Elena Shakirova

Elena Radikovna Shakirova received a personal letter of appreciation from the organising committee of the twelfth All-Russian Theatre Workshops Festival-Competition, held in Moscow on 6–7 June 2026. The letter identifies her as Perevoploshchenie's dance teacher and choreographer and recognises her contribution to children's collective and individual creativity.

The award went to the studio «Перевоплощение» for «И чистой юности рассвет» (age category 15–24); both official PDFs list her by full name as dance/choreography teacher.

Perevoploshchenie's And the Dawn of Pure Youth received the Best Production of the 2024–2025 Season distinction at the Encore! regional children's and youth theatre festival, held on 4–18 May 2025. The production was directed by Viktoria Vorobyova and choreographed by Elena Shakirova.

At the 15th Theatre Marathon, held on 13–27 April 2025, Perevoploshchenie's And the Dawn of Pure Youth received winner distinctions for its vivid and cohesive acting ensemble and for stage culture and immersion in the period. Choreographer Elena Shakirova and director Viktoria Vorobyova also received a shared diploma recognising professional directing and expressive movement design.

Perevoploshchenie School–Studio–Theatre won the senior age category at the Dreams of Theatre regional festival-competition in St Petersburg in 2025. Elena Radikovna Shakirova and Viktoria Viktorovna Vorobyova were credited as the studio's additional-education teachers.

Perevoploshchenie School–Studio–Theatre received a winner diploma in theatre creativity, mixed-age category, at the Art Fest open city festival-competition in 2025. Elena Shakirova and Viktoria Vorobyova were credited as the team's mentors.

In 2025, Elena Radikovna Shakirova received an institutional commendation identifying her as the best teacher of the Acting Department at the St Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television. The recognition cited her contribution to educational quality and favourable learning conditions, reflected in a student survey conducted in spring 2024.

And the Dawn of Pure Youth… received a special diploma for vivid creative interpretation of a literary character at The Little Prince's Journey festival in December 2024. Elena Shakirova is credited as choreographer and teacher of the production, which also received the festival's Grand Prix.

Perevoploshchenie's And the Dawn of Pure Youth… received the Grand Prix of The Little Prince's Journey literary-theatre festival in December 2024. The diploma credits Elena Shakirova as choreographer and teacher of the production after Lidia Charskaya's stories.

Perevoploshchenie's And the Dawn of Pure Youth… received a first-degree laureate diploma in the ensemble performance category for ages 14–18 at the 2024 Little Prince festival. The diploma names Elena Radikovna Shakirova as choreographer and teacher, alongside director Viktoria Vorobyova.

Following the Birds received a second-degree laureate diploma in the small-form production category at Petersburg Experiment, held on 24–26 May 2024. The diploma names Elena Shakirova as choreographer-stager, and the organizing committee also thanked her for preparing festival winners.

Elena Shakirova received an individual diploma for the expressive physical staging of Following the Birds at the XIV city theatre marathon In the Happy Valley by the Krasnenkaya River. The event dates printed on the diploma are 19–28 April 2024.

The studio «Перевоплощение» received Laureate II degree for «Это — да! Это — нет!». The school's official page credits her as choreographer, and СПб ведомости independently reported the studio's laureate status.

Grani contemporary-choreography studio received a second-degree laureate diploma in contemporary choreography, ages 7–8, at the Art of Dance All-Russian Open Competition on 18 December 2021. The diploma names Elena Radikovna Shakirova as teacher, and the organisers also issued her a personal letter of appreciation for competition preparation.

Rosinki received first place in the ART MIX GROUP BABY II category at STAR’t DANCE FEST, Vol. 17, in 2021. The festival diploma credits Elena Shakirova as the group's choreographer.

Grani Contemporary Choreography Studio received a third-degree diploma-recipient distinction for Coquettes in Variety Dance at Fairy Tales on the Neva, held in St Petersburg on 21–23 December 2019. The certificate names Elena Shakirova and Yulia Gagarina as leaders, while an accompanying letter recognises Shakirova's participation and contribution to children's and young people's creativity.

Grani Contemporary Choreography Studio received a second-degree diploma-recipient distinction for And in the Blue Sea in Contemporary at Fairy Tales on the Neva, held in St Petersburg on 21–23 December 2019. The certificate names Elena Shakirova and Yulia Gagarina as leaders, and a separate organiser-issued letter thanks Shakirova for her participation.

Grani Contemporary Choreography Studio received a third-degree laureate diploma in Children's Dance at the 27th International Celebration of Childhood festival-competition, held in St Petersburg on 11–14 April 2019. The diploma names Elena Shakirova as teacher and Yulia Gagarina as artistic director.

The dance film «INSIDE» (Театр Земли, directed by Vitaly Kim, with Elena Shakirova on screen) received 3rd place in the 2019 One Minute Dance Film competition in Budapest. The organisers list «One Minute Inside» as third; the producer's description and a later biography corroborate the award and identify her as performer.

Elena Radikovna Shakirova received a letter of appreciation from the organising committee of the IV Belarusian Patterns festival in Minsk on 26 March 2017. Addressed to her as a choreographer, it acknowledges her contribution to developing children’s creative potential and preserving cultural heritage.

In 2015, Elena Shakirova received a First-Degree Laureate diploma in the Choreographer–Stager category at the Dance Marathon Open Festival-Competition of Contemporary Choreography in Ufa. The diploma was issued by the Ufa City Administration's Education Department and records her affiliation with the V. M. Komarov Ufa City Palace of Children's Creativity.

A choreographic performance by «Тринадевять» to Kuryokhin's music was announced for the festival's intermission on 4 Dec 2024; TASS, Fontanka, Sobaka.ru and the theatre name the collective, not Shakirova.

Derevo ArtHouse, the Arkhangelsk Youth Theatre and Хор Дурацкого closed the jubilee festival with the premiere of «Люди и рыбы»; TASS and PTJ name the companies, not Elena Shakirova.

Appearance in the cast of «Линия разломов» at the French Institute's worldwide programme La Nuit des Idées; the Institut's official page names her.

Elena Radikovna Shakirova participated as a volunteer in the Museum of Political History of Russia's Pushkin's Lexicon programme for Night of Museums on 18 May 2024. The museum's appreciation certificate identifies her affiliation with the theatre studio of St Petersburg State University.

DEREVO laboratorium closed the festival with «Евангелие от Иеронима» on the beach on 25 Jun 2023; her Academy bio links her to the work and festival; press names only the company.

«Перевоплощение» (one of 20 collectives chosen from 150+ applicants) performed «Это — да! Это — нет!» on 15 Mar 2023 and won a 2nd-degree laureate diploma; she is the show's choreographer per the school site, not named in the festival programme.

The Academy bio lists «Человек мира» (Russian Museum) among her appearances. A 2019 feature describes the travelling festival on 3–11 August, but its stored text neither names her nor mentions a Russian Museum stage.

The film INSIDE (as «One Minute Inside») competed in the one-minute dance-film section of the 20th SzólóDuó festival and placed 3rd; organisers' jury note plus the producer's credits.

Her own post recalls a Night of Museums performance at the Chaliapin museum in 2017 or 2018, apparently her first collaboration with Ekaterina Lapina. VINCI separately lists Stage DFT appearances at Night of Museums in 2017–2018.

Participation with Stage DFT in «Ночь Света-2017» is listed in the VINCI bio. The Academy bio separately names «Ночь света в Гатчине» without a year. The linked evidence consists of biographies, not a festival programme.

Elena Shakirova directed and choreographed Along the Birds' Path for Perevoploshchenie's 11–16 age group, with acting teacher Viktoria Vorobyova. The production was programmed at the fourth LETI! Summer Theatre Games on 1 June 2026 and received a first-degree laureate diploma in the Physical Theatre Production category.

Dancer in AVIA's numbers at the Ice Palace anniversary show on 23 May 2026; her own post documents the occasion. The Channel One programme is dated 12 Sep 2026. A stored user-verified footage note identifies her at 0:40:16, 0:43:37–0:43:44 and 0:45:00–0:46:01, but the broadcaster does not name her. The review independently describes AVIA's dancers.

Elena Shakirova created the choreography for Nikolai Shneyder's production of Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide with Anna Kovalchuk's workshop. The printed programme credits her alongside the production's cast, vocal teachers and technical team.

Elena Shakirova choreographed You Are the Colour of Pale Straw, a 20-minute choreographic poem inspired by Elena Guro's Heavenly Little Camels. The work was included in Jagger's student-theatre choreography evening in 2026 and credited fifteen dancers.

Studio production (age category 15–24) for which the official festival documents list her by full name as dance/choreography teacher and stager; laureate 1st degree at «Тарарабумбия» 2025.

Elena Shakirova is credited as choreographer of Aleksandr Krymov's Under the Linden Trees of Berlin, developed with students of Andrey Dezhonov's workshop. The production was presented to a general audience in a professional theatre on June 23, 2025.

Elena Shakirova created the choreography for Nikolay Shneyder's Kiki van Beethoven, performed by Anna Kovalchuk's workshop at the institute's Po Pravde Student Theatre. Based on Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt's novella and essay and using music by Ludwig van Beethoven, the production premiered in December 2024 and appeared in the theatre's 2025 repertoire.

Named among the five choreographers of the second graduation evening (performative pieces exploring dance in a gallery space), per the Театр To Go listing.

Two-day «промысловая оратория» that closed the XXX Arkhangelsk Street Theatre Festival in June 2024, documented by TASS, PTJ and the city portal. Shakirova's own posts name the production, companies and mask-maker Mila Bastrikova, but their stored captions do not explicitly identify her as a performer.

Olga Tsvetkova's choreographic performance by Academy of New Dance students, programmed at Uppsala Circus in Saint Petersburg on 8 June 2024 for La Nuit des Idées. The Institut français en Russie programme names Elena Shakirova among the performers and describes the initiative as taking place on five continents.

Elena Shakirova choreographed and staged Following the Birds for Perevoploshchenie, drawing on Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow. The production is documented in April and May 2024 festival diplomas, with Viktoria Vorobyova credited for acting instruction and leadership.

Dance piece inspired by Bosch that closed the XXIX Arkhangelsk Street Theatre Festival on 25 June 2023. The Academy biography documents Shakirova's participation, and her own post names the production. TASS, region29, 29.ru and Pomorland document the show without naming her; the linked СПбГИКиТ page does not mention it.

Studio production for which she is credited as choreographer on the school's official page; performed at the XXIV International Bryantsev Festival (15 Mar 2023) and awarded a 2nd-degree laureate diploma.

KRIVDA dance piece announced for «Krivda и друзья!» (Театр ТОК, 14 Dec 2021). ByeByeBallet credits Shakirova and Lapina; the СПбГИКиТ staff page lists it among Shakirova's choreographic works in 2021.

KRIVDA's 40-minute plastic performance after Saint-Exupéry's «The Little Prince», co-choreographed with Ekaterina Lapina. Listed at Futurum 2 (17 Nov 2019); posts document a 12 Dec 2020 showing and announce 1 Mar 2021. СПбГИКиТ and Театр To Go place it at Театр Цехъ; the review does not name the choreographers.

Choreographer of the drama production created in the Мастерская Современного Театра directors' lab, based on Asya Voloshina's play and included in the OFF-programme of the «Прорыв» award 2019. The staff page lists the Alexandrinsky New Stage media centre (2019); Театр Поколений hosted it on 23 Dec 2020. Reviewed by okolo.me without a choreographer credit.

A Stage DFT piece credited to four choreographers, including Elena Shakirova, in a colleague's teacher biography. The linked troupe page has no stored text; 2018 is unverified.

Performer in the seven-minute dance film «INSIDE», directed by Vitaly Kim for Театр Земли. The producer's YouTube description credits Elena Shakirova and a 3rd-place award in «One Minute Dance Film» at Ork Kota Platform-2019 / 20th SzólóDuó in Budapest; a 2022 promotional bio repeats the credit.

Performer in Ksenia Mikheeva's «Ветер» (2016), documented in the VINCI course bio and the Academy biography, but not the linked СПбГИКиТ page.

Elena Shakirova served on the expert commission of a district recitation competition associated with the Museum of the History of Youth Organisations. Kitezh Plus recognised her cooperation and commission service with a signed appreciation certificate dated 2023.

Elena Shakirova participated as a performer in the Nonexistent Music laboratory at the eighth Gnesin Contemporary Music Week on 28–31 October 2025. The laboratory was a joint project of Gnesin Contemporary Music Week, the Centre for Electroacoustic Music and Praktika Theatre.

KRIVDA are described in the Academy biography as former residents of the ByeByeBallet dance school. Studio course pages and Shakirova’s posts document regular contemporary and partnering classes there.

Performance laboratory she credits as where she first learned what performance is; listed on the СПбГИКиТ page and in her CV.

Elena Shakirova is credited as E. R. Shakirova for this article in Education and Quality of Life, No. 1 (03), January–February 2017, page 39. It appears in the section devoted to developing learners’ quality of life through supplementary education.

Elena Shakirova presented Choreographic Art in Education / Teaching Contemporary-Dance Choreography Skills to Student Choreographers at Herzen University during the conference held on 28–29 November 2016. The presentation formed part of the ninth International Scientific and Practical Conference Music Education in the Modern World: Dialogue of Times.

Elena Shakirova presented Dance Therapy for Student Choreographers at the ninth International Scientific and Practical Conference Art Therapy in Arts Education, held on 23–24 May 2016. The conference took place at Herzen University's Institute of Music, Theatre and Choreography, and her research supervisor was Lyudmila Albertovna Kasimanova.

Elena Shakirova presented Contemporary Dance in Choreography Education Programmes at Herzen University on 29 April 2016. The talk formed part of the first International Scientific and Practical Conference Choreographic Education in the Twenty-First Century: Traditions and Innovations.

Participant in Anton Adasinsky's DEREVO LAB projects since 2023, according to the «Галатея» jury biography. The Academy biography names «Евангелие Иеронима» and the Arkhangelsk street-theatre festival; her CV credits her as performer and dancer in Derevo ArtHouse's «Люди и рыбы» in 2024. Adasinsky tags @sh.ele.ra in a July 2025 ArtHouse post for «Внутренние сады». These links do not establish participation in «Стеклянные паруса» or absence from «Чаща».

Co-founder of the contemporary dance company KRIVDA, explicitly identified in the Academy biography and a 2022 promotional biography. Her CV credits her as co-choreographer and dancer in «Сказ на один раз», «Белая притча» and «Где Анна». ByeByeBallet lists her among KRIVDA's class teachers alongside Ekaterina Lapina and Anastasia Vershinina. The CV dates a production/residency to 2018, but does not establish the company's founding year or identify Lapina as co-founder.

Performer and choreographer with STAGE DFT, according to her February 2020 VINCI biography, which lists Night of Museums 2017–2018, Night of Light 2017 and a directing-arts festival in 2018. A colleague's biography credits her as a PALOMAS co-choreographer. The linked troupe-site record has no stored text, and these records do not document her participation in INSIDE.

Choreography teacher and stager at «Перевоплощение», the theatre studio of School No. 27's «Невский берег» department. The school's official page, studio VK page and «Галатея» biography name her. The school documents the studio's Bryantsev laureate diploma in 2023; the Tararabumbia participant list credits her in «И чистой юности рассвет». These links establish neither a Tararabumbia award nor her employment start date.

Full-time (1.0) docent of the acting department at СПбГИКиТ, identified by full name and patronymic in official staff and faculty registries. The Academy bio confirms dance teaching to acting students; the «Галатея» bio dates her dance teaching to 2021, not necessarily her appointment as docent.

Elena Shakirova was announced as guest teacher for JaggerDance's Summer 2026 Contemporary Technique: Combinations intensives in St Petersburg. The programme scheduled a children's course for 29 June–3 July and a course for adults and teenagers aged 13 and over for 6–10 July, focusing on combinations, body alignment, weight transfer and supporting-leg technique.

Elena Shakirova delivered a masterclass on stage movement for adolescents in St Petersburg in 2025. The session formed part of Current Teaching Methods in Children's Theatre Collectives, a professional-development course for teachers in the supplementary-education system.

Elena Shakirova taught Fundamentals of Contemporary Dance Technique to the senior age group of the Serpantin choreography studio in Ufa. The V. M. Komarov City Palace of Children's Creativity acknowledged her teaching in an official letter issued on 3 February 2023.

Taught partnering (with Ekaterina Lapina) and contemporary technique courses at ByeByeBallet and through KRIVDA, with student showings (e.g. Театр ТОК, 7 May 2021). Documented by the studio's course pages and her posts.

Elena Shakirova is credited as a teacher of Grani Contemporary Choreography Studio on its April 2019 Celebration of Childhood diploma and alongside Yulia Gagarina as a leader on two December 2019 Fairy Tales on the Neva certificates. The December festival organiser also issued her a personal letter of thanks for participation and support of children's and young people's creativity.

Elena Shakirova completed the 60-hour continuing professional development programme Student Group Adviser and Mentor: Media Competencies at the St Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television. Her qualification certificate was issued on 30 November 2023.

Student of Olga Tsvetkova's Academy of New Dance, listed in its 2023–2024 main cohort with an institutional bio. An announcement names her among the choreographers scheduled for the graduation showing on 2 July 2024 at the Museum of Nonconformist Art; her CV lists the Academy under education.

Certified hatha-yoga instructor since 2019, as stated in her post of 14 August 2020. The СПбГИКиТ staff page lists the Yoga Federation of Russia in 2019, and her CV lists it under education; the post also refers to her classes.

Elena Shakirova completed the Vertigo Repertoire and Technique Workshop on 9–11 March 2018. Vertigo Dance Company issued her a certificate of completion signed by Vova Zak.

Elena Shakirova attended the 47th World Congress on Dance Research in St Petersburg on 1–5 November 2016. Her attendance certificate records Dance Cinema: History and Prospects as her research topic.

Elena Shakirova participated in the international scientific and practical forum commemorating Anna Pavlova, held in St Petersburg on 18–19 February 2016. The forum was jointly organised by Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.

Master's degree in choreography at Herzen University; the СПбГИКиТ staff page gives 2014–2016 and master A. P. Bosov. Graduation is confirmed by the Academy, VINCI and «Галатея» bios; her own post mentions the choreography MA.

First degree (applied informatics in international relations, mat-mech, 2013). Listed on her official СПбГИКиТ staff page and in her CV; two tutor directories under her full name and patronymic give the same degree.

Her Instagram profile @sh.ele.ra displays the name Elena Shakirova and Dance / Art highlights; its metadata lists 99 posts. The logged-out capture has an empty bio and contains no documentation of her DEREVO ArtHouse, Нетруппа, Тринадевять or KRIVDA work.

Her confirmed VK profile (Елена Шакирова, St Petersburg, 774 friends). The wall carries the full credits of «Антигона. Редукция», the «Белая притча» announcements, the «Тишина» / «ПРОБА №» selection and her partnering course with Ekaterina Lapina.