RETURNDimitra Laoudi

Dimitra Laoudi

Dancer
She studied at the Anna Petrova Professional School of Dance. In the period 1987-1990 she acquired all of the diplomas of London’s Royal Academy of Dance examination system. In 1991 she was hired as a member of the GNO Ballet, advancing to principal dancer in 1995 and top soloist in 2000, taking part in all of its ballet productions, such as: Coppelia (Saint-Leon-Metsis/Delibes), Romeo and Juliet (Van Dantzig/Procofiev and Zanella/Procofiev), Don Quixote (de Pian/Minkus), Paquita (Hatzis/Minkus), Sebastian (de Pian/Menotti), Giselle (Andrei-Coralli-Perro/Adam), Pinocchio (Armitage/Melocchi), Ζorba (Massine/Theodorakis, Herodeion 1993), Gioconda’s Smile (Stellatou/Hadjidakis), Chopin in love (Boquin/Chopin), The Nutcracker (Zanella/Tchaikovsky) and others. She also participates in ballet segments in opera and operetta performances, such as: Conroy and his copies, The Bat [Die Fledermaus], Ο βαφτιστικός. In the 2001/02 season she worked with the Karlsruhe National Dance Theatre (Germany). Since 2005 she is a dance instructor with the Greek National School of Dance, Athens. She has worked with prominent Greek and foreign choreographers such as Giannis Metsis, Olympia Gelodari, Leonidas de Pian, Germinal Casado, Igor Zelensky, Pierre Lacotte, Haris Mandafounis and more.