NovaRasa theatre company

NovaRasa is a newly established theatre company based in Kiev. We are dedicated to experimental theatre production employing strong visual images. Our theatre combines pantomime, acrobatics, choreography, martial arts and live music. Our aspiration is to explore new ways of expression to convey its philosophy and inspiration to the audience. The performers are students and graduates of the world renowned Kiev Stage and Circus College, masters of Cossack martial arts and a band of inventive musicians from Rome. The work combines physical theatre with elements of other genres.

Director Olga Danylyuk graduated from the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (MA Scenography) and Lviv Art Academy (MA design) and has worked as a designer, co-director and director in the USA, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Italy and Great Britain.

Music director Giuseppe Lomeo is a self taught composer, performer and improviser.Giuseppe teaches music theory, improvisation and guitar technique in the Roman Academy of Music (Rome). He has composed and performed for short films,documentaries, dance, theatre, and poetry.

Musicians:
Roberto Bellatalla (Double bass), emerged in the mid seventies with the new generation of Italian jazz musicians, playing jazz and improvised music. Alongside of live music and recording performances, he has collaborated with dance, theatre and poetry, taught music in schools and worked on projects using music therapy for disabled people. Roberto spent significant time in London where he collaborated with Elton Dean, with the sextet Dreamtime, founded by Nick Evans, with Keith Tippett, with Louis Moholo’s Viva la Black, Billy Jenkins, Steve Noble, John Stevens, Trevor Watts, Mark Sanders, Claude Deppa, Brian Abrahams, Paul Dunmall, Asaf Sirkis and with all the members of that community of jazz and improvising musicians on the British scene. Back in Italy, he worked with musicians like Sabina Meyer, Fabrizio Spera, Edoardo Marraffa, Michele Rabbia, Antonello Salis, Michael Thieke, David Barittoni, Antonio Iasevoli, Marco Ariano. He is also collaborating with contemporary music composer Jamilia Jazylbekova and with buto dancer Maddalena Gana , with whom he took part to four editions of a dance Buto festival in Rome. In 2005 he participated to the Orvieto Zip International Contact Dance Festival.

Jamilia Jazylbekova (flute and vocal) –studied flute at the Almaty Specialized Government Music School, composition at the Moscow Tschaikovsky Conservatory and the University of Arts with Nikolaj Sidelnikov and Vladimir Tarnopolsky and the Bremen University of Arts with Younghi Pagh-Paan, and new vocal music for voice-solo in Lichtenberg, Germany with Maria Kowollik and Ernst Huber-Contwig. Her work has been performed at major festivals Europe, the former Soviet Union and the United States by the Arditti String Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien among others Stefano Cogolo (flute) studied flute, specialising in Chamber music, at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, Rome. He has performed throughout Italy and Europe, touring with a number of different ensembles. Recently he has turned his attention to contemporary music and has collaborated with composers such as G. Guaccero, N. Sani, T. Bjorklund, O. Buck and F. Hime. His music has its roots in Mediterranean folk.

Marco Ariano’s (percussion) influences include philosophers and visual artists. He has a multi-discipline approach that takes shape in the experimental group he founded, “carme celeste”, a laboratory where different artistic fields converge. As a percussion player and
performer he has collaborated with many experimental musicians including Michel Godard, Peter Schmid and Mike Mainieri.

Kiev, Ukraine
Contact numbers in Ukraine: +38050 3113094, +38050 3821037
Contact numbers in Great Britan: +44(0)7900586938