Yelena Arakelow
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Yelena Arakelow, born 1993 in Zürich, Switzerland is an emerging dance artist based in Reykjavík, Iceland since 2015. She holds a BA in Dance Practices from the Iceland University of Arts.
Her interdisciplinary work about corporeal existence and anticipation in dance has been exhibited at Art Gallery Reykjanesbæjar (2021) and performed at Reykjavik Dance Festival, Ung Nordic Music Festival Iceland (2022), Plöntutið (2021) showoff Tanzhaus Zürich (2020), Nuuk Nordic Kulturfestival (2021) and International Dance Festival Latvia (2020).
In 2022 she was selected to travel to Tanzmesse Düsseldorf as one of the Icelands Dance Artists. She works as a dancer for Steinunn Ketilsdóttir and is a professor in Improvisation at the Iceland University of Arts. Currently she is managing "Connecting Nordic Islands (FO, GL and IS) through Dance Art".
Artist’s Website.
