I'm 23 years old, I'm a dancer and a beginner dance movement therapist.
I used to do photography and writing for media for the last 5 years; recently I came back to my passion since childhood - dance.

Now I perform with a contemporary dance troupe and hold classes of free movement and improvisation - where all comers can discover dance as the way to self.

At the moment I feel a thirst for novelty, experiment, people I've never seen and places I've never been to.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Now I'm on my 6-week trip to Israel. I came for dance and knowing local culture.

That was a spontaneous idea - I just grabbed the tickets, not even knowing where to live. The reason is «gaga» (body language invented by Ohad Naharin) and contemporary dance companies in Tel-Aviv. I fell in love with it.

So I’m now here attending gaga classes, watching perfomances and at the same time exploring new culture and people.

I actually feel something special for Israel (even though I'm not jewish at all) and want to know it better from the inside. With locals it's the best way!

Interests

Dance, psychology, somatics, art, theatre, music, people as they are

• arts
• culture
• writing
• performing arts
• photography
• dancing
• music
• communications
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: band №1 - Radiohead; styles - trip-hop, acid jazz, rock, ambient and other
Movies: Andrey Tarkovsky films, "Blush" by Wim Vandekeybus, "Nymphomaniac" by Lars von Trier
Books: "Idiot" by Fedor Dostoevsky, "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" by Milan Kundera, "Nausea" by Jean Paul Sartre, some Russian poetry (contemporary and classical as, e.g. Joseph Brodsky and Anna Akhmatova)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Inspired people to dance - those, who never danced before

What I Can Share with Hosts

We could dance together :)

Countries I’ve Visited

France, India, Malta, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation