Christos Papadopoulos (born 1982, Nemea, Greece) is a choreographer and founding member of the dance group The Lion and the Wolf, whose work draws on natural phenomena - flocking birds, glaciers, charged ions - and translates them into precise, meditative movement for the collective body. He trained in choreography at SNDO Amsterdam and in theatre at the Drama School of Greece's National Theatre, and has taught movement and improvisation at the Athens Conservatoire's drama school since 2003. His international breakthrough came with Elvedon (Aerowaves 2016) and Ion (2018), followed by Larsen C (2021), which toured over 25 European venues and won the Rose International Dance Prize at Sadler's Wells in February 2025. His 2025 work My Fierce Ignorant Step, described as his most personal to date, is nominated for the FEDORA Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Prize.
Papadopoulos presented the premiere of his new work My Fierce Ignorant Step at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens (May 7, 2025); the work is nominated for the FEDORA Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Prize 2025.
On February 8, 2025, Papadopoulos was announced as the winner of the Rose International Dance Prize of London's Sadler's Wells - an award associated with a prize of 40,000 pounds - for the work Larsen C.
Larsen C had its American premiere in October 2025 at the inaugural Powerhouse International festival in Brooklyn - the choreographer's very first performance in the USA.
In September 2024, Papadopoulos created a new work Ties Unseen for Netherlands Dance Theater (NDT 1), which embarked on a world tour.
My Fierce Ignorant Step continues its tour: in May 2026, a presentation is planned at the Parisian Théâtre de la Ville, as well as in Vienna (ImPulsTanz), Geneva, and Lyon.
😴 Nothing scheduled with this artist in the near future.
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