meet arinamoves

Arina Trostyanetskaya

graduated Vaganova Ballet Academy in Saint-Petersburg at the age of 17 and right away continued her education in Lausanne where she got to work with Maurice Bejart.

After two serious injuries she returned to Russia and began teaching and studying choreography. Following her recovery she joined Netherlands Dance Theatre II and after three seasons moved on to Danish Dance Theatre in Copenhagen. 

For the past nine years Arina has been successful as a freelance artists closely collaborating with institutions like, Royal Danish Theatre, Danish Dance Theatre, Dansehallerne, Royal Swedish Opera House and Folkoperan in Stockholm, Folkteatern in Gothenburg, Bellevue Theatre in Copenhagen, Helsingborg Stadsteater, MUOVI, Andersson Dance and Carl and Åsa Unander-Scharin, Dance Maze, Balettakademien and many other.

Arina has been choreographing works for herself, her colleagues and dance educations, presenting her work at festivals and galas.

Another Arina’s passion project is a monthly event Poetry Unleashed, an evening that brings creatives across all writing genres.

photo by Patricia Frazao Pereira

Kind Words About Arina

  • I LOVE Arina's dance classes. She always has clever and precise advice for any level dancer and the atmosphere is warm, embracing, fun and hardworking. She’s the best!!

    Filo, music agent/pianist/lawyer, Danced many years as a child and came back to taking dance lessons about  5 years ago

  • To me, Arina’s ballet classes consist of much more than fun and beautifully composed exercises. She is a highly intelligent teacher, focused not only on the ballet form but on the anatomical understanding of the body, which is particularly useful to me as a contemporary dancer. Her awareness of the body in relation to space, music, and art is truly inspiring, and I always feel seen and supported. Since attending her classes regularly, I’ve noticed an improvement in my own body awareness, technique, and thought process in ballet.

    Elena Nielsen, Professional dancer,  CODARTS, Holstebro dance company

  • For me Arina’s classes were eye opening on how to approach ballet differently and efficiently It was the first time and approach showing me that ballet made sense because there is forces and alignment, and if you understand those things the technique is so much easier and more fun to play around!

    Olatz Egia Cantón, dancer at Dantzaz

  • She is one of the best dancers I have ever worked with, not only for  exquisite dance skills, but for her humanity and incredible sensitive artistry, showing the knowledge she has gotten through her multifaceted career

    Javier Perez, dancer, movement director 

  • Makes you work hard! Pushes the dancers so they can reach their full potential

    Julius, dance student at Balettakademien Stockholm

acknowledgements

  • Patricia Frazao Pereira, Jan Christiansen, Håkan Larsson, Lukas Hartvig-Møller, Rahi Rezvani, Drago Videmšek, Daisy Komen, Markus Gårder, Magnus Länje, Costin Radu, Recoil Stockholm and others