Evangelos Poulinas

Contemporary for Dancers

22.–26.04.2024, 12:00–13:30

Training for Dancers

Bio

Evangelos Poulinas holds an MFA in dance from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, a Diploma from the Athens State School of Dance and a Bachelor from the Physical Education Department, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.  He has been credited with scholarships from numerous prestigious foundations, such as Alexandros S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, New York University, Greek State Scholarship Foundation and DanceWEB Europe.
As a creator, Evangelos has shown work in the U.S.A., Canada and Europe and as a performer, he has danced creations by Johannes Wieland, Maxine Doyle, Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo, Marcel Leemann, Constanza Macras, Konstantinos Rigos, Nigel Charnock, Jasmin Vardimon and Wim Vandekeybus among others. As a teacher, Evangelos has taught contemporary technique, partnering and community dance classes in Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Greece, Austria, Turkey, U.S.A. and Sweden. Evangelos is co-founder of “b12”. Since 2010, Christina and Evangelos co-direct “one small step” International Contemporary Dance Festival in Urban Environment, Corfu in Greece.

Class Description

antigravity

Evangelos Poulinas is a faculty member at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria. He received his BFA from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a diploma from the Athens State School of Dance, and his MFA at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. His choreographies have been presented in the USA, Europe and Asia, and his piece, Alternative Bodies, has been performed in Germany, Greece, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Macau and China. He danced in pieces by J. Wieland, and M. Doyle among others, and was one of the directors of the annual one small step festival, in Greece, from 2010 till 2018. He teaches contemporary techniques in Europe, the USA and Asia, and has received scholarships from the Alexandros S. Onassis public benefit foundation, New York University, the Greek State Scholarship Foundation and the danceweb Europe. He is a founding member and artistic director of the annual b12 contemporary dance and performance art festival in Berlin. (www.b12.space)