Aksana Haiko (1976)

Theatre director, actor, art manager, playwright, theatre teacher

Founder of Free Theatre in Brest in 2001 (renamed to Kryly Khalopa in 2011). Founder of cultural centre KX Space in 2014

Professional Background:

2011-present - director of Kryly Khalopa theatre 

2015 -2021 - director of KX Space

2001-2011 – director of Brest Free theatre

Educational background:

Сivil engineering and economy, Brest Polytechnic University, 1993-1998

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

Theatre directing, Acting (2002- present)

2002 - Elizaveta Bam (by Daniil Kharms)

2003 - 20 000 000 (by news about the war in Iraq) 2003 - Bandarouna (by 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 (by own script) 2009 - The Trial (by texts of Franz Kafka)

2010 - To Ringfly (by Daniil Kharms) 2012 - The Pants (by Pavel Pryazhko)

2013 - Chernobyl (by materials of 2 expeditions to the Zone of resettlement, interviews etc.) 2017 - Brest Stories Guide, www.breststories.com

2018 - Antigone. iPower (by Sophocles and materials of the protests in Brest) 2019 - Forum theatre: Easter. Childfree. Dress (by collective script)

2020 - Forum theatre: SURmama (by collective script)

2021 – Frau mit Automat (by own text)

The productions have performed in nearly 50 international theatre festivals in Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Denmark, Germany, France.

Playwriting

Brest. Chrysanthemum with spikes of forts

Published: Nowa dramaturgia białoruska T. 6 Trudna droga ku niezależności, Warsawa, 2017, ISBN/ISSN: 978-83-945630-2-8

Staged by theatre School of Modern    Drama, Moscow, Russia, 2015

Chernobyl 

Staged by Kryly Khalopa theatre, 2013

  Brest Stories Guide

Documentary implemented by Kryly Khalopa theatre, 2017, www.breststories.com 

  Antigone. iPower

Staged by Kryly Khalopa studio, 2018

  Frau mit Automat (with Leha Chykanas)

Stages by Kryly Khalopa theatre, 2021

Performative actions, happenings in public space:

The victim of Naftan, Navapolack, Belarus 2001

Day of International Women revolution, Brest, Belarus 2001

1 May `Kharms` action, Brest 2003

1 May action, Brest 2006

`Newspaper` action, Brest 2006

Shpionomania, Brest 2006

Day of radio, Brest 2006

1 May Clowns Critical mass, Brest 2008

KGB cabinet, Berlin, Germany 2008

A.P. against nuclear power, Protest against the building of NPP, Gdansk, Poland 2012

La frontier , Murviel-lès-Montpellier, France 2016

Festival \ event curating

Day of Solidarity with Occupied Iraq's people, Brest, Belarus, 2003

Day of Podgorodskaya Street, community street festival, Brest, 2008

Day of Podgorodskaya Street, Brest, 2009

Day of Podgorodskaya Street, Brest, 2010

10-anniversary of Free theatre, Brest, 2011

Festival of Alternative culture «Cult A», Brest, 2011

10 years: reloading, 3 day event, Brest, 2011

PRYZBA-fest: Theatre. Ecology. Social art, Zalessie, Belarus, 2014

Workshops, Teaching (2006-present)

Street theatre and stilts technic

Theatre Remus ,Warsaw, Poland, 2007

Anti-border camp, Uzhgorod, Ukraine, 2008

Physical theatre and voice technics

Summer camp for disabled people from psych neurological clinic Navinki, Minsk, Belarus, 2008

St. Petersburg, Russia, 2009

Murmansk, Russia, 2014

IX World Congress of the International Association of University Theatre (AITU-IUTA), Minsk, Belarus, 2012

Theatre Festival ODE , Bielsk Podlaski, Poland, 2015

European College of Liberal Arts, Minsk, Belarus, 2016

Youth Creates project, 7 Stages, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2018

Documentary theatre: different ways of working

Festiwal Wioska Teatralna, Węgajty, Poland, 2015

Murviel-lès-Montpellier, France, 2016

Movement in Between: Interdisciplinary techniques in art projects

Vilnius, Lithuania 2017

Actors` Studio (AS) in Brest

AS-1, final show: Refugees, March - July 2016

AS-2, final show: Antigone. iPower, January - June 2018

AS-3, final show: Forum theatre: Easter. Childfree. Dress, November 2018 - April 2019

Residencies, fellowships

CEC Artslink International Fellowship, 7 Stages theatre, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2017

Platform of the International Coproduction Fund, Goethe Institute, Berlin, Germany, 2018

Residency for Belarusian playwrights, Prague, National theatre, 2021

Theatre residence, Hellerau- Dresden, Germany, 2021

Artistic residence, Status project, Goteborg, Sweden, 2021, 2022

Awards

Special mention of jury (Goods-Money-Goods), Festival Łódzkie Spotkania Teatralne, Lodz, Poland, 2008

Award for best performance (Trial by F. Kafka), International Theatre Festival Drabyna, Lviv, Ukraine, 2010

Award of Euroradio and 34mag.net for civil activity and achievements in the field of human rights, 2016

The community development best initiative ZRABILI (Brest Stories Guide), Belarus, 2017

Gold Dove, 2018

The best cultural project aimed at the preservation and use of historical and cultural heritage in Belarus (Brest Stories Guide), contest of ICOMOS, Belarus, 2019

Award for the best cultural project in Brest region (Brest Stories Guide), Forum of Civil Initiatives in Brest, 2019

Languages:

good knowledge of English, Polish, Russian, Belarusian

Professional web-pages: www.teatrkh.com www.breststories.com

E-mail: krylyhalopa@gmail.com