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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, Russian
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Actor, Director, Movement Researcher, Filmmaker
  • Actors High Education in Saint-Petersburg
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About Me

Hey, I am an actor, a mover and a director, and the last one is my truly passion. I work with the dancers and actors in theatre and independent cinema. I also love to shoot video. I am inspired of so many things - music, dance, painting and all form of arts. Im also a mover, i studied an contemporary dance technique, yoga, some marshall arts - like capoeira and taichi, somatic education is also about me. I love human body as an wonderful idea of material embodiment of consciousness. I also love philosophy and trying to find mt way in art.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to travel a lot and find interesting collaboration in arts, theatre, dance and filmmaking.

Interests

Im interested in theatre, dance, cinema and anmation. I love animation very much. Im not so good in drawings and also do not very patient to make even a stop-motion movie, but here is some of my tries in that area of art:
https://vimeo.com/214295828
https://vimeo.com/214295897
Its just fun stuff: https://youtu.be/98BJ0FppQlE
And it is very old one: https://youtu.be/tDeVP1TT8DE

  • acting
  • dance
  • theatre
  • directing
  • physical theatre

Music, Movies, and Books

I love blues and playing harp a bit, also love classical music and contemporary composers. For real, I have a wide taste in music, but I do not like pop-music much.
I also love European movies and directors. Krzysztof Kieślowski, poland director is one of my favorites. I also like French movies - Dardenn brothers, Dolan. At Hollywood production there are Jim Jarmush, Terry Gilliam and Charlie Chaplin

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We made an awesome theatre performance based on inuit tale from the Klarissa Estess book.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Dance, play music, a lot of ineresting conversation and ideas about art.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Japan, Lithuania, Ukraine

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