He studied ballet from an early age. In his youth he started learning Greek dances at the Lyceum of Greek Women. At the age of 11 he began classical dance lessons under Leonidas Erenidis. At age 15 he won a scholarship to the then newly founded Roudra-Béjart School, founded by choreographer/dancer Maurice Béjart in Lausanne, Switzerland; he and dancer/choreographer Anthony Foniadakis were the first Greeks to study there. He taught at dance schools in Athens, including his mother’s school (Nana Kandyli Centre of Dance Studies, Markopoulo). At the same time, he studied theater, song, voice and martial arts. He returned to Greece at the age of 19 and joined the GNO Ballet. While dancing at the GNO, he participated in the performance of the famous American musical Grease alongside Marios Frangoulis. In the four-year period from 1995 to 1999 he danced in GNO productions and/or revivals (ballets and ballet segments in operas): Don Quixote, Giselle, Paquita, Zorba the Greek, Pinocchio, The pirate [Le Corsaire] Cinderella (Herodeion, 1996/97, music by Prokofiev), The temple dancer [La Bayadère], etc. He also participated in ballet segments in the musical Kiss me, Kate and in George Kouroupos’ opera The escapees of the checkerboard [Oi drapetes tis skakieras]. In 1999, when Anna Petrova took over the management of the GNO ballet, he was offered a contract for permanent cooperation, but ultimately chose to leave for the USA. In New York, he attended dance classes and subsequently participated in a dance theater group tour in Japan. He also participated in a national tour in America alongside Τony Fossi, as well as in the revival of the musical Fiddler on the roof on Broadway. He also appeared in movies.