Co-founder, program mentor
Co-founder, program mentor
Ukrainian composer and author of operas. He was born in 1989 in Zaporizhzhia. He studied composition, music history and theory in Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv and Vienna. He is a doctoral student at the Center for Artistic Research at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. Founder of the Opera aperta laboratory of contemporary opera in collaboration with Roman Hryhoriv (operas IYOV, GAZ, Chornobyldorf, Opera Lingua, Genesis, GAIA-24, etc.)
Co-founder, program mentor
Co-founder, program mentor
Producer and project manager in the field of performing arts. Co-founder of the contemporary opera laboratory Opera Aperta and the Antonin Artaud Fellowship.
Born in 1997 in Mykolaiv. In 2018, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2018–2019, he worked as a project manager at the NGO “Misto Sad” in Kyiv and the Luhansk region. Since 2019, he has been working at the agency proto produkciia as a producer and project coordinator.
He has worked on the following projects: Opera GAZ (2019), Opera Lingua (2021), CHORNOBYLDORF. Archaeological Opera (2020), GAIA-24. Opera del Mondo (2024).
Currently serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Program mentor
Program mentor
A multidisciplinary artist, participant/manager of music, theater, and performance projects. He is an actor at the Dakh Theater (Kyiv), Theater Space: TEO (Odesa), Opera Aperta Contemporary Opera Laboratory (Kyiv). He is a founder and member of the P.L.O.T. Performative Group at the Odesa Museum of Modern Art.
Program mentor
Program mentor
Performer, choreographer, researcher. The curator at TanzLaboratorium performance group, since 2000. Professor at the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Performing and Circus Arts.
Program mentor
Program mentor
She is a performer and choreographer. Born and raised in Donetsk, she moved to Kyiv in 2014. She has participated in many projects of TanzLaboratorium, a research-oriented group. She is a co-founder and teacher of the dance school for children “People”. Together with her mother, she works in the self-organized family clothing workshop “Nowhere to Press”. She taught the course “Performance and Contemporary Dance” for KAMA students. From time to time she creates solo performances and collaborates with colleagues.
Program mentor
Program mentor
Art projects manager and actress from Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine). Artistic Director and Head of the municipal theatre platform “Dim Aktora” (Actor’s House), and co-organizer of the “Dim Aktora” arts festival. One of Olga’s key areas of work is exploring effective models of collaboration between the public and independent cultural sectors, and creating conditions for cooperation among artists of different practices and generations. Olga is also engaged in theatre communication and moderating cultural events.
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Program mentor
Kateryna Markush is a set and costume designer. For more than 10 years she has been working as a set and costume designer for many performances in various theaters, including the National Franko Theater. Works: “Call Me Peter”, ‘Chornobyldorf’, ‘GAIA-24’, ‘Your Someone’ and others.
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Program mentor
is an internationally recognized Ukrainian theatre director and curator based in Berlin. Her innovative work explores memory, identity, and resistance, often employing queer art strategies and documentary theatre techniques. Her work connects personal experience with broader social realities and includes collaborations with both professional and non-professional performers. She has received numerous awards, including British Council Ukraine’s Taking the Stage (2017), the Gaude Polonia Scholarship (2017), the Artistic Scholarship of the President of Ukraine (2019/2020), and the Warsaw City Artistic Scholarship (2023). More about Roza at her personal blogspot
Program mentor
Program mentor
She is a theater expert, program director, cultural manager, producer of independent projects, lecturer and cultural journalist, and an expert at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. She produces the Dollmen Theater in Kyiv, the Paradefest festival, and is engaged in cultural diplomacy to represent Ukrainian culture abroad.
Program mentor
Program mentor
Slava is keen on experimental and contemporary classical music. He worked with the Ukrainian non-classical orchestra Lords of the Sound. He also collaborates with various electronic/rock bands. Since 2018, he has been collaborating with Nova Opera: opera-requiem IYOV, grand opera NERO and dystopian opera GAZ. He has collaborated with Opera aperta, participated in the creation of technical solutions for the archaeological opera Chornobyldorf, and worked with recording, mixing and mastering of the video version of the opera. He helped with live productions of Opera Lingua, Genesis, and GAIA-24. In his everyday life, he loves guitars, tattoos, and cats. He also writes IDM/nowave for his music project. Currently serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.