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Dancer
She was born in Athens. She studied dance at the Higher Vocational School of Dance Despina Grigoriadou. She also studied under Kalina Bogoeva, Boriana Rizova, Gesh Mihov and Leonidas Erenidis. In 1981 she became a member of the GNO Ballet, during the period 1990-2002 she was a demi-soloist and in 2002 she was promoted to soloist. She danced leading soloist roles in productions of the classic and contemporary repertoire, such as: Giselle (Andre-Coralli-Perro/Adam), Pinocchio (Armitage/Melocchi), Raimondo (Zelensky/Glazunov), Cinderella (Vinogradov/Prokofiev), Don Quixote (De Pian/Minkus), La Bayadère (Hatxis/Minkus), Romeo and Juliet (Van Dantzig/Prokofiev and Zanella/Prokofiev), The Birds (Armitage/Hadjidakis), Carmen (Gelodari/Cedrin), Zorba (Massine/Theodorakis), The Snow Queen (Barra/Glazunov), Les Sylphides (Rigos/Chopin-Glazunov) etc. In addition, she has danced the choreographies of Serge Keuten, Rudi van Dantzig, Germinal Cassado, Pierre Tavernier, Giannis Metsis, etc.