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AXE-GROUP

The White Cabin

The AXE group, Russia
Participants Maxim Isayev And Pavel Semchenko

The group was founded by three members of Boris Ponizovski theatre Yes–No (Maksim Isaev, Pavel Semtchenko, Vadim Vasiliev) in 1989. Immediately the group announced itself as independent (in term of styles and forms) and started their activity in a performance, cinema, fine art's fields. From that time the group consists from two to seven members, but the permanent body are two persons – Maksim Isaev and Pavel Semtchenko.

From 1996 they count themselves more like theatre collective, created for the normal (in classical means) stage the performance "Cataloque of the Hero". Since that time the group is permanent participant of theatre festivals in Russia and abroad. The members of the group take part in different theatre projects with other groups and theatres: Derevo (Russ- Germ.), Lantaaren (Nederl.), Toihaus (Austr.), Slava Polunin (Russ.). They work as artists, stage designers, film directors. But they still use their education, working as the painters and designers for artistic and public places.

By virtue of told, and also, taking in account a certain experience of AKHE group in the field of fine art, it is appropriate to speak about the group, as about Optical Theatre or Russian Engineering Theatre. AKHE uses scenic (ideal) Space including again (ideal) Light and Sound and consider themselves only as Operators. In this case the Space is one of the main characters of the show.

АХЕ has a wonderful and special quality which makes us feel light. It lets us feel our weightlessness. And it is always a spectacle, whether sad or happy, that is terrific, wi see our messy and tired lives as beautiful for their messiness and tiredness.
Dyondi Mikola. АХЕ – A Theater of Entropy

June 18,19,20
Hermitage Theater, Small Hall