Hasmik Tangyan, art historian, performer, choreographer, dance therapist. Graduate of National Academy of Fine Arts and Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA Yerevan). She works at ‘My Way’ Educational and Rehabilitation Centre and at Save the Children organization as a dance therapist specialized on children and adults with disabilities (autism, CP, ADHD). Also in 2012 she cofounded Art Therapy Centre in Yerevan. In 2012 she founded BA-AR-DI-A Dance Movement Laboratory in the art school after Avet Terteryan and started her experiments in choreography. The laboratory is inclusive, without age limit and specialized for children and adults with disabilities in all groups. With the teenagers and nonprofessional dancers of this laboratory, Hasmik produced dance performances and video installations (Vacuum (2012), Schools (2014), Perfume (2014), The Thirst and The Drops (2015), On the Roof (2015), Voteris (2016), I am on you, you are on me (2016), Srban (2016), Pool Party (2016), There is something in me (2017), The Rocking chair (2017)). In a conditions of not having a regular space for trainings the laboratory stops producing. Her last performance “Girl is a girl is a girl is a girl” created in 2017 (with performers Mery Bayatyan and Karabina) was about the attemts of two girls to digest the accumulated emotions through workouts and famous pop songs. She collaborated with Roberta Miskowska (Poland), Duygu Bostanci (Ankara), Valeria Khripach and Olga Rabetskaya (Minsk), Olia Sosnovskaya (Minsk) and also with local composers and sound artists Vardan Harutyunyan, Arash Azadi and LSD Sound Out Union.