Yulia Ginis

Yulia Ginis grew up in a refusnik family in Moscow and lives in Israel, in Jerusalem since 1989. Yulia studied painting and theatre at the Jerusalem School of Visual theatre and taught in many frameworks on the subject of creativity in Jewish informal education. She is the artistic director of the Mystorin theatre group and a visual artist. Yulia specializes in resource development for cultural organizations.

“One of the first times I rememmber imagining fantastic worlds in great, real spaces was in the Moscow metro. I started taking the metro by myself when I was twelve only a year before we left Russia. Its huge, vast halls adorned with mosaics, sculptures and gold columns looked like a palace to me. I imagined that some where in this palace there was a queen and the trains carried noble counts and counteses to a great ball. I love creating theater in big operaic spaces. When I paint in pastels the layers of pigment meet the texture of the paper and this texture is integrated into the painting. I use the same method when creating site specific theater productions, the texture of the space is integrated into the performance, the location becomes a partner, another actor. I believe that site specific immersive theater has a tremendous ability to heal. Each location has its emotional naratives. By immersing the audience in artistic interpretations of these naratives we create a framework which allows to come to terms with the stories behind these spaces and begin to see them in a new light.”