
Mitsi Stergianou
Dancer
She began taking dancing lessons at the age of five at the Roula Papadimitriou School of Dance and later on at Yannis Metsis School. She completed her studies at the Greek National School of Dance with honors. She has been principal dancer with the Athens Experimental Ballet. She has danced in choreographies by Serge Quetin, Germinal Casado, Rudi van Dantzig, Karole Armitage, Tavernier, Ray Barra, Yannis Metsis, Andonis Foniadakis, Rena Kampaladou, Sophia Spyratou, etc. She started collaborating with the GNO in 1992 as a member of the corps de ballet; in 1997 she was promoted to soloist and in 2003 to coryphée. From 1992 to 2015 she danced in more than 40 ballet productions and/or revivals, such as: The Seven Deadly Sins [Die sieben Todsünden] (Sideris/Weill), Don Quixote (de Pian/Minkus), Memories (Metsis/Debussy), Paquita (Chatzis/Minkus), Sebastian (de Pian/Menotti), The pirate [Le corsaire] (de Pian/Adam), The cursed snake [To katarameno fidi] (Massine/Hatjidakis), The temple dancer [La bayadère], Romeo and Juliet (van Dantzig/Prokofiev, Zanella/Prokofiev), Giselle (Andre/Adam), Zorba (Massine/Theodorakis), Pinocchio (Armitage/Melozzi), Cinderella [La Cenerentola] (Vinogradov/Prokofiev), Petrushka (Mantafounis/Stravinsky), Lonely room (Nikolaou/Kamarotos), A little piece peace of America (Rigos/Porter, etc.), Alles Walzer (Zanella), Swan lake (Zanella/Tchaikovsky), etc. She also danced in the ballet segments in a number of operas, including: The bat [Die Fledermaus], The Parisian life [La vie parisienne], Carmen, Eugene Onegin, etc. As of 2010 she teaches at the GNO Higher Professional School of Dance.