MOM, I'M CREATIVE! A career guidance program for teens designed in collaboration with Territory.kids Festival

The masterclass is designed for those who want to stage productions but are not confident enough in their skills. After all, everyone, whether a producer, manager, or programmer, can put on a performance. During the masterclass, director Alexander Shumilin will explain the different concepts that formed the basis of the Nemkhat theater company’s performances. Participants will then try to put together a production team, distribute responsibilities between them depending on their preferences, and try to go from devising to producing a short play.

Alexander Shumilin is the founder of the independent youth theater Nemkhat, where students of Perm Medical University are actors performing at iconic city locations. The theater’s production While Everyone is at Home was listed in the out-of-competition program of the Golden Mask Award (2021).

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Participants of this dance masterclass will work with their bodies and their mobility. Through interaction with a partner, the group, and the space, they will be looking for opportunities to activate their internal resources. Using improvisation tools, the teacher will help them improve the quality and variability of movements, while also revealing the dance potential of each participant.

Olga Timoshenko is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, researcher of contemporary dance, former member of Moscow Ballet Theater’s contemporary troupe (2011–2021), senior teacher at Moscow Art Theater School, teacher at GITIS, GOGOL SCHOOL, Tsekh Center for Contemporary Dance, and Action Theater Studio. She is the winner of the CONTEXT. Diana Vishneva competition for young choreographers (2018), nominee for the Golden Mask Award (2019, 2022), curator of Artroz Festival of Contemporary Dance and Performance.

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Maria will touch upon the specifics of the work of a stage designer using examples of drama and musical productions, the creation of which she took part in. Participants will learn everything about the production process of a performance: from writing a draft to the premiere on stage. Maria will also show how set designs and costumes are made and answer questions. During the practical part of the masterclass, the group will design scenography for a given topic. 

Maria Utrobina is a set designer. She graduated with honors from Moscow’s Nemirovich-Danchenko Art Theater School. She is a stage and costume designer and has been teaching at Moscow Art Theater School-Studio in the Production Department since 2007. Since 2019, she has been the head of the Scenography Department at Moscow Art Theater School-Studio. She is a member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation and a participant in the Prague Quadriennale. She regularly participates in the exhibitions of the Moscow Union of Artists, in the Results of the Season series, and other exhibitions. Her works are presented at Bakhrushin Theater Museum. She is the winner and scholarship recipient of Russian and international awards and festivals.

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Petr Dranga will discuss the importance of forming one’s own opinion and taste when composing and performing music as well as new approaches in musical education. The masterclass, composed of a practical and a theoretical part, has no age restrictions.

Petr Dranga is a musician, composer, and producer. Born into a family of musicians, he graduated from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and began to work enthusiastically on creative projects in the field of instrumental music. His works include installations at the Burning Man festival, the stage production Frida, concerts Perspective and Metamorphoses, and music for theater productions and films (Muse, Above the City, When the Fern Blooms, etc.). A winner of multiple international competitions, he works in an experimental genre, launching creative projects of new formats. In 2022, he founded the neoclassical DYP Orchestra.

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How do you promote yourself? Where do you perform a new play? What dramaturgical competitions are on offer? How and where do readings take place? What are the options for staging (sketches of productions, walk-through performances, museums or radio performances, etc.)?

Maria will recommend contemporary plays and productions based on the new dramaturgy, before the participants practice building a character story (they will learn to create characters and their backgrounds). They will also talk with the playwright about the possible collisions, analyze some well-known plots, discuss what they would be interested in writing a play about and how to approach these topics.

Maria Malukhina is a playwright whose plays have become winners, finalists or were shortlisted for competitions such as Lyubimovka, Remarka, Eurasia, Acting Persons, Auteur Stage, The Initial Event, and Badenweiler. In 2022, she was on the jury board of the Badenweiler International Drama Competition. The production Vasilissa at RAMT took the award for Best Work of a Playwright at the XIX Harlequin All-Russian Festival of Theater Art for Children (2022).

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Curator Anna Rumyantseva will speak about theatrical design methods in relation to museum and exhibition expositions, and alternatively, about using museum methods to design theater foyers. The theoretical part will focus on examples of expositions that were implemented in museums and theaters. Afterward, the group will move on to practice and arrange a hypothetical exhibition on the real plans of a museum and a theater foyer. Participants will make sketch 3D models that they will present to each other at the end of the class.

Anna Rumyantseva is the founder and curator of the contemporary art platform The New Wing of the Gogol House, an exhibition designer and architect, curator of exhibitions, theater artist, and author of architectural concepts for exhibitions in many Moscow museums, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Moscow, the Jewish Museum and the Tolerance Center, House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov Museum, Gogol House, the State Pushkin Museum, and Scriabin Museum.

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Participants will learn about the specifics of the profession of an artistic director and the stages of their work, as well as other areas of application of their expertise. During the practical block, participants will create film posters using the medium of collage.

Daria Litvinova is an artistic director working with film and advertising and a set designer. She graduated from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Department of Graphic Design) and the British Higher School of Design with a degree in theater design. As an art director, she has worked on filmmaker Vladlena Sandu’s TV series Identification, presented at the film festival in France, the Berlinale, and Kinotavr in 2021; on Ekaterina Selenkina’s film Detours, shown at the Venice Film Festival in 2021, etc. Daria also has multiple shorts to her name that participated in some major international film festivals.

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Participants will get acquainted with performance practices and contemporary theatre, choose subjects for a joint performative statement, and put together their manifestos. Afterward, using bodily plasticity, voice, and work with space, they will create statements-performances that will eventually be transformed into a single performance-promenade through the entire space of Garage. You can invite friends to watch it.

Alexander Pronkin is a director, actor, curator, and teacher. His acting career includes productions at Theatre.doc, Meyerhold Center, Theater of Nations, etc. He has directed productions, performances, and other theatrical events at various venues in Moscow and the regions. He teaches at the Moscow School of New Cinema, SOTA School, and Marina Razbezhkina School of Documentary Film and Theater. As a curator, he runs educational laboratories of contemporary theater at the State Pushkin Museum, Multimedia Art Museum, Rodchenko Art School, Studio Liberty, etc.

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