Marina Mavrogeni is a choreographer, director and performer.
She was born in Athens on March 30, 1972. Let’s just keep this between us.
She completed her dance studies in October 1997, graduating from the Higher Professional School of Dance 'Centre for the Study of Dance Isadora and Raymond Duncan'.
In 1997 she founded the contemporary dance group A KIN and in 2015 the art space AKIN Art in the centre of Athens. Neither of them exist today. Coincidence? I don't think so.
In 2013 she started teaching and applying the 'Improvisation & Performance Method' based on the study of the body and its intention.
She explores how a performer can embody their intention while expanding their options. Authenticity, energy and wholeness within personal significance -works that relate to, any art form or vision of a director, conductor, choreographer- are given special weight and worked on kinetically.
Today her main field of work is performance and physical comedy, that is, the combination of comedy and physical theatre.
She chooses to use different forms of art in order to realise whatever she thinks or thinks of in passing, without negotiating it.
She uses the body as a primary means of communication, creating works that serve representational art. She draws her ideas from everyday life even penetrating sometimes rudely into the everyday life of others.
She is curious.
This makes her use the element of surprise in her work, both during creation and in the final result. Surprise most often contains the characteristic of subversion. Subversion has a first-degree affinity with humour and ridiculousness, elements that she considers valuable and which she wishes to characterise her work.
She aims for her works to appeal to a wide audience, not necessarily a sophisticated one. This is because she loves people and their complexity.
She would like performing art to be relevant to everyone.
She wishes for a better world that can tolerate humour and is not afraid of ridicule. She tantalisingly seeks to be constantly 'present' by creating performances with authenticity and genuineness, to communicate her knowledge in the service of art and for people to trust her for the essence of her knowledge.
She therefore seeks to constantly improve.
