In 2006 Rima Pipoyan graduated from the  Yerevan State College of Choreography as choreographer and ballet dancer. In 2012 she received the bachelor’s and the master’s degree of the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinematography. Since 2012 she teaches dance and the course “Choreography directing” in her Alma mater. Rima is the winner of the “DanceFormation Bremen” competition in 2015.  In June 2016 she presented her stage production of Hours of vision in the South Caucasus Contemporary Dance & Experimental Art Festival in Tbilisi. Rima is also the winner of the Akademie der Kunste “Junge akademie” competition as choreographer. “The movement and the music should integrate each other and be the whole  one. I don’t consider myself as a choreographer of any particular genre, I create what feels right at the moment and what music, rhythm, thought and time dictate. The aesthetics of stage is the thing that I appreciate the most. I never stop creating and searching for new forms of dance expression.