Hi! We are aliveduo — a collaborative artistic partnership of Alena Starostina and Ivan Nikolaev, focusing on performative and visual art. We were both born in Saint Petersburg. In 2007, we graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts with a Master’s degree. In 2010, we co-founded the performative collective “theatre post”, which, over the next ten years, became one of the leading representatives of experimental theater in Russia. We worked on plays by contemporary playwrights and also created our own original productions. A significant milestone in our artistic development was our work with pieces by John Cage, Alvin Lucier, and Belarusian playwright Pavel Pryazhko. We have participated in numerous regional and international festivals, including Golden Mask, Territory, NET, Theatre Confrontations, TEART, Yes Yes Yes, Chaos, Karussell, Teatrtogo, and The Access Point. In 2022, we emigrated to Germany, where we founded aliveduo, now based in Dresden, and continued to develop our artistic practice.
In our projects, we work with the concept of “time” in performative practice and are always looking for a non-standard approach to the material we choose. We explore silence and inaction as part of theatrical language. We’re interested in the performative possibilities of an actor’s presence, and in the relationship between the audience and the performer, as well as between the space of action and those who inhabit it. Drawing on our backgrounds in acting, directing, and performance, we create experimental works at the intersection of theatre, contemporary art, and multimedia.
Hi! We are aliveduo — a collaborative artistic partnership of Alena Starostina and Ivan Nikolaev, focusing on performative and visual art. We were both born in Saint Petersburg. In 2007, we graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts with a Master’s degree. In 2010, we co-founded the performative collective “theatre post”, which, over the next ten years, became one of the leading representatives of experimental theater in Russia. We worked on plays by contemporary playwrights and also created our own original productions. A significant milestone in our artistic development was our work with pieces by John Cage, Alvin Lucier, and Belarusian playwright Pavel Pryazhko. We have participated in numerous regional and international festivals, including Golden Mask, Territory, NET, Theatre Confrontations, TEART, Yes Yes Yes, Chaos, Karussell, Teatrtogo, and The Access Point. In 2022, we emigrated to Germany, where we founded aliveduo, now based in Dresden, and continued to develop our artistic practice.
In our projects, we work with the concept of “time” in performative practice and are always looking for a non-standard approach to the material we choose. We explore silence and inaction as part of theatrical language. We’re interested in the performative possibilities of an actor’s presence, and in the relationship between the audience and the performer, as well as between the space of action and those who inhabit it. Drawing on our backgrounds in acting, directing, and performance, we create experimental works at the intersection of theatre, contemporary art, and multimedia.
Hi! We are aliveduo — a collaborative artistic partnership of Alena Starostina and Ivan Nikolaev, focusing on performative and visual art. We were both born in Saint Petersburg. In 2007, we graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts with a Master’s degree. In 2010, we co-founded the performative collective “theatre post”, which, over the next ten years, became one of the leading representatives of experimental theater in Russia. We worked on plays by contemporary playwrights and also created our own original productions. A significant milestone in our artistic development was our work with pieces by John Cage, Alvin Lucier, and Belarusian playwright Pavel Pryazhko. We have participated in numerous regional and international festivals, including Golden Mask, Territory, NET, Theatre Confrontations, TEART, Yes Yes Yes, Chaos, Karussell, Teatrtogo, and The Access Point. In 2022, we emigrated to Germany, where we founded aliveduo, now based in Dresden, and continued to develop our artistic practice.
In our projects, we work with the concept of “time” in performative practice and are always looking for a non-standard approach to the material we choose. We explore silence and inaction as part of theatrical language. We’re interested in the performative possibilities of an actor’s presence, and in the relationship between the audience and the performer, as well as between the space of action and those who inhabit it. Drawing on our backgrounds in acting, directing, and performance, we create experimental works at the intersection of theatre, contemporary art, and multimedia.
Hi! We are aliveduo — a collaborative artistic partnership of Alena Starostina and Ivan Nikolaev, focusing on performative and visual art. We were both born in Saint Petersburg. In 2007, we graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts with a Master’s degree. In 2010, we co-founded the performative collective “theatre post”, which, over the next ten years, became one of the leading representatives of experimental theater in Russia. We worked on plays by contemporary playwrights and also created our own original productions. A significant milestone in our artistic development was our work with pieces by John Cage, Alvin Lucier, and Belarusian playwright Pavel Pryazhko. We have participated in numerous regional and international festivals, including Golden Mask, Territory, NET, Theatre Confrontations, TEART, Yes Yes Yes, Chaos, Karussell, Teatrtogo, and The Access Point. In 2022, we emigrated to Germany, where we founded aliveduo, now based in Dresden, and continued to develop our artistic practice.
In our projects, we work with the concept of “time” in performative practice and are always looking for a non-standard approach to the material we choose. We explore silence and inaction as part of theatrical language. We’re interested in the performative possibilities of an actor’s presence, and in the relationship between the audience and the performer, as well as between the space of action and those who inhabit it. Drawing on our backgrounds in acting, directing, and performance, we create experimental works at the intersection of theatre, contemporary art, and multimedia.
HI! We are aliveduo — a collaborative artistic partnership of Alena Starostina and Ivan Nikolaev, focusing on performative and visual art. We were both born in Saint Petersburg. In 2007, we graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts with a Master’s degree. In 2010, we co-founded the performative collective “theatre post”, which, over the next ten years, became one of the leading representatives of experimental theater in Russia. We worked on plays by contemporary playwrights and also created our own original productions. A significant milestone in our artistic development was our work with pieces by John Cage, Alvin Lucier, and Belarusian playwright Pavel Pryazhko. We have participated in numerous regional and international festivals, including Golden Mask, Territory, NET, Theatre Confrontations, TEART, Yes Yes Yes, Chaos, Karussell, Teatrtogo, and The Access Point. In 2022, we emigrated to Germany, where we founded aliveduo, now based in Dresden, and continued to develop our artistic practice.
In our projects, we work with the concept of “time” in performative practice and are always looking for a non-standard approach to the material we choose. We explore silence and inaction as part of theatrical language. We’re interested in the performative possibilities of an actor’s presence, and in the relationship between the audience and the performer, as well as between the space of action and those who inhabit it. Drawing on our backgrounds in acting, directing, and performance, we create experimental works at the intersection of theatre, contemporary art, and multimedia.