LIVING MYTH

Katya is engaged in "Ohne Zucker" Project, researching performance and contemporary dance. She creates solo projects and collaborates with other Russian artists. In her work she addresses everyday activities and body-oriented practices, such as dance, authentic movement, qigong, etc., aiming to create various precedents and conditions for improvisation.

In November 2018 during her art residence at ZIL Cultural Center in Moscow, Katya presented her solo project "I'm enterning the forest." Before that she collaborated with a Russian composer Kirill Shirokov and a group of actors from "Stanislavsky Electro Theater," during Sixth Moscow International Junior Art Biennale.

Since 2018 Katya has been teaching dance to children, and leading dance and movement laboratories of her own design. Presently she is a teacher at children's Glaz-Almaz theater studio. Last summer she led "Antiquity through performance" lab for students of Russian State University for the Humanities. She is currently launching Aesthesis lab to investigate the interplay of movement and perception.

At the festival Kaya will lead dance and improvisation workshop, which in the end might culminate in a group performance.

Education: Department of Foreign Languages at Lomonosov Moscow State University; Vocal Performance at British Institute of Modern Music, London.

Activities: Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, sound engineer, composer, songwriter, instructor in development projects designed for children and adults, author of LaMuse Musical Laboratory, creator of several music collectives, and now the front man of Hypnoblue. For four years was a team member of Future Now educational camps for children and adults, where he led musical labs, jam sessions, created orchestra of unimaginable music, and other musical insanities.

Sergey has taken part in an endless procession of educational and creative projects around the world, projects that constantly keep him looking for new tools to develop as a musician himself. In his opinion, the most important thing in music is that which cannot be put into words – a kind of magic, which makes you hang on every note and stop in fascination at the unexplainably beautiful capacity that music has to paint the world. And even though there are many subtle difficulties in getting a handle on this thing, he is sure it is possible. And that is what lies at the foundation of his course; a course that incorporates years of practice and collecting the best of what he's learned throughout the world.

Sergey is fluent in four languages, is a Qigong teacher and loves Radiohead and Coldplay bands. He is half Italian, so some people call him Sergio :)

At the festival Sergey will create all kinds of musical activities and musical experiments.

Sofia graduated with a law degree from The Higher School of Economics in Moscow. At the moment, Sofia is studying Transpersonal Psychotherapy at Naropa University (Boulder, USA).

Sofia is an educational facilitator in projects for children and adults, photographer, aspiring psychotherapist, and co-organizer of music laboratories LaMuse. She also led two Living Myth expeditions to Israel.

All you need to do is look at Sofia to dispel any doubts you might have about her. She has the rare gift of bringing an especially comfortable atmosphere into the room with her, wherever she goes. But all the same, it's good to know that Sofia has been working in the field of development and education with children and adults for over ten years. For over five years, she was involved in anticorruption activities and human rights efforts in Russia.

She spent one year living on an eco-farm in Israel, learning the principles of Permaculture and applied ecology, but right now, Sonya lives in America and studies at Naropa University, where she also works as a photographer.

During the festival Sofia will lead evening activities and teach a photo laboratory.