Born 1989 in Helsinki, Finland
Based between Amsterdam & Berlin
EDUCATION
2012-2016 Choreography BA, SNDO, School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam
2011-2012 Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Austria
Distributors
Something Great, Berlin
Some Shorts, The Netherlands
LIMA, The Netherlands
AV-Arkki, Finland
Awards/Merits
2022 Silver Lion, Venice Biennale
2018 Nominated for "Judges’ Choice Award/shows with a finger on the pulse of social change", Dublin Fringe
2018 Winner of The Total Theatre Awards, emerging category, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
2018 Winner of "Spirit of CUFF Award", Chicago Underground Film Festival
2017 “One of the TOP10 theatre works of 2017”, Falter, (‘Cock, Cock.. Who’s there?’)
2017 Nominated for Forum van de Regisseurs, Nederlands Film Festival
2017 Nominated for QueerArt competition, QueerLisboa
2017 Nominated for best international films at Transcinema, Peru
2017 Nominated as “Promising Talent of 2017, Tanz Magazine
2017 Nominated for the BNG Bank Nieuwe Theatermakersprijs
2017 Winner of The Prix Jardin d’Europe, Impulstanz, Vienna
2017 Nominated for CPH:DOX’s main competition DOX:AWARD (Craigslist Allstars)
2016 Winner of André Veltkamp Award with Cock, Cock.. Who's There?
2016 DanceWEB scholarship, Impulstanz, mentor Tino Sehgal
2014 Winner of visual art competition “Blooom Awards”, Art.Fair Cologne (Four Kings)
Film Festivals
2024 You can’t get what you want but you can get me, International Film Festival Rotterdam
2022 Seek Bromance, Helsinki Film Festival Love and Anarchy
2021 Seek Bromance, IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
2018 Craigslist Allstars, CUFF Chicago Underground Film Festival
2018 Craigslist Allstars, EDOC, Ecuador
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Ambulante, Mexico City
2018 Craigslist Allstars, Nordic Film Festival, Reykjavik
2018 Craigslist Allstars, Finnfilm Napok, Budapest
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Transcinema, Peru
2017 Craigslist Allstars, This Human World - International Human Rights Film Festival'
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Rokumentti film Festival, Joensuu
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Nederlands film festival, Utrecht (Nominated for art film competition)
2017 Craigslist Allstars, QueerLisboa, Lissabon (Nominated for QueerArt competition)
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy, Helsinki
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Open City Documentary Festival, London
2017 Craigslist Allstars, DokuFest Kosovo, Prizren
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Encounters, Cape Town
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Docs Against Gravity, Wrocław + Warsaw
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Cinedoc Tbilisi, Tbilisi
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Beldocs, Belgrade
2017 Craigslist Allstars, DokFest Munchen, Munich
2017 Craigslist Allstars, nominated to DOX:AWARD, CPH:DOX 2017, Copenhagen
2016 Craigslist Allstars, IDFA, International Documentary festival of Amsterdam
2015 Four Kings, Official selection of Doc outlook international market, media library of Visions Du Réel.
Selected Exhibitions
2024/25 You can’t get what you want but you can get me, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki
2023 You can’t get what you want but you can get me, Galleria Sculptor, Nuoret23, Helsinki
2019 The Young and The Willing, S.A.L.T.S Gallery, Basel
2019 The Young and The Willing, LI-MA, Amsterdam
2018 The Young and The Willing, Actoral Festival, Marseille
2018 Craigslist Allstars, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2018 The Young and The Willing, FLAM festival, Amsterdam
2018 The Young and The Willing, La Breda in association with BREDAphoto
2018 Craigslist Allstars; The Young and The Willing. Wiesbaden Biennale
2017 The Young and The Willing, The White Chapel Gallery, London
2017 The Young and The Willing, work in progress showing,Third Space Gallery, Helsinki
2017 The Young and The Willing, work in progress showing Veem House For Performance
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Mumok Vienna
2017 Craigslist Allstars, The EYE film museum, Amsterdam
2017 The Ukrainian, Baby I like it Raw -exhibition, Czech Center, New York
2017 Four Kings, Art.Fair Rotterdam
2015 The Ukrainian & Suck My Disc, Art/Life Institute, Kingston, New York
2015 Craigslist Allstars, Mitsume Gallery, Tokyo
2014 Four Kings, Blooom Award, Art.Fair, Cologne
Performance Festivals / venues
2023 Seek Bromance, Nowy Teatr, Warsaw
2023 Seek Bromance, Inkonst, Malmö
2023 Seek Bromance, Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn
2023 Seek Bromance, Impulstanz, Vienna
2023 Seek Bromance, HAU, Berlin
2023 Seek Bromance, Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam
2023 Seek Bromance, Teatro Do Bairro Alto, Lisbon
2022 Seek Bromance, Black Box teater, Oslo
2022 Seek Bromance, Campo, Ghent
2022 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There?, Usine-C, Montreal
2022 Seek Bromance, Tanzquartier Vienna
2022 Seek Bromance, Theater Rotterdam
2022 Seek Bromance, Actoral Festival, Marseille
2022 Seek Bromance, Wiesbaden Biennale, Wiesbaden
2022 Seek Bromance, Ruhrtriennale, Essen
2022 Seek Bromance, Venice Biennale, Venice
2022 Seek Bromance, Spider Festival, Ljubljana
2022 Seek Bromance, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
2022 Seek Bromance, Arsenic, Lausanne
2022 Seek Bromance, Bit Teatergarasjen, Bergen
2021 Seek Bromance, Spring Festival, Utrecht
2020 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? Teatro Do Bairro Alto, Lisbon
2020 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? Adelaide Festival, Adelaide
2020 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? 4+4 Days in Motion, Prague
2019 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? La Biennale in Toulouse, Théâtre De la Cité
2019 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? Short Theatre, Rome
2019 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? Nowy Teatr, Warsaw
2019 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? Cambridge Junction, Cambridge
2019 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Take me Somewhere Festival, Glasgow
2019 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? Brighton Fringe, Brighton
2019 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? It’s the Real Thing, Basel
2019 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? Program Commun, Lausanne
2019 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? 100% festival, La Villette, Paris
2019 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Side Step Festival, Zodiak, Helsinki
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Spectacular Festival, Reykjavik
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Actoral Festival, Marseille
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Dublin Fringe Festival
2018 Cock, Cock.. ;Craigslist Allstars; Wiesbaden Biennale
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Tampere International Theatre Festival
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Edinburgh Fringe Festival
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Uppsala Stadsteater
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? IPAF festival, Warehouse9, Copenhagen
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Labo festival, Cullberg ballet/Stockholm
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? + Craigslist Allstars, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Kaaitheater, Brussels
2018 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Gesnerallee, Zürich
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Campo, Ghent
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Theatre Bellevue, Amsterdam
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Magro Theater, Mantova
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Rotterdamse schouwburg
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Spider festival, Ljubljana
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Homo Novus festival, Riga
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Doc Lounge Stockholm
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? Black Box, Oslo
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Impulstanz, Vienna
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Virtual Desires, University of Witten/Herdecke
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Santarcangelo Festival, Santarcangelo
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Hango Teaterträff
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, The EYE film museum, Amsterdam
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There? + Craigslist Allstars, Spring Festival, Utrecht
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Radical Jung theatre Festival, Munich
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Festival Extra Ball, Paris
2017 Craigslist Allstars, Motel Mazaique festival, Rotterdam
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Campo, Ghent
2017 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Something Raw festival, Amsterdam
2017 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? , Mad House, Helsinki
2016 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Les Urbaines, Lausanne
2016 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, NU performance Festival, Tallinn
2016 Cock, Cock… Who’s There?, Frascati theatre, Amsterdam
2016 Cock, Cock.. Who’s There?, Theater Aan Zee, Ostende
Press
All press and reviews: www.samiraelagoz.com/press/
Panels / lectures
2020 Public discussion with Guardian journalist David Marr, Adelaide
2019 Performing Trauma, Side Step Festival, Helsinki
2019 Ethics of Interventionist Filmmaking, Helsinki Art University
2018 Projection Booth, film podcast on Craigslist Allstars
2018 “Female Gaze” -Reykjavik Arts University
2018 “Intimacy & Violence in a Digital Age” - IPAF, Copenhagen
2018 “Boundaries between art and life, form and theme” - Bit Teatergarasjen, Bergen
2018 “On Trauma & Creativity” - Kaaitheater, Brussels
2018 “Female Gaze” - Finn FilmNapok, Budapest
2017 Teaching workshop on “Digital Desire”, Witten
2017 "Strategies for new kind of stage" - Teaterträffen, Hanko
2017 "Crazy journey with Samira Elagoz around the world of virtual dates" - Docs Against Gravity, Warsaw
2017 "Art of the Real" - Encounters Festival, Cape Town
Publication
2022 “Lovers at Public Execution”, King Kong Magazine, Edition - BODY POLITICS: ON MASCULINITY
2017 Essay ‘What I saw and how I lied’ for a book "Post-Dance" by Mårten Spångberg, Danjel Andersson, Mette Edvardsen
2016 “Stranger Odyssey”, for Belgian art magazine Rektoverso (issue on gender/women in the arts)
Other Useful work experience
Hospital cleaner
Card dealer at a casino
Shot girl at a German nightclub
Waitress at a mall
Subway “sandwich artist”
Fair guide for tech boys
Perfume seller
Cafeteria waitress
Grocery packer
Jewellery and luxury watch seller
High heels salesman
Berry and vegetable seller at the local market