Nadia Oussenko
Nadia Oussenko is a choreographer, filmmaker, photographer, and dance teacher. She completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she discovered her desire to pursue choreography for the camera. Ms. Oussenko recently premiered her dance film,
On Falling. . . funded by Chicago Dancemakers Forum, at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL. Nadia has also created a dance documentary about Molly Shanahan/ Mad Shak's yearlong process and culmination of evening length work titled
My Name is a Blackbird. Ms. Oussenko has had two of her dance films shown at the
ADF Dancing for the Camera Festival of Video and Dance in Durham, NC. She has also had works shown in
Moves International Festival of Movement on Screen in Manchester, England, Chicago Short Comedy Video and Film Festival , and the
Fifth Annual Dance For the Camera Festival at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. In addition, Ms. Oussenko has choreographed for dance festivals and concerts in Chicago such as
Dance Chicago and
Ameba Acrobatic and Aerial Dance Company.
