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Rima Pipoyan is a pioneering Armenian choreographer, director, dancer, and educator, blending modern ballet, contemporary movement, martial arts, and cultural gesture. Founder of RP dance company, Choreogarphy foundation, and Modern Dance Educational system, she has brought Armenian contemporary dance to international stages, acclaimed for her bold, poetic, and transformative artistic voice.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Professional activity as a choreographer and a dancer:

  • 2025, “ICON” one act ballet, Diana Vishneva Context, Moscow, St Petersburg, Russia
  • 2024, “Bone”, “Mourning Women” and “Khali” in Paris, France
  • 2024, “Bone”, “Mourning Women” and “Khali” dance performances performed by RPDC at Russian Drama Theatre Named After Stanislavsky
  • 2024, Rima Pipoyan Dance Company has been found
  • 2024, “12 Proverbs” dance performance, choreography and idea, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2023, “Anatomy of Emotions”, modern ballet, choreographer, State opera  Theater Bern, Switzerland
  • 2023, “Hey, Kitty!” solo performance, Visaginas, Lithuania 
  • 2023, “Solo for two” installation project, idea, choreography, performance Yerevan/Berlin
  • 2023, “Reek”, short dance film, idea and performance, Armenia
  • 2023, “Woman Before Decision Making”, “Self-portrait”, Laiks Dejot international contemporary dance festival, Riga, Latvia
  • 2023, “Hey, Kitty!” solo performance, Fujairah International Monodrama Festival, UAE
  • 2022, “Hey, Kitty!” solo performance, Thespis International Monodrama Festival, Kiel, Germany
  • 2022, “Chaconne in K existence” modern dance performance, world premiere, Plovdiv Drama Theatre, Bulgaria
  • 2022, “Chaconne in K existence” modern dance performance, world premiere, Derida Dance Centre, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 2022, “Based on a True story” site-specific solo dance performance, choreographer and dancer, Begehungen Festival, Germany 
  • 2022, “Woman Before Decision Making”, Beta Publica IX International Choreography Festival, Madrid, Spain
  • 2022, “Me, My non-Self and I”, Internationale Maifestspiele, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Germany
  • 2022, “Me, My non-Self and I”, Aerowaves, Spring Forward festival, Elefsina, Greece
  • 2021 “Me, My non-Self and I”, dance performance, choreographer, dancer, Armenia-Ukraine collaboration dance project, Zagreb, Croatia (online)
  • 2020 “YEL” Short Dance Film:  Director, Choreographer, Dancer
  • 2019 “SOMA” project (theatre-laboratory of plastic research), Small stage National Academic theater after G. Sundukyan, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2019 “Hey, Kitty!” solo performance, XI International Festival MOLDFEST, Chisinau, Moldova
  • 2019 “Woman Before Decision Making”, Armenian choreographers showcase, HIGHFEST International Performing Arts Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2019 “Self-portrait”, dance and choreography, Danse en Ville festival, performances in Durbuy,Verviers, Eupen-Belgium and in Duren, Herzogenrath- Germany
  •  2019 “Woman before decision making”, Danse en Ville, site specific, Monschau, Germany 
  • 2019 “What if”, choreographer, world premiere, La Biennale di Venezia 2019, Piccolo Arsenale theatre, Venice, Italy
  • 2019 “Woman before decision making”, La Biennale di Venezia 2019, outdoor space performance, Venice, Italy
  • 2019 “Woman before decision making”, TanzArt Festival, Eupen, Belgium
  • 2019 “Woman before decision making”, “Cortoindanza Logos 2019” international festival, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
  • 2019 “Hey, Kitty!” solo performance, “Officine Caos” International festival, Turin, Italy
  • 2018 “Woman before decision making”, International Festival of Modern Choreography, Vitebsk, Belarus
  • 2018 “Woman before decision making”, Masdanza Extensions, Teatro Victoria, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
  • 2018, “Woman before decision making”, 23 MASDANZA International Contamporary Dance festival of the Canary Islands, Theatre of the Maspalomas Cultural Centre, Spain
  • 2018, “Woman before decision making”, 26ª QUINZENA DE DANÇA de Almada International Dance  festival,  Teatro Municipal Joaqium Benite, Portugal
  • 2018, “Hey, Kitty”, OPERA PRIMA international festival, Teatro Sociale, Rovigo, Italy
  • 2018, “Woman before decision making”, CORTOINDANZA International dance festival, Cagliari, Italy
  • 2018, “Woman before decision making”, Gdansk International Solo Dance Festival, Poland
  • 2018, “Hey, Kitty”, choreographer, dancer, FAKI festival, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 2018, “The Hours of Vision”, choreographer, dancer, III International Forum of Theatre Youth of the CIS, Baltic States and Georgia, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2018, “Hey, Kitty”, ARMMONO International Festival of Performing Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2018, “Woman before decision making”, UNIT MOTIVES festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 2018, “Woman before decision making”, choreographer, dancer, STUTTGART SOLO DANCE CONTEST, Germany
  • 2017, “Blessed” dance routine, choreographer, GLOBAL FEST International Dance Contest, Moscow, Russia
  • 2017, “Unexpected” performance at Yerevan State Choreographic College, choreographer assistant (Irma Cardano, Italy)
  • 2017, “Blessed” dance routine, choreography, FKM international dance festival, National Theater in Belgrade, Serbia
  • 2017, “Hey, Kitty!”, Solo dance-film performance: (Idea, choreography, libretto, dance)  Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
  • 2016 “Triptych” Modern ballet performance- choreographer, DIANA VISHNEVA CONTEXT, Moscow, Russia
  • 2016 “Hours of vision” Modern ballet performance- choreographer, dancer; SOUTH CAUCASUS CONTEMPORARY DANCE & EXPERIMENTAL ART FESTIVAL In Tbilisi, Rustaveli State Theater, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 2015 “Carmen” Opera by Bizet, leading dance artist, National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2015 “Sinful passions” modern-ballet performance in 1 act: director,  librettist, choreographer, at National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2015 “Money Is Your God” performance- choreographer, Yerevan ,Armenia
  • 2014 “La Vita Nuova”, “GISANE” performing arts festival, Yerevan State Theatre Of The Young Spectator, Armenia
  • 2014 “La Vita Nuova”, HIGHFEST international performing arts festival, “Hamazgayin” State Theatre, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2013 “La Vita Nuova”  modern-ballet performance – director,  librettist, choreographer, dancer “Royal District” Theatre, SOUTH CAUCASUS CONTEMPORARY DANCE & EXPERIMENTAL ART Festival In Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 2013 “Colors” short dance performance- director,  librettist, choreographer, dancer, Russian Drama Theatre, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2012-2013, “Cafes Jian music Lilit Pipoyan” concert, choreographer of dance routines and dancer Cafes Jian Center for the Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2011 “Golden city” performance- choreographer, State Theatre Of Musical Comedy, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2011 “Medieval images”, HIGHFEST international performing arts festival, “Hamazgayin” State Theatre, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2010 “Medieval images” modern ballet performance- director,  librettist, choreographer, Yerevan State Theatre of  Choreography,
  • 2010 Evening of tribute to Armenian poets, choreographer of dance routines,Yerevan State Puppet Theatre, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2010-2013 “So you think to can dance 1,2,3” TV show program,  judge, choreographer, 40 dance routines, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2009 “It’s by falling that we rise” dance performance- director,  librettist, choreographer, HIGHFEST international performing arts festival, “Hamazgayin” State Theatre, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2009 “Charles Aznavour” musical performance, choreographer of dance routines, “Hamazgayin” State Theatre, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2008 “Masks” dance routine, choreographer, dancer , National Academic Opera And Ballet Theatre, Yerevan, Armenia

Rima Pipoyan

Choreographer | Director | Performer | Educator

Contact:
rimapipoyan@gmail.com
(+374) 55-477-554

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