Concept and choreography: Milena Ugren Koulas Performed by: Elena Gavriel, Katerina Tylliridou, Magda Argyridou, Anna Nikolaou Music: George Koulas Photography: Pavlos Vrionides Supported by: Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture
Guest performance supported by: Aerowaves
In Memory Of…is a little choreographic work that belongs to my ongoing bigger research about how trauma affects people and how traumatic experiences shape the way we think, move, communicate and relate to others. In this piece I explored with the dancers some scientific research about trauma in an abstract and physical way. The tension of movement in the choreography, transitions between movement, and how we relate to each other were influenced by the information about what trauma is.
Milena Ugren Koulas was born in 1979 in former Yugoslavia. She graduated from Codarts University of Arts in Rotterdam in 2003 and in 2019 at COMMA Master Choreography in Holland. For the last 18 years she has been living and working as a professional dancer and choreographer in Cyprus. In collaboration with her husband, drummer George Koulas, Milena has been creating and performing in Cyprus and abroad in Serbia, Greece, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia and Turkey. Milena was one of the Aerowaves selected artists in 2015. In 2019/2020 she was a guest choreographer at Codarts University and in 2020 a guest teacher at COMMA Master Choreography.
