prokhor
gusev
Theatre as a spiritual practise
about me.
Last but not least, I am a transgender man running out of the system that is trying to kill and ban me. So I am on my emigrant journey to the better and safer life.
I am an itinerant artist.
queer-artist
director
I’m an exile theater artist working with two unique theatre systems: the new-processual method of Boris Ukhananov and "impulse" method by Tamara Dascinskaya (the base of the system is P.M. Ershov practice, yoga and meditations).
actor
sound-artist
pedagogue
I really appreciate to work with site-specific and social theatre because it is vital for me to make every voice (place, people, historical facts, small social communities) to be heard. Moreover, theater is a place of education and spiritual growth so I believe we have to cultivate ourselves nod others with the help of art.
One of the sides of my artistic method is clown and mime art. Both of these directions of modern art are not popular nowadays and I’m working on the way how to involve them in cultural field. I do not know any other genres that can be so understandable and universal for everybody.
mime
some interviews and articles
about me
Institute of theater arts named by P.M.Ershov
education
theater director
2017-2022
Workshop of Individual Directing by Boris Ukhananov
theater director, actor, producer, art-menager
2019-2022
Episode of the podcast Q-RANT
personal statement.
Theater is a spiritual practise.
Theater is a way of sincerity.
As an artist, I believe in equality of everyone.
To be honest as an artist I have to be equal to myself. All my work is a process of discovering who I am through spiritual experience and theatre practices.
I want to unite people by theater and art.
By morphing into another concept and identity, I became more myself.
ongoing projects.
“Grandma’s recipe”
performance-dinner
for more info visit the website of the project
Interactive-documentary installation
TransStory
simple story of a transkid
inside/out.Tromsø
site-specific audio-performance
sample work|actor
2023
“80°” dir. Polina Shatokhina and Prokhor Gusev
Resistance theater group "Poiskovaya gruppa", Barents spectacle 2023
sample work|actor
2022
“The complaisant man” dir. Gulnara Iskakova Independent Theater Group INKURS, 2022
“UNC-PUNC-RAPUNC” dir. Robert Saralp
BalagurLab, 2022
“MIR-RIM” dir. Boris Ukhananov
ElectroTheater “Stanislavskiy”, 2022
sample work|actor
2021
“The Little Prince” dir. Gulnara Iskakova
Independant Theater Group INKURS, 2021
“Animals-Hands” dir. Malena Vasivieva
Everywhere Theatre, 2021
”Zoya’s apartment” dir. Gulnara Iskakova
Independant Theater Group INKURS, 2021
sample work|actor
2019-2020
all my life I was working as an actor and theater director
”30.past.89” dir. Uta Plate
Deutches Theater Berlin, 2019
“RPP” dir. Victor Shakhbazov
Independent Theater Group INKURS, 2020
showreel
sample work|
“Come out from wardrobe”
2024
Concept by Prokhor Gusev in collaboration with
Gulnara Iskakova, Victor Shahbazov & Viljar Irtun Moe.
Four artists are exploring the theme of “coming out” through a variety of mediums and experiences. The process revealed that each artist has their unique understanding of the phrase “coming out”, and wish to share different messages and experiences tied to the phrase.
The project supported by Davvi - center for performing arts and TVIBIT
sample work|shadow theater
“Noah’s ark”
2024
Shadow performance inspired by the Bible story "Noah’s Ark," featuring interactive elements and plenty of humor.
Designed for families, this performance transcends its religious origins to tell a heartwarming and amusing story about hope, life, and the rainbow. Through playful interactions
sample work|director
“Grandma’s recipes”
2023
Grandma’s recipes is a performance-dinner with life-stories of the family of two exile artists - Prokhor Gusev and Gulnara Iskakova, where the food become an universal language to share the life experience and make a research of tastes in the connection to the memories, past and fate.
sample work|director
“KORIDOR.
New life”
2023
"What happens to a couple who are about to start a new life together when the country they live in chooses to invade the neighboring country?
The piece "KORIDOR. New life." premiered at Vårscenefest in Tromsø, and then travels on to new meetings with the public.
In the play, NOOR production's Trond Peter Stamsø Munch plays Andrej, who ends up in deep isolation. He is about to lose all his close relations when Russia invades Ukraine - his son, his girlfriend and his one close friend Igor.
Behind the project stands a strong team of exiled Russian stage artists, led by the directing team Prokhor Gusev and Gulnara Iskakova. The text is written by Daria Glenter.
Discription by Tale Næss
“This property is condemned”
2022
This performance is a manifesto of humanity and the main character of it is female nature that everyone has inside his soul. I believe we have to understand our souls and combine male and female parts of it together in ourselves. This is the only way to become a HUMAN because we have to accept all pieces of our identity and create a peace in our minds and souls. This can be the only rescue for our world nowadays.
“May I ask Nina?”
2021
This story is about war, its influence on the people’s lives and a miracle that can save life.
The boy Vadim grew up, become a man of affairs named Vadim Nikolaevich and forgot about everything that had happened in his childhood. He forgot the long nights near the furnace in the dark during bombings, tears and happiness on the 9th of May in 1945, loss of his ration card… but one call from the distant past returns him to these days of his childhood.
“Fight club”
2020-2021
The new-processual project ‘Fight club’ based on the philosophical ideas of the book by Chuck Palaniuk. 8 participants, 2 evenings, 8 stories. This performance works on the principle of random - nobody knows who and what about will talk during his term. The main rule is you have to be yourself and candid.
I tried to create a safe space for every member of fight club and give an opportunity to be a real you without fear to be judged.
sound-artist
|songwriter
some cool music & sound-art
music and songs
I am creating sound art (music, audiobooks, songs) more than 10 years. But only now I feel that I can share it with audience, I admitted myself as a musician, finally.
sound-art
podcast
So here you can find some of my pieces - podcast, music, sound-art and audiobooks
I have a nickname ISCRIMAS.
sample work|mime
height
weight
shoes
shirt
hair
eyes
162 cm
52
EU 39
xs-s
fair-haired
heazelnut
