STUDIO NAZARENKO
STUDIO NAZARENKO
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STUDIO NAZARENKO

Inspired by the AI software - "Security Orchestration Automation and Responses" which can be used to gather information about security threats, S.O.A.R. - Strategic Operations And Readiness was born. In both the digital programme and the non-academic dance community, a response to, for example, a threat or social change is based on shared processes and steps that repressed bodies take on and carry forward within themselves. These unfold in a collective experience. Resistance is overcome, sometimes endured, while sensibilities are explored together and spaces redefined. Each dance style that appears in Happening S.O.A.R. emerges from historical African-American communities that escaped violence and strengthened their personal histories through dance. In addition to our movement repertoire from freestyle culture, we developed the first gestures that came from the everyday life of our own emigrated families. The voice accompanied the choreographic process as an independent space opener for our physical ways. In the process, a first 20min version was created for Kunstsammlungen Nordrheinwestfahlen K21 as part of "strike a pose" ––– Festival 2023.

STUDIO NAZARENKO

photos by Enting Zhang

This project was supported by the scholarship DIS-TANZEN SOLO by Dachverband Tanz Deutschland. For the choreographic research Nazarenko travelled to École des Sables in Senegal and participated in the program "experimental flow" with Alesandra Seutin. 

choreography & creative direction & performance: Daria Nazarenko

Performers:
Beckley Adeoye
Daria Nazarenko
David Mayinga
Enting Zhang

Costumes: Karisma O. Ekeh

Camera:
Stifter Studio

STUDIO NAZARENKO

Inspired by the AI software - "Security Orchestration Automation and Responses" which can be used to gather information about security threats, S.O.A.R. - Strategic Operations And Readiness was born. In both the digital programme and the non-academic dance community, a response to, for example, a threat or social change is based on shared processes and steps that repressed bodies take on and carry forward within themselves. These unfold in a collective experience. Resistance is overcome, sometimes endured, while sensibilities are explored together and spaces redefined. Each dance style that appears in Happening S.O.A.R. emerges from historical African-American communities that escaped violence and strengthened their personal histories through dance. In addition to our movement repertoire from freestyle culture, we developed the first gestures that came from the everyday life of our own emigrated families. The voice accompanied the choreographic process as an independent space opener for our physical ways. In the process, a first 20min version was created for Kunstsammlungen Nordrheinwestfahlen K21 as part of "strike a pose" ––– Festival 2023.

STUDIO NAZARENKO

photos by Enting Zhang

This project was supported by the scholarship DIS-TANZEN SOLO by Dachverband Tanz Deutschland. For the choreographic research Nazarenko travelled to École des Sables in Senegal and participated in the program "experimental flow" with Alesandra Seutin. 

choreography & creative direction & performance: Daria Nazarenko

Performers:
Beckley Adeoye
Daria Nazarenko
David Mayinga
Enting Zhang

Costumes: Karisma O. Ekeh

Camera:
Stifter Studio

Daria Nazarenko (*1993) is moving between film stills and subcultures. By staging bodies and cameras, she highlights the hidden dynamics of social life. Sometimes hybrid dance films happen close to vitrines full of porcelain gestures and site-specific performances. Her work has been shaped by long-term engagement with Senegal since 2021, including participation in programmes at École des Sables, where she explored collaborative and non-Western approaches to performance and embodied knowledge within postcolonial contexts.

Nazarenko has developed projects in institutional and independent contexts, including Museum Folkwang (Essen), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kunstsammlung K21 (Düsseldorf), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), and international presentations in Paris and Moscow. She has also realised site-specific interventions in urban and performative settings, integrating archival and oral knowledge structures into spatial installations. She studied Design and time-based arts at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design and graduated from the class of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 2024. In the latest interdisciplinary run of the Hospitalfield Residency (UK) 2026 she examined the fluidity of class systems in between timelines and migration.

Daria Nazarenko (*1993) is moving between film stills and subcultures. By staging bodies and cameras, she highlights the hidden dynamics of social life. Sometimes hybrid dance films happen close to vitrines full of porcelain gestures and site-specific performances. Her work has been shaped by long-term engagement with Senegal since 2021, including participation in programmes at École des Sables, where she explored collaborative and non-Western approaches to performance and embodied knowledge within postcolonial contexts.

Nazarenko has developed projects in institutional and independent contexts, including Museum Folkwang (Essen), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kunstsammlung K21 (Düsseldorf), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), and international presentations in Paris and Moscow. She has also realised site-specific interventions in urban and performative settings, integrating archival and oral knowledge structures into spatial installations. She studied Design and time-based arts at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design and graduated from the class of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 2024. In the latest interdisciplinary run of the Hospitalfield Residency (UK) 2026 she examined the fluidity of class systems in between timelines and migration.