Elena Evangelia

Elena Evangelia

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Elena Evangelia is a dancer from Athens, Greece. She started dancing at a very young age hasn’t stopped since. At her early life, she was trained in Ballroom disciplines. She graduated with a BA in Communication from UOA (Gr) and in 2009 she moved to London to study Dance Education and (MFA) Choreography. She has also studied jazz music for almost a decade and has a diploma in jazz singing (Nakas, Gr).

While standing in line for a dance audition in London, she saw a couple dancing to the tunes of a saxophone player at the street. She instantly felt in love with the swinging groove of Jazz.

In 2012 she started her own cultural space, teaching rhythmical jazz and vernacular/street dances, keeping the focus on how they have evolved from and influenced each other.

She had worked as a dancer and teacher in dance studios, such as Pineapple London (UK) and Metaxopoulos (Gr); as well as at many festivals such as Dragon Swing Festival in Poland, Rock that Swing Festival in Germany, RBW (De), DFA (Gr) and in many cities all over Europe (Including Treviso in Italy, Prague in the Czech Republic, London UK, Bergen Norway, and Thessaloniki Greece).

She teaches regularly at her studio Jump n Jive in Athens. As a teacher, she loves to guide her students to explore their dancing potential. Constantly interpreting and exploring with movement, respecting tradition and moving forward.