Dr. Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva is a theatre director, teacher, and scholar, with an academic specialty in avant-garde theatre practices and the work of V.E. Meyerhold. She focuses on devised, physical, and trans-disciplinary theatre-making. She currently teaches directing, devising, drama, expressive movement, and film and theatre history at Dixie State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Syssoyeva pursued two related collaborations. These projects engaged Russian artists and academics and resulted in a performance, exhibition, and publication. The St. Petersburg Etudes, a collaboration with photographer and conceptual artist Farrah Karapetian, combined choreography based on Russian avant-garde aesthetics, theater performance, and camera-less photography. The second project was a collaboration with theatre historians O.M. Feldman and Sergei A. Konaev, to publish the complete writings of avant-garde director Vsevolod Meyerhold in English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n