Christos Kissas

was born in Thes­sa­loni­ki in 1985. In mid-1998 he start­ed his first steps in dance as a self-taught dancer with the style “Pop­ping Ani­ma­tion”. Since 2000 until today he has been part of the break­dance group Total Real­i­ty, (one of the pio­neer­ing Hip-hop dance groups in Greece).

In 2005 a very seri­ous car acci­dent made him a dis­abled per­son (cranio-cere­bral injuries). This was a moti­va­tion for him to under­stand what it is he wants to do in his life. Through art, he was able to make leaps and bounds in both his health and his social life. Since then, he began to sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly attend and par­tic­i­pate in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary sem­i­nars, work­shops, and pro­grammes, both in Greece and abroad (under the aus­pices of the Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion and Reli­gious Affairs and the Greek Chore­o­g­ra­phers Asso­ci­a­tion), on heal­ing through the arts, the con­tri­bu­tion of art and sport in the devel­op­ment of social skills, as well as the ben­e­fits of includ­ing peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties in artis­tic activ­i­ties. In 2009 she became co-cre­ator of the exper­i­men­tal dance group “Dance and the Mind” which is still active today and con­sists of peo­ple with and with­out dis­abil­i­ties. As a mem­ber of this group, he has par­tic­i­pat­ed in var­i­ous artis­tic activ­i­ties, per­for­mances, and pre­sen­ta­tions.