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Director Ilya Shagalov On Contemporary Theatre in Technology-Driven Society ZEITGEIST19 Curated Podcast
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Episode Summary:
'Art doesn’t owe you anything’, says our today’s guest speaker Ilya Shagalov, ‘It doesn’t have goals or objectives, just like coronavirus”. One of Russia’s most talented and emerging video artists and theatre directors, student of Kyril Serebrennikov, and member of Russia’s leading avant-guard theatre Gogol Centre, Shagalov, who finds himself in Berlin during the pandemic speaks to us about his deeply inspiring creation entitled Fairies, which was released just for a day in the mids of national lockdowns, with its existential yet romantic reaction to our crisis-ridden moment and the only universal solution - to love. In today’s episode Shagalov will talk us through the new forms of online theatre, the depth in the work of Bill Viola, the provocative manner of Frank Castorf’s theatre making, the aesthetics of metamodernism and many more…
How are theatrical vocabularies shifting to accommodate and reflect global and local cultures? Can performance art make a positive change in relation to social and political realities? And does theatre have a place to exist in the digital world?
(*Available in Russian version as a Bonus episode.)
The Speaker:
In 2008 Ilya Shagalov graduated with a degree in Acting from Krasnodar National University of Culture and Arts. After his studies in Krasnodar, he entered the Kirill Serebrennikov group at Moscow Art Theatre School, which later has grown into the Studio Seven. As a director, Shagalov worked on the following projects: a stage essay “Dominus Morfius” based on the texts of Sartre and Dostoevsky (within the project “The Theatrical Almanac”), the production “The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls” by Margaret Miroshnik (The Center of Dramaturgy and Directing), “Funny Dreams” based on “A Dream of a Ridiculous Man” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (the Project Platform), the opera “Minotaur Dreams” (The Theatre of Nations), a show in Schaubühne theatre (Berlin, Germany). Since 2004, Ilya Shagalov has also worked as video designer and VJ. He participates in different visual art festivals. In collaboration with Kirill Serebrennikov he produced the video design for “Kijé” (The Moscow Art Theatre), “Around Zero” (Oleg Tabakov Theatre), “Woyzeck” (The National Theatre of Latvia), “A Midsummernight’s dream” and “The Hunting of the Snark” (The Studio 7). Ilya Shagalov is an up-and-coming director-experimenter. His works feature eccentric forms, mixed genres and various means of expression from visual art to live music.
Host: Farah Piriye
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Episode Summary:
'Art doesn’t owe you anything’, says our today’s guest speaker Ilya Shagalov, ‘It doesn’t have goals or objectives, just like coronavirus”. One of Russia’s most talented and emerging video artists and theatre directors, student of Kyril Serebrennikov, and member of Russia’s leading avant-guard theatre Gogol Centre, Shagalov, who finds himself in Berlin during the pandemic speaks to us about his deeply inspiring creation entitled Fairies, which was released just for a day in the mids of national lockdowns, with its existential yet romantic reaction to our crisis-ridden moment and the only universal solution - to love. In today’s episode Shagalov will talk us through the new forms of online theatre, the depth in the work of Bill Viola, the provocative manner of Frank Castorf’s theatre making, the aesthetics of metamodernism and many more…
How are theatrical vocabularies shifting to accommodate and reflect global and local cultures? Can performance art make a positive change in relation to social and political realities? And does theatre have a place to exist in the digital world?
(*Available in Russian version as a Bonus episode.)
The Speaker:
In 2008 Ilya Shagalov graduated with a degree in Acting from Krasnodar National University of Culture and Arts. After his studies in Krasnodar, he entered the Kirill Serebrennikov group at Moscow Art Theatre School, which later has grown into the Studio Seven. As a director, Shagalov worked on the following projects: a stage essay “Dominus Morfius” based on the texts of Sartre and Dostoevsky (within the project “The Theatrical Almanac”), the production “The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls” by Margaret Miroshnik (The Center of Dramaturgy and Directing), “Funny Dreams” based on “A Dream of a Ridiculous Man” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (the Project Platform), the opera “Minotaur Dreams” (The Theatre of Nations), a show in Schaubühne theatre (Berlin, Germany). Since 2004, Ilya Shagalov has also worked as video designer and VJ. He participates in different visual art festivals. In collaboration with Kirill Serebrennikov he produced the video design for “Kijé” (The Moscow Art Theatre), “Around Zero” (Oleg Tabakov Theatre), “Woyzeck” (The National Theatre of Latvia), “A Midsummernight’s dream” and “The Hunting of the Snark” (The Studio 7). Ilya Shagalov is an up-and-coming director-experimenter. His works feature eccentric forms, mixed genres and various means of expression from visual art to live music.
Host: Farah Piriye
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