In 1998, at the age of thirteen, he gave his first official performance while in 2000 he gave performances in Sydney and Melbourne participating in the relevant Cultural Olympics Games. Highlighted career moment was his participation in the Closing Ceremony of the Special Olympics ATHENS 2011, in July 2011 at Kallimarmaro Panathenaic Stadium where through his voice, figures and scenes he represented and exalted Greek Shadow Theater. Today, Konstantinos is a permanent collaborator of the “Shadow Theater Museum Haridimos” while he directs and presents traditional and modern performances both for adults and children, providing  this Spectacle through a more artistic, spiritual and innovative aspect.

Having followed different paths through the life of music and dance, and having been involved in several artistic creations, they seek to highlight the common elements and experiences that the art of dance and music can bring them and disseminate it to their audience. The group came together in order to share their knowledge and develop their ideas for stage presentation and dance education. Their love for traditional dance led them to learn more about traditional dances from the Balkan region and add them to their repertoire by making the group unique in their field.

They have taken part in many shows in Greece and in cities all over the world. In 2019 they spent 4 months touring France presenting their dance and music show: “SUR LA ROUTE DE BALKANS – IN THE ROAD OF THE BALKANS”.  The Show had 80 SOLD OUT spectacles all over France. Artisstep prepared a show incorporating 9 more dancers and 8 musicians and they performed 13 choreographies with traditional dances from 9 different Balkan countries!

You can follow them on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, where you can discover and learn all about their work.

You can also find his latest work at his personal webpage  www.panospristouris.com

In 2016 he began studying at the Athens School of Fine Arts with a specialization in painting. His inherent creativity and curiosity led him to experiment with various art forms. Such as photography, videography, ceramics, mosaic, embroidery, engraving, fueling even more his passion for the art of stop motion and to write and create comics, which he intends to pursue and develop even more. Markos goes under the nickname Blessed Zines and has attended many conventions and festivals, such as LAComics Festival vol 2 (2020), Comicdom (2019), Zinefest (2018), Zineit (2017) to showcase his work. Furthermore, he has featured in exhibitions, like Oresteia Reversed and Still Frames Animated Music. You can follow him on Instagram (blessed_zines), where you can discover and learn all about his new creations.

She tries to capture those moments and keep them in the present day, preventing them from becoming memories over time, to be lost. As shown in her works, she has been strongly influenced by the African art movement as well as by her studies in Architecture.At the same time, her need to approach art through the eyes of children led her to pursue a Postgraduate Degree in “Education in the Arts” at the University of Nicosia. In 2019, she was selected by the Hellenic Union of Greek Chemists (ECHO) to design the awards given to four Greek Chemists for their contribution to the Science of Chemistry in their professional field, as well as to two students who won a medal at the 50th Chemistry Olympiad (ICHO) 2018.

She took her first professional steps at the Acting School “FIRST ACT” as a stage assistant to the stage designer Anna Mahairianakis for stage and costume curating of student performances from 2009 to 2012. In the theatrical show “Which body”, directed by Menelaos Karatzas in 2015, she worked as a set designer assistant. She participated as a principal set designer / costume designer in the theatrical show of Iakovos Kampanelis “Funeral” directed by Tassos Halkias, in the summer of 2016. Later on she participated as an assistant director and costume designer for the theatrical play “The court of wanders”, by Iakovos Kampanelis, for the Marathon Summer Festival directed bh Tassos Halkias.

Along with Architecture, his interests are spread in visual arts, photography and sculpture. He collaborated with the internationally renowned photographer Gianpaolo Barbieri in editing the scenery of a new “I Personaggi di Shakespeare” photographic project, for an exhibition and for publication of a book. The autumn of 2018, with the auspices of the Italian Institute of the Hong Kong Consulate, he presented a workshop with the work of the photographers Gian Paolo Barbieri, Rohn Meijer and Alessandro Treves.

In 2018, he wrote his first theatrical work for a series of performances titled “Dipingere in Corsivo”, “Memorie di Giorgio De Chirico” presented at the opening of the Monza Municipal Museum and shortly thereafter at the Villa Reale di Monza museum, to accompany the exhibition “From Hayez to De Chrico”.

In Milan, he deals with the care and construction of exhibition spaces for international companies and jewelry design companies.

Composition, perspective, light and feeling make his pictures special. But pleasure is the word that can describe better what Spyros gets when he is photo-shooting. And professionalism with pleasure gives you success! Spyros often collaborates with emerging and established artists, theaters, galleries, companies, designers and architects, while also counting household names such as R.C.Tech, Stolichnaya, Drakos Engineering and Redroundgallery among his clients. Spyros is currently based in Athens, Greece, EU.