Andonis Foniadakis grew up in the city of Ierapetra, in the south of the island of Crete, Greece. He began his dance training with Niki Papadaki at the local dance school in his hometown. From 1990 to 1992, he studied at the Athens State School of Dance, after which he was awarded the prestigious Maria Callas Scholarship to continue his studies at the Rudra B\u00e9jart School-Workshop in Lausanne, Switzerland, until 1994.<\/p>\n
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As a dancer, Andonis collaborated with several companies: B\u00e9jart Ballet Lausanne (1994\u20131996) under the direction of Maurice B\u00e9jart, the Ballet de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Lyon (1996\u20132002) under the direction of Yorgos Loukos, and Karas Co. (2004) under the direction of Saburo Teshigawara.<\/p>\n
During his years with these companies, he performed numerous choreographic works, including those by Maguy Marin, Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n, William Forsythe, Dominique Boivin, Nacho Duato, Mats Ek, Maurice B\u00e9jart, Ohad Naharin, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Flamand, Bill T. Jones, Herv\u00e9 Robbe, Tero Saarinen, Lionel Hoche, Joachim Schl\u00f6mer, John Jasperse, Saburo Teshigawara, and others.<\/p>\n
As an independent choreographer, he has collaborated with many companies, including: Sydney Dance Company; CCN Ballet de Lorraine; Martha Graham Dance Company; Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet; Ballet of the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Gen\u00e8ve; Ballet de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Lyon; Ballet Jazz de Montr\u00e9al; Bern Ballett; Ballet du Rhin; Maggio Danza; National Dance Company of Wales; Dansgroep Amsterdam; Cia Sociedade Masculina (Brazil); Bal\u00e9 da Cidade de S\u00e3o Paulo (Brazil); Helsinki Dance Company (Finland); National Ballet of Greece; National Theatre of Northern Greece; Benjamin Millepied Dance Company (USA); Washington Ballet; B\u00e9jart Ballet Lausanne; Ballet Junior Gen\u00e8ve; Hellenic Dance Company; CNSMD Lyon; and Copenhagen International Dance.<\/p>\n
In 2003, Andonis Foniadakis founded his own dance company, Apotosoma, in Lyon, France. Since then, he has presented his creations in France, Greece, Italy, Finland, Luxembourg, Germany, England, and the United States.<\/p>\n
In 2012, he received the Danza & Danza Award for Best Choreographer in Italy for his creation Les Noces<\/em> for Maggio Danza.<\/p>\n In 2014, he collaborated with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky as a movement coordinator on the film NOAH. In 2018, he won the Award for Best Choreography from the Union of Music and Theatre Critics in Greece for his full-length work Galaxy<\/em>. Between 2016 and 2018, he served as Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Greece.<\/p>\n In addition to creating and performing, Andonis Foniadakis teaches through seminars based on his dance technique. He has taught, among others, at the Athens State School of Dance; DAN.C.CE Studios and Baile de Barrio in Athens; DOCK11 in Berlin; CND and CNSMD in Lyon; Dansgroep Amsterdam; Henny Jurriens Studio in Amsterdam; Kuopio Dance Festival; CCN Ballet de Lorraine; Martha Graham Dance Studios; and Broadway Dance Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andonis Foniadakis grew up in the city of Ierapetra, in the south of the island of Crete, Greece. He began his dance training with Niki Papadaki at the local dance school in his hometown. From 1990 to 1992, he studied at the Athens State School of Dance, after which he was awarded the prestigious Maria […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":940,"menu_order":85,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-image.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42755","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42755\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}