Fani Pozidi - Growing a Mane
02.11.2026 — 13.11.2026
"In my practice I attempt to approach creation and performance through an interdisciplinary lens, experimenting with different media as embodied forms of inquiry. During my residency at STUK I will explore how the embodied experiences of exhaustion, despair and loss that neoliberal reality produces can be transformed into a site of collective expression and connection. Through my practice of charging & discharging, in which intense physicality, textuality and vocalization intertwine to produce cycles of tension and release, I want to explore how states usually dismissed as negative or private can become political gestures of resistance by creating alternative temporalities."
Fani is a performer and choreographer based in Belgium and Greece. She holds a BA in Dance, an MA in Dance from the Conservatoire of Antwerp, and a BSc in Chemistry. Her artistic practice explores affect and embodied experience in relation to the politics of the body and movement, through the intersection
of movement with sound, text, and other media. Alongside dance, she has studied music and occasionally enjoys playing the drums as a self taught amateur.
As a performer, she has collaborated with Martha Pasakopoulou, Héctor Espuela Pablo, Marcos Morau, Tzeni Argyriou, Stephanie Jenaina, Bode Plot, Jeremiah Day, and La Coja Dansa. She has also directed movement for theatre and short films.
Her works have been presented at festivals and residencies. In May 2026, she presented her first full- length work, Growing A Mane, as part of the Master Dance Residency Festival at De Singel in Antwerp. Earlier works of hers include sorry to burst your bubble... (2023) and One a̶n̶d̶only (2024). She continues to develop her choreographic practice through artistic residencies and collaborations with spaces like Antisezona (Zagreb).