Olga Masleinnikova movement & video artist - teacher - coach - writer  

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I am a movement and video artist, director, choreologist, teacher, mindset & creativity coach and writer.

I am an Honorary Associate from Royal Academy of Music for teaching movement for actors , devising & wellbeing in performance.  My embodiment practice and methodology 'The Shifting Process' combines Laban's contemporary developments for performing arts, psychophysical practices and my research around body energetics.

In my creative work I explore the state of transformation and its manifestations within the human psyche, personality and behaviour. My performances are interdisciplinary metaphors of change; mutation of some form, the 'in between' states. It tends to include elements of supernatural, family relationships and questions of identity. Having experienced clinical death at 9 months old, I am fascinated by death & rebirth cycles and the regenerative power of loss. My works are visually driven and conceptually layered.

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I have graduated with a MA in Theatre Directing from INSAS in Brussels and specialised in Choreological Studies (Contemporary Developments in Laban's Principles and Practice for Performing Arts) and contemporary dance at Trinity Laban in London, receiving a Simone Michelle Awards for choreographic excellence. In 2010 I continued my research in performance making at Goldsmiths University.  My choreographic, performance and collaborative works have been shown in venues in London, Ghent, Malmo, Dublin, Paris, Chur, Berlin and Reykjavik. Besides I regularly work on films as movement director or acting coach.

IMDB profile: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9749207/

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I am also a lecturer (teaching Movement for Wellbeing, Movement for Actors, Choreological Studies, Wellbeing in Performance, Devising Methodologies, Choreography, Kundalini Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Shifting Process). I teach in Higher Education, international & online workshops. I love inventing combinations and devising methodologies, resulting in The Shifting Process, an embodiment methodology combining movement analysis, somatic & emotional intelligence, intuition and energy body. ​​​​Teaching credits include Royal Academy of Music, English National Opera for Opera Works, Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, Middlesex University, FOCAL Switzerland, JSBC Television China, Cambridge University, Giles Foreman Acting Centre, Kingston University, East 15 Acting School, Oxford School of Drama, Bird College of Performing Arts, HZT - University of the Arts of Berlin, Le Grand Conservatoire d'Avignon, Dance East, Rose Bruford College and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Additionally I have developed Artistic Development Coaching Programme called 'Movement Toolbox' in London, Brussels and Munich and coach companies, directors, actors and filmmakers. I have now taught thousands of people from all around the world.

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You can read a bit about my work in my chapter ‘The Instrumental Body’, published in ‘The Body and Awareness’ (edited by S. Reeve, Triarchy Press, 2021). https://www.triarchypress.net/awareness.html

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