Olga Merekina

Experience

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  ChinaDataResearch

  Aug 2007 - Apr 2009

  Project manager / Market analyst

  Project development, researches on Chinese markets.

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  Magazeta.com

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2020

  Managing Editor

  Магазета — это интернет-издание о современном Китае, которое с 2005 года рассказывает о социальной, экономической и культурной жизни страны. Мы пишем о том Китае, который за последние десятилетие превратился из «фабрики мира» в «центр мировых инноваций».

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  The Illumin8tors

  May 2011 - Dec 2018

  Artistic Director

  Working in a team of interdisciplinary artists. Producing performance and visual works, facilitating workshops on co-creativity:• Developing concepts of artistic projects and leading artistic research.• Overseeing the artistic production.• Supporting collaboration between multi-disciplinary artists.

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  CIHA 2012

  Jul 2012 - Jul 2012

  Participant of Postgraduate Program

  'Changing Objects in Chinese Art at the Time of Changes: after the Xinhai Revolution and the Cultural Revolution' is the title of Olga Merekina's poster presented at the Postgraduate program of the International Congress of Art Historians in Nuremberg in 2012.

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  Shanghai Biennale 2012

  Sept 2012 - Sept 2012

  Student volunteer

  Assisted a curator and artists of San-Francisco pavilion at the Shanghai Biennale 2012.

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  Dakini Dance

  Apr 2013 - now

  Choreographer/ Founder

  A choreographer and educator with experience in facilitating dance and movement courses for professional and non-professional performers of different ages. Focused on teaching dance as a way of knowing the body and its interconnections with the environment, as well as crafting these relationships in choreography. Her artistic projects explore social and environmental issues, while her works were presented at HOW Art Museum, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai Museum of Glass, and Wuzhen Theater Festival.

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  International Theater Workshop, Shanghai Normal University

  May 2016 - Nov 2017

  Stage Movement Instructor

  Teaching a diverse group of students:• Developing and planning curriculum for actors.• Preparing lesson plans and teaching classes;• Supporting the workshop director with rehearsals and performance planning.