Pavlos Kountouriotis

From Sweet and Tender

is a Lecturer in Performance and Dance Studies at the University of Chester. He holds MA in Body in Performance from Laban, an Advanced LLM in Public International Law, a BA in International Relations and Diplomacy. He currecntly pursues his doctoral interests that range from violence to spectatorship to jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice to pornography, performativity and failure.

He has received scholarships from Onasis Foundation, Asian Europe Foundation, DanceWebEurope, Fullbright Foundation and the Foundation of State Scholarships of Greece. Has participated in a plethora of dance seminars and worskhops around Europe.

He has worked in Documenta 12 for Trisha Brown, has had his internship at the DanceTheater of the National Theater of Northern Greece, has also worked for Kirsten DeBrock, AYA Rozentheater and Dinos Fanaras Greek Dance Theater and for a S&T with Meg Stuart.

He has choreographed the Companhia Instavel ("The Revenge of the Blondes: Camping Violence) and he has presented his solo performance Lecture "Regarding the Pain of Others" in several countries.

He has recently published an article on "Nudity, Nakedness, Otherness and a Still difficult Spectator" at Movement Research Performance Journal (2009) and he is now writing on Camp Aesthetics on YouTube.