Draft:Anton Adasinsky

Anton Adasinsky (Russian Антон Александрович Адасинский; born 15 April 1959) is a Soviet and Russian actor, director, choreographer and musician. The founder and leader of DEREVO theatre company, member of the band AVIA (Rus. -АВИА).

Early years
His mother, Galina Antonovna Adasinskaya (1921—2009), was the granddaughter of the Mensheviks — M. I. Broido and E. L. Broido.

Career
In 1982 he joined the studio Licedei directed by famous clown Slava Polunin and worked in the original cast of Teatr Licedei. From 1985 to 1988, he performed with the band AVIA (rus. АВИА) (vocals, pantomime, trumpet, guitar). Participated in the shootings of the documentary film ROCK (film) (1987) by Alexei Uchitel.

From 1984, he left Licedei and begin  his solo career. In 1988, he organized and founded the theatre company DEREVO (Rus. - Дерево) in Leningrad which he is leading up to the present moment. After a few years of working in Leningrad - St. Petersburg, theatre company DEREVO kept moving its base to Prague, then to Florence and then to Amsterdam. Since 1997, theatre DEREVO has a permanent rehearsal base in Dresden (Germany) in Festspielhaus Hellerau.

In 2001 shouted his first movie Süd. Grenze as a scriptwriter, director and the protagonist.

In 2001 Anton Adasinsky performed as Drosselmeyer in the ballet The Nutcracker by the Mariinsky Theatre (staging by Mikhail Chemiakin).

In the recent years, he resumed performances with the band AVIA as a soloist, leader of gymnastic group, trumpeter, bass and guitar player.

In 2013, he was rewarded with Nika Award - The Best Male Actor for his role in Alexander Sokurov's film Faust.

''" If you are living for the theatre, if you are living for the performance every day, it automatically includes your lifestyle. You don’t need to jump like a ballet dancer, you don’t need to make stupid strange movements which people call dance, but if you just make clear movement, or clear energy, a clear image - that is  dance for me." Anton Adasinskiy''

Scriptwriter

 * 1986 — Zero — One
 * 1994 — Iron Grandmas
 * 1997 — Chianti Cha-Cha-Cha
 * 2001 — Sud. Grenze
 * 2013 — The Middle of White
 * 2013 — Signature
 * 2019 — The ticket to «La Divina Comedia»

Film director

 * 2011 — Süd. Grenze
 * 2019 — The ticket to «La Divina Comedia» (work in progress) (rus. "Билет на Божественную комедию)

Soundtrack to films

 * 1989 — Romantik. Director М. Braude
 * 2001 — Sud. Grenze
 * 2013 — Signature

Literature
1979 — collected stories With One’s Back to the Sun. The novels are dedicated to a six-month hitch-hiking adventure around USSR in 1978 together with Victor Rezunkov (now journalist at “Radio Svoboda”). Only four tales are recovered.

1986 — lyrics for the four songs of the album Asphalt: Lope de Vega, Dog, Good, From the point A...

2002-2018 — an online book Book of the Road.

2009 — lyrics for the album Doppio of the band Positive Band

2010 — book Harlequin. It was published as a photo album by the premiere of the show.

2013 — script for the film Doppio together with Elena Yarovaya.

2015 — book Shell.

Awards and nominations

 * 1997 — Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as the most innovative international production. (Red Zone) List of Total Theatre Award winners
 * 1998 — award Fringe First — the main prize of Edinburgh Fringe Festival («Once…»)
 * 2001 — nomination for the prize «GoldenMask» («Suicide" Work in progress).
 * 2002 — Laureate of the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize
 * 2002 —Total Theatre Award at the Edinburg Fringe Festival For Outstanding Excellence And Innovation ("La Divina Commedia")
 * 2003 — Nomination for the prize «Golden Mask» («The Islands in the Ocean»)
 * 2007 — the prize «Golden Mask» in the category Innovation («Ketzal»)
 * 2012 — the nomination for the prize «Golden Mask» («Harlequin»)
 * 2012 — the prize of The Russian Guild of Film Critics «The White Elephant» for the Best Male Actor (film «Faust»)
 * 2013 — the award «NIKA» for the Best Male Actor (film «Faust»)