Alexandros Stavros Papadakis
Who are you as a performer/artist?
I am a person who tries to offer myself in an honest and respectful way in every process. I try to dive into the world of creation with a clear mind and openness.
What are your ambitions?
I aim to feel liberty towards every artistic step I choose to take. My wish is to find always something new or something that triggers me in a lot of ways. I love to learn, to explore, to experience physically, mentally and emotionally new things. With this way I feel I learn more myself as an artist and person. If I could give a wish to my future person, it would be to stay honest and open-minded, to take every chance to meet new people, places and stay always yourself.
Where do you find inspiration?
I take a lot of inspiration from video games. Each video game presents different stories of people that create imaginary worlds and universes in their minds. It’s amazing to me how an imaginary world can take a form in our existing dimension and what tools we use in order to make it realistic, touchable with our senses.
Our world is big and in order to keep balance we need to collaborate with each other, to find meaning and motivation in whatever we choose to do in our lives and share thoughts and feelings. We have been made in order to create and to build. However, despite our rapid evolution as humanity, we are still in the early stages of development. We need to include much more the emotion of love and care because there is plenty of it within the souls of people. With art we can create many valuable sources of emotions and social messages with the aim of unifying, understanding and expressing the human soul.
What did you do during your internship & what did you learn?
This season I have been an intern at Staats theater Kassel. At the same time, I was involved in teaching, choreography, songwriting, and modeling. I had the chance to participate and to dance in productions and school performances, to collaborate and create pieces with other dancers as a music producer and to meet new people from all around the world. On the side and I signed a professional contract with “VN Models” agency in Athens and my first work took place in Athens last March, I created Italian and Greek songs that I aim to release on Spotify platform. During my internship, I had to teach and choreograph in an Italian dance school and to plan dance workshops at Portugal and Italy for the next season. Last, inside of a beautiful communication I had with the director of an Italian company that I was interesting to dance as a professional dancer, I had to refuse an offer for next season, since I wouldn’t continue to dance. The reason is, that I had to deal with a chronic pain syndrome in my L4 articulation that unfortunately forced me to interrupt my participation in the last dance tour in Germany with the company and participate in the last performances at the Staats. I followed a research process to find the appropriate treatment through numerous appointments with clinic doctors who specialize specifically in spinal problems. All of these experiences have given me many important insights and improved me as a person and artist. I feel grateful that I had the chance and opportunity to experience wonderful, special, demanding, difficult and sad moments that for sure will remain etched in my heart. Life offers us many moments and opportunities, but it is up to us how we take advantage of them, who are the people that we choose to have in our life and what makes us really happy. I would really like to give my best wishes to my teachers, my incredible talented classmates and friends, and to wish them to be always healthy and happy in their lives. Also, I would like to give special appreciation and respect for two incredibly supportive, special people, Reut Aviran-Yagel and Leslie Humbert that they gave me support and care this year.
“Don’t try to add years to your life. Instead, add life to your years.”
- Blaise Pascal
This page was last updated on July 6, 2025