EXILE PROMENADE (concept / director / co-author)
The performative walk leads to places of historical and current places of exile in the city, which interweave with the exile biographies of the three protagonists and with different eras of migration. Premiere of the first edition – June 2023, Berliner Festspiele, Performing Exiles Festival curated by Matthias Lillienthal in consultation with Rabih Mroué. New run – May 17-23, 2024, with the Werkstatt Exilmuseum Berlin.
RISKLAB (concept / director / performer)
A series of participatory performances about risk in art and artists at risk, created in collaboration with risk-taking artists from different parts of the world. Presented in London (Camden People’s theatre, 2018), Berlin (Deutsches Theater, Radar Ost Festival, 2021), Washington DC (Georgetown University, The Gathering, 2022), Mainz (Staatstheater, Grenzenlos Kultur Festival, 2022), and Stuttgart (Theater Rampe, March 2024).
HOW TO SELL YOURSELF TO THE WEST (author / director / performer)
A performance project that investigates unique selling points, identity advantage, success strategies, and the politics inside the Western art market. Conceived in the art residency of the Young Academy of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 2020. Presented as a lecture-performance at the Radar Ost Festival 2021 at Deutsches Theater Berlin and as a radio feature in 2023 at Deutschlandfunk (German radio).
CARIES OF CAPITALISM (co-author and co-creator)
Nominee for the grand prize of the Sergei Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award 2020. Long-list of the most notable theatre productions of the season 2019/2020, chosen for the special program “Russian case 2020“ of the Golden Mask Russian National Theatre award.
A politically engaged participatory performance about precarity, money, and labor inside the theatre industry. Devised in collaboration with Alena Papina, Olga Tarakanowa, Daria Iuriichuk. Premiere – October 1, 2019, at the Meyerhold theatre center (Moscow, Russia).
LOCKER ROOM TALK (director / performer)
The winner of the Black Box Residency 2018/2019 at the Meyerhold theatre center. Long-list of the most notable theatre productions of the season 2018/2019, chosen for the special program “Mask Plus” of the Golden Mask Russian National Theatre award.
Male sexist texts are performed by female bodies. Based on the verbatim play Locker Room Talk by Gary McNair. Created in collaboration with choreographer Daria Iuriichuk and dramaturg Olga Tarakanowa. Premiere – June 4, 2019, at the Meyerhold Theatre Center (Moscow, Russia). WATCH TEASER
DOUBLE EAGLE. A WORKSHOP FOR RUSSIAN EMIGRANTS (concept / director / performer)
An immersive theatre piece about the new wave of Russian emigration. Co-created together with a playwright Natasha Borenko. Premiere – ICAF-Festival, Rotterdam, 2017.
“_____________” (opening quotation mark fourteen spaces closing quotation mark) (director)
A documentary theatre concert with 14 teenagers. Co-created together with a playwright Natasha Borenko. Premiere – Bolshoi Drama Theatre, Saint Petersburg, 2015. WATCH TRAILER
18TH DIARY IN A BLUE COVER WITH A TEAPOT ON IT (director)
A documentary theatre piece about “us” and “them”. Co-created together with a playwright Natasha Borenko. Laboratory ON.Theatre, St. Petersburg, 2015.
FRIDGE – FOR VANILLA ICE CREAM! (curator, co-director together with E.Maximova and S.Svistunovich)
A documentary theatre piece with teenagers of different nationalities about xenophobia and tolerance. Scriptwriter – A. Gorbova. Laboratory ON.Theatre, St.Petersburg, 2013. WATCH TRAILER
