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.

 Although her choreographic work has been presented internationally since 2019, she considers 2022 the beginning of her professional choreographic career. Prior to that, due to a nomadic mode of living and working across different countries, she had limited access to national funding structures and developed her projects primarily through festival invitations, residencies and self-organised artistic initiatives.

This position outside institutional frameworks shaped her artistic practice profoundly. Rather than relying on established production systems, Belyagina developed independent ways of creating, producing and touring work internationally. As a result, while still belonging to a younger generation of emerging choreographers, she has already built an extensive international network and presented her work across Europe and Asia.

A significant turning point came in 2022 with Hold me / Обійми, a performance supported by the Channel Culture Fund and later by German funding programmes including a Wiederaufnahmeförderung and a Tanzstipendium from the Kulturreferat München. Since then, she has continuously expanded her choreographic practice and established a distinct artistic language at the intersection of dance, performance, sound and visual culture.

Belyagina’s works have been presented at festivals and venues in Germany, Greece, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Norway, Italy and Laos, as well as through projects supported by the Goethe-Institut in Taiwan, Pakistan and Iceland. Unusually for an artist at this stage of her career, she independently manages much of the international circulation of her work, building long-term collaborations across different local contexts and contributing to a decentralised model of artistic exchange.

In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious danceWEB Scholarship at ImPulsTanz Vienna, supported by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation. Her artistic development has further been supported through residencies at institutions including Centre National de la Danse (Pantin), Lothringer 13 Halle, Schloss Wiepersdorf, Pianofabriek Brussels, Schloss Bröllin, and Tanznetz Süd Exchange+.

Alongside her artistic work, Belyagina is active as an educator and facilitator. She has taught in educational programmes at Bluebox Vienna, Belgrade Dance Institute, Symbiotic Dancescape and Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts, and regularly leads professional training programmes for dancers in Germany, including Tanzwerk Kassel, Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, Bewegungs-Art Freiburg and Hamburg Ballet.

Her artistic research investigates the body as a site where movement generates knowledge. Drawing from feminist dramaturgy, sound practices, folklore, black metal theory and ecological thought, she develops choreographic works that explore how meaning emerges through physical processes, collective memory and the body's relation to space, history and cultural narratives.