Margianna Kladi

Margianna Kladi is a psychologist, dancer and dance educator whose research and artistic practice focus on movement, play, and their intersections with the performing arts and experiential learning.

She graduated from the Rallou Manou Professional Dance School in 2015. She also holds a degree in Psychology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2020) and completed postgraduate studies in Experiential and Embodied-Multimodal Psychoeducational Approaches at the University of Crete (2025).

She works in education and the performing arts, with extensive experience in teaching dance, movement and improvisation, as well as designing and facilitating experiential and multimodal workshops for children and adults. Alongside her educational work, she is active as a performer and movement director, with credits at festivals and venues including the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Greek Choreographers Festival, the Off-Off Festival, the Days of Memory Festival in Kondomari, Chania, the Centre of Mediterranean Architecture and Baumstrasse, among others. She has collaborated with educational and artistic institutions, including the Regional Theatre of Crete (DIPETHE. Crete) and the Heraklion Arts School, designing and delivering theatre and movement workshops and classes, as well as performances for children.

Alongside teaching dance and movement, she has in recent years worked as a facilitator and psychologist in school settings, combining artistic practice, pedagogy and experiential approaches to movement, with an emphasis on movement, play, imagination, physical expression and collective experience.