Athena Mazarakis (ZAF)
Athena Mazarakis is a South African choreographer, performer, educator and researcher currently based in Sweden.
In the thirteen years of her professional practice she has performed with leading South African companies such as The First Physical Theatre Company and the Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative and has worked with prominent South African dance and theatre artists such as Gary Gordon, PJ Sabbagah, Juanita Finestone, Gerard Bester, Jeanette Ginslov, Boyzie Cekwana and Gregory Maqoma.
In the four years leading up to her relocation to Sweden Athena also held the position of Lecturer in the Wits University School of Arts where she taught Physical Theatre, Choreography and Mime.
As a choreographer Athena has most recently been exploring the relationship between the body and a live interactive digital arts interface in performance while investigating the notion of somatic memory. The idea of the body as archive is also the central topic of her research towards a Masters Degree which she is currently completing.
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