About the Artist
My work spans across performative genres and cultural forms to tell stories through a poetic physical language, song and larger-than-life characters. It aims to unearth and celebrate multiple narratives, perspectives and ways of being/feeling. It highlights inter-species and inter-cultural interconnectedness as a way to challenge racist, ableist, homophobic and exclusionary narratives which embolden acts of violence, genocidal wars and ecocidal policies across the globe.
I believe in the collective embodied wisdom and affective knowledge embedded in traditional theatre forms, with a deep focus on Kutiyattam Theatre (India) and the Japanese Noh genre, which I have incorporated in my creative practice since my training at the Intercultural Theatre Institute of Singapore (2012–2014). Both my practice and doctoral research explore a decolonial approach to emotion and affect through these theatre forms. In my creative process, I am not interested in reproducing external shapes or forms from these ancient dance-theatres. Rather I want to move beyond form to search for how eyes can dance and limbs can emote. From Kutiyattam, raw emotional expression through ocular and facial acrobatics. From Noh, “existing strongly doing nothing” (Fran Barbe, butoh practitioner) and the subtle power of clean lines in stripped-down movement.
In my performances and workshops, I also work with folk songs (often from my homes – Italy/Greece) as vibrations that carry histories, connect me to the land/sea, move my body. I play with objects and materials as catalysts for bodily transformation. I’m interested in movement and dance as media for energetic transformation of bodily matter, storytelling and emotional revelation. I like absurd stories that foreground more-than-human perspectives and leave space for the abstract and philosophical to be expressed through dynamic shapes and rhythmic patterns. I believe metamorphosis into the more-than-human through dance is a radical ecopolitical act that has the potential to deeply question and transform how audiences experience and relate to “the other”.
Bio
I am an Italo-Greek theatre maker and researcher, based in the UK with long-term experience of studying/working in Singapore and France. I am active as a performer and workshop leader both internationally and in the Southwest of the UK, where I recently toured my surrealist physical theatre piece from the perspective of a mollusc – The Spiral. The tour started at the Reclaim Festival (Exeter – Nov 2024), continuing to develop at Theatre Royal Plymouth, Barnstaple Theatre Festival, Chowk Studios in Singapore (Aug 2025) and lastly with Soak Live Arts amidst a surrealist exhibition at The Box in Plymouth (Sep 2025).
I am Lead for Recruitment and International Collaboration of inITIate – the Intercultural Theatre Institute alumni committee – and Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter, where I hold a post-doc (2023) and PhD in Drama and Philosophy (2022), and where I obtained my MA in directing and actor training with Phillip Zarrilli. I am also dramaturg, facilitator and international relations director at the Intercultural Performing Arts Company (IPAC, Hautes Vosges, France) (2018–) and actor of Compagnie Canopée (Paris) (2015–).
My training at the Intercultural Theatre Institute of Singapore (2012–2014) has shaped both my practice and research into intercultural affectivity, through which I explore a decolonising approach to emotion and affect through Japanese and Indian theatre. Through IPAC, I am currently collaborating with post-Grotowskian theatre company VoiceLAB on an Eramus+ funded project exploring intercultural polyphonic singing to foster well-being and eco-awareness in the rural communities of North-East France.
