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This class explores the balance between the individual and the group: between taking space and making space, personal expression and collective awareness. Dancers are encouraged to challenge their limits and fully “shine,” while remaining attentive to the larger group.
The studio becomes a microcosm of society, where individual growth is inseparable from collective responsibility. We work toward becoming “clever dancers” — performers who listen, adapt, support and contribute, developing sensitivity to timing, space and presence, and learning when to lead, follow or hold space for others.
The physical work is grounded in weight, rhythm and full-body engagement, drawing from contemporary techniques, martial arts and floor work. Improvisation and contact work encourage personal voice and an appreciation of individual differences.
The class combines demanding physical training with curiosity, playfulness and joy, inviting dancers to explore not only their own physicality, but also how they relate to and contribute to a group.
Stella Zannou was born in Athens and studied dance at the London College of Dance, London Studio Centre, The American College of Greece and the Greek State School of Dance. After working as a dancer and choreographer with Prosxima Dance Company, she founded Smack Dance Company in Greece. Since 2009, she has been based in Berlin as a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher.
As a dancer, she has worked with artists and institutions including Christopher Roman, Johannes Wieland / Staatstheater Kassel, Walter Bickmann, Maya Lipsker, Alexander Carrillo, Clint Lutes, Richard Siegal, Editta Braun and others. As a choreographer, she has created work for the Vienna State Opera, Staatstheater Kassel, S.E.A.D., Sozo Visions in Motion, Anton Bruckner Private University and Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance, among others.
She teaches regularly in Berlin at Marameo, Tanzfabrik, Dock 11, cie Toula Limnaios, B12 and Danceworks, and internationally at institutions and festivals including Staatstheater Braunschweig, S.E.A.D., PRODA Oslo, Anton Bruckner Private University, the University of Music and Dance Cologne, Hollins University and Akropoditi International Dance Festival.
Since 2025, Stella has been the movement director of the Berlin-based theatre group Ithakt, under the direction of Elena Sokratous.
In 2003, she received the Audience Award at the Budapest Solo Dance Festival for We Like Men Strong Cause They Last Longer, choreographed for Prosxima Dance Company. She was also selected as “Dancer of the Year” by Ballettanz magazine in 2003 and 2010.