Anna Karamitsou

Founder of the first School of African Dance, Music and Arts, SELI KANOU – West African Dance & Music, which was created in Athens in 2007. She is also the co-founder of the African Dance & Music Group SELI KANOU, which was established in 2004. A graduate of the National School of Dance (KSOT), she completed postgraduate studies in Psychotherapy through Dance and Dance History at the University of Paris – Sorbonne IV on a scholarship from the French government. She also obtained a special licence to teach the Peter Goss system from the École de Danse Peter Goss. She has attended numerous courses and seminars on classical, contemporary and African dance, as well as music, theatre and singing, and various therapeutic systems in Europe, America and Africa. She has performed as a soloist, dancer, choreographer, singer and accompanist with numerous dance groups, theatre productions and music and dance performances in Greece and abroad. She has taught contemporary and classical dance to adults and children, both with and without special needs, in Greece and abroad since 1986, and African dance since 1997. She is considered the first person to introduce West African dance in Greece, having given classes in Athens in 1997. Since then, she has given seminars at professional, amateur and university dance schools in Greece, Europe and Africa.