CyFitness CyFitness Mag Jan - Mar 2016 | Page 6

E Fenia Tsikitikou Elena Tsikitikou lena and Fenia Tsikitikou are professional dancers,choreographers, fitness instructor and fitness models. We got to know Elena and Fenia Tsikitikou from «So you think you can dance» in Greece, where Elena was the winner of the show and Fenia was one of the four finalists. In 2010 they graduated with honors from the Higher Professional Dance School "Andromache Kafantari". After that they moved to London to do Postgraduate Studies in Modern and Contemporary Dance. Initially they studied at Trinity Laban and afterwards they continued at London Contemporary Dance School. Fenia, after completing her first Postgraduate Diploma at Trinity Laban, she began working as a professional dancer and gave many performances around the world from Italy to North Korea, working with renowned dance companies. In 2013-2014 she had the role of “Velma” in famous musicals West Side Story, which toured throughout the United Kingdom and gave 250 performances. Elena studied for two more years at London Contemporary Dance School, specializing in choreography and performance of contemporary dance. In her second graduate was a member of the dance group “Edge”. She worked with some of the most renowned choreographers in the UK (Trisha Brown, Ben Wright, Yael Flexer) and toured in several cities around UK and other international destinations, including Israel, Portugal, Austria and Italy. The girls, during their stay in England worked with renowned professional dancers and choreographers and participated in many artistic events that included music videos, fashion shows and other artistic projects. Since September 2014 the girls divide their time between Greece and abroad, as their professional obligations require their presence in both. In November 2014 they did the official opening of TedX Athens 2014 with a choreography they inspired and also directed. The first two months of 2015 they collaborated with the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Birmingham and created the short film «Blind», a work that was intended to portray through movement the daily routine of a blind person. At the same time they created and present their own choreographed works at various Club Theaters in Greece and abroad and also worked as fitness models. This October, they began collaborating with some top Greek stars as Sakis Rouvas and Onirama, dancing in their shows. Now they are working with Incandescence Circus Theater in England and at the beginning of 2016 they will be back to Greece. Generally, their life always includes a lot of travelling but whatever they do and wherever they are, they are also training and spending daily time to the gym to keep fit. Fitness training is their next big love after dancing. The 䁅ɔ)