Co-founder, mentor program
Co-founder, mentor program
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.)
Mentor program
Mentor program
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.
Mentor program
Mentor program
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, 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.
Mentor program
Mentor program
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.
Mentor program
Mentor program
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.
Mentor program
Mentor program
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.