 Her final assignment toward receiving her choreography degree at the National Theatre Institute in Moscow in 1982 was the creation of a routine for Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov.Throughout the 1980s, she continued to choreograph for this elite pair, creating their programs to "Moonlight Sonata", "Vocalise", and "Romeo and Juliet".In 1993, Gordeeva and Grinkov hired Zoueva to work with them again on their 1994 Olympics routines, and their collaboration continued until Grinkov's death in late 1995.