Katerina Andreou, born in Athens, is based in France and makes dances, music and choreography. She graduated both from the Law School- University of Athens, and the State School of Dance in Athens. As a scholar of the greek foundation “K.Pratsika”, she attended the program ESSAIS in CNDC d’ Angers in 2011, under the direction of Emmanuelle Huyhn, and holds today a master degree of Paris 8 on research and choreography.
She participated in the project TRANSFABRIK France-Allemagne, a research on curating and programming between France and Germany, directed by Franz Anton Cramer and Yvanne Chapuis . She was member of the collective Emanticipation, a project initiated by Emmanuelle Huynh et François Quintin, and she participated in the event with other invited artists at the Lafayette Anticipation Foundation in Paris (2014). She had the Danceweb scholarship to attend Impulstanz Festival in Vienna in 2015. She collaborated among others with DD Dorvillier, Anne-Lise Le Gac. Emmanuelle Huynh, Lenio Kaklea, Bryan Campbell, Ana Rita Teodoro, Dinis Machado, Jocely Cottencin, Iris Karayan.
In her own work, she is interested in exploring states of presence sorting out from a constant negotiation between contrasted tasks, fictions and universes, often questioning the paradigm authority-autonomy and seeking an illusion of free will.
She was awarded with the price Prix Jardin d'Europe, in ImpulsTanz Festival in 2016, for her solo piece A kind of fierce. For her last solo BSTRD, she has been nominated among the Aerowaves Twenty19 artists.
She is a Panorama Artist of the network DNA - Departures and Arrivals.