She issued one of the largest series of folk music in the world, with 50 records, and is the founder of the Greek Dances Theatre "Dora Stratou".

Her parents Maria Koromila and Nikolaos Stratos brought her up in the upper class urban environment of Athens at the beginning of the twentieth century, along with her brother Andreas Stratos.

Dora Stratou wrote the book Greek Traditional Dances in 1979.

In her book she begins with the quote: "I write what my eyes have seen, what went through my mind and what my soul fell in love with..." Her true passion for Greek Dance led her to establish one of the most unusual living museums in the world, The Greek Dances Theatre in Athens.

The Greek Dances theater is nowadays a host for other folkloric groups both within Greece and Internationally.