Proposed Circumstances
April 15 — June 5, on-site, Yerevan
Сontemporary theatre and performance art workshop curated by Ilya Moshchitsky
6 days a week / 5 hours a day
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The workshop studio is dedicated to theatre as a process-based practice and research, built through a dialogue between participants and space.
The workshop is grounded in intensive collective practice: rehearsals, performative and acting practices, discussions, lectures, writing, screenings and discussions, where practice becomes a form of research and co-creation, and unfolds into a collective performative project.
- DatesApril 15 — June 5
- Time6 days a week
5 hours a day - WhereOn-site, Yerevan
performance
At the Stanislavsky Theatre
The performance will be built on the principle of a mosaic and will consist of works created by the students during the process of the workshop. The project explores how theatre is changing, what remains alive, and what has become legacy in need of reassembly.
curators
Director, curator, and founder of the Chronotope Theatre Cmpany and the Chronofest Festival.
Winner of the “Breakthrough” Award for the production The Trial of John Demjanjuk. Holocaust Cabaret.
Nominee for the “Golden Mask” Award for the production The Book of Disquiet.
Winner of the “Breakthrough” Award for the production The Trial of John Demjanjuk. Holocaust Cabaret.
Nominee for the “Golden Mask” Award for the production The Book of Disquiet.
She graduated from the Saint Petersburg Theatre Academy and completed training with SITI Company (Tadashi Suzuki, Anne Bogart).
She works with Viewpoints, contemporary dance, physical theatre, breathing and voice practices, and the method of Theodoros Terzopoulos.
She works with Viewpoints, contemporary dance, physical theatre, breathing and voice practices, and the method of Theodoros Terzopoulos.
She graduated from GITIS (workshop of A. V. Bartoshevich and V. Yu. Silyunas). She has taught at GITIS, the Moscow Art Theatre School, the Higher School of Performing Arts, and the Dadamyan School. Member of the expert council of the “Golden Mask” Award.
A specialist in European theatre of the 20th–21st centuries, contemporary directing, and theatre institutional structures.
A specialist in European theatre of the 20th–21st centuries, contemporary directing, and theatre institutional structures.
Columnist for Afisha, editor-in-chief of the I’m at the Theatre project, expert for the “Golden Mask” Award, and curator of Formafestival.
Founder of Mobile Art Theatre and editor-in-chief of Individuum Publishing.
He specializes in contemporary European theatre, documentary and hybrid forms, site-specific and performative practices.
Founder of Mobile Art Theatre and editor-in-chief of Individuum Publishing.
He specializes in contemporary European theatre, documentary and hybrid forms, site-specific and performative practices.
He studied at VGIK (workshop of Rustam Ibragimbekov) and at the Higher School of Performing Arts (workshop of Kama Ginkas).
Participant in the longlists of the “Golden Mask” Award.
He works with documentary structures, verbatim theatre, experimental dramaturgy, hybrid forms, and performative writing.
Participant in the longlists of the “Golden Mask” Award.
He works with documentary structures, verbatim theatre, experimental dramaturgy, hybrid forms, and performative writing.
Certified yoga teacher and co-founder of the B’Arev Festival — Armenia’s first and only transformational festival.
She holds a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training certification and a 50-hour Prenatal/Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training certification, with over five years of teaching experience.
Her work is based on a holistic approach to wellness, movement, and mindfulness. Through yoga, breath, and embodied attention, she guides individuals and groups toward balance, presence, and self-awareness.
She holds a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training certification and a 50-hour Prenatal/Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training certification, with over five years of teaching experience.
Her work is based on a holistic approach to wellness, movement, and mindfulness. Through yoga, breath, and embodied attention, she guides individuals and groups toward balance, presence, and self-awareness.
answers
Theater and performing arts practitioners
Actors, directors, performers, choreographers, and movement-based artists, as well as those who intend to connect their lives with performative practices — theatre, performance art, cinema, and related disciplines.
Those who are searching for ways to speak about themselves and the world; who are looking for their own language and are already in an ongoing artistic process.
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Interdisciplinary artists
Artists and practitioners from related fields — visual arts, music, photography, design, architecture, research, media — who are drawn to performative forms, corporeality, space, and presence.
They come from different systems of coordinates in order to encounter new modes of expression and collective work.
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Writers, curators, researchers
Dramaturgs, screenwriters, curators, critics, anthropologists, psychologists, and researchers who wish to translate analytical and textual practices into action.
Those who want to stop observing from a distance and start thinking through the body, testing their ideas within a living, collective process.
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Newcomers and curious minds
Individuals from non-artistic backgrounds: IT, business, medicine, service, or any other field, who feel an inner necessity to encounter art from the inside.
Those who have never stepped onto a stage but are ready to challenge their daily routine and comfort zone.
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Participants should be ready to experiment, perceive, share experience, and work collectively over an extended period of time.
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Age
Up to 38 (recommended). Primarily based in Armenia.
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This program may not be a good fit for
Actors, directors, performers, choreographers, and movement-based artists, as well as those who intend to connect their lives with performative practices — theatre, performance art, cinema, and related disciplines.
Those who are searching for ways to speak about themselves and the world; who are looking for their own language and are already in an ongoing artistic process.
——
Interdisciplinary artists
Artists and practitioners from related fields — visual arts, music, photography, design, architecture, research, media — who are drawn to performative forms, corporeality, space, and presence.
They come from different systems of coordinates in order to encounter new modes of expression and collective work.
——
Writers, curators, researchers
Dramaturgs, screenwriters, curators, critics, anthropologists, psychologists, and researchers who wish to translate analytical and textual practices into action.
Those who want to stop observing from a distance and start thinking through the body, testing their ideas within a living, collective process.
——
Newcomers and curious minds
Individuals from non-artistic backgrounds: IT, business, medicine, service, or any other field, who feel an inner necessity to encounter art from the inside.
Those who have never stepped onto a stage but are ready to challenge their daily routine and comfort zone.
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Participants should be ready to experiment, perceive, share experience, and work collectively over an extended period of time.
——
Age
Up to 38 (recommended). Primarily based in Armenia.
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This program may not be a good fit for
- you are not interested in questioning your own ways of making theatre
- you are seeking fixed answers, ready-made methods, or stable hierarchies
- you prefer predictability and predefined outcomes over experimentation
- you are unable to commit to an intensive, full-time, on-site process
Viewpoints — 3 times per week
Yoga — 3 times per week
Performance / Rehearsal / Acting + Project Lab — 5 times per week
Writing Lab — 2 times per week
Lectures — 4 times per week
Online masterclass — 1 time per week
Screenings and discussions — 1 time per week
Feedback sessions — 1 time per week
Day off — 1 day per week
Yoga — 3 times per week
Performance / Rehearsal / Acting + Project Lab — 5 times per week
Writing Lab — 2 times per week
Lectures — 4 times per week
Online masterclass — 1 time per week
Screenings and discussions — 1 time per week
Feedback sessions — 1 time per week
Day off — 1 day per week
Participants will develop capacity to:
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Participation in the practicum offers entry into a broader artistic ecosystem and a range of possible trajectories beyond the program itself:
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Participation in the practicum may also include:
- work within ensemble-based processes of co-research and co-creation, sustaining shared responsibility and collective authorship
- navigate contemporary theatre as a field, recognizing its key tensions, trajectories, and positions rather than fixed canons
- use presence, attention, and corporeality as primary performative material, not as expression but as compositional tools
- engage space as an active collaborator, transforming environments into dramaturgical and performative situations
- form, test, and articulate performative ideas through practice, moving from impulse toward structured propositions
- work with dramaturgy and performative writing as living material, integrating writing into action, rehearsal, and thinking-in-time
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Participation in the practicum offers entry into a broader artistic ecosystem and a range of possible trajectories beyond the program itself:
- continued work in laboratory formats, including further practice within the Études lab at hosq (May 2026)
- the opportunity to have their performance included in the Chronofest 2026 program.
- potential invitations to projects of the Chronotope Theatre Company.
- ongoing artistic development within both local and international contexts.
- access to a growing professional network of participants, artists, and collaborators.
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Participation in the practicum may also include:
- a certificate of participation.
- possible letters of recommendation from the mentors.
The program is conducted in English, Armenian, and Russian.
- Depending on the linguistic composition of the group, simultaneous interpretation for lectures and workshops may be provided.
Key voices of contemporary European theatre entering the studio online:
Matija Ferlin
Croatian choreographer and performance artist working at the intersection of dance, theatre, and conceptual performance, often engaging with memory, repetition, and autobiographical structures.
Heiner Goebbels
German composer and theatre director whose work redefines music theatre through postdramatic forms, complex soundscapes, and the decentering of narrative and performer.
Stefan Kaegi
Swiss theatre director and co-founder of Rimini Protokoll, internationally known for documentary and participatory theatre involving non-professional performers and real social systems.
Boris Nikitin
Theatre director and performer working with documentary strategies, identity construction, and the exposure of theatrical conventions within contemporary performance.
Milo Rau
Swiss theatre director and writer whose politically engaged work combines documentary theatre, reenactment, and institutional critique.
Artyom Tomilov
Theatre director and curator associated with experimental and interdisciplinary performance practices at the intersection of theatre, visual art, and research-based formats.
Dmitry Volkostrelov
Theatre director and founder of post-theatre, known for minimalist, conceptual works exploring temporality, attention, and the limits of theatrical action.
Matija Ferlin
Croatian choreographer and performance artist working at the intersection of dance, theatre, and conceptual performance, often engaging with memory, repetition, and autobiographical structures.
Heiner Goebbels
German composer and theatre director whose work redefines music theatre through postdramatic forms, complex soundscapes, and the decentering of narrative and performer.
Stefan Kaegi
Swiss theatre director and co-founder of Rimini Protokoll, internationally known for documentary and participatory theatre involving non-professional performers and real social systems.
Boris Nikitin
Theatre director and performer working with documentary strategies, identity construction, and the exposure of theatrical conventions within contemporary performance.
Milo Rau
Swiss theatre director and writer whose politically engaged work combines documentary theatre, reenactment, and institutional critique.
Artyom Tomilov
Theatre director and curator associated with experimental and interdisciplinary performance practices at the intersection of theatre, visual art, and research-based formats.
Dmitry Volkostrelov
Theatre director and founder of post-theatre, known for minimalist, conceptual works exploring temporality, attention, and the limits of theatrical action.
- Art is an anthropological necessity of the human being.
- We work in a safe environment where thoughts can be expressed freely.
- Ethics and discipline matter — only insofar as they help us collectively navigate chaos.
- Chaos matters, because it is where ideas come from.
- We prioritize process over product; results are consequences of a living process, not ends in themselves.
- We value thinking over repetition and learn to think publicly rather than declaim with expression.
- Tradition in art is valuable only when it does not claim the present.
- We are able to move in any direction; an open field is closer to us than predefined paths.
- Mistakes, doubt, and uncertainty are essential parts of the work.
- We do not compete — we share.
- Engaging with art is a pleasure, and doing anything in love is better than doing it without love.
We work with the body, attention, and presence, while respecting personal boundaries. Any participant may opt out of an exercise.
The course may touch on personal and emotionally charged topics — we approach this with care. We do not encourage violence toward oneself or toward others.
The course may touch on personal and emotionally charged topics — we approach this with care. We do not encourage violence toward oneself or toward others.
partner
Chronotope Temporary Association is a theater group the existence of which is based on the process of constant changes.
hosq has partnered with Chronotope to bring to Yerevan Chronofest — a week long festival of contemporary theatrical and performative art.
Read more about Chronotope:
https://temporary.am/
Read more about Chronofest:
https://fest.temporary.am/en#about
hosq has partnered with Chronotope to bring to Yerevan Chronofest — a week long festival of contemporary theatrical and performative art.
Read more about Chronotope:
https://temporary.am/
Read more about Chronofest:
https://fest.temporary.am/en#about
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