drawing from both wisdoms of social jazz dances, improvisational and experimental music artists like Steve Coleman that she has been collaborating with, and the challenges from contemporary and conceptual choreography, allowed alina to develop the methodologies and poetics of her own choreographic and performance works.  maintaining her interest to play with the ideas of conventional duration and format, alina works with solo, duo and group choreographies through the lens of interdisciplinary experiments with visual art and music. currently she is exploring the format of lecture performance within the book of sand framework.

alina’s artistic endeavors navigate the themes of identity and memory, approaching body and movement through a dual lens. on one hand, her work draws on her personal experience as a liminal identity, shaped by Ukrainian culture, Syrian ancestry, and the legacy of an immigrant background marked by a military history. on the other hand, she emphasizes the transformative power of performance as a chosen medium, advocating for its capacity to function as an epistemic tool for knowledge processing and critical thinking. motivated by these point of departure, she created SHOWTIME (a series of solos on overproduction of body’s representation), MAGURA (a collaboration with Maria Plotnikova on the ancestral memory and body resilience in the context of the r*ssian military violence in Ukraine), and the book of sand (an ongoing marcomodular performance project about understanding the erased parts of our identities in the  infinite process of knowledge production).

alina’s work has been presented in dance, music, and contemporary art contexts, locally in Barcelona, as well as internationally at Joan Miró Foundation, Theatre de la Ville, Villa Waldberta, Munich Kammespiele, MAC festival La Mercè, Condeduque Center, Montreux Jazz festival, San José Jazz festival, XJazz Berlin festival, among others. as an emerging artist, she has been developing her works as a resident of AIR Munich, Nunart Guinardó, CeRRCa, CC Barceloneta, Auditori Sant Martí, Can Gassol. her works have been supported by INAEM and ICUB (MAGURA, SHOWTIME). curently, alina is working on her multimodular umbrella project the book of sand that has brought her 1st jury award at Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid’24, and is now host by GRANER (Fábrica de Creació de Mercat de les Flors) in Barcelona throughout 2025 and by O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo, scheduled for 2026.