Biography

Portrait of Astero Lamprinou, choreographer and film maker

Astero (officially Styliani Lamprinou) originally from Athens and based in Brussels, studied movement, dance, cultural theory and choreography, at the Laban Center and London Contemporary Dance School and completed a masters in Surrey University with a scholarship from A. Onassis foundation. She was predominantly a performer in various fields (contemporary dance, opera, theater, video, installation) in London, Ireland, Athens and Brussels. She has worked with Dance Theater of Ireland, English National Opera, English National Theater and with choreographers such as Yolande Snaith and David Hernandez. Her first short dance film is Secret City, a dancing passage in the city of Brussels with a comparison of the city in the early 1900s and today, and her second is Wall to Wall, a site-specific dance film, both filmed before the sanitary crisis and completed in October 2020. Both works were filmed before the sanitary crisis and completed in October 2020. She is surrently distributing the dance performance STONES while preparing the film METROPOLITAN STONES.

‘’I see dance as living architecture and I am very preoccupied with visual matters. Film is the ideal medium where I can combine unique visual, choreographic and surrealist ideas that can indulge people to enter into site specific fantasy’’.

Curriculum Vitae

PERFORMING EXPERIENCE

WALL TO WALL, dance film by Astero Lamprinou, ‘Best Experimental film’ Milano monthly Film Awards, ‘Jury award’ 7thAIIF India. Official selection in Andromeda Film festival Turkey, Malta film festival, Athens monthly film festival.
SECRET CITY, dance film by Astero Lamprinou, ‘Best Experimental film’ Los Angeles monthly film awards, ‘Grand Jury Award’ Oniros and NYIFA New York, ‘Recognition of Creativity Award’ 7 th AIIF, India. Official selection in FIFA Montreal and Lift-Off sessions,
EUROPE ENDLESS by Ana Cembrero Coca at the Cultural Exhibition Center CA2M, and the Fringe festival at the Matadero, Madrid.
STRINGS duet by Astero Lamprinou at the summer festival of Danse Centrum Jette, Brussels. Studio showing of Strings solo at the International seminar Geneva Sessions (organised by Gilles Jobin)
WATERMARK, by Robert Connor and Loretta Yurick, Dance Theater of Irenland, nationwide tour.
RINGS, solo by Astero Lamprinou at the summer festival of Danse Centrum Jette, Brussels.
XX-XY-Z, by Jean-Francois Cannoot, choreographed by Julie Bougard (ex-J. Leighton, C de la B) for Theatre du Plantin, Charleroi.
BOX, installation by David Hernandez at Brugges Walks festival.
PERFORMANCE HOTEL, by David Hernandez, assistant for multiple dance-installation project at the DeSingel building, Antwerp, Brussels.
PERFORMANCE HOTEL, by David Hernandez (ex-dancer Meg Stuart, Rosas), Beursschouwburg, Brussels.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, by Robert Connor and Loretta Yurick, Dance Theatre of Ireland, nationwide tour.
DAKINI by Ruth Sigalis at the Lilian Baylis theater, Saddler’s Wells, London.
THE SIMULACRA STORIES, by Joanne Leighton, Dance Theatre of Ireland, nationwide tour.
STILL SPACE II, with Rachel Gomme at the Vain Liveart street festival in Oxford.
BACCHAI, by Sir Peter Hall, choreographed by Marie-Gabrielle Rotie at the English National Theatre, London, tour in Newcastle.
DAKINI, by Israeli Ruth Sigalis and Rose’s Thoughts at the Lilian Baylis theatre of Saddler’s Wells, London.
STILL MOVING, with Rachel Gomme at the Chisenhale Dance Space, London.
PRINCESS TITO AND I, by Maritina Passari, text by Klairi Mitsotaki, at the Theatre Festival of Tripoli (Open Amphitheatre), Greece.
MANON LESCAUT opera, choreographed by Yolande Snaith (choreographer of EYES WIDE SHUT by Stanley Lubrick)at the English. National Opera directed by Keith Werner.
TRACE AND FLIGHT by Carolyn Deby at the Royal Festival Hall, London.
RIGMINA by Mary Tsouti and Analia Dance Company at the Concert Hall (Megaron), Athens.
Aristophane’s Ancient Greek Comedy BIRDS by Zouzou Nicholoudi at the Veakion theatre, Athens.

FILMOGRAPHY

2020 Dance Film WALL TO WALL, Brussels.
2020 Dance Film, SECRET CITY, Brussels.

CHOREOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE

2023-2024 Dance film METROPOLITAN STONES
2022-2023 Dance performance STONES
2017-2020 Dance Films, SECRET CITY and WALL TO WALL
2007 STRINGS duet at espace Nepomuc and Jette, Brussels and Geneva.
2005 RINGS, solo at Jette, Brussels.
2004 DUET at the Queensland Multimedia Arts centre, Holloway, London.
1999 COLD HANDS (duet) at the University of Surrey (choreography module tutor: Emilyn Claid).
1998 Choreographer’s assistant for SUNDAY AFTERNOON by Mary Tsouti at the International Festival of dance in Kalamata, Greece.
1997 THE TREE (five dancers) commissioned by the European Festival of Theatre, London.
1996 GIMEL (trio) final year Concert piece of selected choreographies at the Laban Centre, London.
1995 Director’s assistant for the Opera AMAHL AND THE NIGHTS VISITORS, by Victor Ardittis, Concert Hall of Athens.

DANCE TRAINING & STUDIES

P.A.R.T.S Brussels, training as a guest artist in the class of David Hernandez, while working on his installations.
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY, UK. M.A in Dance studies with a scholarship from the Greek foundation A. Onassis. Dissertation on multi-directional movement in the works of T. Brown and W. Forsythe.
LONDON CONTEMPORARY DANCE SCHOOL at the Place, London. Post-Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Dance and choreography.
LABAN CENTER for Movement and Dance, Athens and London. B.A. (Hons) in Dance Theatre. 2.1 Degree obtained. Dissertation on W. Forsythe in relation to phenomenology, architecture and platonic theory. (Mark:73%).
STATE SCHOOL OF DANCE K.S.O.T Athens. Ballet, contemporary, improvisation, K.Orf rhythmical education.