The performance Chernobyl of the independent theatre group Kryly Halopa (Slave’s Wings) from Brest is the first part of the project Stories of Belarus, originally conceived as a theatrical multi-volume project with every part being dedicated to the events of the country’s contemporary history
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The notion of independent theatre in the context of today’s Belarus can be approached from two perspectives. On the one hand, ʻindependentʼ means absolutely autonomous from the state, both in terms of finance (operating without the governmental support) and ideology (pursuing its own repertoire policy, operating beyond the framework of the contemporary Belarusian state ideology)...
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KorniagTHEATRE Brendan McCall © 2014 Many foreign audiences assume all Belarusian artists make political work, often inserting political discourses into pieces that aim to explore other subjects with different metaphors. Below is an interview with members of an independent Belarusian theater company that you probably haven´t heard of yet, that hopes to create performances that have
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THE PHENOMENON OF PAVAL PRAŽKO (PAVEL PRYAZHKO)
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AKSANA HAIKO, the founder of Belarusian “Kryly Halopa” theatre, actress and director, tells about how to create while “being not free”, about a challenge to “professionals”, a fight against art commissions, and about a new stage of their activity.
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In October 1990 the famous Yanka Kupala’s play banned for long decades returned to the stage. The version of The Locals suggested by the director Mikalai Pinihin turned into a cult and became one of the symbols of the new epoch
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The Visual and Performing Arts Centre was created in December 2010 to implement international cultural projects at a national scale. The activity of the Centre is based on integration of our country in international cultural contexts.
(ex –Free Theatre) is an independent alternative theatre and one of the not numerous alternative theatres in Belarus. It was created in 2001 in Brest city as the community of people joined with the political and creative views.
Director, actor, choreographer of the physical theatre InZhest since 1980. The InZhest theatre initiated one of the first independent experimental theater in Belarus. It was among the first to introduce physicality and plasticity; that sphere had been almost a blank page for Belarusian theatre.
KorniagTHEATRE comprises the director Evgene Korniag, producer Marina Dashuk and the young Belarusian actors and artists who want to work together. KorniagTHEATRE originally declared itself as an independent, unique and experimental. The theatre has no stage area and no permanent troupe.
EVENTS. NAMES. PLACES. …Among the members of my family profession of an actor has been considered as shameful.
Dzianis Marcinovič In October 1990 the famous Yanka Kupala’s play banned for long decades returned to the stage.
Platform performative practices ‘ziErnie’ is an open platform for the development of the performative movement in Belarus in order to create an alternative to the dominant monopoly of state repertory theatre.
