Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance and is currently studying at the Department of Audiovisual Arts (Ionian University). Her artistic practice focuses on the relationship between audiovisual media and movement, reconfiguring the expansion of the choreographic field. She has collaborated as a dancer, among others, with Iris Karayan, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Alexandra Waierstall, Lenio Kaklea, Katerina S. Andreou, Sofia Mavragani, Tzeni Argyriou, Patricia Apergi, Antonis Foniadakis, Brendan Fernandes, Harry Koushos, Thomas Moschopoulos, Ki omOs kineitai, Maria Koliopoulou, Artemis Lampiri, Sinequanon. Paraskevopoulou has been awarded the best performance prize for the video dance “Sans Attente” by Konstantinos Rizos at the InShadow–International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies and the second prize for the performance “Mneme-21″ by Maria Koliopoulou at the 5th International Dance Festival in Algiers. In 2019-2020, she was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS.

She created her choreographic video project “All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap” as part of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8. ALSIPBW was officially selected by several video art festivals and has been awarded the Best Sound Design Award at the FIVideodanza Festival, Mexico and the Best Video Art Award at the MIFVIF, Venezuela. She co-created the video dance “Battle of Fishes” (Best Cinematography – InShadow Screen Dance Festival)  in the context of Miniatures For Revolution – GNO Learning & Participation Department. She presented the duet “MOS” at Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9, which had its European premiere at the Julidans Festival NEXT (NL). In addition, she presented the 10-minute piece “Coconut Effect” at the 7th edition of Danse Élargie competition with which she won the Young Jury Award. The award was to re-stage the project with the students of the Conservatoire de Paris. “Coconut Effect (group version)” premiered on September 2023 at Théâtre de la Ville.

Having been part of Aerowaves with selected works by Iris Karayan (“Mothers“ and “Unauthorised“) and Christos Papadopoulos (“Elvedon” and “Opus“), her piece “MOS“ was selected to be one of  Aerowaves’ Twenty23 works. She recently presented the solo “All of My Love“, which premiered at Onassis Dance Days 2024 and co-created the project “Telos” with Maria Hassabi, Hannes Langolf and Ermira Goro. Ioanna is currently touring both “MOS” and “All of My Love” across Europe, while she is preparing her new project “Unseen Horses“, a collaboration with the Dance Theatre Heidelberg company.