Georgia Petrali is a dancer, director, choreographer, teacher of movement and dance.

She studied classical and modern dance in England and continued her postgraduate dance studies in specialising in contemporary dance and choreography at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie in Holland with a grant from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. Having received a bursary, Georgia Petrali was Greece's first participation in the international dance festival, Dance Web in Vienna in the summer of 2000.

Abroad, she has taught classical ballet, contemporary dance and stretching at Helene Cazes’ Dance School (Fontainemelon, Switzerland), at the Dance Art Studio (Lucerne, Switzerland), at Evelyn Schuler’s Dance School (Stans, Switzerland) and at the Montessori school of Lucerne in Switzerland. She has also given a seminar on ballet and contemporary dance in Braga, Portugal.

In Greece she has taught movement, improvisation, contact, classical ballet and contemporary dance at the Studio KER (Chania, Crete), at the multipurpose arts venue ON (Chania, Crete), for the dance group Synkinisi (Chania, Crete), for the theatre group Writing Circle (Heraklion, Crete), at Horokinisi Dance School (Heraklion, Crete), at Horokinisi Dance School (Rethymnon, Crete), at the Tangoneon Cultural Group (Heraklion, Crete) and at the Wendy May Timmons Dance Academy (Heraklion, Crete). She has given workshops and seminars on contact-improvisation for the municipality of Heraklion (Crete), at the Modulor Dance Space School (Athens), for the Cultural Association of Rethymnon (Crete) and for the University of Crete (Heraklion, Crete). As a choreographer, she has worked with the theatre company of the University of Crete (Heraklion) and the ‘Theatre of Crete’ (Heraklion).

Abroad, she danced with the John Carney’s Manc Dance Company in England in 1997 in the performance Masked Emotions, and with Jo Corrick’s Terpsicorrick Dance Company in the performance Sweet Sunny South. In 2000 and 2003 she collaborated with choreographer Doris Vuilleumier in Switzerland in the performances Etrange and L’ Homme Qui Marche.

In Greece, in 2003 she danced with Haris Mantafounis’ modern dance group in Strangely Emotional. In 2004 she took part in the choreography team of Dimitris Papaioannou and Angeliki Stellatou as assistant choreographer for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games and in 2005 worked with choreographer Natassa Zouka on The Earth’s Gaze and with New Zealander Carol Brown on Hertopia. In 2006 she collaborated with Artemis Ignatiou’s Art Company on Cold Water Traces and took part in the advertising spot for Greece Live your myth in Greece and in a documentary for National Geographic.

The same year, she founded the dance group Fysalida, based in Heraklion, Crete to explore, create and present artworks through collaboration with artists, educators, therapists and scientists.

In 2007 she worked with Italian choreographer Luca Silvestrini (from Protein Dance Company) as an assistant on the performance Crossroads. In the same year she also presented the solo performance Flock-the stargazer and the video-art piece Flock-the glass fish as her own personal work.

As an improviser, she has danced at the Polis multipurpose arts venue (Heraklion, Crete), at the theatre Pagopoieion 1st floor (Heraklion, Crete) for the dance installation performance Rooms, at Giannis Charalambakis' painting exhibitions (Psychro-Athens) and for an art event by the same painter in collaboration with the band Hainides (Heraklion, Crete).

In 2008 she directed and choreographed the film Wrinkles and Dreams starring the picturesque neighbourhood of Agia Triada in Heraklion, Crete, for the Fysalida Dance Company. The entire project involving all these people was based on the concept of community dance. So far the film has won 5 prizes in Poland, Greece and Romania, and has taken part in various festivals in Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki, Drama, Heraklion, Kilkis, Rethymnon, Patra) and abroad (Japan, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Hungary, Jordan, Turkey, Atlanta, Romania).

In 2009 Georgia Petrali directed and choreographed the video art piece and solo performance Insect. In the same year she also directed the video art piece The 7 deadlies in a relationship which was created for the Booze Cooperativa festival in the summer of 2009 dealing with the 7 deadly sins.

In 2010 she directed and choreographed for Fysalida Dance Company the dance video Phobias and the dance theatre performance Moments of Metamorphosis. The characteristics of this specific production were that it used a winery in the village of Houdetsi Crete to stage the performance, and utilised the change from natural to artificial light, combining the natural beauty of the landscape with the special features of the interior of the winery.

Taking an architectural look at the various places where an artwork is presented and collaborating with professional and amateur artists and with ordinary people through community dance are characteristic technical features of the artistic activities and productions prepared by Georgia Petrali.