NRg Abbey Wood (13-19’s) Spring Term

Vivian Triantafyllopoulou

Vivian Triantafyllopoulou comes from Greece and graduated from Trinity Laban with a 1st class degree in Contemporary Dance. She continued as a chosen member of the Akram Khan Experiment and then she joined Jasmin Vardimon 2 professional development course, where she performed a national tour with pieces from AΦΕ, Vinicius Salles and Jasmin Vardimon.
Since then, she has performed with Bittersuite Company, Vinicius Salles, Fernanda Prata, Ben Judd and Dionysios Tsaftaridis, Emily Robinson Dance, Follow Through Collective and others. She was also involved in The Lowry and Rambert choreographic project as a dancer for Melanie Lomoff. Vivian was a dancer and choreographer’s assistant for Hagit Yakira’s community project ‘On Falling and Recovery’ and rehearsal director for Hagit’s project Dance for Platinum at Royal Albert Hall (2018). Vivian has also curated a festival, choreographed performed and taught workshops for Museum of London.

Vivian teaches dance, dance theatre and improvisation to children, adults and professionals. She has taught for leading conservatoires and dance organisations such as Trinity Laban, The Place, City Lit, Greenwich Dance, National Dance Company of Wales and others. Vivian is the founder of a series of workshops; ‘Energy and flow’, a contemporary dance workshop and ‘Movement waves’ a community improvisation workshop which happens in and by the sea.
Vivian created her own dance company in 2019 and her work has been supported by Tripspace, Chisenhale Dance, Arts Council England, Dance cultural center and others.