Presented by CONSTANZA MACRAS / DORKY PARK
When:
5 & 6 May 2025
11:00 – 14:00 h
Where:
Leipziger Str. 54, 10117 Berlin – 1st Floor, Studio 3
Free admission
Registation online: https://forms.gle/WqVCzuvkKEHw1CWP9
Please note that due to space restrictions we can only offer limited places.
AUTHENTICITY OF THE BODY / Physical theater workshop by Ivan Estegneev
The way we move is a choice that identifies us to our observers and ultimately determines our actions and attitudes towards them. The focus of the research in this workshop is presence, awareness, communication, multitasking, increased attention, expressiveness.
We will work with various individual and group TASKS TO OBSERVE each other ON THE PHYSICAL LEVEL and try to become aware of the sense of sharm, fragility, power, sensuality of our body in a new way. We will also touch upon the creative side of movement practice and define basic tools for creating our own body language for theatre projects.
Ivan Estegneev was born in 1980 in the South of Russia and graduated from the Humanitarian Institute in Saint-Petersburg.
Ivan Estegneev is a co-founder and an artistic director of Dialogue Dance School and Company in Kostroma since 2002 together with his partner Evgeny Kulagin. Dialogue Dance Company has created more than 30 performances, 3 of which are laureates for the best contemporary dance performance of the Russian National Theatre Award Golden Mask. Ivan Estegneev and Evgeny Kulagin are founders and CEO of STANTSIA independent contemporary art venue. At different times they curated and organized co-productions and festivals of dance, theater, music and art in Russia with artists from all over the world.
Since 2012 Ivan has worked as resident choreographer at Gogol Center in Moscow, founded by Kirill Serebrennikov. He created the productions Shakespeare (2017), Two Rooms (2018), Barocco (2018) with Evgeny Kulagin and several performances with Kirill Serebrennikov, including two productions for the main program of Avignon Festival. Since 2016 he has collaborated with Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna (TR Warsaw) in five different productions in Poland, Russia and China.
Estegneev has taught stage movement and cinema dance for acting faculty at the Moscow Film School 2015-2022. He is a co-founder and CEO of the physical theater workshop DialogLab in Moscow since 2018. Since 2022 he is curator of the Context Festival funded by Diana Vishneva.
In 2022 he moved to Germany where he has worked in Thalia Theater as choreographer in residence and created following productions: Black Monk (coproduction with Avignon Festival), Der Wiy, The Bat, Barocco, Behind The Closed Doors, Legende (co-production with Ruhrtriennale). In 2024 with Evgeny Kulagin created performance „Apocalypses Tomorrow“ by K&F company premiered in Lessintage Festival (Hamburg). Ivan has taught in Contemporary Dance School Hamburg (2023-2024), K3 Kampnagel (2024), University of Music and Theater Hamburg (2023).
In 2024 in Hamburg Ivan premiered his solo performance Demon’s Sorrow in collaboration with Russian and German artists.
