CREATIVE TEAM

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Founder & Artistic Director Maxim Didenko
Company Manager Ekaterina Arsenyeva
Home Mesto, former Kalinin factory, St Petersburg
Guests Anton Adasinsky, Valentin Tszin and his butoh company, Pavel Semchenko (AKHE)

The Drystone was a protheatrical association founded by Maxim Didenko in St Petersburg in 2010 – a company of young performers he taught and worked with.

Its home was Mesto, a squat in the abandoned engineering depot – a twelve-storey tower – of the former Kalinin arms factory at 4 Uralskaya Street, Vasilyevsky Island. Next door the factory was still producing howitzers.

The company experimented constantly: dozens of performances, actions and collaborations with musicians. Anton Adasinsky took part in one of the actions, as did Valentin Tszin and his butoh company. A time of creative freedom and fearless experiment.