Algorithms for dance

i am a choreographer, theatre maker, performer, dance and tech dramaturg and educator. i see art making as a way of knowledge production, inseparable from life and politics.
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main themes of my work:
.. ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Data Feminism
.. Mad Studies: “mental illness”, neurodiversity and mental health care system
.. migration, displacement, border politics
.. low-tech of meaning-making and (mis)communication
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my choreographic tools are movement, text, video, irony, despair, risk, absurdity and the crossovers of biographical, abstract and fictional.
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Marina Orlova (1987) is an independent dance/theatre maker, tech-dramaturg and AI researcher based in Amsterdam. She received education in sociology in Moscow and in experimental choreography at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance.
Marina works with topics of human-AI relationships, mental health, migration and border politics. She creates interdisciplinary performances that combine her background in sociology, curiosity for technology, choreographic methodologies and lived knowledge of marginalised communities. Marina mediates between engineering logic and theatrical devices, using technology as both metaphor and mirror to societal issues. She works within aesthetics of absurdism, tragicomedy and autofiction.
Marina’s theatre performance “I’m a Robot and I need Therapy” was presented at  Frascati Theater in Amsterdam, Veem House for Performance, Flam Festival, Next Level Festival in Dortmund, Worm Rotterdam.  Her lecture-performance “Why robots need therapy” was presented at the Next Nature Digital Wellness Show; Society 5.0 Festival; de Balie; Mesh Festival (Basel); Korzo Theater; Iterations Symposium; and in various academic settings.
Marina’s artistic practice also includes writing, teaching and facilitating a support group for “artists in distress”.