page_title: Ioanna Papantoniou
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Ioanna Papantoniou / Life / Work
caption_attribution_description: Ελληνικά: Ιωάννα Παπαντωνίου-Κάρολος Κουν
context_page_description: Ioanna Papantoniou is a Greek author, scenic designer, costume designer and folklorist. She is the founder and president of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation in Nafplio, winner of the 1981 European Museum of the Year Award.
context_section_description: Since 1971 Papantioniou made a notable professional career as a scenic and costume designer working along with Michael Elliott, Karolos Koun, Alexis Minotis, Katina Paxinou etc. She was the first female scenic designer of the National Theatre of Greece and Epidaurus' theatre.
  From 1992 until 1996 Papantoniou was professor at the universities of Athens and Peloponnese.
  From 1956 until the 1980s Papantoniou carried an extensive fieldwork throughout Greece, Cyprus and the Griko communities of Italy, gathering data and documents about the traditional culture, music and dance and also about the preindustrial technology and the old fashioned children games. Ioanna Papantoniou is also the author of several publications about the Greek local costumes and fashion.
caption: Ioanna Papantoniou and Karolos Koun
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