DAKH Kiev Centre of Contemporary Arts was found by the businessman, maecenas, producer, director and actor Vladislav Troitskyi who became its art head. The centre was opened on 12^th of November, 1994 and gradually turned into mighty cell of creative experimental activity searching for “dynamic synthesis” of different methods of acting and directing arts. One of the most important tasks of the centre was determined by V. Troitskyi as upbringing of universal actor of new type able to realize on a deep level each word and act of his personage, analyze spiritual sources of creativity and acting at the same time staying natural and convincing on a stage. And all that without a professional training.  

Thus, the singular art school of DAKH was formed combining achievements of realistic theatre of Vladimir Ogloblin, text theatre of Igor Lysov, intellectual clownery theatre of Valeryi Bilchenko, psychological and mistrial theatre of Boris Yukhananov, zero ritual of playwright and director Klim. Besides the plays directed by V. Ogloblin such as “Vassa Zheleznova” by M. Gorkyi, “Shelmenko the Batman” by G. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, “Krechinskyi’s Wedding” by O. Suhovo-Kobylin the repertoire of the theatre was enriched by V. Troitskyi’s own project “…seven days with an Idiot…” - the plays based on Klim’s (Vladimir Klimenko) pieces put-up as unwritten chapters of F. Dostoevskyi’s novel “Idiot”. As the results of common work of Troitskyi and Klim such plays as “Dostoevskyi-Chesterton: Crime Paradoxes or the Lonely Riders of Apocalypse”, “Love Den or Ukrainian Decameroune” and “Girl with Matches” were born.

Being interested in folklore and authentic Ukrainian singing V. Troitskyi in spring 2004 founded ethno-chaos band “DakhaBrakha” that unites traditions of performing and music instruments of different nations and in summer of the same year he started student theatre. That’s notably widened creative possibilities of DAKH and allowed to its art head to carry through the project “Mystic Ukraine” that includes three Shakespearian pieces: “Prologue to ‘Macbeth’”, “Richard III. Prologue”, “King Lear. Prologue”. They were successfully presented at the time of touring in Moscow, London and on many theatre festivals in Ukraine, Poland and Hungary.   

Having as well some experience in organizing art exhibitions DAKH jointly with Cultural Art and Museum Complex “Artistic Arsenal” started art-audio-visual-theatre-literature-philosophic project named “I International Festival of Arts ‘GOGOLFEST” dedicated to the future bicentenary from the great writer’s birth in April, 2009. Famous Ukrainian artists, sculptors, musicians, singers, drama actors, philosophers, litterateurs and also Ukrainian businessmen-maecenases aware of their public role joined the project. The aim of this long term project planned for at least two years was put by its author and initiator V. Troitskyi in this way: “creating fairytale world tree of contemporary Ukrainian art civilization”.

Came out debut album of ethnic chaos band "DakhaBrakha"
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"DAKH" CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN KYIV is the first and the only non profitable theatre in Ukraine, which was founded in 1994 by Vladislav Troitskiy.

DAKH makes it possible to go in for pure art whose only restriction is high quality. We have managed to create the unique theatre climate, having united two theatre schools the Ukrainian and the Moscow ones. We always act in accordance with our main principal, the tolerance. We try to join different and sometimes even opposite theatre art branches. We preserve academic traditions of the realistic theatre and we carry on the investigations and the experiments forming new outstanding theatre space.

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Idea: Vladislav Troitsky, KLIM.

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