KAZAN - Natalia Lisina is an alumna of Open World program, 2010. She is a dancer and a choreographer. Natalia began dancing when she was5. She created her first short dance theatre pieces “Night”, “Tango”, “Unknown about Known” and “A small problem” while studying choreography at the Kazan State University of Art and Culture. For Natalia, the most important element of dance is communication and the process of exchanging information via movement and dialogue. Natalia took part in different Russian and European festivals and projects, and also studied for one year in Finland. Now she is very interested in American contemporary dance. Participating in Open World program gave Natalia new opportunities. She actively used new information with students at the Kazan State University of Art and Culture. Natalia gave some intensive classes on technique of contemporary dance and improvisation.
This year Natalia was provisionally accepted to the State University of New York in Brockport for the Master of Fine Arts in dance program. To learn English and improve her language skills Natalia went to Nazareth College at Rochester, NY for intensive language course. She just began to learn on October, 2010. She is hoping to study on the dance program at SUNY next year. She is going to experience techniques of modern Afro-American dance, do her own performances and improve teaching skills. Now Natalia is preparing the dancing solo for the party of International students at Nazareth College.