Sergey Ostrenko

Biography

Sergey Ostrenko is a director, choreographer and teacher. He began his professional carrier in performing arts in 1979 as a stage designer. Later he continued his education as an actor and then as a director. He has spent about thirty years in professional theatre working with multicultural groups of performers, exploring world theatre traditions and their impact on contemporary theatre. Ostrenko also dedicated ten years of work in dance theatre.

Ostrenko has got additional education in the field of contemporary techniques of performing arts: Feldenkrais, Alexander, Laban, Pilates, Suzuki, Contact and Structural Improvisation, Kinetic Environment, Butoh, method of Eugenio Barba; psychology of communication and psychology of creation. He has been actively visiting various educational and creative programmes in different countries of the world.

Since 1994 Ostrenko has been running the long-term scientific-research project "Creative Laboratory “ jointly with the group of professional psychologists, actors, directors, dancers and choreographers. The main directions of the Laboratory are the practical investigation of improvisation and spontaneity in performing arts and the development of methods leading to cohesion and impelling the group to the active joint creative process.

Since 2000 he has been the President of the International University "Global Theatre Experience" (IUGTE) and the Artistic Director of the International Festival "THEATRE METHODS. Between Tradition & Contemporaneity".

Since 1986 he has been continuously teaching Tai Chi Chuan Chen style at three levels: for beginners as salubrious gymnastics, for advanced as sport wrestling, for dancers, choreographers and actors as additional movement training. 

Ostrenko has experience of many years as a teacher at different institutes of higher education - Latvian State Conservatoire (Riga, Latvia), Latvian Academy of Culture (Riga, Latvia), the Latvian branch of Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS), Rosebud School for the Arts (Rosebud, Canada), the University of Calgary (Calgary, Canada) and others.

International theatre projects under the direction of Ostrenko take place in different countries: Russia, Ukraine, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic and United Kingdom.

At present his principal professional interest is investigation of theatre methods between tradition and contemporaneity.

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