Katya Bourvis is an award winning Choreographer, Filmmaker and Sound Artist with an extensive international performance career (English National Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Royal Opera House.)
Commercially, Katya has worked extensively in branded content, promos and film. She sensitively draws the best performances out of both dancing and non-dancing talent, whilst intuitively developing each project’s creative identity. She’s passionate about creating kind, attentive and inclusive spaces. Clients include Chanel, Bafta, Harrods, Charles Jeffrey and Polydor.
In 2021, Katya was awarded an artist-in-residence at Sadler’s Wells and embarked on a series of short-form independent projects, shown on platforms including Nowness, Schön Magazine, Vogue, and SHOWstudio.
She received her first commission for Ballet D’Jerri in 2026, creating her debut ballet Flux, and is currently developing a co-commission with the Barbican for performance in 2026.
She creates richly imagined worlds full of emotional and symbolic depth. She sees choreography as both an artistic and ethical practice, one that invites a collective intelligence and a shared search for meaning.
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“I see movement as a unique access point to human experience; it has an ability to express the abstract, where words cannot; to distill something which is complex and multi-faceted, into something which is instantly felt.”
