Great Choreographers-Interviews

Natasha Hassiotis (LLB, MA, MBA) is a dance critic and historian. She started her professional career in 1992. She worked in numerous magazines and newspapers as well as radio and television: To Vima, Imerissia, Avgi, Elle, Votre Beauté, faqpress, Taxydromos, Ballet/Tanz, Dance Theatre Journal, Danza & Danza, Seven X TV, National Greek Television and more. Since 2000, she has been teaching dance history at the National School of Dance. She has translated eleven books, among them the unexpurgated Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky. She is interested in education, new technologies, dance and politics, gender issues, psychoanalysis, and pop culture. She has made a documentary on contemporary dance in Greece (NET 2001), which is at the New York Public Library. Her video dance “Lois and Clark” was presented at PACT-Zollverein (2004), while her second one, titled “The Splendour and the Blaze” (2006) has women murderers of the ancient drama as its central theme. She has furthermore represented her country in international fora worldwide, and she has taught extensively. She has been a member of the Funding Committee of the Ministry of Culture (1997–2004), vice-president of the WDA-Europe, and chairwoman of the Association of the Friends of the National School of Dance. She is a member of the Committee of the Ministry of Culture for the Professional Dance Schools in Greece.