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In 2022 Marina won a residency at the Centro de Creación y artes vives Graner, Barcelona as an emergent artist, and was supported for the new research " The Grooves Experience" from the Institute of the Culture of Barcelona.
Between 2019-2023 she curated numerous Jazzbetween events-performances at various venues and festivals in Spain (Boombeta at Grec Festival, Festival Viu Montjuic, Nike Barcelona, Arte Barcelona).
In 2022 Marina has started the new collaboration with Adrian Vega with the duet "Ekxina", that will be premiered in 2024.
In 2023 Marina presented the new format of the concert-performance-experience "Jazzbetween in 6 Movements" at the Contemporary Art Center "Centro Botin", Santander and Trio with the saxophone "Movement 1" at Festival Kultursommerwien in Vienna. In April 2023 she premiered the duet "DVOYE" (co-creation with Alesya Dobysh) in The Netherlands.
In December 23 Marina presented 3 hours performance-happening "Jazzbetween in 6 Movements" at Mercat de les Flors Theatre, Barcelona during Festival Hop.
Marina is known for her constant collaborations and improvisation practices with musicians, including the latest experiences: with Edurne Arizu and Jazzgranollers Ensemble, experimental performance "Materia" with Adriano Galante in the EINESS (Konventzero, 2021), Festival Keroxen (Tenerife, 2022), and "Metaplec", the research on the composed improvisation with the collective of performers, produced by Festival Moujuic (Barcelona, 2023).
Teaching Experience
During her 15 years experience in club/street dance, jazz fusion and contemporary improvisation she gave workshops and organised laboratories in Spain, Russia, Europe and Asia. She taught UK jazz fusion and house dance styles, as well as "jazz not jazz" tools for improvisation, experimenting with footworks forms and rhythms, using "sound-texture" tools for the development of dance improvisation & practicing.
Marina presented contemporary practices of jazz improvisation in the official educational program of International Jazz Day 2018 in Saint-Petersburg and hosted a course of Urban Dance & jazz Improvisation in Institute Del Teatre, Barcelona, 2019.
In 2020 she started her educational Online courses and sessions on "Jazz not Jazz" improvisation.
In 2021, Marina launched "Jazz Not Jazz Weekend," an annual summer program featuring improvisational dance sessions led by invited teachers representing diverse dance forms and approaches to improvisation and movement development.