Vicky Spanovangelis is a London-Athens based architect, choreographer, dancer, (Bartlett UCL, RCA, Trinity Laban London). Vicky has exhibited internationally, and directed design projects, artistic research collaborations and performances in the UK and abroad, in Greece, France, Germany, USA. Her doctoral research focuses on choreography & architecture as creative practice. Vicky teaches and lectures in higher education on multi-media performance, dance on screen and site-specific environments, previous teaching experience include Trinity Laban London, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, American College, Greece, Jacksonville University, USA, and most currently at the University of Stockholm. Sweden, Lithuania Music & Theatre Academy, Lithuania, and Estonia Academy of Music & Theatre, Estonia, and the University College London. In 2003, Vicky founded and is artistic director of ‘Nomads & Urban Dwellers’ a creative collective working at the intersection of body, film, movement, and space, cultural heritage, and digital technology with special interest in museum event architectures.  

Research

Vicky’s creative practice and research expertise includes architecture & choreography as interdisciplinary practice, cultural heritage practices of dance-ancestry, autoethnographic performance with contemporary-folk-dance fusion, screen media & interactive technology for performance space, kinaesthetic approaches to space for dancer-actor training.

Credentials

BSc. Arch, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, RIBA Part I
MA/Dip Arch. Royal College of Art, RIBA Part II
MA Dance, Trinity Laban London (2 years)
Professional Practice Certificate, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, RIBA Part III
ARB Member, Architects’ Registration Board, UK
RIBA Chartered Member, Royal Institute of British Architects, UK
PhD Candidate – University of Winchester, UK
Member of the International Society of Female Professionals
Academic Board Member (Architecture & Media-Technology), The Makings of the Actor