Mairi is a performer and choreographer from Athens, living in Paris.

With her company, Berdahi, she creates works in which movement, text and spoken word feed off each other. With a desire to address audiences not necessarily familiar with live performance, the themes of her work focus on the proximities between unexpected worlds, while exploring an evolving feminist identity and ways of connecting the personal with the political. Aiming to create bridges both west and east of her home territory, since 2020 she has been imagining projects between France, Greece and Turkey.
Mairi is also a graduate of the department of Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion University in Athens.

As a performer, Mairi has worked among others for Romeo Castellucci's 'Moses und Aron' at the Paris Opera, Alexandra Pirici's 'Parthenon Marbles' and Akram Khan's outdoors performance 'Kadamati'. She has collaborated with Fanny Travaglino in 'Ce qu'il reste', Maria Yannaros in 'Arachnées', Nina Dipla in 'Kyma', as well as with visual artist Anaïs Lelièvre in her performance series 'CLOC', and in Tom Wesselman's 'Bedroom Titbox'.

Mairi is also involved in creative transmission initiatives, seeking out encounters with a wide range of audiences. Working with Fanny Travaglino, she has participated in “Transhumance”, a celebratory walking performance through the city of Montreuil, in the outskirts of Paris, created with the inhabitants. She has conducted art and science workshops, aimed at introducing pupils to elementary particles through dance. In collaboration with Paris 8 University, she works with young refugees reception classes creating short performative forms. Currently, together with choreographer Clément Aubert, she works at the nursing home of Cousin de Méricourt in Cachan, for the project 'Le Bal des Souvenirs'.