Ilya Vidrin

Ilya Vidrin is Assistant Professor of Creative Practice Research at Northeastern University. Born into a refugee family, Ilya’s work engages with and investigates ethics of interaction, including the embodiment of care, trust, cultural competence, and social responsibility. As an interdisciplinary research-practitioner, Ilya’s work draws on concepts and methods in social epistemology, performance philosophy, ethics of care, and cognitive psychology. Ilya has been featured as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2022), and has been an artist-in-residence at the National Parks Service, MIT Media Lab, Ballett Schwerin (Germany), Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Harvard ArtLab, L.A. Contemporary Dance Company, Boston Center for the Arts, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and the New Museum (NYC), among others.