
The Bird of Paradise dramatic studio was founded
in 1995 in Lviv, Ukraine, by four artists: Tetiana Tarasenko, Ira Shcherbatenko,
Igor Golikov and Alexander Ivanov. Since that time they have staged several
performances in Lviv and Kyiv. They also take part in Fashion Festivals
and search for their own style, experimenting with synthesis of fashion,
plastics and different trends in modern music. Their works includes "Return
to Venice", "Garden of Passion" and "Game" remade
classic plays on eternal oppositions of love and death, freedom and violence.
The style of costumes for these shows is post-modernist and add altering
of up-to date fashion trends, historical costumes, architectural and design
search. The favourite materials are: hand-made knitting and cocheting, stocknet,
leather, frame-works, semitransparent and transparent fabrics. The shapes
are architecturally-laconic with minimum of decor or on the contrary fantastically-bizarre
with complicated facture and materials. The performances of the Birds of
Paradise are accompanied by phonograms of famous modern musicians or by
live sound of rock-groups, classical instruments or organ. The basic principal
of the Birds of Paradise is stylistic eclecticism and paradox. |