Nastia Dontsova is a dancer, choreographer, artistic director, and teacher based in Barcelona.
She trained in dance at the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia in Saint Petersburg, where she earned a degree in dance pedagogy and continued her education as a dance performer at La Faktoria Choreographic Center in Pamplona, Spain.

As a performer, she has worked and collaborated with choreographers and companies such as Daniel Abreu, Carmen Larraz, Laida Aldaz, Mari Paula, and FC Bergman, among others. Her first creation, Echoes of Home (2023), a solo piece exploring the experience of migration, was presented at various festivals and platforms across Catalonia and Spain. The work also received the Jury Award at the Territori en Dansa 2025. In 2025, together with dancer Cecilia Franceschelli, she co-founded an artistic duo, which debuted with the short-format piece La Gravedad de un Abrazo, an exploration of human relationships.

Alongside her artistic career, Nastia has a strong interest in pedagogy and has actively developed her teaching practice in recent years through classes and workshops in Spain and internationally. Her approach focuses on sharing tools that open pathways for exploring one’s own dance through softness, listening, and presence. The work moves from the subtle to the highly physical, seeking fluidity within an available body through body expression, floor work and partner work.
She also collaborates with NunArt, an artistic center in Barcelona that offers professional training for dancers and artistic residencies.

Nastia understands dance as a space where performance, creation, and teaching continuously nourish one another. Her work is characterized by deep artistic sensitivity, combined with determination and an ongoing search for new forms of research and expression.