Elton Petri is a dancer/performer/choreographer, born in Albania and raised in Greece. He started his dance education in Athens during his studies at the Medical Laboratories Department of the Τechnological Educational Institute of Athens. He studied at the State School of Dance in Athens and at the SEAD in Salzburg, from where he graduated in 2016. During and after his studies he worked with artists such as Alix Eynaudi, Meytal Blanaru, Milan Tomasik and Zsuzsa Rozsavolgyi, Willi Dorner, Hans Fredewess, Milla Koistinen and Kosmas Kosmopoulos.