
Magda Lagoyianni
Dancer
She was born in Athens. She studied at the Niki Kontaxaki Higher Amateur and Professional School of Dance and holds five diplomas of the Russian Vaganova method. She attended modern dance seminars under Deborah Saxon, Yvonne Mantafounis-Stadler, Maria Anthymidou, Michalis Nalbantis, as well as classical dance seminars under Margarita Dimitrova, Sergey Vikulov, Pierre Tavernier and Giannis Metsis. She collaborated with the Niki Kontaxaki Dance Group in the productions of Don Quixote, Paquita, Raymonda and Coppélia. She appeared in the production of Chopin in love (2014) at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall as part of the Dimitria Festival. Since 2003 she is a member of the GNO corps de ballet. She has danced in several ballets, including: Swan Lake (Zelensky-Petipa-Ivanov/Tchaikovsky), The snow queen (Barra/Glazunov), Canto General (Barra/Theodorakis), The Nutcracker, Zorba (Massine/Theodorakis), Chopin in love (Boken/Chopin) and Journey to eternity [Taxidi stin aioniotita] (Zanella/Karaindrou).