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Katya is a butoh dancer and an experimental performer  based in Japan and Goa. A peculiar concoction of avanguard, punk,  and barroc as well as gloomy landscapes and histories and inclination to oriental wisdom of her native Saint-Petersburg, a wild spirit of perestroika and her liking for deeper aspects of reality makes her work one of the kind. She rebels against industrialist war to demystify soul, phenomena and experience as well as against human obsession with anthropocentric drama. 

 

'Butoh dwells deep in the heart of things, and with it I shall too reside, among the petals of a white rose  drawing in its  intoxicating aroma". (taboo on her encounter with Yoshito Ohno)

 

Over the years she has staged a number of unique experimental solo dance performances in art galleries, and various festivals throughout Japan. 

 

She has studied butoh in Japan with Yoshito Ohno, first generation Butoh master and the son of Kazuo Ohno, the founder of Butoh, as well as Temmetsu Toshi Matsumoto, Sankai Juku, Seisaku and Yuri Nagaoka.

She is also conducting research on butoh-fu and Japanese avanguard art at Hijikata Archive at Keyo University Art Centre, Tokyo.

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Through her work as a model and under a mentorship of avanguard photographer, shamanic and a poet Kowa Ikeuchi, she is inspired  by shamanic and ‘butoh’ approaches to art and creative process. For the last four years, she has directed and produced a number of butoh performances in Jungle Dance Theatre, Goa, where she conducts regular butoh classes and monsoon butoh residency and art-directing a butoh performance collective.