Ilya Starilov graduated from the Design Department of Voronezh Art College in 1999 and from the St Petersburg Institute of Television, Business and Design with a degree in multimedia directing in 2011.
During 2003 to 2013 he worked in television, designing programmes and broadcasts for the TNT-Gubernia, A-One and Peretz channels.
As a video designer he has contributed to productions by the Russian Engineering Theatre AKHE (The Depot of Ingenious Delusions, 2012) and by Boris Yukhananov at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre (The Blue Bird, Drillalians and The Constant Principle, 2015), the Holland Festival in Amsterdam (Dmitri Kourliandski’s opera Octavia. Trepanation, 2017), the Staatstheater Cottbus in Germany (Katabasis. Demons, 2021) and the Collector Gallery in Moscow (promenade performance The Book of the Hanging Gardens based on Schoenberg’s song cycle, 2023). Has also worked with Maxim Didenko at the Theatre of Nations (The Idiot, 2015; The Circus, 2017; The Lefthander, 2021), the Spiridonov House in Maly Gnezdnikovsky Lane (Black Russian, 2016), the Taganka Theatre (Run, Alice, Run, 2018), the Yermolova Theatre (Text, 2018), the Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya / the Brusnikin Workshop (Norma based on Vladimir Sorokin’s novel, 2019) and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (opera Wozzeck, 2023).
Further afield, his work has been seen in productions at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in California (ballet Isadora set to music from Prokofiev’s ballet Cinderella, 2018), the Moscow Art Theatre (Seryozha, 2018; Giselle Botanical, 2023), the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre (Nature Reserve, 2020), the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre (The Life and Unusual Adventures of Salomon Maimon, 2021), the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre (ballets On the Nature by Alexey Nadzharov and Death, the Fairest to music by Alberto Ginastera, 2022; Bellini’s opera Norma, 2023), the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre ( Guide to Ballet to music by Tchaikovsky and Nastasya Khrushcheva, 2022; opera The Rake’s Progress, 2024), the Theatre of Nations (concert-performance Frida, 2022), the Pskov Academic Drama Theatre (The Frogs and Moscow Speaking, 2023), the Lenkom Theatre (Mayakovsky, 2023), the Stary Dom Theatre in Novosibirsk (Summerfolk, 2023) and the Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye (The Nutcracker choreographed by Vladimir Varnava, 2023). Has also participated in the production of the multimedia rave operetta Candide (a joint project of the Brusnikin Workshop and the Sila Sveta studio at the Pole space in Moscow, 2022).
At the Mariinsky Theatre in 2017 Ilya Starilov worked as a video artist on the production of Boris Tishchenko’s ballet Yaroslavna. The Eclipse, choreographed by Vladimir Varnava.
At the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia he created video projections for Ilya Demutsky’s ballet Gabrielle Chanel (2019, world premiere), Anton Rubinstein’s opera Demon and Vasily Peshkov’s ballet Nerve (2022) and for a production combining Cui’s opera The Mandarin’s Son and Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol (2023).
Creator of video mapping for shows by the French jewellery and watch house Cartier in Russia: Manifesto Cartier (2019), Mysteria Cartier and Mythology Cartier (2021).
Founder of the company S+AR+HIVE.
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