Performing Arts - MASCHA SLOËVA

In the field of performing arts, I have worked full-time as an international projects manager for the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, the Access Point Summer Festival in St. Petersburg, and the New European Theatre Festival in Moscow.

As an independent theatre producer and curator, I have collaborated with the Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris, the Macau Cultural Centre, the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, the uzahvati theatre company, Rimini Protokoll, and with theatres and artists in France, Ukraine, Switzerland, Germany, the Czech Republic, China, Russia.

List of the projects (producer)

2023 documentary film "Artem Tomilov" by Oleg Tsiplakov (RUS, FR)

2022 production "rizni" by uzahvati (UA), with AAE (FR), Paris; production "Dalen. På Jorden.” by Klockriketeatern (FI), Helsinki; online-lab “all songs about me” (digital).

2020 - 2021 production "Das große Feuer" directed by Oleg Eremin (online and offline versions), with GI, St. Petersburg.

2019 production "Remote Kiyv" by Rimini Protokoll (DE), with uzahvati, Kyiv.

2016 - 2019 production "Livia, 13" directed by Mikhail Patlasov, with Alexandrinsky Theatre, GI, St. Petersburg.

2012 - 2019 music project “The Path of the Le Sacre du Printemps” by Konstantin Uchitel, with Virtual Village, Peter Laul, Pavel Raykerus (RUS, UA, FR, BY, CH).

Touring with theatre and circus performances, music concerts, educational programms: Switzerland (Alhambra hall / Geneva; Festival au Pays des Enfants / Château-d'Œx), France (Cité de la musique — Philharmonie de Paris, Musée des Confluences / Lyon), Macao, Germany (Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt), Armenia (Yerevan), Georgia (Tbilisi), Chezh Republic (Brno), Russia (St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Stanislavsky Music Theatre and Meyerhold Theatre Centre / Moscow, Voronezh, Petrozavodsk, Arkhangelsk, Kazan, Nizhniy Novgorod, Velikiy Novgorod, Kaluga).

List of the projects (curator)

2021 Self-organized decentralized festival with-for-by non-human object “Perfotachka”, St. Petersburg, Moscow.

2021 Theatre party "TETRIS" by Goethe-Insitut, together with Ivan Demidkin and with performers, theatre and video-art directors, painters, game-designers, media artists, composers from Krasnodar, Novosibirsk. Perm, Pskov, St. Petersburg.

2020 - 2021 Anthology of new plays "SCHAG 6" by Gothe-Insitut, together with Natalia Kemper-Bakshi and Alexey Platunov, Russia.

2020 Site-specific installation program for comics festival BOOFEST, together with Artem Tomilov, St. Petersburg.

2019-2020 Project "Holiday with a librarian: lectures by librarians in bars", together with public libraries, St. Petersburg.

2020 - 2021 Debates between philosophers with European University, Artemy Magun, Joel Regev, Oksana Timofeeva.

2020, 2018 Program for independent theatre, opera, and ballet producers. The Vakhtangov Theatre Producers Festival, Moscow.

2018, 2017, 2016 Theatre directors LAB for Young Audience, together with a theatre critic Yulia Kleiman. The National Theatre Award and Festival for Children “Harlequin", St, Petersburg.

2014 - 2015 Conference “German Dramaturgy of XX-XXI Century on the world stage”, The Aleksandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg.

Co-founder of the theatre companies: the Xronotope (2020 - 2022) and the New Imperial Theatre (2015 - 2020).

As an artist I am mainly experienced in movement, dance, and performance. I have also sung folk music, and filmed a video about a practice of theatre at home.

List of the projects and trainings (artist)

Projects:

Singer, Performer of a scenic reading "Gypsy Baron" as a part of the evening in memory of Nikolay Russky. Directed by Uliana Leonova, with Anna Filiptseva and Maria Sivkova (April 2023, Paris, Résidence des Récollets).

Online-Performer of production “there are not here” by Artem Tomilov (January, April 2023, St. Petersburg).

Assistant of set designer Ksenia Peretrukhina in the new production “Dalen. På Jorden”. Directed by Dan Henriksson. (Klockriketeatern, August-September 2022, Helsinki-Porvoo).

Assistant of artist Gian-Maria Tosatti (The Borders Lab, June 2021, Ivangorod).

Voice Artist of the site-specific production "Longwave" by Viktor Vilisov (St. Petersburg, 2019).

Performer of the ongoing dance performance “Love which is Dealing with Us” (The Access Point Festival, St. Petersburg, 2019).

Video director, cutter, cameraman, and author of “First simple home theatre” (MAZARUSSIA production, Perm Manufactory, 2019).

Actress of a student reading in German (Romanischer Keller, August 2014, Heidelberg).

Solist of folk dance, Folklore theatre of “Kudesy”, Velikiy Novgorod, 2006 - 2012.

As a dancer, I was on tours in Paris (FR), Strasbourg (FR), Lippstadt (DE), Osnabrück (DE), Warsaw (PL), Tartu (EE), Tallinn (EE), Kazan (RUS), Mariinsky Theatre (RUS), Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (RUS).

Trainings:

Workshop "Site-specific art" by Gian-Maria Tosatti (St. Petersburg, 2019)

Workshop “Viewpoints” by Erwin Maas (Cape Town, 2017)

Basis of the contemporary dance by Vladimir Varnava (St. Petersburg, 2016)

Basis of the physical theater by Anna Budanova (St. Petersburg, 2017, 2015)

Acting in German (Heidelberg, 2014)

Music School Diploma (2000 - 2008, piano, dance)

Since 6 years old I have regularly participated in folk expeditions and collected folk music and rituals in the North-West Region of Russia.

Residences and fellowships: Meyerhold Theatre Center (Moscow, 2020 - 2022), Next Generation Program for young artists of the Theatre for Young Audience (ASSITEJ, Cape Town, 2017), Guest Programme for young foreign theatre people (Goethe-Institut, Munich, and ITI, Heidelberg, 2017), DAAD (Uni Heidelberg, 2015).

Education: BA/MA in Performing Arts Producing and Management, Music School Diploma (piano, dance).

I also led the culture departments of public libraries and developed educational projects.

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