The Company
Prosxima Dance Company
Prosxima Dance Company was founded in 1996 and it is based on the ideal of utilizing the dance medium to foster communication within the wider community.
Its story
Prosxima Dance Company worked as a collective of artists, allowing for diversity to emerge and be integrated in the creative process. After a decade the collective felt the need to pursue independent paths leading in 2006 the choreographer Maria Koliopoulou to take over the full responsibility of the company and become its artistic director. However a strong core of the company founding members - Anna Mimi and Dimitra Kritikidi - remain intact counting 30 years of solidarity and friendship.
Productions
The productions of the company vary in context, structure and choreographic style and they have been presented in different performing platforms such as museums, theatre stages, industrial and open spaces and have toured nationally and internationally. In the recent years it has presented works commissioned by the Athens Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre, the Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica, Piraeus and Islands, the International Contemporary Dance Festival of Algiers.
The company’s choreographic works have been presented, amongst others, at
Athens Epidaurus Festival 2021
Theater Aan Het Spui, Danceable#3, Holland Dance Festival, 2019
State Museum’s of Contemporary Art, Off Borders Festival, 2019
Tanz_House Festival, Salzburg – Austria 2017
Athens concert hall, 5th Greek Dance Platform, 2016.
TanzKosmos 2014 – KosmosTheater, Vienna, November 2014.
Festival Culturel International de la Danse Contemporaine, Algiers 2014 & 2013
KosmosTheater, Vienna 2014 & 2012
Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens 2011
Stockholm Fringe Festival, Stockholm 2011
Balkan Dance Platform, Ljublana, 2011
Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2010
Duncan Centre, Prague ‐ Czech Republic 2010
Contemporary Dance Festival, Serres ‐ Greece 2010 & 2009
Filippi & Kavala Festival, Kavala ‐ Greece 2009
New Europe Dance Festival, Prague ‐ Czech Republic 2009 & 2008
Dance Screen The Hague, The Netherlands 2007
Tanz _House Festival, Salzburg ‐ Austria 2006
4th Duo Dance International Festival, Budapest ‐ Hungary 2005
Festival International de Videodanza de Buenos Aires ‐ Argentina 2005
Dance Screen Brighton / IMZ, Brighton ‐ U.K 2005
1st Mediterranean Dance Platform, Chania ‐ Greece 2004
Summerfest/Dance Festival, San Francisco ‐ U.S.A. 2003
International Month of Dance – Demetria, Thessaloniki‐Greece 2003 & 2002
TanzQuartier, Vienna ‐ Austria 2002
8th International Kalamata Dance Festival ‐ Greece 2002
The company has been awarded
• 2nd Prix-Festival Culturel International de la Danse Contemporaine,Algiers 2013
• Jarmila Jeřábková Choreography Award ‐ New Europe Festival 2008
• Audience Award ‐ 4th Duo Dance International Festival 2005
• Performance Award ‐ Napolidanza “Il coreografo Eletronico” 2005
The company has been leading and participating in Community Projects
Blind platforms, Pireus Municipal Theatre, 2017
Rapidly becoming, Dance Association, Athens Festival 2017
On the road, Dance Association, 20th Kalamata International Dance Festival 2014
Community dance project 7+1, Iraklio, Crete, 2013
Community dance project 9+1, MCF, 2013
Community Dance project 9+1, MCF, 2012
CCP Collective Choreography Project
Community dance project 7+1, 17th Kalamata International Dance Festival 2011
The company has been financially supported by
Greek Ministry of Culture, Hellenic National Centre of Theatre and Dance, VideoDance – Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Danse Basin Meditteraneé, Austrian Embassy in Greece, Culture Moves Europe, iJuLa – intersektionale JugendLabore im Veedel, Points of Support.
Prosxima’s international collaborations include
Editta Braun / Editta Braun Company - Austria, Yannis Antoniou / KUNST STOFF - San Francisco, Richard Siegal – Germany, Michael Klien - Austria, Nicolas Mortimore - Great Britain / Barriedale Οperahouse.
Prosxima's long term collaborators
Eleftheria Arapoglou_digitaria
Thomas Economacos
Kassie Kafetsi _ Cultopia
Anna Pangalou
Elpida Tempou photography
Mariza Vinieratou