Marina is a performance artist and instructor based on the west coast of the US. She has been performing dance for over 20 years. Throughout her life, Marina has performed modern, ballet, jazz, tap, flamenco, african, highland, hip hop, hula, tahitian, aerial, fire dance, belly dance, stilt walking, and adagio, and is trained in cheerleading and gymnastics. She is a member of Nocturnal Sunshine fire dance company, The Pyronauts, and the Wanderlust Circus. She is a former member of Mir & a Co. aerial dance company, Desert Dream Dance Company (belly dance)Seher and the UCSB Middle Eastern Dance Ensemble and Motion Theatre Dance Company, a modern dance company in Santa Barbara. Marina believes she can find endless ways of expressing herself through dance and continues to study new styles, while refining her technique in others.

Aside from her regular performances and training as a belly dancer, fire dancer and aerialist, Marina is a committed ballet and modern dance student at Alonzo King's LINES Ballet School, as well as a student in advanced Chinese Acrobatics at the San Francisco Circus Center. She teaches classes in yoga, theater arts, gymnastics, hip hop and circus skills to children with Fitness InTransit, as well as teen and adult aerial silks classes with Studio 12 Flys.

Marina's Resume (pdf)

Photo: Anja Ulfeldt