THEATER
ENSEMBLE
Oleg Liptsin
founder of ITE
Mr. Liptsin studied theater at Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow with Anatoly Vasiliev and Mikhail Butkevich. He worked as an actor and assistant director at renowned Moscow State Theatre “School of Dramatic Arts” (Theatre de l’Europe) under artistic direction of Anatoly Vasiliev.
In 1989 Oleg established one of the first independent theatre ensembles in Ukraine – TheaterClub/Kiev – which became a leading experimental and avant-garde theatre-laboratory in the country.
TheaterClub/Kiev has produced more than 20 shows and experimental theatre projects that were presented not only in Ukraine but also in Austria, Poland, Canada, Russia, USA and Spain. Such productions as “Antigone” by Sophocles, “Me” by Khvylovy, “Ulysses” by Joyce, “The Old Woman” by Gogol and Kharms – directed by Mr. Liptsin were distinguished with various theatrical awards and presented at numerous international festivals.
In early 90th Oleg has started his directing and teaching career in Europe and other parts of the world. In 1993-94 – teaching at the “Konrad Wolf” Film and TV Institute in Potsdam / Babelsberg, Germany. In 1995 – teaching at the National School of Drama in Delhi, India. From 1995 Oleg Liptsin began working in USA and later in Canada, from 2003 - in Paris.
Awarded a National Award for Experimental Work in Theatre by the Theatre Union of Ukraine, won the "Best Director" Award and 3 nominations for “Best Director” and “Best Actor” in Ukraine, participated in more than 30 international festivals. Oleg holds the PhD in Arts History.
Currently Mr. Liptsin works as director and professor of drama in different parts of the world. He established and conducted the post-graduate educational program in stage directing at National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kiev, teaches acting at GITIS and Slavic University in Moscow, at Shelton Theater School in San Francisco, runs the International Theater Ensemble – recently established experimental cross-boarder theater network.
Kevin Quennesson
video art programmer (creative technology)
was born in France and studied sciences in the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, leading French school of Engineering. He came to the USA in 2004 and studied philosophy at Stanford and computer vision and graphics at GeorgiaTech. His interests are in the intersection of technologies and the humanities.
He showed his first work called “conscious=camera” in August 2005 at Siggraph, LA in the Emerging Technology and Art Gallery category. The “conscious=camera” based on real-time body-tracking is a poetic interpretation of the phenomenology of images expressed by JP Sartre in “L'Imagimaire”.
In 2006, he presented at Siggraph in Boston his "traces" installation aimed at representing people passage and absence. "traces" is featured in the large scale "quell code" (source code) Kunst an Bau installation in the new headquarters of SAP in Germany. "Quell code" was made in partnership with the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria.
Since 2006 Kevin is a featured artist of the Victory Media Network in Dallas, TX - largest outdoor media art gallery in the world.
Kevin Quennesson now lives in California and is a software development engineer at Apple Inc.
Rafael Levchin –
author, translator, artist
Elvina Zeltsman – photoartist
Married from 1970 (Kiev). Two sons - Maxim and Sergey. From 1986 all four were in close contact with theatre-studio "TheaterClub" (later Neomythological Theatre) in Kiev. In U.S.A. (Chicago) from 1991.
Raf and Lilia created in 1994 art-magazine "REFLECT… " (subtitle "neomythological theatre"), which they see as a part of ITE-project: POLUTONA
Also Lilia and Rafael collaborated with almanac "CHERNOVIK" and with Studio 207 (ETC, 2006; Studio Artist Show, 2007).
Rafael and Lilia designed a number of theater posters, many of them for ITE - click on the image to see the slide show of posters: 
Click on the mask to see the collection of masks created by Rafael Levchin
Sergey Levchin –
author, translator, scriptwriter, faux-documentary filmmaker, representative of "REFLECT…" in New York.
For the production of A PROPOS OF THE WET SNOW Sergey made a new English translation of F.Dostoevsky's "Notes From The Underground", he was also shooting all videos and created a video clip "Atrocities".
Video-clip created by Sergey for A PROPOS :
Visit other sites:
http://www.chernovik.org/main.php?nom=22&id_n=63&first=22
http://hiero.ru/Lilja
http://www.studio207.tv/gallery-shows.html
http://www.studio207.tv/ect-opening.html
http://polutona.ru/?show=reflect&id=247
http://spintongues.msk.ru/daniil-sergey.html
http://spintongues.msk.ru/levchin22eng.htm
http://spintongues.msk.ru/DanLevchin06eng.htm
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/49/30_49paststillahead.html
Greg Young
Daryn O'Patry
actor, writer
ITE - Taipei
Ai-Cheng Ho
actress, founder of ITE-Taipei
Ai-Cheng was born in Tau-yuan, Taiwan. She
studied acting with Oleg Liptsin at Acting International in Paris and
was trained in Jacques Lecoq’s acting method at the International
Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris and International School of
Performing Arts in London.
Ai-Cheng’s other performing trainings include the Chinese opera and contemporary dance, which she’s mastering for years.
Trained in martial arts: Tai-ji quan and others.
Since 2004 Ai-Cheng Ho is a member of ITE, she participated in such ITE projects as ‘Cherry Orchard On Plain-Air’ based on Anton Chekhov, ‘The Snake-Woman’ by Carlo Gozzi (Commedia dell’arte) and ‘Mozart and Salieri’ by Pushkin.
Ai-Cheng is Master of Performing Arts with major in Film study from the University Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her most recent role in theater – Liza in “A PROPOS OF THE WET SNOW (notes from the underground)” by Dostoevsky.
Lisa in A PROPOS...
To visit Chinese blog of ITE clic here .
THE DUMBWAITER
by Harold Pinter
Vincent Marguet
and
Pascal Straub
Vincent Marguet and Pascal Straub both were students of Oleg Liptsin at Acting International in Paris. After that they participated in Oleg's projects in Kiev and Vincent even completed the Masters in Theater Arts course with Oleg at National Theater University in Kiev.
Currently they are running their own theater company in Paris and collaborate with ITE. To visit their website clic here:
UROBOROS - Vilnius, Lithuania
Gediminas studied theater with Juosas Miltinis in Panevezhis and at GITIS in Moscow. He directed at the Youth State Theater in Vilnius and for a long time collaborated with Oleg Liptsin on the productions at TheaterClub/Kiev, international projects and productions of ITE. Recently Gediminas learned to play shakukhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute) and since then he is more and more involved in musical concerts and improvisations.
