Dr. Gina Giotaki is Assistant Professor in Dance at the Department of Performing & Digital Arts at the University of the Peloponnese. She is a member of the Advisory Committee for Dance of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, and of the interministerial working group for the Pilot Programme for Cultural Prescription in Greece. She is also a Research Associate at the NHS Research and Development Northwest Department (UK), where she contributed to the design of research and innovation programmes for healthcare professionals funded by Health Education England.

Dr. Giotaki has extensive experience in Higher Education in both Greece and the United Kingdom, having served for several years as Senior Lecturer in Dance at Edge Hill University and Liverpool John Moores University, where she led the BA (Hons) Dance Practices programme and developed outreach initiatives and collaborations with artistic and educational organisations. She has also taught at Coventry University and Ionian University.

She is a choreographer and certified Somatic Movement Educator in the Body-Mind Centering® method. Her academic and artistic practice has been shaped through the British tradition of practice-based research in dance and the performing arts. Her ongoing research and artistic work focuses on the development of an interdisciplinary pedagogical, creative and research framework grounded in theories of embodiment and the lived-body, and on the application of somatic practices in contemporary dance and intermedial performance, performer training, and dance practices in community and health contexts. Through artistic research and choreographic practice, she explores ways in which knowledge drawn from contemporary dance and somatic practices may inform pedagogy and creative processes, enhance lived experience in intermedial performance, support applications of technology in dance and intangible cultural heritage research, and contribute to interdisciplinary dialogues around well-being and health provision services.

She has collaborated with major artistic organisations such as English National Ballet, Richard Alston Dance Company, Shobhana Jeyasingh Dance Company and Liverpool Improvisation Collective, as well as with artists including Miranda Tufnell, Karen Nelson, Katy Dymoke, Andrea Buckley, Kyle Sheldon, Pauline Brooks and Sue Ackroyd. She holds a PhD in Dance from Coventry University, an MA in Dance Studies from the University of Surrey, and a first-class BA (Hons) in Community Dance from Liverpool John Moores University.

·  Black, S. & Giotaki, G. (eds.) (2027, forthcoming). Our Dance Democracy: Ethics, Equity and Reach. London: Routledge.

·  Black, S. & Giotaki, G. (2027, forthcoming). ‘Docile or Empowered Bodies? Negotiating the Potentiality for Emancipation and Social Engagement in Somatically-informed Dance Practice’. In: Black, S. & Giotaki, G. (eds.), Our Dance Democracy: Ethics, Equity and Reach. London: Routledge.

·  Giotaki, T., Zoniou, C., Kosti, K., Tzartzani, I. & Tsichli-Bouassona, A. (2025, forthcoming). ‘Inclusion through the Performing Arts: Presentation of the Programme “Addressing Roma School Segregation through the Performing Arts”’. In: Proceedings of the 7th Panhellenic Conference of Theatre Studies Theatre and its Arts: History, Theory and Practice, 27 September – 1 October 2023.

·  Giotaki, G. (2025). ‘Embodiment – Ενσωμάτωση’. Entry/translation of the term embodiment in the Approaches Music Therapy Lexicon, Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy. Available at: Approaches Music Therapy Lexicon (Accessed: 16 May 2026).

·  Bratchford, G., Giotaki, G. & Wewiora, L. (2018). ‘Socially Engaged Photography and Wellbeing: Reflections on a Case Study in the Northwest of England’. London Journal of Primary Care, 10(4), pp. 82–88.

·  Gupta, S. et al. (2018). ‘How Primary Care can Contribute to Good Mental Health in Adults’. London Journal of Primary Care, 10(1), pp. 3–7.

·  Thomas, S., Jenkins, R., Burch, T., Nasir, L.C., Fisher, B., Giotaki, G., Gnani, S., Hertel, L., Marks, M., Mathers, N., Millington-Sanders, C., Morris, D., Ruprah-Shah, B., Stange, K., Thomas, P., White, R. & Wright, F. (2016). ‘Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Mental Illness in General Practice’. London Journal of Primary Care, 8, pp. 3–9.

·  Giotaki, G. (2014). ‘Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance’. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, 6(1).