Dafni Stefanou is a Greek dancer, choreographer and teacher, born in 1976. She graduated from the National Dance School of Athens and was selected for the x-project postgraduate programme at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. As a dancer, she has worked with numerous choreographers, dancers, visual artists and musicians.
Since 2008, she has devoted herself mainly to improvisation as a form of instant composition between dance and music, and she also develops her own work in the form of site-specific performances. Her collaborators include Angeliki Stellatou, Billie Hanne, Dimitris Papaioannou, Dimitra Lazaridou-Hadzigoga, Le Quan Ninh, Frank Gratkowski, Esther Klinkers, Julyen Hamilton, Ilan Manouach, Irena Tomazin, Jonas Kocher, Kris Verdonck, Konstantinos Mihos, Lily Kiara and Marjolaine Charbin, among others. In 2012, she created the solo One, choreographed by Biel-based Susanne Mueller-Nelson.
Dafni Stefanou is based in Biel/Bienne (CH) since 2015. Since summer 2024, she is a certified Skinner Releasing Technique™ (SRT) teacher.
