is a Ukrainian artist living and working in Vienna. Currently engaged in the field of Performing Arts as a creator, facilitator, researcher and educator.

Current

Arbeitsstipendium Stadt Wien, 2024 

Fantastic Beasts, creator and educator, Nyzhne Selyshche (Transcarpathia, Ukraine), Linz, Vienna, 2024 (funded by Culture-Helps/co-funded by the European Union)

Dancing Through Adversity, short documentary film in collaboration with Amin Ebrahimi, Kyiv, Vienna, 2024 (with support of Stadt Wien MA7, Takflix x Nowness) 

Narrative Presences, workshop leader, creator, Vienna, Ivano-Frankivsk, Olomouc, January - May, 2024 (funded by Culture-Helps/co-funded by the European Union)

Split Stitch, choreography and performance, WUK, March 2024 

A Game of Hide and Seek with Mr.Lyatoshynsky, residency/choreographic work, Kyiv, December 2023 (with support of BKA Residenz Stipendium 2023, Austrian Cultural Forum in Ukraine, Goethe Institut) 

5 Dance Pieces -Musik Bewegt!, performance at Kunsthaus Mürz, 21 Oct 2023

Tallis in Wonderland, Performance at Sepperdepot in a frame of PEEK research project Atlas of Smooth Spaces, 8 Oct 2023

Performance at the 11th International Festival. Krzysztof Penderecki - level 320 in Zabrze, 24 Sep 2023

Hide and Seek, work in progress showing at Bears in the Park, Kulturelle Ankerzentren in Vienna Event, 15 Sep 2023

Spheric Dances, lecture performance with Rose Breuss at 60th World Congress of Dance Research, Athens, 7 Jul 2023 

No distance allowed, Performance at APL (Angewandte Performance Laboratory) in a frame of Angewandte Festival, 28/29 Juni 2023

Dancing Motoricity of Dorothee Günther ́s Illustrations, Presentation at Moving & Mapping 2023: Techniken und Praxis des Modernen Tanzes. Berlin, 19 Mai 2023

Now, as I was about too… , Performance at Brücken Festival Wienerwald, Eichgraben, 06 May 2023

Collision as method for in-the-moment artistic co-creation, Presentation at the SAR Conference on Artistic Research, Trondheim, 20 Apr 2023

Self-care Workshop in a frame of Angewandte Performing Lab - APL Morning Practice, 29 Mar 2023

Dancer at Der Reigen, Imaginale Festival Stuttgart, 3 Feb 2023

Creator and performer, 12 Steps of Decolonisation - Raw Matters, Brunnenpassage Vienna,  Dec 2022

Performance accompanying Still Shifting, Mother Field by Jennifer Tee and Miri Lee. Secession Vienna. 15 Sep - 6 Nov

Research Residency at Schmiede Hallein. 16 Sep - 25 Sep

Desire Machine - Performance Installation at Rosenberg Dance/Research Festival. 25 - 28 Oct

Povzine: Aeon, Online Publication. 30 May, 1 Dec 2023

Ongoing Engagements

Dance Researcher in the FWF project Smooth Spaces at the University of Music and Performing arts Vienna.

Artistic Co-Director at PUC - Pop Up Collective. 

Board Member at Vienna Section - International Dance Council CID

Dance Coach for Austrian National Team of Rhythmic Gymnastics

Dance Educator at Musikschule Obergrafendorf (Ballet und Tanzstudio)

Recent Projects (2021/22)

• Le Grand Continental: alle tanzen, Choreographic Assistance, Festspielhaus St.Pöllten, März - Juni 2022 

• Lost in Translation, Choreographia[Inter]Austriaca, Muth Theather Wien, April 2022

• Calling the Spirit, Skrjabin Mysterium, Choreographia[Inter]Austriaca, Imago Dei Festival, Krems, März 2022

• Das Liebeskonzil und die Wolke,Klagenfurt Ensemble, Theather HALLE11, März 2022

• Présence, Cie. Off Verticality, Rose Breuss - Minoriten Wels, Nov 2021

• Self-identification during isolation, Svitlana Oleksiuk/House of Europe (UA), Online, Aug - Nov 2021

• Dreamscraper, WUK, PUC Collective, Sep 2021 

• In Touch, Kultur Brotfabrik, Favorit, Kultursommer Wien, 2021

• The first Image was an Outline of a Shadow, Online Presentation, Handle with care Programm, Imagetanz Festival, Brut Vienna, Apr 2021

• As if there was a negative in the archive, Dance research film, MDW, 2021

EDUCATION

  • Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz 2018 - 2022 ​Master of Arts: Movement Research/ Pedagogy 

  • Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz 2013-2017 ​Bachelor of Arts: Contemporary Dance/ Performance/Pedagogy 

  • DanceArts, Boris Nebyla, Vienna 2012-2013 ​Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Horton Technique, Jazz 

  • Serge Lifar Kyiv Municipal Ukrainian Academy of Dance 2003-2012 Diploma Program for Classical Ballet Dancer and Teacher 

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SCHOLARSHIPS AND MORE

  • Arbeitsstipendium Stadt Wien, 2024

  • BMKÖS Residenzstipendium, 2023

  • BKA Start Stipendium fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst, 2022

  • In the field - Scholarship program of Wiener Festwochen, 2020/21

  • A year-long mentoring program at Huggy Bears, Vienna, 2020/21

  • Internship at Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company Jacobo Godani, 2017

  • Exchange Programe at A.C.T.S Paris, 2016