About the project
“Hook 2. Acting masterclass” by Kateryna Libkind and Oleksandr Steshenko
Kateryna Libkind and Oleksandr Steshenko held a joint acting workshop. This was an acting masterclass conducted by actor and screenwriter Oleksandr Steshenko. Under his guidance, Kateryna Libkind performed acting scenes on various themes. This event is the second part of Kateryna Libkind’s work within the framework of the Fellowship.
Artist Kateryna Libkind and theater and film actor Oleksandr Steshenko created a 45-minute performance that, for me, became the most important and interesting phenomenon in Ukrainian theater in the last 5-6, maybe even more, seasons. The performance was simultaneously funny, sad, and quite serious. Some people laughed throughout the whole performance (even when the director asked them not to, it was already uncontrollably impulsive), and at the end they cried (that was me) – while others did the opposite. But besides this emotional level, the performance had another, quite complex in nature, conceptual level. For me, it consisted of a combination of the conditionally “naive” theater of Oleksandr (who acted as a playwright and director-coach), multiplied by the perspective of the artist, who in the performance played a formally controlled actress.
Illia Razumeiko
composer and director
About the author
Kateryna Libkind is an artist and set designer living and working in Kyiv. She grew up and studied in Mykolaiv. She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Kyiv) with a degree in set design (2016). She is a co-founder of the MONTAZH group (2016) and was part of the curatorial team of the Plivka art center (Kyiv) from 2016 to 2019. She is also a set designer and artist for the music agency Uho (Kyiv) and a co-founder of atelienormalno, a workshop for artists with and without Down syndrome (Kyiv, 2018). Kateryna is a participant in the Mohrytsia land art symposiums (since 2017) and a Gaude Polonia scholarship holder, 2020.
Oleksandr Steshenko is a theater and film actor, screenwriter, parodist, and prop master. He was born and lives in Kyiv. Since 2001, he has been involved with the folk theater “Parostky,” which operates under the Ukrainian Mothers’ Union “Sonyachnyi promin.” He is a participant in international and Ukrainian theater festivals. His film roles include “The Tribe,” “Captive,” “The Man Who Dreamed,” and “The Autopsy Will Show.” Selected performances include “Vertep,” “Kind Horton,” “The Cherry Orchard,” and “The Exiles.” He has been collaborating with atelienormalno since 2018.
Presentations
- The presentation was shown 16 February 2024 at Les Kurbas Centre in Kyiv.
Credits
Production proto produkciia
Lead producer Olga Diatel
Executive producer Volodymyr Burkovets
Associate Producers Yuliia Parysh, Alona Odarenko, Iryna Onishchuk
Assistant Nata Zelenska, Sofiia Levchenkova
Communication Olga Diatel
Media coordination Kateryna Lukiashko
Design of posters Yaroslava Kovalchuk
Photo Valeriia Landar
Video documentation Daria Sokolova, Andrii Borodavchuk, Yaroslav Pushkarchuk
Financial management Liliia Pylatiuk, Roman Dyma
Supported by
The work was implemented by proto produkciia in partnership with the GT Foundation from Romania with financial support from the European Union under the Europe House program.