterranean from the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean, and a PhD in Arabic Dialectology from the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean. She studied the Arabic language in Greece, Egypt, and Jordan. She also studied acting at the “ARCHI” Drama School in Athens. She has attended various theatre and dance classes and seminars in Greece and abroad.
In 2004, she founded the Akropoditi Dancetheatre in Hermoupolis, Syros. Since then, she has directed and choreographed all the performances of Akropoditi. In January 2013, she founded Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre in Hermoupolis, Syros.
She has published two poetic compilations and her poems have been translated to English, French, German, Turkish and Arabic. She has translated and published literature and poetry works from French and Arabic.
She lives in Syros, where she has taken over the artistic direction of Akropoditi Dance & Performing Arts Centre. She is a member of the artistic board for the administration and the management of the International Dance & Performing Arts Festival Akropoditi DanceFest.
She works as a choreographer and translator, and is a postdoctoral researcher at the Mediterranean Studies department of the University of the Aegean.