RETURNEvridiki Isaakidou

Evridiki Isaakidou

Dancer
She was born in Athens. She studied on a scholarship at the Niki Kontaxaki Higher Professional School of Dance (1982-1996) and graduated with distinction. She was Principal Dancer with Kontaxaki’s company (1990-2001), with which she appeared in the ballets Coppélia, La Sylphide, Don Quixote, etc. She received diplomas as a dancer and dance coach from the Royal Academy of Dance, London. She has participated in several contemporary dance companies in Greece and China. She has been a member with GNO’s Ballet Studio (1996-1999). She joined the GNO Ballet in 1996 and in 2003 became a Demi-Soloist. She then moved to Soloist in 2004, and in 2008 was promoted to Principal Dancer by the then ballet director Irek Mukhamedov. Her repertoire includes leading roles in classical and contemporary ballets, such as: Don Quixote, Swan Lake (as Odette and Odile), The Sleeping Beauty (as Lilac Fairy), The Snow Queen, Giselle, Eugene Onegin, The Νutcracker (as Sugar Plum Fairy), Romeo and Juliet (as Juliet), Le Corsaire, La fille mal gardée, Alles Walzer!, etc. // Last update of the biography: November 2018 - The list of the productions below will be added soon.