Katerina Papageorgiou studied Architecture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1996-2002) and Dance at “Iris” Professional Dance Faculty of Thessaloniki (1998-2001). She also holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from the School of Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
As an Architect she has studied the architecture and the typology of theatrical spaces in Athens that were formed in pre-existing architectural shells, including the way in which those theatres shaped and influenced the Greek theatrical reality of the last twenty-five years of the 20th century, hosting the most active and experimental theatrical groups of the country.
Since 2001 she is working as a Scenographer and Costume designer in every kind of live performance- drama, opera, dance. She has also edited sets and costumes in feature films. She has collaborated with the National Opera of Greece, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Opera of Thessaloniki, the Athens Epidaurus Festival and several experimental theatrical groups, many directors and artists, covering a wide range of classic and modern repertory.
She also participated in art exhibitions and in the Prague Quadrennial 2003, where the Greek participation won an honorary distinction of a total national presence.
As a dancer and founding member of the Vis Motrix dance theater, Katerina Papageorgiou participated in all the performances of the team during the period 2002-2015, while, in the same period, she edited the sets and costumes for all the productions of the dance theater company. She also has choreographed and edited the kinesiology in performances of drama and dance.
She has taught: Set and Costume Design at the Film Department of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation and Dance History at the School of Dance of the “Iris” Professional Dance Faculty of Thessaloniki, Contemporary Dance at the Dance Theater Lab Vis Motrix. She participated with lectures in the course Space and Civilization (Balkans, East Europe and Middle East Europe) at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia.
Dissertation Thesis: “Human and Scenographic Machine in 20th century spectacles”.
Her Scientific Interest is focused on the study of the Primal Matter-body in the performing arts. With the tools of form, movement, scale, construction and new technologies, she explores stage personas which are results of clusters between the Primal Matter-body and scenographic constructions-machines.
Detailed information at the following link: https://katerinapapageorgiou.wordpress.com
Email: kpapage@thea.auth.gr
Taught courses:
-Architectural Drawing
-Set-Architectural Design (Specialization for theatre)
-Model Making
-Introduction to the History of Art (19th-20th century)
