Liliya Burdinskaya is a dancer, textile artist, choreographer and writer from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Liliya is known to be one of the 10 choreographers that form the reality of contemporary dance in Russia. In 2003 Liliya graduated from Legat Ballet School in England. In 2006 she graduated from London Contemporary Dance School at the Place. Liliya was a dancer at the National Dance Company of Wales the Diversions. She was a founder and artistic director of the leading contemporary dance centre Bye Bye Ballet (St. Petersburg 2009–2014 and her own dance company 2014–2020, for which she created more than 20 works. The existential performance Marathon by Liliya, in which she danced non-stop for 31 hours, became an unprecedented event. The performance Decomposition of the Atom with known Russian actress Alisa Khazanova became the choreographic opening of Teodor Currentzis’s Diaghilev Festival in Perm. The work David opened two film screenings of David Lynch films and was called “the best invitation to the world of Lynch”. Liliya was a guest choreographer of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, choreographer and director of the opera for children Piped piper and the cars at the Plovdiv Opera and Ballet Theatre. Participant of the European Biennale of Contemporary Art Manifesta’13 in 2020 as an artist from Human Signs project by Yuval Avital. She was the choreographer of the Middle Ages in the film Cast by Diana Vishneva, co-author of the documentary play Baby Blues, author of the mono-performances Ophelia in Bandages and the White Cell. She was a performer at Flora in the literary-performative international project by the Austrian director Jacqueline Kornmüller and producer Peter Wolf in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, author and creator of the urban knitted art object Wish Catcher in the city of Norilsk; the main heroine of the documentary film about modern Russian women First Time Woman; dancer in the Zero Point music project by composer Alexey Retinsky. Liliya collaborates with Teodor Currentzis, Diana Vishneva, Alexey Retinsky, Andreas Mustukis, Jacqueline Kornmüller. She is invited as a teacher of the faculties of modern choreography at the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory and the Institute of Film and Television on the basis of the Part Academy (St. Petersburg); author of unique creative educational programs SoloDoma and MONA where she teaches to become a movement poet and to create a full evening solo work. Liliya is the author of the text The Nest performed as part of Ganymed Bridge project by Jacqueline Kornmüller at the Naturhistorisches Museum and Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, which can be seen until October 2023.
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