Artistic Dance Research
Sasha regularly conducts workshops on artistic dance research and practice, navigating the personal and global dance histories, intimate and broad narratives, while exploring the dynamics of cultural politics of past and present, as well as aspects of migration, intersectionality, and peripheralization.
Sasha has taught at:
Off-Bühne KOMPLEX Chemnitz
Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
Boğaziçi University Istanbul
University of Innsbruck
HSE Art and Design School, Moscow
The New School, New York (Fulbright Visiting Scholar)
Bennington College
ZIL Culture Center, Moscow
Palace of Youth, Yaroslavl
Directorate of Cultural and Arts Education Programmes, Moscow
Experiments in Choreology is a special format of dance research laboratory, resulting from the Soviet Gesture Project (dance research conducted together with Dasha Plokhova since 2015), and is based on the work with Manual for the Practical Use of a Dance Archive: Experiments in Choreology, or Where the Soviet Gesture Has Led Us.
hosted by:
Ural Biennale, Ekaterinburg
Garage Museum, Moscow
Meyerkhold Theater Center, Moscow
Dance Technique and Improvisation
Since 2011, Sasha has regularly taught dance technique and improvisational classes, combining various movement and embodiment approaches. Being a committed movement researcher, Sasha attunes the material to the wide range of groups from high-skilled professional dancers to amateurs of the silver age, which allowed her to conduct the classes at:
VHS and Tanzacademy, Innsbruck
Tanzacademy Innsbruck
University Sports Institute Innsbruck
ICC dance company, Kaluga
Basel Dance Bureau
International Dance and Performance Centre TSEKH, Moscow
International Dance Festival Art of Movement, Yaroslavl
Nikolay Ogryzkov Dance School, Moscow
Black Orange Dance Camp
Palace of Youth, Yaroslavl
Kirov State Theatre of Young Spectators
Curating
Toching/Moving Margins
Since 2019, Sasha has co-curated the Touching/Moving Margins project with Nitsan Margaliot and Anna Chwialkowska. Project's activity embraces interviews with a diverse scope of dance artists contributing to the remapping of dance histories and expanding it beyond the stages of the First World; organising two editions of peer-to-peer exchange laboratories Moving Margins, culminating in publicly accessible symposia; contributions to the academic discourses, through conference participation and publications. The project keeps evolving, with the recent trajectory toward community outreach (check our vision).
We are searching for collaborators.
Silent Period, Moscow 2018
An international educational project devoted to the theory and critics of contemporary dance.
In collaboration with Garage Museum and Goethe Institute.
Silent Period is a workshop program on contemporary dance, performance, their critical analysis, portfolio reviews, and community talks. The final event of this program is a Battle of Critics – the hybrid of Science Slam and talent show: three dance artists perform solos, and each work is discussed by three critics. At the end of the evening, the audience will decide which dance critic best reflected their own interpretation of what they have seen.
Program teachers:
Fernando Belfiore (The Netherlands/Brazil)
Elena Demyanenko (USA)
Anna Kozonina (Russia)
Anya Kravchenko (Russia)
Anna Volkland (Germany)
Charlotte Imbault (France)
