Marina Orlova

Marina Orlova is a choreographer, dance maker and performer with a background in Social Studies. She has been practicing dance and performance since 2012 and has graduated from SNDO at Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance. Since 2016 she has been showing her works in Russia, Germany and The Netherlands, both in theatrical venues and gallery spaces. Her current artistic research works with topics of mental health and tech and absurdist aesthetics. For the last two years she has been creating a methodology of making dance performances with paradoxical chatbot-performers, based on her own identities, that break existing biases of AI technology: AI who is an immigrant artist, "mentally unstable" AI.