Born in Athens, Greece, Candy Karra is an honor student in the pedagogical department for primary education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and of the Niki Kontaxaki Professional Performers School of Dance. She has attended practical and theoretical seminars in Greece and abroad on modern dance, creative expression, acrobatics, improvisation, contact improvisation and performance.
As performer these past years, she was worked with choreographers, dance and dance/theatre groups such as Artemis Lampiri‘s MAN, Fotis Nikolaou’s “X-it”, Constantinos Rigos’ OKTANA, “Dancers”, “Kinitiras” for Antigoni Gyra, Apostolia Papadaki, etc. and has participated in festivals in Greece, Cyprus, Germany and New York, such as the Festival for Young Choreographers (festival-neon-chorografwn) at the Stegi/Onassis Cultural Centre, the Festivals of Athens and Epidavros, the MIR Festival, the Athens Video Dance Project (the School of Fine Arts), Arc for Dance, the Patras International Festival, the 48th Dimitria, the International festival of Cyprus, the Folkwang Physical Theatre Festival, the Battery Dance Festival (where she was a choreographer), etc.
In 2012, Wim Vandekeybus invited her to take part in the first month-long research program of Ultima Vez in Brussels on dance and theatre. In 2016, she was selected to participate in the master class for young artists at the EUROPOLY Festival at the Kammerspiele in Munich, Germany.
For Candy Karra, teaching is an important and integral part of her journey in the search for expression and communication through dance. From 2009, she has systematically been teaching modern dance with special emphasis on “Dancing to Connect” at schools in Athens and environs as well as at the SOS villages (for children-without-homes). Finally, she has enjoyed helping voluntarily as the director of movement for the theatrical section of the Kyriakatiko-Sxoleio-Metanastwn (the Sunday School for Immigrants).