Valentin Tszin

Valentin Tszin is a Russian-born artist and dance researcher based in Berlin. His method (named 4/4 4/3 4/0) draws on the forms and fundamental principles of dramatic theater, taekwondo, butoh and throat singing. Tszin's body of work varies greatly in scale; he works across a contrasting range of formats, from ascetic solos to intricate group concepts. His projects have been presented to diverse audiences internationally, some having involved up to one hundred people. Valentin Tszin regularly conducts international master classes to explore with his students the process of collective creation. The idea that one's perceptions of reality are malleable through the alteration of one's physical body and state of mind is one that is axial to his method, and one that he furthermore believes is capable of changing the way people create art and interact with the world on a larger scale.