Myrto Gkouzelou

Myrto is a free-lance performer while continuing her ongoing research as a choreographer and teacher.

She was born in Naples but grew up in Athens, where she took her first classes in dance. She graduated from London Contemporary Dance School before joining EDge09, the postgraduate performance company of LCDS. In EDge, she collaborated with choreographers: Jeremy Nelson, Andrea Rauch, Hanna Gillgren, James Jackson & Maria Jardardotirr and performed in the U.K and Europe. She choreographed and performed Blue Roses, an interdisciplinary solo, which was presented as a site-specific performance in the Design for Performance Festival at the V&A Museum.

Myrto's interest in dance aims to achieve a deep engagement and coordination of the whole body that goes beyond muscular power and involves the whole self. She is interested in exploring body mechanics and finding efficient, articulate and fluid ways of moving through breathing, relaxation and release of tension. As a choreographer and performer, she approaches the body/self as a source for movement language, visual images and theatricality. She is interested in the physicality and flow of movement because of its visceral and immediate impact on the audience. She is interested in contemporary dance not only as a practice for performance but also as a space for introspection, self-observation and communication that can bring a sense of well being in everyday life. Myrto has always been looking for enriching her ways of working with the body. Apart from dance training and a variety of dance workshops in different festivals, she has experienced somatic techniques such as Body-Mind-Centering and Feldenkrais as well as Aikido.