This is a workshop for artists (age group 50+), who want to tell their stories (real and fictional) in an extraordinary manner. By using our body, voice, text, objects, documentary we will work with our own history, private, political, biographical and historical events.
Our imagination, fantasy, personal facts, social and political events, which were significant for us, will take an important part in our process. We will improvise, work with time, space, composition and with different states of body and mind to create short performances. And probably some unexpected things will appear.
Authenticity, glamour, kitsch, minimal and reduce approach are welcome!
It must be possible to portray reality as the historical fiction that it actually is.
Alexander Kluge
The Russian performance artist Oleg Soulimenko lives and works in Vienna. After studying engineering at the Moscow State Technical University, he decided to embark on an artistic career. He studied dance, acting and improvisation at the Theatre for Improvisation of Oleg Kiselev, at the Anatoli Vasiliev School of Dramatic Art – Department for Experimental Dance with Genadi Abramov (1985 -1990). In 90ies Soulimenko founded the international workshop Saira Blanche Theatre, whose provocative performances toured the globe. Together with Tanzquartier Wien he curated "East meets West" a dialogue between Russian and Austrian artists. In 2010 with brut Wien he originated the exchange project "Music here, Music there: Vienna Moscow" showed both in Moscow and Vienna. He has been co-operating with artists like Lisa Nelson, Markus Schinwald, Alfredo Barsuglia, Anna Jermolaewa, Meg Stuart, Jennifer Lacey and Steve Paxton. His performances were presented in international venues and festivals as Festwochen, Tanzquartier Wien, brut Wien, Kunsthalle and Impulstanz, Wien in Vienna, Performa in New York, Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Sophiensaele and Tanz im August in Berlin, the Kunstverein Hannover, Theatre Festival Impulse in Germany, Kaai Theatre in Brussels, Southern Theatre in Minneapolis, Dance on Volga in Yaroslavl, Baltic Circle in Helsinki and Homo Novus in Riga.