Anima Libera is a fusion contemporary dance company located in Greece. It was created in 2019 by choreographer Mikaela Kanzafiri. Our vision is to cultivate our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual nature. By dealing with social contemporary and intertemporal matters of human existence, we seek common ground with the audience.
Mikaela Kanzafiri was born in Athens in 1985. She graduated the Greek National School of Dance in 2006. She holds a diploma of Royal Academy of Dance ( R.A.D), of Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (I.S.T.D) Modern and Jazz and she is a scholar of the Hellenic American Union for the Jacob's Pillow School in Boston USA. During her stay in the US she attended workshops with Chet Walker, Matt and Martine Mattox, Milton Myers, Akram Khan, Steven Petronio, Nacho Duato, Rennie Harris and others . During her education at the Greek National School of Dance she attended workshops with Chryssa Parkinson, Jill Clark, Olivier Dubois, Juan Cruz, Ory Flomin, Hofesh Shechter, Jasmine Vardimon, Risa Steinberg, David Zabrano, Richard Alston, Ann Adamovic, Jozef Frucek, Linda Kapetanea, Antonis Foniadakis, Nikos Kalogerakis, Ermis Malkotsis, Nana Vahla, Haris Madafounis and others. She was a member of the Hellenic Dance Company and she has colaborated as a dancer with local and foreign choreographers such as RootlessRoot, Martin Lawrence, Marianna Tsartolia, Zoi Tatopoulos, Konstantinos Rigos, Antonis Liveropoulos and others. During 2009 she attended several hip hop workshops in London .At the same time as from 2007 she is collaborating with dance schools as a teacher and choreographer in contemporary and hip hop dance. In 2019 she created Anima Libera Dance Company. In 2020 she acquired a diploma in Shamballa multi-dimensional healing from the Shamballa School of Esoteric Sciences and for the past years she combines dance with the spiritual healing process.