Damianou Eleni Ellada (b. 1992, Volos) started her professional education at the National School of Dance in Athens in 2010. Ιn 2013, she received a scholarship for the three-year program offered by P.A.R.T.S. international dance school in Brussels, graduating in 2016. The same year, she received a scholarship for the exchange program at the École des Sables in Senegal, where she was taught contemporary African dance. As a dancer, she collaborated with various companies and choreographers, including: Radouan Mriziga, Mohamed Toukabri, Anne Linn Akselsen, Yuika Hashimoto, Jérôme Bel, Fabrice Mazhliah, Francesco Scavetta, Ultima Vez και Hellenic Dance Company. She has danced in festivals (Alkantara Festival, Portugal; Spring Festival, Netherlands; Festival d’Automne à Paris, France; kunstenfestivaldesarts, Belgium; Oktoberdans, Norway; New Empathies, Germany, etc.), theaters (deSingel, Belgium; Kaaitheater, Belgium; Wexner Center for the Arts, USA; Radialsystem, Germany; Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Greece) and museums (Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA; and Z33, Belgium). She has been an artist in residence at Pact Zollverein (Germany), Saaren Kaartano (Finland) and Les Brigittines (Belgium), among others. Since 2017, she has been teaching improvisation and composition to professionals and amateurs and working as a dramaturge in Greece and Belgium. She has also studied fashion design, which she has been practicing since 2018, designing and making dance and theater costumes. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).