Meet Victoria
Victoria is a Movement Artist living nestled between farmland and forest in Warwick, NY. She enjoys approaching movement through an ekphrastic lens, using other art modalities as her inspiration. Through creating moving meditations, she melds her artistic and spiritual interests. Her movement art pieces are made for site specific locations, galleries, museums, and other intimate creative spaces. Additionally, Victoria is a certified holistic health coach through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and a certified Yoga & Meditation teacher through Ruh Yoga of Bangalore, India. She received her B.A. in French from Columbia University.
Victoria is also the creator of Be Massively Kind. Learn more about her kindness movement here.
T r ai n i n g / E d u c a t i o n
GREENWICH BALLET ACADEMY | DIPLOMA IN CLASSICAL BALLET - AGRIPPINA VAGANOVA SYLLABUS (2006-2009)
ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL LONDON, ENGLAND | SUMMER SCHOOL (2006 + 2007)
MERCE CUNNINGHAM SCHOOL | (2010-2012)
LA SORBONNE | PARIS, FRANCE – COMPLETION OF 6-MONTH LANGUAGE FOR FOREIGNERS PROGRAM (2013)
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | B.A. – FRENCH STUDIES (graduated summa cum laude, Senior French Award - 2016)
MIND BODY GREEN 100H MEDITATION CERTIFICATION - (2017)
REIKI LEVELS 1 & 2 - MAHA ROSE (2017-2018)
RUH YOGA - 200 RYT- RUH YOGA | BANGALORE, INDIA (2018)
INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION - CERTIFIED HOLISTIC HEALTH COACH (2019)
INTUITIVE HEALING CERTIFICATION- THE DEN LA (2020)
HUMAN DESIGN READER CERTIFICATION - JENNA ZOE (2020)
PRENATAL/POSTNATAL KUNDALINI YOGA CERTIFICATION - SAT SIRI (RACHEL DOUGHERTY) & DR. SADA SIMRAN (2021)
HOLY FIRE REIKI TRAINING -(2023)
A r t i s t R e s i d e n c i e s
CHATEAU ORQUEVAUX - FRANCE (July 2023)
EUTOPIA ART - GREECE (October 2023)
P e r f o rm a n c e E x p e r i e n c e
RISE TO RITUAL | JUL ’20 - CURRENT
Site-specific moving meditations amalgamating healing and dance. Collaborators include Tatyana Kot and Elizabeth Snowden.
K2 DANCE & ARTS | 2012 - 2021
Court Tree Collective - Industry City collaboration with artists Masao Gozu + Stephen Talasnik. Xposed on the Highline - Manhattan. Eastern Athletic - Brooklyn. Warwick Winery - Warwick, NY. Kochi, Japan’s Makino Botanical Garden.
HEIDI LATSKY DANCE| 2017 - 2020
Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The Whitney Museum, United Nations, Baruch College, Hurleyville Arts Center, City College.
TINA CROLL & COMPANY | 2012-2021
·Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Harkness Dance Festival Residency, Bryant Park Festival, Battery Park Festival, West End Theater Soaking Wet Festival, American Dance Guild, Judson Church Movement Research, Irondale Center’s FlicFest, Dumbo Dance Festival.
DONI SILVER SIMONS | 2019-2020
“Reliquary: a meditation / a durational performance” Santa Monica, CA.
KRISTIN DAMROW & COMPANY | 2019
“Five Domestic Acts” Installation in Palo Alto, CA - MAY ‘19
NICOLE COLBERT DANCE/THEATER | 2016-2019
Copenhagen, Denmark, Newburgh Dance Festival, Dixon Place, New Orleans “Streetcar Named Desire”
CITÉ DES ARTS | 2013
Solo contemporary ballet performance in Paris, France for music artist Arthur Dutra of Brazil.
BETH SOLL & COMPANY 2010 – 2014
University Settlement, Chen Dance Center. Dance Complex, Boston, MA.
BALLET DES AMÉRIQUES 2009 – 2011
French Consulate of New York City, Manhattan Center, back up dancer in Martinique for music artist Kali.
P u b l i s h e d W r i t i n g
BACKSTAGE MAGAZINE | DANCE CONTENT WRITER 2017-2019
DANCE MAGAZINE | DANCE CONTENT WRITER 2019
THEATERONLINE.COM | DANCE CRITIC 2012 - 2013
CRITICALDANCE.COM | DANCE CRITIC 2010 - 2013
