Pavlina Andriopoulou was born in Patras, Greece, in 1982. She trained as a dancer and dance teacher at the Higher Private Professional & Amateur Dance School Niki Kontaxaki in Athens. Following her graduation, she continued training and developing her skills by studying alongside several accomplished choreographers and tutors, including Frey Faust, David Zambrano, Daniel Lepkoff and Wim Vandekeybus. Ever since 2004, she has performed with various dance and acrobatic companies in Greece, for example Vaso Giannakopoulou’s dance company, ki omOs kineitai, Fingersix, Choreftes, etc. She has been collaborating with the Greek director and choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou since 2011, as a performer (The Great Tamer, Still Life, The Garden, Inside) and assistant director/choreographer (Primal Matter, Still Life, Origins, The Garden, The Great Tamer, Transverse Orientation). In 2014, she had her choreographic debut at the National Theatre of Greece. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).