Toula Limnaios was born in Athens in 1963. After her training in classical and modern dance, M. Alexander and Laban technique as well as music and dance pedagogy in Brussels, she worked as a performer with Claudio Bernardo, Régine Chopinot and as an assistant with Pierre Droulers. Later she continued her training at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, where after a short time she became a member of the Folkwang Tanzstudio under the direction of Pina Bausch. From 1995-2003 she danced in live improvisations with the musicians Konrad Bauer and Peter Kowald. In 2007/2008 she was a guest professor for choreography at the Hochschule Ernst Busch in Berlin and was a guest choreographer at various theatres. She has founded and directed the cie. toula limnaios together with Ralf R. Ollertz since 1996.