"Alienation", so Valentin Tszin marks his artistic method of not only creation of a performance, but also the philosophical approach to understanding of oneself in the contemporary world and its discourses. Valentin’s biography itself contains the dynamics giving birth to the principles that drive him it at the moment. A basic education as a drama theater and film actor, and broad work experience in Russian theater and cinema, provided Valentin with a set of basic techniques, where the actor is the conductor of the role, the plot, the author or the other source, that could be even a politician or an ideology. Before entering the acting school Valentin got a degree of a Taekwondo Master that granted him not only the basic physical skills of mastering the body, but the basic patterns of discipline and hierarchical understanding of the world.

Much later, after abandoning his actor career in theater and cinema, Valentin became interested in the post-modernist theories of understanding the world and creation of art. Physical theater and butoh gave the main keys to creating his first personal system of teaching and work on oneself. That method, called "theatre of the body semiotics", where the main driving component was comprehension of own body as a set of codes, re-coding of which leads to the creation of "another world", was realised in his Russian company PoemaTheatre, created in 2009 in collaboration with other contemporary Russian artists. Since then, Valentin tours extensively around the world and cooperates with many modern experimenters.

Curious about, denying any kind of dominance in art as a protest against the system of "art as a tool of power," Valentin himself became dictator of his own project. Since the beginning of 2015 Valentin lives in Berlin. Currently he is a student of a Master’s Program HZT-Berlin (UDK). Being a part of the neo-liberal European context of contemporary philosophy and art, Valentin wonders again about the artist as an out-personal space of the world and his impact on the construction of the future post-machine world. "Alien", it’s not a metaphor on a person who escaped from real civilization into non-real dimension of his art, on the contrary, it’s a meeting of a human being with a human being, in a situation of one-on-one in real time and space of action. Moreover, this is interaction of present and perceived in the dynamics of the birth of the third, the "Other", perhaps someone else in the future.

2001-2005. Far Eastern Academy of Arts / drama theatre and film actor | Vladivostok, Russia 
2009-2015. PoemaTheatre / artistic director | St.Petersburg/Moscow, Russia 
2015-2017. HZT-Berlin / MA SODA | Berlin, Germany

Main projects. 
2013. Festival de Poesía de Medellín | Medellín, Colombia 
2013. Dostoevsky. the Corpse | Tokyo, Japan 
2013. Out of the Forest / Archstoyanie | Nikola-Lenivets, Russia 
2013. Ka Te T'ui / Gogol Fest | Kiev, Ukraine
2013. BACC. Elephant Dance | Bangkok, Thailand 
2015. Out of the Spectacle / Zaha Hadid architects | Moscow, Russia 
2015-2016. Instincts, Gaze Zone, I Have Known / Acud theater | Berlin, Germany

Workshops. 
2009-2016. "Semiotics of human body", "radical levels dance theatre" and "body alienation" | Russia, Ukraine, Colombia, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany 

LVM aka Danilo Colonna (1983 IT) Amsterdam/Berlin based multi-disciplinary artist. LVM's works are sensory based and combine audio, visual and kinetic triggers that create an intersection of affects; These are proposed as independent vectors that then collide in the pre analytical perception of the viewer. At the age of six began his dance studies. At fourteen got into the Institute of Art in Lecce (IT). Between his fifteen and eighteen he graduated at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Balletto di Toscana in Florence. Receiving different scholarships and grants at Biennale di Venezia with Carolin Carlson and Teatro Comunale in Florence.

Working as a professional dancer for various theatres in Italy, Teatro Comunale di Firenze “Maggio Fiorentino”, Teatro di Bolzano and Arena di Verona. In 2001 he got signed by the dance company Introdans based in Holland. He danced internationally in works by William Forsythe, Jirì Kylian, Matz Ek, Karole Armitage, Paul Lightfoot & Sol Leon, Nacho Duato, Hans Van Mannen, David Parsons, Nils Cristie and more. LVM has collaborated with, and commissioned by, amongst others, Basel Theatre, together with Jacob Kok for fashion shows "FashionClash" Maastricht (NL) (choreography and light design), Berlin based artist Rein Vollenga for HV8W gallery (Berlin) (live soundscape set), Ekkehard Helers, ENKA, Michele Rizzo in the project M+LVM, visual artists Karl Klomp, Andrea Mirabile (DeiMiracoli), Apotropia, Tom Tjon A Loi, Diederik Schoorl, Federica Dauri, Jos Kwakkel, Rafael Lucjan Kozdron, Alwin-Valentin Poiana, Gertjan Franciscus and Mustafa Sabbagh.

Before establishing LVM, Colonna worked extensively as an international dancer and choreographer. He was an artistic assistant and co-choreographer of Nanine Linning, and was commissioned, amongst others, by Theatre Osnabrück, Theatre Heidelberg, William Forsythe for the installation “Human Writes", Emanuele Soavi, Conny Janssen and Iris Van Herpen.