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KATERINA MEREZHINSKY (KATYA).

ARTIST. DANCER.


Katya is an expressive dancer and a performer of a distinct style with a show dance background, being influenced by different dance genres such as Middle Eastern, Cuban and Argentine Tango. Being trained in dance, fine art and design she integrates her body awareness knowledge and her unique vision of composition principals in to her dance expression.
Her dance experience and training went from the international ballroom to ethnic and folk dance.
She has been trained in traditional Academic fine art schools in the Eastern Europe and has a degree in Fine Art and Industrial Design.

Dance vision: "Most of us can not live in the isolation. We produce thoughts and feelings when we interact with an outside world, whether it's nature, books, music, people... For me, interacting with another person is one of the most powerful experiences in life; the process of interaction is the most diverse and never-ending process; it never repeats itself. A partner dance is one of the most accurate ways of communicating , and if you establish a contact, no words are needed."

Art vision: "It is all about your life experience that needs to find the way to express itself.
Academic training taught me how to create photorealistic images of life or how to create an academic form, but it wasn't sufficient for expressing my true self.
Constantly trying to free my mind helps me find the tools that would allow me to transmit myself in the way that is most natural for me and comprehensive for others. It doesn't matter much how I scale in the system of traditional schools. Finding the optimum means to express my body and mind has to do with overcoming my habbits and stereotypes to find the way that is efficient and most accurate."