Marlena Meier was born in Quickborn (Germany) in 1992. She studied dance pedagogy at the Lola Rogge Schule in Hamburg from 2010 to 2013. Afterwards she moved to Cologne to study contemporary dance at the Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz). She completed the school in 2017 with her Bachelor of Dance and started to work with TANZMOTO DANCE COMPANY the same year.