Lex Shcherbakov
Director. Choreographer. Teacher.
ABOUT LEX
He studied at the faculty of theater directing at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Free artist since 2003 works in the field of physical theater, dance theater, and inclusive projects.
Since 2007 he has been one of the members of the organizing committee of the festival of inclusive theater «Proteater».
Since 2010 he has been actively teaching theater theory to students at various universities, as well as conducting master classes in physical theater techniques and the development of bodily expression for actors, dancers and performers.
He participates in international residencies, projects and laboratories. In Germany, in addition to her creative work, she is engaged in social projects, including the creation of a theater group (Chemnitz), which includes refugees from Ukraine.
Main professional interests: Finding means of bodily self-expression of performer, actor, dancer. Working on the intersection of authentic movement and professional possibilities of the trained body.
An important area of research is also the relationship between the human body and the object world, urban spaces and natural objects. In general he considers the body and bodily activity as an organ and at the same time a way of knowing.
PROJECTS
A series of workshops organized in cooperation with the Stadt Theatre Spandau. For a month and a half, open physical theater workshops were held at the Spandau Arkaden Shopping Center for all comers. The participants were introduced to the basic principles of physical theater, immersed in the world of physical sensations, and explored the peculiarities of bodily expression.
A mockumentary performance based on a short episode that took place in the life of the young Sigmund Freud. The play is an amazing example of a combination of documentary, physical, puppet and object theater.
Director: Lex Shcherbakov; Performers: Aleš Vansl, Alexej Vancl; Music: Torsten Papenheim, Natálie Pleváková; Video: Martin Kleinmichel, Martina Saková; Light: Konstantin Schlimbach.
Children’s puppet sitespecific performance created in a collaboration between the two theaters cirruion and figuro. The play is based on the famous story of Rapunzel. One of the peculiarities of the performance is the site on which it is shown — it is a garden and the facade of the house in which the theater is located Zirkon. This makes the performance fit into the realities of the space and creates for the viewer the effect of a complete immersion in a fairy tale.
Director, Choreographer: Lex Shcherbakov; Performers: Anja Herbener, Alexej Vancl, Aleš Vancl; Music: Oliver Claus.
A performance piece co-produced with the director Heda Bayer. The theme of this work is the difficult conditions of professional adaptation for refugees in Germany today. The performance is created at the intersection of documentary and physical theatre.
Directed: Heda Bayer and Lex Shcherbakov; Music: Natálie Pleváková; Performers: Banafsheh Nejati Barogh, Jasmin Jantke, Angel Denisovna, Vladislava Islamova, Anastasiya Magomedova, Anastasia Borisenko, Lilia Vsevolodskaya, Ahmad Wayati, Wael Wayati, Monique Hofmann, Belinda Röske.
A two-week residency-lab in the company of amazing colleagues. We explored urban spaces, worked on creating intra-team interaction and reflected on the nature of performativity outside the walls of conventional theater. The result of the residency was not only a sparkling show, but also a huge number of professional discoveries and questions. Many thanks to fellow contributors: Jiří Honzírek, Jungyun Li, Giulia Di Guardo.
Performance is a skillful combination of genres — circus, physical and psychological theater. The dramaturgy is based on the story of an actress who has obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Artist: Thula Moon; Direction: Hana Strejčková; Choreographer: Lex Shcherbakov; Music: Martin Konvička; Rigging: Tomáš Pintér; Lights: Ondřej Beier, Jakub Nováček; Sound design: Radek Ježek; Projection: Tomáš Strejček; Producer: UFFO Trutnov. With financial support: Ministerstvo kultury ČR.
A creative summer camp for Ukrainian children. For two weeks two groups of children studied the basic principles of performativity and physical theater in a playful way. In this course the children had the opportunity to learn about such topics as: Improvisation in pairs and groups, interaction with an object and various materials, playful theater training, expressiveness of everyday and artistic gesture.
Scholarship awarded to Lex Shcherbakov to conduct a series of workshops called «The Joy of the Body» for Ukrainians living in Leipzig. At the workshops the participants worked with the tasks of bodily expression. It was a general introductory course in physical theater.
A theater group founded in the spring of 2022.
The main backbone of the group are Ukrainians.
Over time, the group became inclusive, and also included people who have lived in Germany for a long time. The group exists in two planes — as a physical theater and as a space of psychological safety and mutual trust. The main tasks of the group are the development of bodily sensitivity and bodily expression.