Motrya Kozbur

Motrya Kozbur is a Montréal-based dancer and teacher. She began her training in ballet and Ukrainian folk dance in Chicago, Illinois, and went on to earn a BFA from The Boston Conservatory. Between 2012 and 2016, she worked in New York City with Lee Sher and Saar Harari. From 2017 to 2024, she was a member of Compagnie Marie Chouinard. Since 2019, Motrya has co-taught Body Time, an open-level movement practice, in collaboration with Scott McCabe. As an independent artist, she has worked with Andrea Miller, Shannon Gillen, Carol Prieur, Annie Rigney, Elle Barbara, Catherine Gaudet, and Vías. Motrya was a 2026 Inception resident at Parbleux, during which she explored slowness and subtle embodied transmissions to enrich her teaching practice. She is currently completing a Master of Information Studies at McGill University, where her research focuses on performance archives.

I explore movement as a unifying experience, one that can connect people to their bodies and each other through nuanced explorations. I set out to guide people toward feeling expansive and ready to move, and to enter complex embodiments gradually and fully. With continuous cues of kinesthetic fantasy, we warm up sensations in different parts of the body, and reach towards layers of presence. The class encourages trial and error and focuses on process rather than product.

Photo: Steven Pisano