Danielle Georgiou, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary artist whose work expands across dance, video, visual art, theatrical design, pedagogical engagements, and ritual. A first-generation Cypriot American, she was raised between the carob trees of Cyprus and the concrete of Dallas. The diasporic experience guides her creative practice which is centered on process, experimentation, play, and failure. Her stage, video, and studio work 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.Her work has been recognized locally and nationally for performance and choreography, and internationally as a visual artist, with exhibitions and presentations across the United States, Europe, and Canada.
Danielle is known for her collaborative approach to creating new dance and theatre works. Her projects often center the body as a site of inquiry—examining intimacy, power, and self-image—resulting in striking, deeply personal performance portraits. She works as a director and choreographer for theatre, dance, opera, and film, and is also one of the most in-demand intimacy and fight choreographers in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Her consent-based practice supports bold artistic vision while honoring performers’ boundaries.
Her directing and choreography credits include the world premiere of Stede Bonnet: A F*cking Pirate Musical at Theatre Three; the dance musical The Bippy Bobby Boo Show, which ran for three years at Theatre Three; and The Odyssey for Shakespeare Dallas. Through this work, she actively engages artists and institutions in expanding how physical performance, intimacy, and movement function within theatrical design.
Danielle has held artist residencies at Château d’Orquevaux in France, Mudhouse Residency in Crete, CentralTrak, and Dallas Public Libraries. She is also a published arts writer, with work appearing in The Dallas Morning News, Glasstire, Arts and Culture Texas Magazine, Art&Seek, and TheaterJones. In 2022, she was selected for the Robert L.B. Tobin Director–Designer Prize (Opera America) and completed advanced training in spatial dramaturgy and mask with Manifesto Poetico in Spain.
Since 2011, she has led the Danielle Georgiou Dance Group (DGDG), an ensemble-based dance theatre company dedicated to experimental and avant-garde performance. DGDG creates original dance plays and dance musicals that challenge traditional definitions of dance and theatre. The company has been named Best Dance Troupe by the Dallas Observer (2015, 2017, 2020) and Best Dance Company by D Magazine readers (2016).
Danielle earned her Ph.D. in Humanities (Aesthetic Studies) from the University of Texas at Dallas, with a focus on contemporary dance theatre and ensemble-based devising practices. She has taught at UT Arlington, UT Dallas, and Southern Methodist University, and is currently a Professor of Dance, Humanities, and Visual Art at Dallas College, where she also directs the Eastfield Dance Company.
She is represented by Ro2 Art and lives and works in Dallas, Texas.