Anastasia is a community dance artist, choreographer, and educator based in Athens, Greece. She began her dance training in Greece and continued her vocational studies in London, graduating from Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 2014 with a Postgraduate Diploma in Community Dance. She is currently training in Dance Therapy at CPS Arts (Centre of Psychotherapy through Sciences and Arts) and is the founder of InMotus Dance, through which she develops her work in dance facilitation, education, and interdisciplinary artistic practice.

Her current practice focuses on movement facilitation and choreographic exploration in nature and landscape. Through workshops and seminars, she invites participants to explore the relationship between body, environment, and creative expression, using movement improvisation, sensory awareness, and embodied practices. Inspired by the unique qualities of each place, she approaches the landscape as an active partner in the creative process, opening up possibilities for movement, perception, and connection.

Alongside her choreographic research, Anastasia has developed a growing interest in the therapeutic potential of dance. Her ongoing training in Dance Therapy informs her facilitation, which draws inspiration from Dance Movement Therapy, somatic exploration, and mindfulness. She aims to create inclusive and supportive spaces where participants can explore their own movement language, cultivate self-awareness, and experience movement as a means of expression, exploration, and connection with themselves, others, and the natural world.

Since 2010, Anastasia has worked as a performer and collaborated with artists and choreographers across Greece, the UK, and Spain, participating in site-specific performances, festivals, choreographic laboratories, and interdisciplinary projects. Her performance collaborations include works by Mathias Sperling (Walking Piece), Rosemary Lee (Square Dances), and Luca Silvestrini (Crossroads). She was also a member of Scatter – The Adult Performance Company at The Place, performing works by Tory East and Mickael Marso Riviere, and has performed in works by Gary Lambert, Alison Curtis-Jones, Akosua Boakye, and Akane Abe.

Her artistic collaborations extend across dance, visual arts, and architecture, including projects by Ivana Müller, Adam James, Christiana Kazakou, Emily Roysdon, Imme Van der Haak, and architect Quynh Vantu. More recently, she co-created Basement -2 with visual artist Eulalia Garcia Valls at Casa Elizalde in Barcelona (2022) and participated in Quasi Veu – Hearing Voices, an artistic and research project developed in collaboration with Garcia Valls and promoted by the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia and the Network of Visual Arts Centres of Catalonia. Her own choreographic work includes Mirrored|me, presented at Wandsworth Fringe, Crypt Gallery, ImpFest, and ELEFEET Dance Festival, as well as projects featured at the London Science Festival and the You Are Here Project at Tricycle Theatre.

With a background spanning dance, biology and community education, Anastasia’s practice explores embodiment, perception, and the relationship between the body and its environment. Deeply inspired by nature and the concept of performing ecologies, she approaches dance as a form of inquiry into how bodies inhabit, respond to, and shape the worlds around them. Moving between artistic research, community participation, and embodied exploration, her work seeks to create meaningful encounters between movement, people, and place.

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