Vladimir Olshansky

Vladimir Olshansky
"The Swan". Variety Theatre St. Petersburg, Russia
BornAugust 9, 1947 (1947-08-09) (age 77)
St. Petersburg, Russia
Nationality United States
Years active1947–present
Genresperforming artist, clown, mime, visual theater
Websitewww.artdelajoie.com/art_de_la_joie/Accueil.html
www.soccorsoclown.it/default.htm

Vladimir Olshansky (born 9 August 1947 in St. Petersburg, Russia) is a performing artist, director, composer, sculptor,[1] graduate of the Moscow State Circus School (Russian: Государственное училище циркового и эстрадного искусства им. М. Н. Румянцева (Карандаша) (ГУЦЭИ)), together with clown Slava Polunin, he is the founder of the clown theatre company Litsedei (Лицедеи). He creates numerous one man shows and performs at the Leningrad's State Variety Theatre (Ленингрдский Государственный Театр Эстрады), In parallel he studies directing at the Leningrad's State Theatre and Cinema Institute (ЛГИТМИК)

At the end of 1980s Vladimir moves to New York, where he becomes a supervisor hospital clown, working with New York's Big Apple Circus's Clown Care Unit, and with his one-person show at La Mama Theatre of New York.

He works with Slava Polunin playing the part of the main Yellow Clown character in his Slava's Snowshow at The Old Vic theatre in London as well, as in the other theatres throughout Europe and the United States. In 1996, Vladimir, with brother Yury and Caterina Turi Bicocchi founds Soccorso Clown, Italian non-for-profit, performing arts organization at the service of the Community, and becomes its artistic director. In 2006 Vladimir begins to work on "Strange Games" show, which will accompany him in years to come always with the new developments and innovative structural changes[2][3] which he brings to the various International Festivals in Edinburgh,[4][5] Avignon[6] etc. In 2014, he creates Olshansky "Art De La Joiе " Compagnie Théâtrale and the Association Art De La Joie in Paris, France[7] with the show The Laughter[8] which he presents in Madrid, Spain, Italy and the United States. Presently, Vladimir Olshansky lives and works in Rome, Italy.

  1. ^ "Vladimir Olshansky "THE DISCOVERIES" Exhibition".
  2. ^ "Ecco Vladimir Olshansky: la vita depinta di humour" La Repubblica 3/10/2007 Italy
  3. ^ La Nazione "Vladimir Olshansky, commedia metafisica" 27/11/2007 Italy
  4. ^ utterly bizarre and utterly playful… successful mix of tragedy and comedy.' Helen Ralston, Three Weeks, UK
  5. ^ … genuinely funny…it provokes a fairly constant trickle of laughter from its audience' Chris Wilkinson The Scotsman, UK
  6. ^ "Rire et pleure ou Philosophie de Vlad's" La Marseillaise 28/07/2008, France
  7. ^ "Olshansky "Art De La Joiе " Compagnie Théâtrale". www.artdelajoie.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-27.
  8. ^ laRepúblicaCultural.es 25/03/2011 "un clown casi tan absurdo como la vida real"