She studied at the Harkness School of Ballet New York, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center (as a fellow), the Ballet Academy of Zurich, the Dance Centre London and the Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab New York. She is the “Fulbright Artists Award” recipient. She founded the Katerina Pavlaki Dance Company, for which she worked as a dancer, costume designer, lighting designer and choreographer, producing 35 original ballets. She worked in New York as a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer, and has presented her work with dancers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. She has collaborated with numerous artists, including: David Howard, Joice Trisler, Finis Jhung, Bertram Ross, Alvin Mc Duffy, Ana Marie Forsythe, Genia Melicova (Julliard), Kazuko Hirabayashi, Nat Horne and Matt Mattox. She also periodically teaches seminars in Classical Ballet and Modern dance. In Greece, she has appeared as a dancer in leading roles in productions by the GNO and Rallou Manou’s Hellenic Choreodrama dance group. She appeared at the GNO during the period 1977-1991. She participated in about 50 productions and/or revivals, nine of which were ballets, such as Giselle, Zorba, Coppelia, Elektra, The damned snake (To katarameno fidi), L'Arlésienne, 13 Spanish songs, etc. She also participated in choreodramatic parts in six operas and two operettas: Apaches of Athens [Oi apachides ton Athinon], Flora mirabilis, Rigoletto, The Bat [Die Fledermaus], Betrothal in a Monastery, Don Quixote, Iphigenia in Tauris [Iphigénie en Tauride], Otello etc.