Androniki Marathaki is a choreographer and movement researcher whose work approaches choreography as an embodied practice and a shared experience. With the support of the Greek Scholarship Foundation, she initiated her artistic research in choreography and dance improvisation at C.S.S.D. under the title “modulated choreographies.”

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Her practice maintains elasticity in what dance might be, expanding the boundaries of performance and more and more through invisible, intuitive, and sensorial connections with audiences and by trusting the intelligence of the body and its relationscapes. By adopting “practice” as her main choreographic method, she creates conditions where awareness emerges for all that is participating in a dance performance.  Lately she focuses on the coexistence of internal and external, individual and collective through the sensoriality within collectiveness for alternative modes of meaning-making in dance to unfold. Her current thematic research bridges the qualities of the organ of the heart with the essence of solidarity.

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 To date, she has explored a practice for the relationship between sensory stimuli and movement for the “pain–movement–pleasure” triangle that shares in different versions and dynamic topics (Let’s be comfortable in our own skin).  She develops performance-based projects that create spaces, experiences, and temporary communities (project nightscores that cultivates networks of artists, observers, and performers—professional and non-professional—and invites audiences into active modes of perception). She has presented through performances, workshops, and installations the thematic Love & Revolution, it's not about if you will love me tomorrow , holy purple, painfully painless,https://www.mirfestival.gr/en/project/androniki-marathaki/

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Moreover she has worked as a dance instructor in the Onassis Foundation educational program Dancing to Connect, as an invited artist in Zoom In (artist–craftsman collaboration program), and she guides movement classes for professional actors and dancers. Part of her research has been presented at TWIXTlab: art, anthropology & the everyday in collaboration with the Duncan Dance Centre, and her lecture is included in the digital archive for dance artistic research in Greece (artistic-research.gr).

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Her work and research has been supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture, NEON, Onassis Foundation, Costopoulos Foundation, MIR festival, Paleochori Art residency space, Unplugged dance, Island Connect,  the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, and other cultural institutions.