Shura Baryshnikov

Shura Baryshnikov
Shura Baryshnikov is an interdisciplinary dance and theatre artist based in Providence, RI.  She performs and choreographs for both dance and theatre projects and has coached and created movement for Trinity Repertory Company, The Wilbury Theatre Group, Bridge Repertory Company, Elemental Theatre Collective and on many Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA productions.  As a freelance dancer, Shura has performed with Lorraine Chapman the Company, Betsy Miller Dance Projects, ali kenner brodsky & co., Heidi Henderson, Lostwax Multimedia Dance, and Festival Ballet Providence, among others, and her solo and improvised performance projects have been presented across the region.  Most recently, Shura has performed theatrical roles with Trinity Repertory Company and Bridge Repertory Company of Boston, where she took on the titular role in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in fall of 2015.  With her creative partner, Danielle Davidson, Shura co-directs Doppelgänger Dance Collective, a contemporary dance company dedicated to the commission and performance of original duet works.  Shura is a movement instructor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, a program partnered with Providence’s Trinity Repertory Company.  She has also instructed at MIT, Dean College, Rhode Island College, Salve Regina University and at Earthdance in Plainfield, MA.  Shura is an active practitioner and teacher of Contact Improvisation and B.J. Sullivan’s Safety Release Technique and has studied Viewpoints and Suzuki with Anne Bogart and SITI Company since 2009.  She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.  www.shurabaryshnikov.com

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