Natalya Kolosowsky
Akademgorodok, Siberia
Natalya Kolosowsky was born in Akademgorodok, the Soviet science city in Siberia, to scientist parents, and lived there until she was eight; she grew up in Arizona's Sonoran desert.
- Founded Shadow Tender, 2016
- Liber I at World Stage Design
- Prague Quadrennial, Bakhrushin Museum
- Vaganova-trained from childhood
- MFA in costume, University of Oregon
“And then I learned that if I want to dance, I have to do it on my own terms.”
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She trained for ten years in the Vaganova method at the School of Ballet Arizona. She earned a BS in psychology and a BFA in visual communication at the University of Arizona, then an MFA in costume design at the University of Oregon. Her work has been shown at the Prague Quadrennial, the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum in Moscow and the Museum of American Illustration in New York.
In 2016 she founded Shadow Tender, a project of butoh, physical theatre and wearable sculpture about how people and nations turn the other into a demon. Liber I premiered at World Stage Design 2017 in Taipei; Liber II at the Butoh College festival in Portland in 2019. She lives in Portland and teaches mask-making workshops in English and Russian.
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