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Aggeliki Vaena

Dancer
She holds diplomas in the examination system of the Royal Academy of Dance (London) and a dance teacher diploma from the Anna Petrova Professional School of Dance. She attended dance seminars at the London Royal Academy of Dance and the Academy of Dance Cologne. For four years she was a member of Daniel Lommel’s AENAO Dance Theater and participated in a number of performances staged by the National Theatre of Northern Greece such as: Visual art games [Eikastika paichnidia], Ship of fools [To ploio ton trellon], Ecce homo [Ide o Anthropos], Ballet Night 1987 and Tribute to poet Yiannis Ritsos. She also participated in Aristophanes' comedy Clouds [Nefeles] (1986). She is member of the GNO Ballet since 1990. From 1990 to 2012 she danced first and second roles of classical and contemporary repertoire in ballets such as: Carmen (music by Shchedrin), La bayadère, Mythiamvoi, Pas de quatre, Pinnochio, Raymonda, The nutcracker, Les sylphides, Le corsaire, The Sleeping Beauty [La belle au bois dormant], Swan Lake, Zorba the Greek, Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella (music by Prokofiev), Four last songs [Vier letzte Lieder], Giselle, Don Quixote, Paquita, Sebastian, Alles Walzer! etc. She also participated in ballet segments in operas and operettas such as: Adriana Lecouvreur, Nixon in China, Marathon-Salamis, La traviata, Rhea, Eugene Onegin, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus, The godson [O vaftistikos], Conroy and his Copies (O Konroua kai oi kopies tou). // Last update of the biography: November 2018 - The list of the productions below will be added soon.