Aksana Haiko

Aksana Haiko, theatre director, actress, art-manager, theatre pedagogue, director of Kryly Khalopa

theatre, art-director of KX Space

 

Founder of the Free Theatre in Brest in 2001 (renamed to Kryly Khalopa Theatre in 2011). Founder of independent cultural center KX Space in 2014. www.teatrkh.com

Educational background:

1993-1998- Brest Polytechnical University, Department: City Construction and Economy

1997-1998- Belarusian State University, Department: Economic Cybernetics and Business Law

 

Theatre education:

2001-2006 - theatre workshops and studies at the Polish theatres (8 Day Theatre, Biuro Podrozy,

Akademia Ruchu, Remus, Wegajty), Denmark theatres (Teatret Om, Odin Teatret), Living theatre (USA-Germany)

2002- 2014 – residencies at the theatre festivals in Poland: Maski (Poznan, 2001), Sztuka ulicy (Warsaw, 2001, 2002, 2003), Reminiscencje Teatralne (Krakow, 2002), Malta (Poznan, 2002), The World as a Place of Truth (Wroclaw, 2009), Boska Komedia (Krakow, 2014)

2005- International School of Theatre Anthropology, the Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw

In the field of cultural management:

2013 – Summer School of Dialog, Borderland Foundation (Krasnogruda, Poland)

April- October 2014 - Culture Policy Exchange Workshop Circle 2014, Eastern Partnership Culture Programme

2014 – 2015 – ArtPlatform: capacity development program for cultural managers of Belarus

2016 - programme Associates, EU-Eastern Partnership Programme Culture and Creativity

 

Cultural activist. Created and organized more than 15 public art actions and happenings in Belarus.

Directed and acted in 11 productions:

2002 – “Elizaveta Bam” (by Daniil Kharms)

2003- “20 000 000” (by documents and news about the war in Iraq)

2003 - “Bandarouna” (by poem of Janka Kupala)

2004 - “Goods-Money- Goods” (by the works of French situationists)

2007 - “Maleficium” (by own script)

2008- “The Goat is in Search of the Sun” (the tale by own script)

2009 - “The Trial” (by texts of Franz Kafka)

2010 - “To Ringfly” (by texts of Daniil Kharms)

2012 - "The Pants" (by play of Pavel Pryazhko)

2013 - “Chernobyl” (documentary performance by materials of 2 expeditions to the Zone of

resettlement, interviews etc.)

2017 - Brest Stories Guide

 

This productions have performed in nearly 40 international theatre festivals in Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Denmark, Germany, France.

 

Another most important projects:

2006- 2013 – participation in the projects of animation of culture in Belarus: in orphanages, with

incapacitated people from a psycho neurological clinics

2006- 2008 – participation in the projects of animation of culture in Warsaw. Working with children in unfavourable districts of Warsaw

2008- 2010 - organization and curating of the Day of Padgarodskaya Street (multicultural community street festival uniting performances, exhibitions, concerts, film screenings etc.)

2011 - coordination of the Festival of Alternative culture «Cult A» in Brest

2013 - the start of the Internet theatre in Belarus (organization the first on-line broadcast of the

performance in Belarus on February 2013) 

2013 - organization of the informal educational platform in Brest. Organisation of presentations,

lectures, discussions about contemporary art, theatre, activism etc.

2013 - the beginning of the project of documental theatre “Histories of Belarus”. Two projects

were realised: “Chernobyl” and “Histories of Belarus. Vialikaye Sialo

2013 - 2016 - coordination of the Chernobyl project (documentary performance Chernobyl, organization of the children drawing contest and exhibitions) 

2014 - coordination and curating of the 3-day`s festival “PRYZBA-fest: Theatre. Ecology. Social art” in National park Belavezhskaja Puscha

2014 - 2015 - coordination of the project of public lectures “European Café” in Brest

2014 - foundation, directing of KX Space in Brest. Since November 2014 till March 2016 there were organised more than 150 events (lectures, workshops, meetings, exibitions, films etc.)

2016 - 2017 - coordination of the project Brest Stories Guide (creation of the web-platform\audio-

performance based on local history)

 

Theatre pedagogy:

 

2006 - 2008гг. - master classes in street theatre, stilts practice for children and teenagers in Warsaw;

2008 - 2009 – theater and body-oriented work with patients of psychoneurological clinic;

(Minsk, Belarus)

From 2008 - theater workshops (phisical theatre and voice technics) for different audiences in St.

Petersburg, Murmansk, Lublin, Bialystok, Uzhgorod and others.

2012- workshop Thinking in action. Training, as a mini-model of the performance” (IX World Congress of the International Association of University Theatre (AITU-IUTA), Minsk)

2014 - master class in documentary theater, topic: Refugees (Festival Wioska Teatralna, Wegajty,

Poland).

2015 - workshop "Thinking in action. Training, as a mini-model of the performance” (European College of Liberal Arts, Minsk)

2015 - master class in documentary theater (Montpellier, France)

 

Playwriting. The play “Brest. Chrysanthemum with spikes of forts” was staged in Moscow by Moscow theatre School of Modern Drama in 2015.

 

European networker. Active within EEPAP (East European Performing Arts Platform), Platform Nataša, International network of women in contemporary theatre Magdalena