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Alexandra Morozova
Actress, performer and multidisciplinary artist Alexandra Morozova was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1982. Here she graduated from the National Academy of Arts with a degree in acting and worked for several years at the State German Theatre of Almaty before moving to Moscow, where she and Rustem Begenov studied at the Boris Yukhananov Individual Directing Workshop. Returning to Almaty in 2015, they founded ORTA, a creative company that has pioneered interdisciplinary theatre in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, and of which Alexandra is the creative producer and performer.
Alexandra's artistic tools include primarily acting, performance, voice and body practices and the art of traditional Kazakh embroidery called "biz keste", a technique for which she received from the eminent master Zeynelkhan Mukhamedzhan.
The main theme of her research and creativity since 2016 is the legacy of the Almaty artist, writer, thinker and Genius of the Absolute Interplanetary Category Sergey Kalmykov (1891-1967). After becoming acquainted with his manuscripts in the State Archive, Alexandra initiated a long-term Universal Project to study and extract this legacy—"The Strip of Immortality".
In 2018, during the passage of the technological mystery "Svetoprestavleniye Sergey Kalmykov" constructed according to the laws of Kalmykov's composition, Alexandra received contact with what was later called the "Universal Composition" and is presumably a higher dimension in relation to the visible world. Since then, in the field of performance and acting, Alexandra is interested in finding a special non-dramatic, non-conflict mode of theater capable of providing contact with the Universal Composition. In the field of embroidery, Alexandra initiated and leads the project "Sacred Expositions" to create artifacts-devices that activate certain mechanisms in the Universal Composition by combining "biz keste" and Kalmykov's texts.
Alexandra's works in the field of performance, creative production and Sacred Expositions were presented at such events as: NET-2016, New Drama-2018, NONAME-2021 festivals; New Genius Kazakhstan 2021 exhibition (Moscow); exhibition of nominees for the Kuryokhin Prize (St. Petersburg, Russia) 2016, 2018; the first national pavilion of Kazakhstan at the 59th Venice Biennale (Venice); La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (New York).