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Alina Balaneva

Director

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A Director and Scenographer with experience in design and prop making and background in theatre and cinema makeup.
Performance background in classical, modern ballet and latin dance.
I experiment and create ways to solicit a more active audience response. It’s rooted in immediate connection in shared space and time (and how to compensate for it now). I devise immersive experiences, improvisatory performance and curate participatory installation-based work. Dynamism and totality in the operation of the space is at the crux of my practice.
I focus on both extremities: autonomous material performance in curation and human-centric space operation for set designs. More recently, I’ve investigated presence as performance, I play with the scope of agency and out of reach dreams in clown sketches. In "Stagnation" film, have a look at my examination of subjective time, in isolation on my website arbousique.com.
I look forward to embark on projects that facilitate my passion for interaction with the audience, and to explore new ways to develop the practice in emerging contexts.

Credits

no prof credit yet

Training

First Class Degree in Theatre Practice: Performance Arts at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

AIRBRUSH MAKEUP COURSE BeautyPro Academy

FOUNDATION MAKEUP DIPLOMA Makeup Atelier Paris

SFX MAKEUP FOR CINEMATICS
Saint Petersburg Beauty School


Location

London

Experience

Less than 1 year

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Circus

What I do

  • Choreography
  • Devising
  • Dialect / Voice Direction
  • Dramaturgy
  • Languages
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Singing
  • Performance Art
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Prop Making
  • Set Design
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Video Design

Additional Languages

Russian and French

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