DOURI

“Feelings support our intellect, and intellect supports our feelings.”
We sat down with Valeria Khripatch @kh.val.ia.mo dancer, choreographer, and self-taught artist based in France, originally from Belarus for our Empowering Creative Minds series.
From leaving a career in oil and gas to fully embracing contemporary dance, from two migrations in three years to building community from scratch each time, Valeria’s journey is a reminder that art doesn’t erase difficulty it transforms it.
On vulnerability, she told us: being a vulnerable artist means staying sincere and facing precarity every day, without losing yourself to the need to be seen.
Swipe through / link in bio to read the full interview, where Valeria opens up about improvisation, migration, institutional support, and using irony instead of drama to process pain.
- Interview by Douri’s Empowering Creative Minds team
- Edited by Jang Kapgen
- Part of the Empowering Creative Minds project, funded by the EU Creative Europe Programme