Olia Tornaritou is a graduate with honors, from Anna Petrova Professional Dance School in Athens, Greece and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York.

In New York she was a member of Analysis Dance Company, dancing form 1996 to 2000. In 1999 she was selected to perform with the Martha Graham Dance Company the revival of Panorama, Graham’s iconic choreography, under the direction of the legendary Yuriko Kikuchi at the Joyce Theater performances.

She is a senior faculty member at The National School of dance teaching from 2000 until today the Martha Graham technique at the school’s professional, and pre-professional division. She was the Rehearsal Director at the Hellenic Dance Company from 2000-2018 in productions which took place in Greece and abroad (Brussels, Paris and New York City). From 2013 till 2018 was choreographing yearly a demo of the Graham technique for the graduating students of the Professional division’s Annual Black Box Performance. In 2019 her demo was selected and presented at all Art and Music High Schools in the Attica region for three consecutive years, implementing the European Union’s Cultural Program “Dance in theory and practice”.

From September 2019 until today is a faculty member at the Greek National Opera’s Professional Dance School, teaching the Martha Graham technique. Her Graham technique demo choreography for the School’s students is presented at the Annual Performance at the Stavros Niarchos Hall, the main stage at the Greek National Opera.

From 2000 until today is a faculty member, teaching the Graham technique at the Duncan Dance Research Center, AKMI and AXIA Vocational Training Institutes, Studio Metsis, Limassol Municipal Dance School, Akropoditi Dance Festival, DAN.CE Studio as well as the Mari Chatzimichali Professiona Dance School and Rallou Manou Professional Dance School. She is collaborating in permanent basis, teaching annually workshops at the Claire Giouvanaki Dance School (Heraklion, Crete), the Syn-Kinisi studio (Chania, Crete) and Palmos Dance School in Zante. She is teaching workshops consistently in various dance schools, in Athens, all Greek regions and Cyprus in order to promote the Graham technique. The years 2014-2020 was teaching continuously at the Dance Days Festival in Chania, Crete.

In 2002 and 2012 was appointed by the Ministry of Culture as a member of the Examining Board for the Diploma Exams of the Professional Dance Schools in the contemporary dance field. In 2006 she was appointed by the Theater and Dance Department of the Ministry of Culture as Vice-president of the Board regarding the Greek dance companies’ grants. In May 2022 was honored by the Cyprus Dance Association and the Municipality of Limassol with the “Lilli Chouri” lifetime achievement Award for her total contribution in the art of Dance in Greece and Cyprus.