MEDIATHEK

Konstantinos Rigos was born in Athens in 1967. He studied Economics at the University of Athens, and graduated from the State Dance School in 1993. He has worked as a choreographer, performer, visual artist, artistic director of the National Theatre of Northern Greece Dance-Theatre (2001-2005), and as a director. He has worked with leading cinema and theatre directors of contemporary and ancient drama in theatrical, television and cinematic productions. He founded the OKTANA Dancetheatre company in 1990, and has directed and choreographed all their productions to date, including Les Noces, Room 5, The garden, Daphnis and Chloe, The Athlete, The 5 Seasons, Hotel Orpheus, Icarus - Explosive Decompression, La Dame aux Camelias, Alceste, The Boxing Ring, Crazy Happiness, Utopia, Winterreise and Draft b: Free Besieged. He was awarded the Second Prize in 1990 and the First Prize in 1992 in the Athens Municipal Choreography Competition, and the National Dance Award in 1995 for Daphnis and Chloe and once more the following year for The 5 Seasons, the National Choreography Award in 1999 for Boxing Ring, and once again in 2001 for Crazy Happiness. He was also awarded the 1st Melina Merkouri Award for achievement in choreography in 1997.