Marina began her artistic career in 2006, exploring social dances (house dance, club dance, jazz fusion dance) and free jazz improvisation, participating in international battles, such as Summer Dance Forever (The Netherlands) and traveling across Europe and Asia. Over time, she developed a specific dance practice that combines the footwork and rhythmicity of social dances with experimental approaches to form and sound, integrating them with contemporary dance and performance art.

Her artistic practice explores the potential of subcultural dance (club, hip-hop & jazz) as a contemporary choreographic language capable of addressing the complexities of modern society, human experience, and the search for identity.
Since 2015, she has collaborated with choreographers such as Iron Skulls (Spain), Adrián Vega (Spain), and Alesya Dobysh (Russia–Netherlands). These collaborations, along with her active participation in movement and sound research laboratories, have deeply inspired Marina´s interest in performing arts and sound art, which has become the central axis of her artistic practice.

In 2016, she founded the Jazzbetween project, which initially started as a series of artistic gatherings in a club night format in Moscow. Over the course of eight years, it has evolved into a multidisciplinary platform combining performances, workshops, and research laboratories exploring the intersection of dance and live sound, presented in Russia, Japan, Slovakia, and Spain, and became recognised as one of the most cutting-edge and inclusive music and dance sessions of the Barcelona city.

Since 2019, Marina has focused on experimenting with movement, live sound, and the interaction between musical instruments and the body.

Currently, her artistic practice revolves around three main directions: synthesizing the languages of social dance and contemporary dance, conducting choreographic research and creations with musical instruments, and exploring new hybrid formats of stage performance.
Additionally, Marina has incorporated her DJ experience into performances, enriching the works with rhythmic complexity and body-sound experimentation. Her movement principles include experimentation and a multilayered approach.

" I also focus on approaching to social dance as a medium of artistic expression that transcends its cultural roots. My practice is particularly centered on creating new artistic languages that emerge from the interaction between the dancer’s body, the musician’s body, live sound, and space, developing new stage and public experiences."

As a result of initial researches, she presented her first stage work: concert-performance JazzBetween.LIVE at La Mercé Festival, Barcelona (2019) and won the XV Certamen Coreografic de Sabadell (2020) with her first collaborative work "Re.titled" with choreographer Alesya Dobysh. In 2021 she was the finalist of the Choreographic Festival "Pasoa2", Madrid with the work " Re.titled" and choreography "We are just ok" by Adrian Vega.

Now
In 2022 Marina became an artist-in-residence at the Centro de Creación y artes vives Graner (Barcelona). Her new project, The Groove Experience, received the Grant for Research and Innovation in Performing Arts (The Institute of the Culture of Barcelona) and solo work was premiered in September 2023 at CC Barceloneta.
Between 2019-2023 she curated numerous Jazzbetween events-performances at various venues and festivals in Spain (Festival Boombeta at Grec Festival, Festival Viu Montjuic, Nike Barcelona, Arte Barcelona).
In 2023:

• Premiered Movement 1, a trio on choreomusical relationships with saxophone, at the Kultursommerwien Festival (Vienna).
• Debuted the duo DVOYE, co-created with Alesya Dobysh and co-produced by Corpo Maquina and E-Moves (Netherlands), with tour in the Netherlands and Austria.
• Presented the three-hour performance-happening Jazzbetween in 6 Movements, composed of six acts of choreography and improvisation between jazz and electronic musicians and dancers from diverse artistic backgrounds, at the Mercat de les Flors Theater (Barcelona) during the Hop Festival.

In 2024:

• Presented the choreography The Grooves for the Tribu Urbana company, within the Arterias project, produced by the Danza Metropolitana Festival (Barcelona).
• Collaborated on INAUDIT by Adrián Vega and Adriano Galante as a movement research assistant for the Creació i Museus program of the Grec Festival.
• Presented the choreographic laboratory and performance DVOYE at the Submerge Festival, Lake Studio Arts Center (Berlin).

Marina is known for her constant collaborations and co-creations 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", an improvised performance co-created between five artists from theatre, music and movement, produced by Festival Moujuic (Barcelona, 2023).

Teaching Experience:
During her 16 years experience in social-club dance, jazz fusion and contemporary improvisation she conducted workshops and movement laboratories in in Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Greece, Finland, Russia and Japan. She taught UK jazz fusion and house dance techniques, as well as Jazz not Jazz tools for exploration of improvisation and experimentation with the forms and rhythms of social dances.

2018: Marina presented contemporary improvisation jazz practices during the official educational program of International Jazz Day in Saint-Petersburg
2019: directed an course of Urban Dance & jazz Improvisation at the Institute Del Teatre, Barcelona, 2019.
2020: launched educational Online courses on footworks & improvisation titled "Jazz not Jazz".
2021: initiated the annual Jazz Not Jazz Weekend, featuring workshops led by guest artists representing diverse approaches to movement development and artistic exploration (from social dance, contemporary dance and music).
From 2022 Marina travelled around European dance festivals and facilitated Jazz Not Jazz movement laboratories at leading European art centers, including TicTac Art Centre (Belgium), Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona), Colony Dance Camp (Nida, Lithuania), Lake Studio (Berlin, Germany).

Marina about her music influences:
"I was into hip-hop music and extreme sport as a teenager, hanging out in the clubs, where at the same hip-hop night played drum and bass and techno music, later when I moved to Moscow and started to be a part of the dance community my tastes evolved into funk, house and future beats music, later on dancing to one of the jazzy remixes on the house track, I discovered the jazz. From that moment my musical preferences started to revolve around all types of music with a hint of jazz: house, detroit, broken beats, jazz fusion, bebop, jazztronica.
In 2015 i created couple of radio podcasts, speaking about young music producers and playing jazz-inspired music and later i became a DJ with the idea to transmit all the music I liked, as a dancer and as a listener: everything between jazz that grooves me in the dancing room or on the dance floor".

As a DJ she generates her personal vision between jazz, club grooves and electronic sound as a JazzBetween music.

Marina: "The DJ sets that I like to play now are always an invisible musical bridge between the past and the future of jazz music mixed with a lot of experimentation for the electronic sounds in between".

In 2016 she started to organise the first JazzBetween events in the music clubs of Moscow, that ended up exporting to Saint-Petersburg, Tokyo and Bratislava and finally had been based in Barcelona as one of the most avant-garde Jazz not Jazz sessions, that starting from 2022 continued as a performance - happening at the theatres, public and other site-specific places.
Her interest lies in the renewal of the relation between contemporary performance, dance and music from different sound backgrounds, clearly seen in Jazzbetween and her inexplicable way to generate a space that can be co-inhabited by artists who came from Jazz and Not Jazz.