​Konstantina Skalionta (b. 1990) is a Cyprus-based independent dance artist and performance maker.

 

Through practices such as improvisation, writing, drawing, and documentation, she creates performances that explore themes of belonging, visibility, female identity, and the body as landscape. Her work, the past five years, is often developed in collaboration with dramaturg Rodia Vomvolou.

 

In 2022, she occupied the outdoor grounds of Lemesos Castle, as Maria, an alter ego bride. This performance—8 Days Outside the Promised Castle—challenged the patriarchal promise of happiness by claiming the Castle from the authorities. Her most recent work, SIDE EFFECTS, draws from that action and premiered at the 24th Cyprus Choreography Platform (Rialto Theatre), later restaged for the On Bodies Festival at Dance House Lefkosia.

 

With an artistic presence spanning over a decade, she has created and presented work across theatrical and non-theatrical contexts in Cyprus, the UK, and Italy. She has participated in numerous festivals and platforms, including the Summer Dance Festival, Cyprus Choreography Platform, Open House Festival, On Bodies Festival, Xarkis Festival, +AXI Festival, and Larnaca Biennale in Cyprus; Ai Sogno de Corpo & Danza… and Sogna sulle rive del mare in Italy; and UK Young Artists Biennale 2019, Resolution, Swallowsfeet, Women of Mass Destruction, and Surrey Dance Festival in the UK.

 

Her work Be My Home was exhibited as part of Seeking Roots at NiMAC, and #NoFilterNeeded and Once There Was a Forest were shown at the State Gallery Majestic in Cyprus.

 

She was resident artist in programmes by the Dance House Lemesos, Dance House Lefkosia, Egomio Cultural Centre (Cyprus), the Lyric Theatre (London), NN Contemporary Gallery (Northampton), and Dance4's International Centre of Choreography (Nottingham). Between 2020–2022, she took part in the European research and education programme Micro and Macro Dramaturgies in Dance (Dance House Lemesos / Creative Europe).

 

As a movement director, she has collaborated with filmmakers including Elcid Asaei (UNSKIN) and Savvas Stavrou (Buffer Zone). As a performer, apart from performing her own work, she has worked with Petros Konnaris and Rodia Vomvolou, Arianna Economou, Zoe Georgallis, Artemis Evlogimenou, among others.

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Since 2022, she runs Improvisation into Performance, creating space and opportunities for adults who love to move and perform in Lemesos and Lefkosia. 

 

She is also an active advocate for the dance community in Cyprus, serving as President and Secretary of Nea Kinisis – the Association of Dance Groups, Dancers, and Choreographers in Cyprus (2021–2024), and currently as a board member of Dance House Lemesos (since 2024).

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​She holds a BA degree from Central School of Ballet and an MA from London Contemporary Dance School.