ENTER THROUGH MOVEMENTA body.
Many worlds.
Between a gesture
and a whole world.
Martina Kosta Diankova is a choreographer, dancer and movement artist based in Athens, Greece, working across stage, film, teaching and the water. Each is another place to ask what a body can say.
↗A dancer questions her career, her place, her very existence. A childhood tongue twister opens into an intimate, unsettling encounter with the life of a performer.
Enter the work ↗Choreography & performance — Martina Kosta Diankova
Direction & music — Arturo Gui
Athens ↗ Amsterdam ↗ Lisbon ↗ Turku
Arturo GuiDramaturgy, direction and live composition
Martina Kosta DiankovaPerformance and choreography
When the body
belongs to the landscape.
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↗A photographic and moving-image exploration of the body in nature. Selected by La Fenice Art Gallery, Hong Kong.
Meet the landscape ↗Traditional Pontiac dance meets the kinetic vocabulary of voguing.
Traditional Pontiac dance meets the kinetic vocabulary of voguing.
Choreography & performance — Martina Kosta Diankova
A choreography for the consequences of a dream. Concept by Spir Frelini and Martina Kosta Diankova; directed by Spir Frelini.
Choreography — Martina Kosta Diankova. Additional footage — Ioannis Karounis. Music — Shlomo Artzi, The Highway Queen.
A moving-image exploration of womanhood and the social stereotypes that follow it.
Concept & performance — Martina Kosta Diankova. Lyrics — Phoebus.
A video inspired by “Carnal Speech” by Yiannis Ritsos: poetry encountered through the body.
Choreography & performance — Martina Kosta Diankova. “Carnal Speech” is used here as a short descriptive label for the Ritsos-inspired work.
Choreographic work with (R)evelators.
The practice keeps moving.
Into a room. Into the water.
Into someone else’s everyday.
Martina is the owner of Flaouer Hub, an arts and movement space in Monastiraki, Athens. A home for dance, rehearsals, performance, classes and encounters.
Step inside Flaouer Hub ↗@flaouer.hubAGATHONOS 6 · MONASTIRAKI, ATHENS
Owner and performer behind Mermaid. Movement, storytelling and play become guided experiences in the water, with the body discovering a different kind of freedom.
Discover Mermaid ↗@martina.mermaid
Created by Martina, YfD brings her dance and yoga practice into a shared language of movement. Teaching is another part of the same inquiry: attention, possibility, and the body’s capacity to change.
Explore classes at Flaouer Hub ↗@yoga_for_dancers
MARTINA KOSTA DIANKOVAMartina Kosta Diankova (Μαρτίνα Κώστα Ντιάνκοβα) is a professional dancer and choreographer based in Athens, Greece, with Greek and Bulgarian roots. Her work crosses live performance, dance film, photography, yoga and mermaid performance.
She studied at the National School of Dance (KSOT) and Horohronos Dance School, trained in yoga at Ghyta Yoga School, and studied Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Patras.
Her collaborations include Youth Dance Company Greece with Zoi Efstathiou, Amalgama Dance Company directed by Maria Gorgia, and projects choreographed by Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis. Her training also included work with Christina Sougioultzi, Penny Diamantopoulou, Alexandros Stavropoulos and Kyriakos Kosmidis.
Selected presentation: LAGO in Lisbon — JÁ International Theatre.
Read the full portfolio ↗Martina Kosta Diankova is a choreographer, dancer and movement artist based in Athens, Greece, with Greek and Bulgarian roots. Her work spans live performance, dance film, photography, yoga and mermaid performance.
Her selected works include the solo performance LAGO, the photography and dance-film project Fig-ure, M.An.. / revisited, and In-DepenDance. She also creates work for the camera and has choreographed with (R)evelators.
Martina is the owner of Flaouer Hub, an arts and movement space at Agathonos 6 in Monastiraki, Athens. Visit Flaouer Hub for current classes and contact the space for availability. Current classes at Flaouer Hub ↗
Yoga for Dancers (YfD) is Martina’s movement practice bringing together her dance and yoga work. It explores body awareness, attention and the body’s capacity to change.
Martina is the owner and performer behind Mermaid. Her mermaid practice combines movement, storytelling and guided experiences in the water. Visit Become Mermaid for details. Discover Mermaid ↗
For performances and artistic collaborations, email flaouercompany@gmail.com via Flaouer Hub. Include your project, location and proposed dates so Martina can respond to your enquiry. Email ↗
