KATERINA PAVLAKI

·                 Dancer – Teacher – Choreographer. 

·                 Founder of the "Katerina Pavlaki Dance Company"

·                 Director of the "Hellas - International Dance Competition".

She has studied, at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, New York [under an invitation/scholarship, she received from Mr.Alvin Ailey], at the Harkness School of Ballet and at the Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab, New York,  at the Ballet Academy of Zurich, and at the Dance Centre, London. With Eric Howard, Joice Tricler,Finis Jhung, Bertram Ross, Alvin Mc Duffy, Milton Mayers, Ana Marie Forsythe, K.Hirabayashi, Genia Melicova (Julliard), Nat Horne, Matt Mattox, ….. In Greece she has danced as a Soloist, with the Ballet of the National Opera and the Hellenic Chorodrama.

In 1988, having the need to proceed to her own choreographic and creative quest, she founded the KATERINA PAVLAKI DANCE COMPANY and she has been the choreographer, lighting and costume designer, as well as one of the principal dancers of the group. 

She has created 35 ballets. In 1992, she received the FULBRIGHT ARTISTS AWARD. During her stay in the U.S.A., she worked in New York as a dancer, teacher and choreographer and has presented her work at the Movement Research and at the Florence Gould Hall, with a group of dancers selected from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. She has collaborated with the Gasteig theatre in Munich. She is traveling in many European Countries, teaching seminars, and workshops, choreographing and giving performances.

CHOREOGRAPHING: The choreographer blends in an individual manner the classical and modern technique, using positions of the body, arms, legs and head derived from her ancient Greek heritage. Using classical, modern and traditional music she attempts to let people hear the music through the movement.

TEACHING: Katerina Pavlaki, has been experiment with her teaching, finding new exercises that could help dancers move more freely, without fighting constantly against gravity and body stiffens. Thus she has developed a system, which she also uses in her choreographies. Her classes consist of a floor work [stretching and breathing], a bare [stamina and coordination], center [coordination and balance], across the floor exercises and combinations coordination, balance and direction]. She also teaches classical ballet, modern, jazz and African dance.