News
SpaceBridge in Under The Radar Festival
SpaceBridge will have an second run as part of the Under The Radar festival in January.
Article about SpaceBridge in American Theatre Magazine
Written by Carol Rocamora
A conversation with Artists with Evidence
In this online session, I will share my insights on the resilience of refugee children as they navigate a new life, face cultural challenges, and shape their future roles in society.
Giving a talk at Stella Adler
Following a highly successful training intensive with the SpaceBridge ensemble, I’ll be joining my dear friend Christa Kimlicko Jones to give a talk at Stella Adler.
Attending the ITI congress
Excited to be part of the American delegation for the 37th ITI world congress in Antwerp and Den Bosch!
Voice of America reports on SpaceBridge
The international broadcaster of the United States of America came to the SpaceBridge performance at La Mama and created a segment about the project (in Russian).
Global Theatre Initiative at TCG
I am attending the TCG conference in Chicago to participate in a roundtable discussion titled Global Theater Initiative: Countering Isolationism and Fostering Collaborative Exchange
Second SpaceBridge Presentation
Continuing my work with our team of young Russian refugees and their American friends this Spring to prepare for a performance of SpaceBridge at the Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa ETC on June 6 2024.
I received an Eliot Norton Award for "The Gaaga"
I was honored with the 2024 Elion Norton Award in the category Outstanding Scenic Design for “The Gaaga”, which played in June 2023 in Cambridge, MA. My dear colleagues Sasha Denisova and Igor Golyak also received an award in the category Outstanding Director.
Subterranean Memories at Westbeth
I am directing a devised performance in the cavernous basement of Westbeth, centered around theme of “disappearance”, and created in collaboration with the New School of Drama MFA students.
SpaceBridge Full Length Video Now Available
Registration of the Dec 6th 2024 performance. Filmed and edited by Aleksei Postnikov
Joining En Garde Art's Board
I am excited to announce that I’ll be serving as a member of the board of this great organization
SpaceBridge Presentation at La MaMa ETC.
SpaceBridge, a project with a group of young Russian refugees and their American peers will be presented at La MaMa ETC on Dec 9th.
Artist Residency at La MaMa ETC.
I am working with a group of young Russian refugees on creating the performance SpaceBridge, as part of this residency
Joining the New School of Drama as a Full Time faculty member
I am glad to announce that I was appointed Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance. Excited about deepening my interactions with students in the undergraduate and graduate departments.
A Dozen Dreams will be featured at PQ2023
The performance I created with En Garde Arts in 2021 will be featured as part of the American pavilion at the 2023 edition of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space
Set and projection design for "The Gaaga" in Cambridge, MA
Developed through first-person interviews with refugees and officials, and inspired by world events, The Gaaga is a darkly funny, haunting and fantastical trip through the consequences of war. Set in a dystopian phantasmagoria, a Ukrainian girl dreams Vladimir Putin and his cronies into a trial for crimes of war.
Just Tell No One at The Huntington Theatre in Boston
Our site-specific, multi-media staged reading of material from Ukrainian playwrights Natal’ya Vorozhbit & Oksana Savchenko produced by Arlekin Player gets a repeat performance in Boston
Tomorrow Will Be Sunday at the Kennedy Center
We’ll present Heather Raffo’s play as part of the RiverRun Festival
Set Design for Heather Raffo's Tomorrow Will Be Sunday at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, MI
An ambitious theatrical experiment, this staged reading of a new work by Iraqi-American playwright Heather Raffo is an epic map of a play linking the world’s migration patterns to the daily transactions of our lives.
Set Design for Just Tell No One at Lincoln Center
A site-specific, multi-media staged reading of material from Ukrainian playwrights Natal’ya Vorozhbit & Oksana Savchenko produced by Arlekin Players
Workshop at DIA Chelsea
I am hosting a scenography workshop for a group of teens at DIA Chelsea this Summer
Holoscenes in Montreal and Quebec City
Excited to announce that we are remounting Holoscenes in Montreal, as part of the Festival TransAmeriques, and in Quebec City, as part of the Carrefour International the Theatre.
No Place at the New School of Drama
I am directing No Place, a site-specific devised performance, created in collaboration with the New School of Drama MFA students
Dmitry Krymov’s Cherry Orchard at the Wilma
I am thrilled about designing a radical interpretation of “The Cherry Orchard”, under the direction of one of my favorite theatre makers Dmitry Krymov, at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia.
“Space II” at the New School of Drama
Building on Space I, Juanli Carrion and I will teach a class that will explore performance as a spatial art that moves beyond the boundaries of the stage and occupies a particular social and public space.
Teaching “Space 1” at the New School of Drama
I am grateful to welcome our first cohort of interdisciplinary performance MFA1 students at the New School, and engage them with fundamental aspects of physical, phenomenological, and social space in performance, in my new course “Space 1”
Visual Echo Incorporated
Our multidisciplinary performance organization Visual Echo is finally incorporated as a not-for-profit in the state of New York.