Born in Moscow, USSR in 1987.
Based between Amsterdam and Moscow

Formal Educaction

2022 - Institute for Applied Theatre Studies (ATW) at JLU Giessen - Choreography and performance.
2017-2021 (BA) - School for New Dance Development (SNDO) at Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance (AHK) - Choreography.
2013 - Theatre Leader School, Meyerhold Theatre Centre and Moscow Department of Culture - interdisciplinary study programme on theory and management of contemporary theatre.
2010-2012 (MA) - Russian State University for the Humanities - Cultural Studies.
2006-2009 - Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities - Theatre Theory.
2005-2009 (BA) - National University - Higher School of Economics - Sociology.

Own artistic works and projects

I’m a Robot and I need Therapy, 2024 - experimental performance, Try-out showings at IDlab, Veem House, Flam Festival Amsterdam. Premiere 13 November at Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam.
Why robots need Therapy, 2024 - technoabsurdist lecture, Digital Wellness Show at Paradiso Amsterdam, Society 5.0 Festival Amsterdam, MESH Festival, Basel.
Firewall, 2024 - dance performance, SDVIG, Saint-Petersburg (work-in-progress).
Dance, Neurodiversity and Robots, 2022, 2023 - videolecture, Museion di Bolzano; AHK.
A lot to unpack / Всё сложно, 2022 - dance performance, Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow.
Too much in the head, 2021 - dance performance, Frascati, Amsterdam.
But I’m Just a Text, 2020 - dance performance, ROZENSTRAAT - Rose is a Rose is a Rose, Amsterdam.
Low Frequency (This is not a podcast), 2020 - online choreographic object.
BIAS, 2019 - dance performance, SNDO, Amsterdam.
TERMINAL, 2019 - dance performance, SNDO, Amsterdam.
It’s Cold Outside, 2018 - short film, SNDO, Amsterdam.
Buoyancy, 2018 - dance solo, SNDO, Amsterdam.
Original choice (Series), 2017-2019 - dance piece (in collaboration with Nastya Kuzmina and Liza Spivakovskaya), Zil Cultural Center, Moscow; Mousonturm, Frankfurt; SDVIG, St-Petersburg.
(Un)articulated Self, 2016 - Video dance piece (in collaboration with Nastya Kuzmina), The New Space of the Theatre of Nations, Moscow.
Train Leaves on Schedule, 2016 - dance performance piece, Sputnik Stage, Moscow.
The Wave, 2016 - dance installation, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art Garage.

Performing and collaborating

2022 - We live here: Maastricht - research project by MOHA.
2022 - Onze Roeping - On Joyful Militancy - performance by Mercedes Azpilicueta, shown at Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
2022 - Corrupted Blood - a short film by Eric Giraudet. 2022 - Goldfish Bleeding in a Sea of Sharks - performance project by Thais Di Marco at WORM, Rotterdam.
2021-2022 - Better Worse - dance performance in collaboration with visual artists (Nastya Kuzmina, Nadia Chernova, Natasha Tikhonova, Ksenia Markelova) at Meyerhold Center, Moscow.
2021 - Artists like me - dance performance by Julia Vavra.
2021 - Getting tropical, worst version - dance performance by Karina Villafan.
2020 - Art on Delivery - performative project by Keerthi Basavarajaiah.
2020 - Luring Whispers - dance performance by Keerthi Basavarajaiah at Veem House for performance, Amsterdam.
2019 - All Along The Watchtower - dance performance by Milena Weber at SNDO.
2018 - CLOUD COLLISION - dance performance by Andreas Hannes at Come Together Festival, Amsterdam.
2018 - Wrecked Chords - dance piece by Laima Jaunzema at Frascati, Amsterdam.
2016 - Second Edition performance art collective. Co-choreographer and performer of the pieces Salt on the bottom, Negative Space, Room 03, Untitled, Upper layer, shown in various art festivals in Moscow.
2016 - SOTA Performance Festival at Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art Garage. Co-choreographer and performer.
2016 - Terra Nullius performance project by Andrey Andrianov and Taras Burnashev.
2016 - Episode 5 by Ohne Zucker dance project_, Moscow.
2015 - _The Red Square_, dance performance by Ohne Zucker dance project, Moscow. Co-choreographer and performer.

Residencies

2024 Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam. 2024 SDVIG performing arts studio, St-Petersburg, Russia. 2024 IDlab Amsterdam - residency for interdisciplinary digital projects.
2023 ON/OFF online residency (ARTLink, Switzerland).
2023 Workspace Brussels.
2022 bi-residency, Cezens, France.
2021-2022 Black Box/White Cube at the Meyerhold Centre, Moscow, Russia.
2021 IDlab Amsterdam 2019-2021 WOW Amsterdam. 2018 SDVIG performing arts studio, St-Petersburg, Russia.
2017 STANTSIA, Kostroma, Russia.
2017 ZIL Cultural Centre, Moscow, Russia.

Teaching experience

2024 Workshop “Absurd VS Algorithm” at SDVIG studio, St Petersbourg. 2023, 2024 Course “Performance as Algorithm” at Cascade Project (Moscow). 2023, 2024 Workshop on performance for teenagers at “It can be so” and “Greencamp” projects (Kilpola, Karelia). 2022 Workshop “Care as performance, performance as care” at VIA ZUID Makersdag (Heerlen).
2022 Advising graduation piece at SNDO (Amsterdam).
2022 Lecture for non-European artists at SNDO (Amsterdam).
2022 Workshop on choreographic methods for visual artists at KABK (den Haag).
2022, 2023 Workshops on concept development for teenagers at Cascade prject (Moscow).
2017 Workshop on performance for photographers (Leiden). 2014-2016 Workshops on dance, performance and choreography for teenagers and adults at “Future Today” - nonformal education project (Russia).

Extra training

2021-2022 Dangerous Mouses - movement practice group, Amsterdam.
2020 Interdisciplinary improvisation workshop by Katie Duck, Amsterdam.
2016 Interdisciplinary Contemporary Dance Study Programme “SOTA” at Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art “Garage”.
2012-2016 Workshops on contemporary dance, dance performance, contact improvisation, physical theatre, somatics and ideokinesis in Russia and abroad (SNDO, Amsterdam, Centre National de la Danse, Paris, etc).
2012-2016 International Centre for Dance and Performance TsEKh (Moscow): classes in contemporary dance, performance, dance theatre.

portrait by Evgeniya Babskaya