Born in Moscow, USSR in 1987.

Formal Educaction

2022 - Institute for Applied Theatre Studies (ATW) at JLU Giessen - Choreography and performance (1 semester).
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.

Publications

2024, Theaterkrant, Therapeutische sessie met een ‘mentaal instabiele’ AI-tool, Fritz de Jong.
2022, ALWAYS CONTEXTUALIZE An Exercise in Curating Performing Arts. Editor-in-Chief: Ana Vujanović. “At the mouth of the dance”, Anastasia Proshutinskaya.
2021, Ana Kozonina, “Strange Dances: Theories and Histories Around Dance Performance in Russia”. Monograph (in Russian), Garage Dance.

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