ATHENS – Just two years ago, Brooke Sharp decided she wanted a change – a fresh start – and despite never having travelled to Europe before, she decided to pack her bags and move to Greece. Today, she shares the stage with many of the biggest Greek artists as a professional dancer and expressed to TNH how it all came about.
The 29-year-old explained how after growing up on the Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia, and completing her schooling, she moved to Sydney to pursue dance and then started working professionally ever since.
She then went on to work on cruise ships in 2020 and 2021, which was where she met her Greek boyfriend, noting this was the place where their love story began – which eventually led to her journey to Greece.
After dancing professionally 11 for years, Sharp expressed what she loved most about it was “the feeling of performing.”
“I feel like every dancer gets addicted to that adrenaline rush of performing…and I think it’s just the most amazing feeling in the world,” Sharp told TNH.
“Being on stage or in front of cameras, just dancing your entire heart out – it’s like you leave yourself on the floor. And it’s also the people you meet, because you meet so many different people.”
“I think the coolest thing about dance, which has definitely been reinforced since coming to Greece, is that it really is a universal language. You can dive into dance anywhere in the world and dance together without even having a conversation.”
Describing dance as a way that connects people regardless of language or cultural background, Sharp said she was grateful to continue doing what she loves in Greece.
The 29-year-old dancer is a professional dancer who has worked with some of the biggest artists in Greece. (Photo: Courtesy of Brooke Sharp)
Moving to Greece
Sharp moved to Greece at the end of 2024, and ever since, has lived with her boyfriend in Glyfada.
Discussing her motive behind moving, Sharp explained how she had reached a point in her life where she and her boyfriend wanted a change.
After meeting on the Celebrity Silhouette cruise ship while in the Caribbean, where Sharp worked as a dancer and her boyfriend worked as an officer. He decided to then relocate to
Australia and they lived there together for three years.
After reflecting on their future, Sharp and her boyfriend decided to relocate to Greece to be able to later raise a family while being closer to her boyfriend’s homeland, which also offered greater career opportunities for him, particularly in the superyacht industry.
“I was also having a midlife crisis in Sydney…and decided we just needed to live our life. And I’d never even been to Europe before – so I was just like, ‘let’s dive in and trust the process’ – and obviously I had him, so I trusted that it was going to be okay.”
Securing work in Greece and sharing the stage with celebs
Shortly after moving, Sharp said she began attending weekly dance classes, and after a video of her was posted dancing online, she was quickly scouted and offered a job.
“I had literally gotten approached through Instagram by someone: ‘hey, are you living here, are you planning on being here for a while?, because we’d like you for this job’,” the Australian dancer said.
“That’s literally just social media – it’s crazy powerful.”
As a professional dancer, guest dance teacher, and pilates and fitness instructor, the 29-year-old expressed how she has now been working in Greece for almost two years.
She began by explaining how she worked on the Greek TV Show ‘Just the Two of Us’, and later landed roles in music videos and as a dancer for major Greek artists.
Describing her experience on Just the Two of Us, she explained: “We got to do contemporary dancing, and we also did zeimbekiko and tsifteteli, which was really cool to learn.”
“That job to me was so special because I danced to so much music every week, and I would learn all these different types of dance, depending on where people were from…which is so cool because obviously not being from Greece, I had no idea before I came on that depending on where you’re from in Greece, the dances you do and what you wear are different – and I thought it was so cool.”
Since landing this opportunity, the Australian dancer shared how she then went on to perform for Tamta, joined Nikos Oikonomopoulos on his summer tour in 2025, recently performed for Eleni Foureira at the MAD Video Music Awards for 2026, and was recently asked to tour again with Oikonomopoulos this summer.
Reflecting on her life in Greece and proudest moments
The Australian dancer expressed what she loved most about living in Greece.
“Greece is such a beautiful country. The thing I can’t fathom is that you have mountains where you can find snow an hour away from Athens, but then you can also come down to the sea – and it’s so beautiful,” Sharp shared.
“That, to me, is the most amazing thing, because especially being from the Gold Coast, obviously we don’t have snow – we just have summer all year round, and I’m such a summer girl, so I like it.”
Brooke Sharp has been a professional dancer for the last 11 years. (Photo: Courtesy of Brooke Sharp)
As someone who has been to many islands including Mykonos, Siphnos, Ios, Lefkada, and Milos, as well as all over Greece’s mainland, Sharp further noted how although culturally, Greece was very different from Australia, she’s loved every minute of experiencing living there and adapting to life in her home of two years.
Since moving, she has also begun learning Greek, and has now become well-versed in traditional Greek dances and how to move to Greek music.
Reflecting on all the opportunities she has landed so far since moving to Greece, she said she was super grateful: “I am such a yes girl, and if something feels right and it’s good energy, I’m always in for a good time,” Sharp expressed.
“Obviously, I had no idea who any of these singers were when I first got here, and I would call my boyfriend, and be like, ‘hey, I just got offered a job to dance for Nikos [Oikonomopoulos], and he’d be like ‘babe, he’s huge, like, I don’t think you realize’ and I was like ‘oh okay, that’s cool.’”
“I didn’t realize how big he was until we did his first concert in Cyprus in 2025 and we had over 20,000 people…and then I was like holy s***, let’s go! And I just couldn’t explain this feeling – it was like every single part of me had so much adrenaline and so much happiness and that’s the moment I realized that I was dancing for someone that’s ‘top’.”
Touching on her overall experience as a professional dancer and working with numerous award-winning and internationally-recognized Greek artists, Sharp expressed how her career in Greece has felt like a “pinch me moment.”
“Me five years ago I would have had no idea that I would be literally where I am right now…it’s actually a bit insane,” she said.
“I sometimes have to have a little bit of a pep talk to myself to be like, Brooke, you should be so proud of yourself, look at where you are and what you’ve accomplished…but it’s definitely a very surreal feeling.”
After only a short time living in Greece, the professional dancer expressed how she was “so grateful” for the community she has.
“I think it’s so crazy that two years ago I never thought any of these people would ever be in my life, and now they’re such big parts of my life, which is so freaking cool,” she said.
