During November, five Ukrainian artists worked for four weeks at ETC member theatres in Austria, Georgia and Germany. The intensive work programme involved the selected artists in the daily creative and artistic processes leading up to a premiere. It also offered them the chance to discover the working structures of a theatre in a foreign country. A scholarship meeting at the Fast Forward Festival at Staatstheater Braunschweig (24-27 November) invited the group to deepen the exchange and to foster networking with artis´ts from across Europe.
Scholars 2016
Dariia Bila
Deutsches Theater Berlin (Germany)
Dariia Bila is Head of Set and Costume design at Dnipropetrovsk Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. She realised more than 25 theatre projects within her 13 year career in the Ukraine. At Deutsches Theater Berlin, she assisted Anne Ehrlich, the Head of Stage Design, with the production Kuffar. Die Gottesleugner by Nuran David Calis.
Diana Aishe
Schauspielhaus Graz (Austria)
Diana Aishe is a stage director from Kiev. Her drama direction work ranges from productions in state theares and experimental theatre projects to independent theatres. At Schauspielhaus Graz, she assisted in the field of stage direction and staged her own production in the frame of her residency.
Anastazie Torosv
Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre, Tbilisi (Georgia)
Anastazie Torosv has been studying European Theatre Arts in the UK, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Russia. She is a drama teacher and implements drama education as a subject on the school curriculum in Ukraine. At Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre, she assists in the area of festival programming and magement for the Tbisili International Festival of Theatre.
Bohdana Kostenko
Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (Germany)
Bohdana Kostenko is an actress, stage director and theatre critic. She graduated in dramatic theatre and theatre studies and works as Head of the Literature Department at The Golden Gate Theatre in Kiev. As a stage director she was involved in several independent theatre projects all over Ukraine. At Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, she works in the festival programming team for the European theatre festival "Heidelberger Stückemarkt".
Ivan Orlenko
Schauspielhaus Dortmund (Germany)
Ivan Orlenko works as a film and stage director, as well as a playwright and set designer. After graduating from Kiev National University for Theater, Film und Telvision, he designed sets for the Vinnizia State Puppet Theater. At Schauspielhaus Dortmund, he works in the stage design department for the production Furcht und Hoffnung in Deutschland: Ich bin das Volk by Franz Xaver Kroetz.
