Dance school ‘LiveLoveDANCE ACADEMY’ opened in September 2022 by the artists Pablo Maratos and Adriana Maratou. The dance school offers a variety of dance styles for babies (2.5+ years old), teenagers and adults, such as Classical Ballet/Vaganova system, Contemporary, Latin; Salsa, Mambo, Bachata, Pachanga, Boogaloo and Hip Hop/Commercial. The vision of the owners is to create a safe environment where you can LIVE in the moment, LOVE yourself and of course DANCE like no one else is watching!!
Pablo Maratos is a graduated Ballet and Contemporary Teacher of Greek National Opera and a Salsa and Bachata professional performer, instructor and choreographer for over than ten years.
His dancing background goes way back since Pablo started dancing in a very young age, learning Latin and Greek Traditional dances in his hometown, Patras. His talent showed up immediately and his teachers made sure they gave him the right tools to pursuit his dream.
Since the age of 10, he had the opportunity to dance and participate in shows in his hometown, teach and keep learning more and more about his favorite dance style, Salsa! In 2007, with his first professional dance partner, he won the 4th place at the World Latin Championship that took place in Antalya, Turkey. Additionally, in 2011, with his former dance partner, he took the 1st place in the Third Greek Salsa Championship, that took place in Athens, Greece.
In 2013, determined to take his dancing skills to the next level, Pablo decided to start learning ballet and later on took the exams to earn a spot in the most recognized professional dance school in Greece, the Greek National Opera Professional Dance School. Pablo successfully earned the spot and after 4 years of hard work, many sacrifices and determination, his dream finally came true!
He got his professional teaching diploma in July 2017!
During his extensive and hard studies, he had been chosen to participate in many productions of the Greek National Opera, such as:
- Cinderella by Renato Zanella
- Links by Antonis Foniadakis
- Dammi I colori by Constantinos Rigos
- Des/equilibre/s by Antonis Foniadakis at Nostos Summer Festival (Stavros Niarchos Foundation)
Pablo teaches Ballet-Vaganova system and Contemporary-Release technique.
As an instructor of Salsa (LA/NY) and Bachata he uses his wide knowledge to help each individual to understand their dancing capabilities and bring out the best of themselves! He is able to immediately understand what exactly each student needs to get better and he never holds back!
He met his dance partner Adriana, in 2019 at his former dance school and the chemistry between them was explosive since the beginning! Pablo immediately recognized Adriana’s talent and after a few months he began training her extensively at Salsa and Bachata. They started their journey as an official dance couple in 2021 during a difficult time for the dance industry but they have managed to keep building their joint professional dancing career ever since. During September 2021-July 2022 they cooperated with PANTHERS Dance Studio in Nicosia, where they taught Salsa, Bachata and Ballet.
In August 2022 they decided to open their own dance school, LiveLoveDANCE ACADEMY with the dream of creating an environment where everyone can LIVE in the moment, LOVE themselves and of course DANCE like no one else is watching!
As a professional Latin Couple Pablo&Adriana have already participated in many Salsa Festivals, where they have performed and taught workshops, such as 11th Salsa Spring Festival in Athens Greece, 2nd Cyprus Latin Beach Festival, 15th Salsa Jam Festival, South Salsa Festival in Kalamata Greece and have been already booked in the following festivals; 12th Salsa Spring, 16th Cyprus Salsa Congress, 2nd Everybody Salsa Festival and many more to be announced soon!
Festivals participations as a professional dancer and instructor:
- SALSALOVE Festival in Garmisch, Germany (November 2011)
- SALSALOVE Festival in Frankfurt, Germany (January 2012)
- 3rd Salsa Spring Festival in Athens, Greece (March 2012)
- 1st Patras Salsa Meeting (May 2012)
- SALSALOVE Festival in Munich, Germany (June 2012)
- 2ndPatras Salsa Meeting (November 2012)
- 8th Cyprus Salsa Congress (March 2013)
- 4thSalsa Spring Festival in Athens, Greece (April 2013)
- 4th Greek Salsa Bootcamp in Volos, Greece (June 2013)
- 1st Long Beach Salsa Festival in Greece (September 2013)
- 5thSalsa Spring Festival in Athens, Greece (April 2014)
- 2ndLong Beach Salsa Festival in Greece (September 2014)
- 6thSalsa Spring Festival in Athens, Greece (May 2015)
- 7thSalsa Spring Festival in Athens, Greece (May 2016)
- 2nd Chania Salsa Festival in Crete, Greece (September 2016)
- 2ndBailatino Dance Festival in Ioannina, Greece (December 2016)
- 8thSalsa Spring Festival in Athens, Greece (May 2017)
- 9thSalsa Spring Festival in Athens, Greece (May 2018)
- 4th Cyprus Salsa Unite (December 2018)
- 14th Cyprus Salsa Congress (March 2019)
- 10th Salsa Spring Festival in Athens, Greece (May 2019)
- 11th Salsa Spring Festival in Athens, Greece (May 2022)
- 2nd Latin Beach Festival, Cyprus (July 2022)
- 15th Salsa Jam Festival, Cyprus (September 2022)
- South Salsa Festival in Kalamata, Greece (October 2022)
Adriana started dancing at the young age of 6. She began her dancing journey with Modern Dance and at the age of 9 she was also introduced to Jazz and Flamengo.
Until the age of 16 she gave many dance exams and received diplomas from the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing and from the Spanish Dance Society.
At the age of 16, she joined a professional Hip Hop and Commercial Dance team. The team won a lot of National championships, received first place at International Dance Organization Championship (IDO) that took place at Lebanon and participated in many events all over Cyprus.
During that time Adriana was also the dance teacher of Ginger Summer School for two years in a row and was also teaching Hip Hop/Commercial at Rymvos Dance Centre in Kallithea. She also attended many seminars from International established dance teachers, such as Loukas Leeco Kosmidis, Dax O’Callaghan, Bimboy and many more.
In 2014, she left the team in order to further expand her knowledge in dance, having kept incredible memories and experiences. For the next 2 years she became a member of another dance group that was engaged to a new type of dance for her, Dancehall and Reggaeton.
In 2017, Adriana watched a professional Latin show and was immediately mesmerized by it. She then decided to tackle this kind of dance and she joined a professional team of a ‘Latin All Ladies Dance’ group, where she participated in dance competitions winning first places and gained a lot of knowledge and experience in this type of dance as well.
In April 2019 she also won First Place at the division ‘Adults Solo’ of Cyprus Federation of Sport & Social dance.
In September 2019, she decided to take ballet classes for adults with the Professional Ballet Teacher, Pablo Maratos, to furthermore improve her skills as a dancer and at the same time she discovered the world of social dance Salsa and Bachata. She fell in love with Salsa and Bachata immediately! She also joined Sara Panero Ladies Pro Team in Cyprus for a few months, but after becoming the dance partner of Pablo Maratos she had to leave the Ladies Team due to lack of time.
Pablo and Adriana became an official dance couple in 2021. Pablo immediately recognized Adriana’s talent in 2019 and after a few months he began training her extensively at Salsa and Bachata. They started their journey during a difficult time for the dance industry but they have managed to keep building their joint professional dancing career ever since. During September 2021-July 2022 they cooperated with PANTHERS Dance Studio in Nicosia, where they taught Salsa, Bachata and Ballet.
In August 2022 they decided to open their own dance school, LiveLoveDANCE ACADEMY with the dream of creating an environment where everyone can LIVE in the moment, LOVE themselves and of course DANCE like no one else is watching!
As a professional Latin Couple Pablo&Adriana have already participated in many Salsa Festivals, where they performed and taught workshops, such as 11th Salsa Spring Festival in Athens Greece, 2nd Cyprus Latin Beach Festival, 15th Salsa Jam Festival, South Salsa Festival in Kalamata Greece and have been already booked in the following festivals; 12th Salsa Spring, 16th Cyprus Salsa Congress, 2nd Everybody Salsa Festival and many more to be announced soon!
Festivals participations as a professional dancer and instructor:
- 11th Salsa Spring Festival in Athens, Greece (May 2022)
- 2nd Latin Beach Festival, Cyprus (July 2022)
- 15th Salsa Jam Festival, Cyprus (September 2022)
- South Salsa Festival in Kalamata, Greece (October 2022)
Member of a professional Latin dance team (2017-2019)
- 1st place in the Cyprus Cup of Sport Dance in 2018
- 1st place in the Cyprus Cup of Sport Dance in 2019
- 3rd place in the TDF (Thessaloniki Dance Festival) in 2019
**Took 1st place in the ‘Ladies Solo’ division in the Cyprus Cup of Sport Dance Championship, in the International Latin Style cha-cha-cha, in 2019.**
Member of a professional hip hop dance team (2006-2013)
- 1st place in the Pan-Cypriot Sports Dance Championship in 2008
- 1st place in the Pan-Cypriot Sports Dance Championship in 2009
- 1st place in the Pan-Cypriot Sports Dance Championship in 2010
- 1st place in the Pan-Cypriot Sports Dance Championship in 2011
- 1st place in the International Dance Organization Championship (IDO) that took place in 2011 at Lebanon
- 1st place in the Pan-Cypriot Sports Dance Championship in 2012
Dance Diplomas
- Ingreso from Spanish Dance Society
- Modern Theatre from the ‘Imperial Society of teachers of dancing
Attended to the following intensive seminars which provided diplomas
- Hip Hop Workshop with Loukas Leeco Kosmidis in 2013
- Commercial Workshop with Dax O’Callaghan in 2014
- Voguing Workshop with Bimboy in 2014
- Waacking Workshop with Bimboy in 2014
- Voguing Workshop with Bimboy in 2015
- Waacking Workshop with Bimboy in 2015
Honorary Diploma for participating in the dance club of the University of Cyprus where she studied Social Science.
Danced next to Eleni Foureira and Katerina Stikoudi at performances that took place in Cyprus and at many other events.