Evi Panayiotou was born in Limassol, Cyprus. She studied dance, with Nikou Eggonopoulou scholarship, at Rallou Manou dance school in Athens and continued her studies in contemporary dance at Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and Broadway dance center in New York, USA. In addition, she is a holder of a diploma of Labanotation from the Center for Movement, Research and Analysis in New York.

As a dancer and choreographer she has collaborated with Diastasis dance team, presenting performances in Cyprus, Greece, France, UK, Russia and the USA. She is the choreographer and co-founder of the artistic group aRttitude (founded in 2009), along with the writer Maria A. Ioannou, a group aiming at promoting dance and literature in both Cyprus and abroad.