I trained at the Greek State School of Dance in Athens as a ballet dancer and teacher. I learnt from renowned ballet masters of the Vaganova technique, like Gesh Mihov, Gallina Bokoeva, and Moriana Risova. Since then I have been constantly expanding on my own training, studying with Gretchen Ward Warren of the USF in the US, with renowned Pilates instructors like David Katz in London, and qualifying as an instructor for the Progressing Ballet Technique, which I offer group and private classes for.
As a professional ballet dancer, I danced with a number of international companies in Cyprus and Greece, represented Cyprus at dance workshop at the annual Congress of the International Theatre Institute in Munich, and danced as a soloist for several years for Ballet Austin in Texas.
I have taught children, enthusiastic amateurs, professional dancers, coached actors and singers, prepared dancers for auditions, competitions, and performances large and small.
My broad variety of experience both as an artist and a teacher has informed everything I do. It is important to me to not only teach good technique, helping injury prevention, but also to teach dancers about artistic impression, something that often gets undervalued in a time that is obsessed with sheer athletic brilliance in performance.
