Vladimir Olshansky

Who is this?

Vladimir Olshansky (born 9 August 1947 in St. Petersburg, Russia) is a performing artist, director, composer, sculptor, 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 which he brings to the various International Festivals in Edinburgh, Avignon etc. In 2014, he creates Olshansky "Art De La Joiе " Compagnie Théâtrale and the Association Art De La Joie in Paris, France with the show The Laughter which he presents in Madrid, Spain, Italy and the United States. Presently, Vladimir Olshansky lives and works in Rome, Italy.

Career

1. 1947
   Born

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Saint Petersburg
• •Citizenship: Russia, United States
• •Known as: actor, circus performer, mime artist, director