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Τhe director and performer Euripides Laskaridis was awarded one of the inaugural Pina Bausch Fellowships 2016. The scholarship holders are getting the chance to gain new experiences and are encouraged to develop their own artistic characteristics with new forms of expression. Within this context Laskaridis will be spending three months alongside the director and choreographer Lemi Ponifasio in Auckland and Santiago to observe his working methods. As a guest of the Pina Bausch Foundation he will give a lecture presentation on his experience as part of the ceremony for the Pina Bausch Fellowships 2017.
Laskaridis studied acting in Athens at the Karolos Koun Art Theatre and directing in New York at Brooklyn College on an Onassis Foundation Scholarship. He has been performing since 1995, working with such directors as Robert Wilson and Dimitris Papaioannou. He began directing his own work in 2000, both stage works and, later, award-winning short films. In 2009, he founded the OSMOSIS Performing Arts Co and presented works at the Athens Festival, the Greek National Theatre, the Embros Theatre squat, and elsewhere in Greece. The company’s most recent work, “Relic”, was selected for Aerowaves 2015, and appeared at 18 international festivals. Euripides’ new work “Titans” will première in 2017.
