Lara Treichel (Larissa Alexandrova)
Stage Director and Choreographer in Berlin
She creates complex, cross-genre productions in drama, music and dance theatre. Her productions have been presented at Russian and international festivals and competitions and have won prizes such as the national theatre prize “Golden Mask” and the Grand Prix at the Festival of Russian Culture in Avignon, the first prize at the Seoul International Dance Competition, the Yevgeny Panfilov Prize in the Modern Dance category, and have been nominated for numerous other prizes.
Formation
| 2007-2012 | Russian Academy of Theatre Arts – GITIS (Moscow) Music Theatre Directing Course (class of Roman Wiktyuk) |
| 1994-1998 | Chelyabinsk University of Art and Culture “Choreographer, Lecturer in Choreography” |
Work in Ensembles
| since 2022 | Working in Berlin as an independent theater director and choreographer, founded the independent theater company Kinetic Forest. |
| 2012-2022 | Work as a choreographer, stage director and director of body language and movement at various musical and spoken word theatres. Examples: – Bolshoi Theatre Moscow – Stanislavsky Nemirovich Danchenko Theatre Moscow – Mayakovsky Theatre Moscow – Yevgeny Panfilov Ballet Perm – Chelyabinsk State Drama Chamber Theatre – Sverdlovsk Musical Comedy Theatre – Omsk State Musical Theatre – Youth Theatre “Globe” Novosibirsk – Kharkiv National Theatre of Opera and Ballet and others |
| 2008-2012 | Choreographer and tutor in the modern dance troupe “Ballet Moscow” (Moscow) |
| 2001-2008 | Dancer and teacher of modern dance and choreographer at the Theatre-Studio for Modern Choreography (Moscow) |
| 1998-2001 | Dancer at the Chelyabinsk Theatre for Modern Dance (Director Olga Pona, Chelyabinsk) |
| 1996-1998 | Dancer at the Sverdlovsk State Academic Theatre of Musical Comedy (Ekaterinburg) |
Prizes and Awards
| 2018 | “Bravo” prize at the Sverdlovsk Regional Competition for Theatre Work in the category “Best Work by a Choreographer in a Musical”, for “Mozart and Salieri” |
| 2016 | Prize of the 18th regional festival “Scene-2016” in the category “Best work by a choreographer”, for “The head of the others” |
| 2010 | Grand Prix of the XIVth regional festival “Scene-2012”, for “Ballagantshik” |
| 2010 | National Theatre Award “Golden Mask“ in the category “The Best Modern Dance Performance”, for “Casting-off” |
| 2006 | Yevgeny Panfilov Prize for Best Choreography at the 19th IFMC International Festival of Modern Choreography, Vitebsk (Belarus), for “Journey Against the Wind”. |
| 2004 | First prize at the Seoul International Dance Competition, for “Castle”. |
Here you find my portfolio as a PDF file.