Wladyslaw Jurijowytsch Trojizky ( uk, Владислав Юрійович Троїцький;

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; also Vladislav Troitsky, or Vlad Troitsky, as his name is most often spelled in Western Europe; born November 26, 1964, in

Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude (; bua, Улаан-Үдэ, , ; russian: Улан-Удэ, p=ʊˈlan ʊˈdɛ; mn, Улаан-Үд, , ) is the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence wi ...

, Buryat ASSR) is a

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theater actor, theater director, dramaturge and radio host of Russian descent, who has received the

Shevchenko National Prize Shevchenko National Prize ( uk, Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since ...

for his requiem opera IYOV (Hiob) in 2020.

Biography

Vladislav Troitsky was born in the capital of the south-eastern ASSR

Buryatia Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia (russian: Республика Бурятия, r=Respublika Buryatiya, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə bʊˈrʲætʲɪjə; bua, Буряад Улас, Buryaad Ulas, , mn, Буриад Улс, Buriad Uls), is ...

. He moved with his parents into Ukraine at age eleven, where he graduated in 1987 from the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in radio engineering. In 1990 he concluded his

aspirantur Aspirant is a rank in the Royal Canadian Navy, Estonian Defence Forces, French military, Brazilian military, Portuguese military, Swiss military, Italian Air Force, Argentinian Armed Forces, Romanian Navy, Polish Policja and Państwowa Stra� ...

there, too, and in 2002 graduated from a course of studies in directing and acting art at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. Subsequently he taught at the national cinema and television university Karpenko-Karyj in Kyiv from 2003 to 2006. Troitsky lives and works in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

Work

Starting in the middle of the 1990s, Troitsky was active in the independent theatre and music scene and has left enduring marks with his creations: * 1994: Foundation of the Dakh theatre, the first independent theatre in Ukraine * 2004: Foundation of the ethno-chaos-group

DakhaBrakha DakhaBrakha is a Ukrainian folk music quartet which combines the musical styles of several ethnic groups. It was a winner of the in 2009 and the Shevchenko National Prize in 2020. DakhaBrakha is a project of the Dakh Contemporary Arts Center, l ...

* 2007: Foundation of the Gogolfest * 2012: Foundation of the

Dakh Daughters Dakh Daughters is a Ukrainian music and theatre project started in 2012 in Kyiv. The band consists of seven women, who play on various instruments and sing in different languages (Ukrainian, English, French, German, Russian) and dialects of Ukrain ...

Freak Cabarets * 2015: Production of the IYOV-Opera-Requiem in the context of the project "Nova Opera", together with Roman Hryhoriv and Ilja Rasumejko Dramaturgical works led Troitsky repeatedly abroad, first to Hungary in 2005, later into Switzerland, Poland and in 2017 to Germany, where he successfully performed in

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebur ...

with two productions: ''Das Mädchen mit den Streichhölzern'' (the girl with the matches) by Ukrainian author Klim and

Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 ...

's '' The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants''. Troitsky cooperates especially closely with

Wladimir Alekseewic Klim Wladimir is a masculine given name. It is an alternative spelling of the name Vladimir. Notable people with the name include: * Wladimir Brunet de Presle (1809–1875), French historian * Wladimir de Schoenefeld (1816–1875), German-French botan ...

(Klimenko), a playwright, director and dramaturge born in

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...

Honours

* 2001 and 2002: Київська пектораль (Kyiv pectoral) * 2014: Merited agent of art of Ukraine * 2018: Officer of the order of arts and literature * 2019: Wassyl Stus Award * 2020: Shevchenko National Prize, category theatre

Interviews (selected)

* Vlad Troitsky: "Ich war verrückt" (I was crazy),24 Ukrainian interviews with the director and artist for different media (without providing sources) from more than one decade are liste in the collection of the Wordpress site "Interview from Ukraine"
accessed March 22, 2021.interview with Vanessa Weiss

References

* Maria Sonevytsky: ''Wild music: sound and sovereignty in Ukraine.'' Middletown, Conn., 2019. {{DEFAULTSORT:Trojizky, Wladyslaw Ukrainian male stage actors Ukrainian theatre directors Ukrainian opera directors Ukrainian performance artists 21st-century Ukrainian male actors 21st-century Ukrainian male artists Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize 1964 births Living people