Ekaterina Zharinova

Dancer: Thresholds Crossed

Ekaterina Zharinova (dancer) graduated from the Contemporary Dance School of the Ekaterinburg Contemporary Art Centre and received a Master’s degree of mathematics at the Urals State University in 2001. Ekatrina has traveled and performed internationally in the USA, Netherlands, Lithuania, Sweden, Italy, Germany, and Thailand. She has performed and worked with choreographers Sasha Pepelyaev (Russia), Lisa Alexander (UK) Anouk van Dijk (Netherlands). Ekaterina worked in the Provincial Dance Theatre (Yekaterinburg, Russia) as a dancer from 2000 to 2005, performing with the company at the Kennedy Center and the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina and many international festivals. She has also performed in the Theater Bellevue for the International Theatreschool Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Ekaterina teaches contemporary dance, Pilates and Yoga in several locations including the Yekaterinburg Dance Institute.