ABOUT

DANIELLE GEORGIOU makes the BODY the material and protagonist of her performances.
Dr. Danielle Georgiou is a first-generation Cypriot-American director, choreographer, and performer based in Dallas, TX. Her stage and video work deal with puzzles found in gender and cultural identity—vulnerability, deformity, and beauty. Danielle has gained local and national recognition for her work as a performer, director, and choreographer, and national and international recognition as a visual artist with her work exhibiting in Texas, New York, California, Florida, Crete, Scotland, Germany, Canada, Italy, and Cyprus. She is known for her emphasis on collaboration in creating new works of dance and theatre that explore contemporary gender dynamics, the personal nature of identity, and puzzles found in exploring vulnerability, deformity, and beauty. The resulting growing body of work is organized around transforming images of the self and producing unique and individualized portraits.
Danielle is a Director and Choreographer for theatre, dance, opera, and film, and also works as an Intimacy and Fight Choreographer for theatre and opera. Notably, she directed and choreographed the World Premiere of the musical Stede Bonnet: A F*cking Pirate Musical at Theatre Three. She co-created, directed, and choreographed the dance musical, The Bippy Bobby Boo Show, which ran for three years at Theatre Three. She recently co-directed and choreographed The Odyssey for Shakespeare Dallas. She works to engage diverse groups in learning new ways of integrating physical performance into theatrical design and expanding the scope of intimacy practices in the DFW metroplex by working as one of the most in-demand intimacy directors in the city. She employs a consent-based practice to support a director's vision while working within the actors’ boundaries.
In 2025, Danielle will be in residence at the Chateau Orquevaux Artist Residency in France, and she has held residencies at Mudhouse Residency (Crete, Greece), Dallas Public Libraries (Dallas, TX), and CentralTrak (Dallas, TX). She has also written for The Dallas Morning News, Glasstire, Arts and Culture Texas Magazine, Art&Seek, and TheaterJones. In 2022, she was selected as part of a team for the Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize (Opera America) and completed an intensive training workshop in spatial dramaturgy and mask with Manifesto Poetico (Spain).
Since 2011, she has directed the Danielle Georgiou Dance Group (DGDG), an ensemble-based, collaborative dance theatre group that works within the ideas of contemporary dance and physical theatre. DGDG explores the experimental and avant-garde nature of dance and theatre in their creations of original dance musicals and dance plays. The artists of DGDG constantly strive to transform themselves, either in image or skill. They work to create pieces that question what dance is and can be while pushing the boundaries of theatre. The Danielle Georgiou Dance Group was selected as Best Dance Troupe by the Dallas Observer for 2020, 2017, and 2015 and Best Dance Company for 2016 by the readers of D Magazine.
Danielle received her Ph.D. in Humanities-Aesthetic Studies (focus on Contemporary Dance Theatre and Devising/Ensemble-Based Theatrical Practices) from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2018. She has taught at the University of Texas at Arlington (Dance), the University of Texas at Dallas (Dance), and Southern Methodist University (Theatre). She is currently a Professor of Dance, Humanities, and Visual Art at Dallas College. She teaches courses in dance (ballet, modern dance, jazz dance, performance, dance appreciation), humanities (fine arts appreciation), and visual art (art appreciation), and directs the Eastfield Dance Company.
She is represented by Ro2 Art and is based in Dallas, TX.
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