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Born and raised in Thessaloniki, she has been a champion of Greece in rhythmic gymnastics (1992/99) and member of the Greek national team. She graduated from the Kafantari Professional Dance School. From 2006 to 2009, she participated as a Demi-Soloist at the St Petersburg State Academic Yacobson Ballet Theatre (Russia), dancing classical, new-classical and modern repertoire such as Swan Lake, Giselle, Chopiniana, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Boléro, Carmen, etc. Moreover, she was a dancer at the Liberec State Theatre (Czech Republic, 2008) performing in numerous ballets. Since 2009 she has been a member of the Greek National Opera Ballet, where she has also danced soloist roles in such ballets as Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Cinderella, etc.
A graduate of the Professional Dance School of the Greek National Opera (diploma of dancer and teacher), she also holds diplomas in the examination system of the Royal Academy of Dance London. She studied for one year at the State School of Dance, Athens, and graduated from the Department of Greek Philology. In 2011 she was accepted at the New English Ballet Theatre (London). Since 2012 she has been a member of the Greek National Opera Ballet. She has danced roles in such works as The Nutcracker (Renato Zanella), Carmencitas (Maria Kousouni), The Sleeping Beauty (Pontus Lindberg), Giselle (Irek Mukhamedov), Carmen (Roland Petit), Air (Andonis Foniadakis), Giselle (Mats Ek), Arenal (Nacho Duato), Bitter Earth (Vangelis Bikos, Agapios Agapiadis), The Love Bacillus (Sofia Spyratou), the Opera and Fashion project (Konstantinos Rigos), etc. In 2015, she choreographed for the Open Rehearsal of Young Choreographers of the Greek National Opera. She worked in musical theatre and attended drama, voice, classical and modern dance masterclasses at the London and Berlin Academies.
Βorn in Tirana, Albania, he studied classical ballet at the Jordan Misja Academy of Dance. He continued at the State School of Dance, Athens, graduating with a diploma of teacher and choreographer. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Greek National Opera Ballet, having danced soloist roles in such works as Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, as well as modern and new-classical repertoire. From 1999 to 2016 he has been a member of Sofia Spyratou’s Hororoes dance group, participating in performances in Greece and abroad. From 2003 to 2010 he choreographed and danced in numerous artistic events in Greece.
Born in Drama, Northern Greece, he studied at the Elena Angelova-Kalfopoulou – Labrini Kalfopoulou Dance School and at the Professional Dance School of the Greek National Opera (teaching diploma with honours). Since 2018 he has been a member of the Greek National Opera Ballet. He has danced in performances of the Professional Dance School as well as of the Greek National Opera Ballet. He has participated in competitions in Greece and abroad and has received numerous distinctions. In 2013 he won a scholarship from Henny Jurriëns Foundation in Amsterdam for ballet and modern dance lessons. He has worked with such choreographers and dancers as Andonis Foniadakis, Konstantinos Rigos, Daphnis Kokkinos, Athanassia Kanellopoulou, Myrto Grapsa, Markella Manoliadi, Nina Botkay, Sascha Radetsky, etc. He has attended seminars with Kiril Ivanov, Omar Gordon, Daphnis Kokkinos, Olga Spyraki, Didier Chape, Manuel Ronda, etc.
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Born in Albania, he is a graduate of the Jordan Misja Dance Academy, Tirana, gradu- ating eighteen years old. For the next two years he worked as a Soloist at the Albanian State Opera Ballet. In 1993 he came in Greece and in 1995 he became a permanent dancer at the Ballet of the Greek National Opera. He attended dance classes at the Dutch National Ballet Academy (Amsterdam) and at Maurice Béjart’s dance company. As a Soloist of the Greek National Opera Ballet he has danced lead roles in such productions as Romeo and Juliet (Rudi van Dantzig and Renato Zanella), La Bayadère, Alles Walzer (Renato Zanella), Voyage to Eternity (Renato Zanella / Eleni Karaindrou), Don Quixote (Vladimir Vasiliev), La Fille mal gardée (Alexander Grant), Cinderella (Oleg Vinogradov), The Nutcracker (Renato Zanella). He has danced principal and soloist roles, among others, at the Athens Concert Hall and at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus.
Βorn in Athens, she studied at the Anna Petrova Professional Dance School and acquired all of the diplomas of London’s Royal Academy of Dance examination system. In 1990 she was hired as a member of the Greek National Opera Ballet, advancing to Principal Dancer in 1995 and Soloist in 2000. In 2001/02 season she worked with the Karlsruhe National Dance Theatre (Germany). From 2005 to 2017 she has been a dance instructor of the Greek State School of Dance, Athens. She has danced in numerous productions of the Ballet of the Greek National Opera performing major and minor roles. She has worked with prominent Greek and foreign choreographers such as Yannis Metsis, Leonidas De Pian, Igor Zelensky, Carol Armitage, Germinal Casado, Pierre Tavernier, Haris Mandafounis, Andonis Foniadakis, Irek Mukhamedov and more.
Born in Athens, she graduated from the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Athens, and the Anna Petrova Professional Dance School (dance teacher diploma). She attended a classical, modern and jazz dance seminar at the École Supérieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower. She was a member of the Ballet Studio of the GNO (1995-2002). Since 2002 she has been a permanent member of the GNO Ballet and since 2013 she is a Soloist. She has danced in productions such as Zorba the Greek, Le Corsaire, Raymonda, La Bayadère, Pinocchio, La Fille mal gardée, Romeo and Juliet, Giselle and Eugene Onegin. Moreover, she has performed lead roles in such ballets as The Snow Queen, Don Quixote, Alles Walzer, Boléro, Chopin in love, The Nutcracker, Voyage to Eternity, Cinderella, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. She has worked with choreographers Leonidas De Pian, Rey Barra, Lorca Massine, Irek Mukhamedov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Zoe Dimitriou, Rudi van Dantzig, Igor Zelensky, Renato Zanella, Yannick Boquin, Andonis Foniadakis and Douglas Lee.
Born in Athens, she graduated with honours from the State Choreography School of Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1988 she participated in the Varna International Ballet Competition. She did postgraduate studies at the Hamburg Opera School of Theatre (Alexander Onassis Foundation scholarship) and cooperated for two years with the Hamburg Ballet. She is a Soloist of the Ballet of the Greek National Opera having performed many lead roles. In 2005 she completed her studies in harmony, monody and drama at the National Conservatory, Athens, with honours and first prize. At the same time, she attends classical opera repertoire seminars in Paris with Elizabeth Vidal and gives concerts in Strasbourg and Paris. In 2017 she participated in the Εducational and Social Activities of the Greek National Opera as a dancer and a mezzo-soprano.
Βorn on Lefkas, Greece, he grew up with the musical culture and tradition of his island. He attended classical music lessons in the conservatory for many years, he studied at the Music High School of Lefkas and continued studying at the School of Drama of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He started classical ballet at the age of seventeen with Thomas Gountis and graduated from the Professional Dance School of the Greek National Opera with honours (2012). Later, he became a member of the Greek National Opera Ballet, where he has performed soloist roles and has collaborated with choreographers such as Vladimir Vasiliev, Renato Zanella, Pantelis Zikas, Ray Barra, Christiana Stefanou, Fokas Evangelinos, Sofia Spyratou, Thomas Gountis, Andonis Foniadakis, Douglas Lee, Benjamin Millepied, Alexander Ekman, Pontus Lindberg and Konstantinos Rigos.
Born in Greece, he began dancing at the age of seven. Αt the age of nineteen he got a dancing and a teaching diploma. He also holds diplomas of the examination system of the Royal Academy of Dance, London, and the Spanish National Dance Company. He attended Kira Kegel’s modern dance workshops. While still a student, he worked with the Niki Kontaxaki Dance Group, performing principal roles in the ballets Serenade, Le Corsaire, Giselle, Coppélia, Don Quixote, etc. He joined the Greek National Opera Ballet in 1999, then he became a Demi-Soloist (2003) and currently he is a Soloist. He has danced first roles in such ballets as The Nutcracker, La Bayadère, Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, Birds [Ornithes], Romeo and Juliet, Zorba the Greek, Four Last Songs, Baroque ’n’ Roll, The Moor’s Pavane, etc and in operas like The Manuscripts of Manuel Salinas, Rhea and Marathon-Salamis. He presented his own choreographies at the Greek National Opera Dance Box educational activity (2013) and at the Open Rehearsal of Young Choreographers of the Greek National Opera (2014).
Born in Athens, she studied with scholarship and graduated with distinction from the Niki Kontaxaki Professional Dance School. She received the diplomas of dancer and teacher from the Royal Academy of Dance, London. She has participated in various dance companies in Greece and China. She has been a member of the Ballet Studio of the Greek National Opera. Since 1996 she has been dancing with the Greek National Opera Ballet, where in 2003 she became a Demi-Soloist, in 2004 a Soloist and in 2008 a Principal Dancer. She has worked with numerous distinguished Greek and foreign choreographers. Her repertoire includes leading roles in classical and modern ballets such as Don Quixote, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Snow Queen, Giselle, Eugene Onegin, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Le Corsaire, La Fille mal gardée and Alles Walzer.
Born in Athens, she began dancing at the age of six at the Yannis Metsis Ballet School and continued with Vicky Marangopoulou. At the age of 12 she studied with a scholarship at the Hamburg Ballett John Neumeier. Moreover, she studied at the British National Opera Studio in London on a Peter Schaufuss scholarship, and later received a diploma as a teacher from the Greek State School of Dance. She joined the Ballet of the Greek National Opera in 1992 and in 2001 she became a Principal Dancer. At the Greek National Opera, she has interpreted such roles as Kitri (Don Quixote), Lilac Fairy and Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Myrtha (Giselle), Rose (The Snow Queen), Black swan (Swan Lake, Athens Concert Hall). Moreover, she has danced in operas such roles as Goddess Isis (Aida), Zapata’s wife (Canto General), Rhea (Spyros Samaras’ Rhea), Wu Ching-Hua (Nixon in China, Athens Concert Hall) and Bleeding dancer (Faust).
Born in Larissa, Greece, she studied with a scholarship at the Heinz Bosl Ballet Academy, Munich, while being invited to study at the American Dance Academy, at the Wiener Staatsoper Ballet Academy and at the École Supérieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower. She started her international career in 2018 and performed as a Principal Dancer at the Arena di Verona dancing in Franco Zeffirelli’s Aida (choreography by Vladimir Vasiliev and Suzanna Egri, 2018 & 2019) and La traviata (choreography by Giuseppe Picone, 2019) receiving extraordinary reviews. She was a scholar of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation and completed her diploma with honours. She represented Greece at the 11th Eurovision Young Dancers (Warsaw, 2005) and was ranked among the ten best young dancers of Europe. She has received international first prizes in Grand Prix and numerous honorary distinctions. In 2012 she became a member of the Greek National Opera Ballet, later a Demi-Soloist (2014), a Soloist (2015) and a Principal Dancer (2017).
Βorn in Thessaloniki, he studied at the State Academy of Dance of former East Berlin and at the Despina Grigoriadou Professional Dance School in Athens under Boriana Rizova, Kalina Bogoeva, Ghes Mikhov, Stefan Hristov. In 1992 he became a member of the GNO Ballet and in 2000 a Principal Dancer. He has danced lead roles in ballets of classical, neoclassical and contemporary repertoire such as Paquita, Giselle, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, Swan Lake, La Fille mal gardée, The Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Zorba the Greek, Raymonda, The Nutcracker, Voyage to Eternity, Boléro, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Eugene Onegin, etc. He has worked with the Perth Dance Company in Australia (Basilio, Don Quixote) and with the Sofia National Opera, Bulgaria, in the production of Roots. He has worked with renowned choreographers such as Rudi van Dantzig, Oleg Vinogradov, Igor Zelensky, Lorca Massine, Germinal Casado, Pierre Lacotte, Irek Mukhamedov, Renato Zanella, Daniel Lommel, Konstantinos Rigos, Haris Mandafounis and others. He has been choreographer’s assistant in such works as Baroque ’n’ roll (chor. Pierre Tavernier, 2008) and Giselle (chor. Irek Mukhamedov, 2009).
Born in Tirana, he studied at the Albanian State Academy of Dance and continued his studies at the Grand Théâtre de Genève (Switzerland). He was a member of the Albanian State Opera Ballet. He joined the Greek National Opera Ballet in 2001 and in 2007 he became a Principal Dancer. He has worked with many prestigious choreographers such as Igor Zelensky, Irek Mukhamedov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Alexander Grant, Ray Barra, Harris Mandafounis, Andonis Foniadakis, Konstantinos Rigos, Renato Zanella, etc. in such roles as Siegfried (Swan Lake), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Albrecht (Giselle), Don Basilio (Don Quixote), Colas (La Fille mal gardée), Love (Canto General), Kai (The Snow Queen), Don José (Carmen), Prince Alexei (The Nutcracker), Romeo (Romeo and Juliet), Prince (Cinderella), Jason (Recycling Medea), John (Zorba the Greek), Werther (Chopin in love), Prince Philip (Sleeping Beauty). Moreover, he has also danced in such ballets as Les Sylphides, Boléro, Journey to Eternity, Four Last Songs, Links, Topia / Landscapes, Équilibre, as well as in Sofia Spyratou’s productions. He has participated in numerous galas in Greece and abroad.
He studied at the National Ballet School of Belarus. In 1995/2002 he collaborated with the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus, initially in the Corps de ballet and later as a Soloist (1997/2000) and a Principal Dancer (2000/02), having danced such roles as Siegfried (Swan Lake), Prince Désiré (The Sleeping Beauty), Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet) and Koschei (The Firebird). He has collaborated with the State Academic Ballet Theatre of Boris Eifman in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He has been Principal Dancer of the Greek National Opera since 2004, where he has danced the roles of Prince (The Nutcracker), Escort (The Snow Queen), Zapata (Canto General), Siegfried and Jester (Swan Lake), Grand pas (Paquita), Count Albrecht (Giselle), Espada (Don Quixote), Paris (Romeo and Juliet), Faun (Faust), Signor Querra (Cinderella), Escamillo (Carmen), Onegin (Eugene Onegin). Moreover, he has participated in such ballets as Four Last Songs, Boléro, Empty place and has cooperated with Valentin Elizariev, Boris Eifman, Rey Barra, Rudi van Dantzig and Irek Mukhamedov.
Born in Athens, she studied at the ballet schools of Roula Papadimitriou and Yannis Metsis. She completed her studies at the John Neumeier School of the Hamburg Ballet with scholarship receiving diplomas of dancer and teacher. Since 1995 she has been a Soloist of the Ballet of the Greek National Opera and since 1997 a Principal Dancer. She has cooperated with choreographers like Lorca Massine, Rudi van Dantzig, Leonidas De Pian, Yannis Metsis, Pierre Lacotte, Germinal Casado, Igor Zelensky and Renato Zanella. She has danced with Igor Zelensky at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus the classical ballets of Raymonda, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, La Bayadère and with Toomas Edur the ballet The Sleeping Beauty. Moreover, she has worked with leading dancers such as Vladimir Malakhov and Diana Vishneva and has starred in the ballets Romeo and Juliet, Zorba the Greek, Le Corsaire, Cinderella, The Nutcracker, etc.
He was born in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece, and studied with scholarship at the School of the Birmingham Royal Ballet (England, 2004/07) from which he graduated with a professional dancer national diploma. He danced with the Birmingham Royal Ballet in such productions as The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadère, The Rite of Spring and The Firebird. In 2013 he became a Principal Dancer of the Ballet of the Greek National Opera. He has performed lead roles in such ballets as Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Eugene Onegin, Chopin in love, The Sleeping Beauty, Four Last Songs, The Snow Queen, Beethoven opus 73, Boléro, Voyage to Eternity, Gioconda’s Smile, Links, Équilibre, etc. Several roles have been created especially for him such as Romeo (Romeo and Juliet, Zanella), Siegfried (Swan Lake, Zanella), Onegin (Eugene Onegin, Mukhamedov), Prince Désiré (The Sleeping Beauty, Lindberg), Mr. Noll (Gioconda’s Smile, Stellatou), etc. He participates in international gala evenings and since 2014 he has been teaching at the Professional Dance School of the Greek National Opera.
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