She began her work in 1991 with Les Kurbas Theater (Lviv, Ukraine) in Anatolyi Vasiliev’s Festivals in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Invitation to join Theater Gardzienice where she worked for 10 years (actor and music director). During that time, she began her exploration of indigenous music and cultures, with expeditions in the Ukraine, to Ireland, Egypt, Cuba and Brazil. She has since organized many cultural exchanges between contemporary artists from Europe and the US with native singers from Ukraine.

In 2001, she moved to NYC (Stipend by Earth Foundation). Work as a music director with La Mama E.T.C.’s resident theater company, Yara Arts Group. First solo performances as well as collaborations with such renowned artists as Michael Alpert, Anthony Coleman, Frank London, Victoria Hanna. First solo CD ”Songs I learned in Ukraine” (2002, Global Village Records). Since then, regular invitations, solo concerts, workshops, theatrical collaborations at: Public Theatre (NYC), Brooklyn Academy of Music, Symphony Space (NYC), Princeton and N.Y. University, San Francisco World Music Festival. In 2004/2005 new stay in the USA, second CD “Borderland” (evoe:performing:artists), featuring Anthony Coleman, Doug Wieselman, Roberto Juan Rodriguez and Frank London.

In working with the musicians of her Cologne-based band „Borderland“ she found a medium for her furious interpretations of traditional songs and singings from the Ukraine. >>>