SEED – Open Call Results

We are excited to welcome to the SEED – Social and Ecological Engagement through Dance project the selected artists from Greece and France!

👉 Learn more about the project here.

Four portrait photos are displayed on the left side, seemingly taped onto a red and turquoise background. Next to the four women, on the right side of the poster, handwritten capital letters read: “Selected artists from Greece and France.” The poster is framed by the logos of SEED, the organizations Liminal and L’éveilleur, as well as the EU’s Erasmus+ program.

In June, liminal and l’éveilleur invited dance artists and choreographers, with or without disabilities, to take part in an innovative European project and create in an environment where accessibility and environmental care are at the core of the artistic process.

The artist selection process was highly competitive, with many outstanding and inspiring proposals submitted from Greece and France. We warmly thank everyone who shared their work and ideas with us.

Meet the artists

Demy Papathanasiou

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Demy Papathanassiou is a Crip dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She uses walking and the extensions of her body, such as crutches, to trace new lines in space and reveal overlooked rhythms of the city. In 2025, she received a Culture Moves Europe grant to further her choreographic research through collaborative residencies. Her choreographic practice explores Crip Time—where slowness, resistance, and care become both artistic and political gestures. At its core, her work asks how accessibility, ecology, and interdependence can shape choreographic futures.

Maria Vlachou

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Maria Vlachou lives and works in Athens as a dancer, dance teacher, and Pilates instructor. She began dancing at a young age and in 2018 received her diploma as a dancer and dance teacher from the Greek Ministry of Culture, while also studying Biology at the University of Ioannina. In 2023, she participated in the inclusive choreography workshop “Making and unmaking dances” at ISON Dance Theatre, creating the choreography “Whose Voice is it?”. Later, as part of a mentored research residency, she collaborated with three other artists around the concept of “In & Out”, using tools such as automatic writing, spoken word, and instant composition. She is particularly interested in collaborative approaches to artistic creation and working in interdisciplinary environments.

Carla GrosJean

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Clara Grosjean is a dance artist based between Lyon, Amsterdam, and Saorge, in the French Alps. She began contemporary dance at the Conservatoire in Lyon and later earned a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts at Université Lumière Lyon 2. For six years, she lived and travelled across Europe, studying at the Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School, the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, and the Amsterdam University of the Arts, where she graduated in 2022 with a degree in Contemporary Dance.In 2024–2025, she created “Les Marées Sèches“, a long-duration choreographic performance for algae and a human, and she continues her research on anthropocentrism and ecology in performance and choreography.

Estelle Bezombes

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Estelle Bézombes is a contemporary dancer and choreographer. After training in Athens, Lyon and Berlin, she founded the EZO dance company in France in 2023. Her research explores how lived experience can be expressed and felt through the body, movement, and the audiovisual environment. Her work is inspired by the writings and productions of ecofeminist movements.As a performer, she collaborates with the CTC company (Grenoble), which focuses on mediation, inclusive projects, and ecology. She takes part in performances, in situ works in museums and cultural spaces, and in a rehabilitation center. She also dances and choreographs for video projects, connecting dance with visual arts and feature films.

What’s next

During the program, the selected artists will work closely with mentors specializing in accessibility and ecological sustainability in the arts and will take part in training seminars and collaborative activities in Athens and Avignon. Building on the knowledge they will gain, they will develop and implement their own inclusive, accessible and sustainable dance workshops and will contribute to the co-creation of a toolbox for accessible and sustainable artistic practices.

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The SEED project is funded by the Erasmus+ programme (KA210-ADU – Small-scale partnerships in adult education)