Irina Demina is a choreographer and dance artist, based in Berlin. She received her dance education in Moscow and Hamburg, graduated from Moscow State Lomonosov University (Faculty of Philology) and received a Master degree in Choreography at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT).
As a dancer she worked with the choreographers Xavier Le Roy, Jochen Roller, Angela Guerreiro, Soodong Jung, Jessica Nupen, Halla Olafsdottir among others.
Since 2008 she is developing her own choreographic projects (Perpetual Myth 2021, On the Silver Planet 2021, Herbarium LAB 2019, Be Water, My Friend 2017, Banshee Ragout 2017, TRAUMLABOR. reality check 2016, Accumulalalation 2014 etc).
For her performances and choreographies Irina has received national and international recognition. In 2021 she was awarded the Fellowship by the Pina Bausch foundation. In 2017 she was part of the international art project for the Winter Olympics in South Korea. On behalf of various institutions Irina was invited for choreographic residences in Germany, South Korea, Norway, Spain, Hungary, Russia etc.
Irina’s work is inspired by experimentation with body fictions and creation of a performative dialogue between analogue and digital, tradition and technology, fiction and reality, while dancing on the edges between history and modernity, sense and nonsense, seduction and repulsion, (unknown) past and (uncertain) future.
Photo: Claude Hofer