Anna Mikhailova

100 steps/ part 1/ asking the question After graduation Rotterdam University of Arts (Codarts) as a theater director (2013), Den Haag Royal Conservatory composition and sonology department (2011), Moscow conservatory (2007) as a composer, organ player and koto player, working with impro, jazz, pop, rock musician, dancers, collecting the folk songs in the folk expedition, creating performances, writing stories and scripts, writing music for movies, animations, theater and computer games, painting and building the installations, moving from on place to another, I discovered that the roots started to call me and my childhood dreams of what is all about, raised up and I just had to follow them and start to approach the art of sound/ sound of art from the beginning again. Since 6 years old I am creating the worlds, started from music and I love it, I love to speak this language and to discover the possibility of it. After working on several operas, performances, installations, which gave me an amazing experience of the team work and collaboration; playing in different bands, as techno, pop, impro, jazz, rock, industrial, experimental; writing texts and coaching and helping to bring alive someone else’s worlds, I found out, that for me is more and more important not only to express myself through art, but to find a new way to show the audience they personal reasons to be... (while listening the language of music, experiencing the magic of theatre, following the line of a text or watching our mirrored society within a performance…)