Dina Khuseyn is a choreographer and dance activist. She graduated in Ballet from the Choreographic Lyceum (Moscow), Dance Academy Rotterdam, and EX.E.R.CE program in experimental choreography (France) under tutor Mathilde Monnier. Since 2005, Khuseyn has been producing works in the realm of contemporary dance, performance, and contemporary art. Often involved in collaborations with artists, directors and theorists, she also initiates her own platforms, festivals, and research projects. Recipient of scholarships from Jardin d’Europe, DanceWEB, and American Dance Festival. She has worked with renowned choreographers as a dancer, including Tino Sehgal, Loïc Touzé, Anouk van Dijk, Philippe Jamet, Regis Obadia, etc. Her own pieces have participated in many European, American, and Russian dance festivals. Based in France since 2009, Khuseyn visits Moscow while working on projects there.
Natalya Drozhnikova is a graduate of Samara State Academy of Art and Culture (specialization: Stage Director. Pedagogue, 1996) and Non-Government Education Institution of Higher Professional Education “International Market Institute” (2009). She has been working in the field of culture for more than twenty years, including at the Ministry of Culture of the Samara Oblast. Since 2012, she has been head of the Department of Theater and Cultural Organizations Management of the Department of Culture of the city of Moscow. Co-author and developer of a complex approach to the development of a system of financial support of Moscow theaters, which has been implemented since 2017, and a grant program in support of Moscow theaters launched in 2018. Member of the expert council of the competition Grant Open Stage aimed at the state support of professional art collectives working in the field of theater and music arts. Deputy chairwoman of the Moscow Commission on prizes in the field of literature and art. Author of the projects Five Pianos on Nikolskaya involving some of Russia’s top pianists, the citywide initiative The Night of Theaters, and the open-air music festival Rossiya (Russia).
Yaroslav Sedov is Director of the theater art section at the Department of State Support for Art and Folklore of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (since 2013), Current State Adviser of the Russian Federation of third class. Graduate of the faculty of theater studies of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS, 1993) where he also received a post-graduate degree (candidate of art history) for the thesis: “Stages of Theatrical Language Formation in the French Court Theater Genres of the Eighteenth Century (From Baïf to Molière)” (1996). Sedov was a full-time music and theater columnist at the magazines Itogi (1996–2001) and Ezhenedelny Zhurnal (2001–2005) and the newspaper Gazeta (2004–2008). In 2008–2011, he worked as an adviser at the music art section of the Department of Contemporary Art and International Relations of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation; and in 2011–2013, he was executive director of the theater art section at the Department of State Support for Art and Folklore of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Author of over 1500 articles on the problems of music and musical theater in various publications. Recipient of the Certificate of Honor awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. He lives and works in Moscow.
