Katerina Pagiataki
art dance theater artemis ignatiou






Born and raised on Corfu island, she began taking dancing lessons at the age of 4 in Sotiris Bouchagiar-Tzeni Theotokis dance School. Continued her studies in Athens in Despina Grigoriadou Professional Dance School where she graduated in 2006, while she also completed 2ndyear of the Greek National School of Dance until 2007. She took seminars such as Vaganova Classical Ballet (2001), Classical Ballet Repertory (2002-Bulgaria), Rythmical and Free movement (2004), Classical and Modern Dance (2006-Varna, Bulgaria), Vaganova Classical Ballet-licensed teacher (2006), Modern Dance (2007, Frey Faust).

Katerina has performed in numerous acts/situations:

"Between winds" (2005, "κει φυσα" dance team, Natasha Avra choreography), Greek National Kapodistrian University-Psychology Seminar (2005, Vaso Barbousi choreography), 9th Festival of Young Artists (2007, Natasha Avra choreography), 6th dance festival ("κει φυσα" dance team, N.Avra-E.Bournia-M.Poulada choreographies), "Nano" (2007, Petros Galias choreography), "Muses" in the Opening Ceremony of 6th Cultural Festival of Beijing for Cultural Olympiad China 2008. (ART dance theater, Artemis Ignatiou choreography), 7th dance festival ( "κει φυσα" dance team), Katerina Rodiou Dance Team (2009), 8th Festival of Greek Choreographers ( "κει φυσα" dance team), 9th Festival of Greek Choreographers ( "κει φυσα" dance team), Revival of The History of the First Modern Olympic Games (2011 and 2012, Athens Kallimarmaro Stadium, Artemis Ignatiou Choreography), "Minotaur" (11th Convention of Food and Technology, Greek Roman Market,
ART dance theater, Artemis Ignatiou choreography), Special Olympics 2011 (Athens
Kallimarmaro Stadium, Opening and Clossing Ceremonies, Fokas Evaggelinos choreography), "SHADOWS: A piece on time" (International Convention for the 50th anniversary of The Orff system, Salzburg Austria, AEORIA dance Team), "Minotaur" (2011 Bouboulina's Cultural Festival, Spetses, ART dance theater, Artemis Ignatiou choreography), "Minotaur" (2012, Rematia Festival, ART dance theater, Artemis Ignatiou choreography), "Cold Water" (2012 Bouboulina's Cultural Festival, Spetses, ART dance theater, Artemis Ignatiou choreography), Athens Exclusive Designers Week 2013 (own choreography), Revival of The History of the First Modern Olympic Games (2013, Athens Kallimarmaro Stadium, National Olympic Academy, Fokas Evaggelinos Choreography), "Amazons" (2013 Bouboulina's Cultural Festival, Spetses, ART dance theater, Artemis Ignatiou choreography).

Since 2008 Katerina has been performing as Olympic Flame Priestess (Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010, London 2012, Sochi 2014, 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games "Singapore 2010", 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games "Innsbruck 2012", 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games "Nanjing 2014", European Youth Olympic Festivals at the Athens Kallimarmaro Stadium and Pnyx, Utrecht 2013, Brasov 2013, Trabzon 2011, Liberec 2011). Since 2014 she holds the position of the Flame Bearer Priestess (Estias)

She has participated as assistant choreographer in Athens 2011 Special Olympics Games (Athens Kallimarmaro Stadium, Fokas Evaggelinos choreography) and the Revival of The History of the First Modern Olympic Games (2013, Athens Kallimarmaro Stadium, National Olympic Academy, Fokas Evaggelinos Choreography).

Katerina has been collaborating and working as dance teacher of Pefki Primary School (Ballet and Modern Dance, since 2006), Katerina Rodiou Dance Schools (Ballet and Rythmic dance, pre-school, since 2008), Fokas Evaggelinos Dance Schools (Ballet, pre-school, since 2010), Aliki Kontziou-Gousa Dance Schools (Ballet, all levels, since 2010), Dance stage(Ballet and Modern dance,since 2012)