Draft:Mary Tsouti

Mary Tsouti (Athens, 1947) is a Greek choreographer.

She studied classical and contemporary dance at the school of Mary Vryakou. She continued her studies in Paris as a scholarship holder at the Atelier de la Danse Contemporaine and in New York with Mary Hinkson, as well as at the Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Erick Hawkins schools. She appeared in numerous performances in France with the Zodiaque group of Jacqueline Robinson, and in Greece, she danced with the Hellenic Choreodrama of Rallou Manou and the Chorika of Zouzou Nikoloudi.

In 1972, she founded a dance school in Athens where she taught for 12 years. In 1984, she established the dance group ANALIA, which developed a distinctive language of dance theater. From 1989 to 1990, she stayed as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (C.A.V.S.) at M.I.T. in Boston with a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation.

In 1995, she began her choreographic exploration of the myth of Phaedra, creating works such as "The Ghost of Phaedra" with music by J. Taverner (1995), "The Labyrinth" with music by Thanos Mikroutsikos (1996), "The Minotaur," "Seven Boys in the Labyrinth / Troezen - The Myth of Phaedra 2" with music by Chrysa Apostolatou (1997), and "Rigmina" with music by Thodoris Abazis (2000).

From 1996 to 2000, she taught movement at the School of Dramatic Art of the theatrical organization “Morphes”. Mary Tsouti choreographs for theater and opera and has particularly involved in the kinesiological education of dancers and actors.

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