Daria Yeremenko

Daria Yeremenko
02/01/1994
Svitlovodsk, Ukraine

I was born in a small city in Ukraine, a place of light and water. Later, I moved to Kyiv. It was not a decision guided by a professional strategy or a clearly defined goal. I went because someone important to me lived there, and I wanted to be close. At that time, I did not have my own direction, and that is also part of my story.
Leaving Ukraine was not a choice. I left on the second day of the war. I carried only a backpack, with the least appropriate things inside. I was convinced I would return quickly, so I did not take my favourite clothes, thinking they would only get ruined in shelters and along the way.
My way of being in the world is performance. I work as a dancer, choreographer, and educator. I am interested in creating situations where attention, contact, and shared action emerge.
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To Porto I bring movement as a way of acting, of initiating processes, and of entering into interaction. Collaboration and the building of relationships through real presence are central to me.
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When I arrived at Porto airport, a friend I barely knew, Roma, brought me water. In that gesture, I recognised a strange form of care, minimal and, at the same time, maximal.
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Communication is the greatest challenge I face. Not because of language as a system, but because of meanings, words, and gestures that carry codes I am still learning to decipher. This mismatch of rhythms sometimes creates a sense of distance, as if I were moving alongside time rather than within its shared flow.
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I want to be an agent of movement. Today I see this path in creating my own dance company, a space of shared work and responsibility, because work of this kind cannot exist in isolation.