Xenia Koghilaki works in the field of performing arts as a dancer and choreographer. She holds an MA in “Solo/Dance/Authorship” (MA SODA), from Berlin University of the Arts (HZT-Berlin/Udk) and she has previously studied dance (National School of Dance) and architecture (Technical University of Patras) in Greece. She lives and works between Athens and Berlin. Xenia puts the body in the centre of her research interest while her practice focuses on challenging the triptych: power – knowledge – body.
She has presented work at Onassis Dance Days and Sophiensaele in the frame of Tanztage Berlin (“Bang Bang Bodies”), Studio ALTA in Prague (collaborative work “Nudes and Conspiracies”), Onassis New Choreographers Festival – ONC8 (the collaborative work “Besuch”), Arc for Dance Festival 11 and K-Gold Temporary Gallery (“JunkDance”), and elsewhere. As a dancer, she has worked with Kat Válastur (“Strong-Born,” “Diana, Even,” and “The FarNear”), André Uerba, the Chto Delat collective, the Porson’s Khashoggi company, among others.
She is a Danceweb scholarship holder of Impulstanz Vienna International dance festival (2021) and she has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.