Projects and creations
Movement expression is one of the main interests in Nastia's work.
She uses the body as a vehicle to explore different physical qualities and generate images that become seeds for ideas in her creations.
Her work is characterized by deep artistic sensitivity, combined with determination and an ongoing search for new forms of research and expression.
She uses the body as a vehicle to explore different physical qualities and generate images that become seeds for ideas in her creations.
Her work is characterized by deep artistic sensitivity, combined with determination and an ongoing search for new forms of research and expression.
Echoes of Home
Direction, creation and interpretation: Nastia Dontsova
Сostume design: Marta Casado Vendrellg
External eye: Lorenana Gargno
Duration: 15 minutes
With the support of: Nau Ivanow, Civics Centres Barceloneta, Teixonera, El Sortidor, Сan Clariana Cultural
Videos: Herman Allimant, Miguel Álvarez, Arnau Moreno i Grau
Edition: Nastia Dontsova
Duration: 15 minutes
Audience: all audiences
Audience Configuration: Frontal or semi-circular
Performance Space: Minimum 5 × 5 m; Optimal 8 × 8 m
Performers: 1
Touring Team: 2
Jury Award – Territori en Dansa, Barcelona
Review by Myrna Renaud (page 3)
Сostume design: Marta Casado Vendrellg
External eye: Lorenana Gargno
Duration: 15 minutes
With the support of: Nau Ivanow, Civics Centres Barceloneta, Teixonera, El Sortidor, Сan Clariana Cultural
Videos: Herman Allimant, Miguel Álvarez, Arnau Moreno i Grau
Edition: Nastia Dontsova
Duration: 15 minutes
Audience: all audiences
Audience Configuration: Frontal or semi-circular
Performance Space: Minimum 5 × 5 m; Optimal 8 × 8 m
Performers: 1
Touring Team: 2
Jury Award – Territori en Dansa, Barcelona
Review by Myrna Renaud (page 3)
When home is no longer a place but a feeling, how do we find our space in the world?
Echoes of Home is a 15-minute contemporary dance solo created for street and unconventional spaces, as well as for the stage.
This solo immerses us in the emotional journey of those who live between two realities. Echoes of Home creates a space for reflection on the experience of emigration, sharing with the audience the strength and fragility that accompany it. A piece that deeply resonates with the process of losing and rediscovering a sense of home, and the search for identity.
La Gravedad de un Abrazo
Direction, Creation & Performance: Cecilia Franceschelli & Nastia Dontsova
Costume Design: Marta Casado
Production & Distribution: Cecilia Franceschelli & Nastia Dontsova
Photography: Aurélie Veyrat
Outside Eye: Loredana Gargano
Video: Aurélie Veyrat
Special thanks: Eulàlia Grau
With the support of: Nau Ivanow; Civic Centres: Teixonera, El Sortidor, Can Clariana Cultural
Preview Premiere: Lluïsos d'Horta (Barcelona), 18 January 2026
Duration: 18 minutes
Audience: all audiences
Performance Space: Minimum 5 × 5 m; Optimal 8 × 8 m
Performers: 2
Touring Team: 3
Costume Design: Marta Casado
Production & Distribution: Cecilia Franceschelli & Nastia Dontsova
Photography: Aurélie Veyrat
Outside Eye: Loredana Gargano
Video: Aurélie Veyrat
Special thanks: Eulàlia Grau
With the support of: Nau Ivanow; Civic Centres: Teixonera, El Sortidor, Can Clariana Cultural
Preview Premiere: Lluïsos d'Horta (Barcelona), 18 January 2026
Duration: 18 minutes
Audience: all audiences
Performance Space: Minimum 5 × 5 m; Optimal 8 × 8 m
Performers: 2
Touring Team: 3
Where do I begin when you are so close? Between tension and tenderness, an endless spiral unfolds, tracing a path toward the unknown.
The dance duo Cecilia Franceschelli and Nastia Dontsova reveal a relationship that is sculptural, alive, and ever-changing, reflecting the complexity and beauty of human connection.
La Gravedad de un Abrazo explores the boundaries between love and pain, resilience and rupture. On stage, the embrace gives rise to a series of evocative images, inviting the audience on a journey through vulnerability and intimacy.
Blending contemporary dance and partnering, the piece highlights our need for support and the emotional dependence that shapes human relationships, transforming an everyday gesture into an invisible bond that transcends space and time.
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Near
Near is a 7-minute duo created in collaboration with Olga Ogorodnikova. It was presented at the "Bye Bye Ballet Center" in 2019 and at the Festival of Contemporary Dance "Sdvig" in Kirov, Russia in 2020.
"It's so important to have support. It's crucial to have someone who will be there with you, supporting and guiding you. This work was born as a token of gratitude for our meeting with each other."
Direction, creation and interpretation: Olga Ogorodnikova, Nastia Dontsova
Duration: 7 minutes
With the support of: Bye Bye Ballet center
"It's so important to have support. It's crucial to have someone who will be there with you, supporting and guiding you. This work was born as a token of gratitude for our meeting with each other."
Direction, creation and interpretation: Olga Ogorodnikova, Nastia Dontsova
Duration: 7 minutes
With the support of: Bye Bye Ballet center
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