Alina Belyagina is Munich-based choreographer, performer, and facilitator working across dance, theatre, and visual media. Alina was born in Ukraine, grew up between West Siberia and Berdychiv. Her practice merges movement with text, sound, and video to explore how bodies generate meaning—physically, politically, and poetically.

Since relocating to Germany, Alina has developed a distinctive choreographic language shaped by displacement, multilingualism, and feminist dramaturgy. She is particularly interested in how signs, sensations, and affects emerge through physical processes, often exploring the body as a site of cultural memory and transformation.

Her work has been presented internationally at festivals and platforms including Want to Dance Taipei, Open Look Festival Saint Petersburg, Laos Contemporary Dance Festival, Euro-Scene Leipzig, Tanzwerkstatt Europa Munich, Arena Festival Erlangen, Soar Festival Kristiansand, On Bodies Cyprus, and the Suzanne Dellal Center Tel Aviv.

Alina is supported by institutions such as Kulturreferat Munich, V-A-C Foundation, the Chanel Culture Fund, Goethe-Institut Dänemark, and Impulstanz DanceWeb (2023), where she was awarded a scholarship with support from the Tanja Liedtke Foundation. She has held residencies at CN D Pantin, V-A-C Foundation, and Pianofabrieken Brussels, Schloss Bröllin among others. 

Alina works between Munich, Hamburg and Eindhoven

Her performance Hold me/Обійми (2022) investigates transformation and fragility in response to dominant political narratives, while her latest work, Getting Our Wonder Smashed (2024), questions the vulnerability of the dancing body within choreopolitical constraints. Her current project, Please speak continuously and describe your experiences as they come to you, brings together Slavic folk background artists and investigates feminist dramaturgy, somatic knowledge, and non-linear structures.

Alina is committed to collective support, resource-sharing, and creating  spaces for exchange. She is inspired by queer ecologies, sensory theory, and the epistemology of movement—building works that invite both intellectual inquiry and emotional resonance.