BIO

Hello! I am a PhD candidate in the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto, with an MA (2015) and Honours BA (2014) in Comparative Literature. My dissertation, supported by a Lise Lone Marker Fellowship in Theatre History (2019), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (2020-2023) and JHI Amilcare Iannucci Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities (2021-2022), analyses artistic receptions of ballet across cultures at the start of the twentieth century. The project explores how the sensory language of dance is historically interpreted by women in visual art forms such as drawing, painting, and sculpture.

I am a member of the University of Toronto's Institute for Dance Studies, where I have been a research assistant and social media coordinator. I am also an alumna of the Emerging Arts Critics Programme organized by the National Ballet of Canada, Canadian Opera Company, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. My academic writing is published in Feminist Modernist Studies Journal, while my music and dance concert reviews appear in The Dance Current and The WholeNote magazines as well as the Blue Riband arts blog.

As a former provincially competitive rhythmic gymnast performing in Ukraine (Deriugina School, Kiev), France (ALGM, Lyon), and Ontario (LRGC, London), I now enjoy practicing circus acrobatics and painting in my spare time.

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