Vahram Zaryan

Vahram Zaryan is a French performance artist, mime, dancer, director, and choreographer of Armenian descent.

Vahram Zaryan
Zaryan 2014
OccupationArtist, choreographer, mime performance artist, actor , director
Websitevahramzaryan.com

He is the founder and artistic director of the PERF International Festival, created in June 2019.

Biography

Zaryan studied theatre, body movement, and dance at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Armenia. There, he specialized in mime, beginning his apprenticeship at the State Theater of Pantomime in Yerevan under the direction of Zhirayr Dadasyan. Zaryan moved to the Paris Opera, where he studied classical dance with Yves Casati, and Decroux technique with Yvan Bacciocchi at the Studio of Belleville. Zaryan advanced his studies at the École Internationale de Mimodrame de Marcel Marceau, being one of the last students to receive a degree from this school. Zaryan was an intern and took graduate courses with Ariane Mnouchkine, Carolyn Carlson, and Maurice Béjart.

Zaryan founded "Le Théâtre Suspendu", a company of mimes, with other Marcel Marceau school graduates. This company performed signature pieces such as Sépia Quartet, and Le Linge Entre Autres, both in France and abroad. At his company's debut, Zaryan interpreted the role of the "white mime". He performed this and other roles at a gala at the Palais Garnier. The gala was staged in honor of the director Sergei Parajanov. The program was a theatrical rendition of this master of Soviet cinema's film, The Color of Pomegranates.

Zaryan also interpreted, to critical success, the role of "Vespone" in the Pergolesi opera, La Serva Padrona at the Theater of the Tambour Royal in Paris.[1][2]

NON-MIME

Vahram Zaryan is the pioneer and inventor of a new movement and genre in the art of mime called "Non-Mime". This notion is invented and developed by Vahram Zaryan and his collective to think and create a contemporary approach of miming even more as a new discipline of this classical genre.[3]

Compagnie Vahram Zaryan
Vahram Zaryan, Ваграм Зарян, Վահրամ Զարյան "Mater Replik"

Zaryan founded the troupe, "Compagnie Vahram Zaryan".[4] Its focus is the development of new mime and contemporary movement theater.[5] Zaryan created the work, Confessions.[6][7] The work has been presented in France and across Europe. In 2010, it was performed at the official closing ceremony of International Mime Festival in Tsakhkadzor.[8]

Soon after, Zaryan's work, Mater Replik played at L'Atelier du Plateau in Paris. It toured in Europe; in the United States at New York City's Richmond Shepard Theatre; and in Russia at La Tete en Bas.[9] In 2012, Zaryan's company was staging the Noëlle Châtelet novel, The Head Down (2002) as a contemporary mime show.

In 2012 and 2013, the Vahram Zaryan Company was associated with Monfort Theatre, Cultural Institution of the City of Paris, and participated in projects funded by the DAC workshops and DASCO, City of Paris.[10]

Performance art

Zaryan makes performance art in museums and international contemporary art galleries. He collaborated with Nina Childress in her work, Rideau Vert at the Gallery of Bernard Jordan in Paris.[11] He has also staged a performance directed by Dramatic Corporeal Mime and taken from Etienne Decroux.

Vahram Zaryan creates a video art performance during Melik Ohanian's "Stutterig" exhibition at the CRAC de Sète at Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris in 2015.[12]

Performances: contemporary mime and dance theatre

Bibliography
  • Mystery of Art: Marcel Marceau (2013) Originally, ՄԱՐՍԵԼ ՄԱՐՍՈՅԻ ԱՐՎԵՍՏԻ ՀՍՏԱԿՈՒԹՅԱՆ ԱՌԵՂԾՎԱԾԸ... (Armenia)[17]
  • Mater Replik (2012)[18]

References
  1. "Rencontre avec Vahram Zaryan, artiste de mimodrame" Archived 19 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Fragil website.
  2. "La Serva Padrona" Archived 21 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Tambour Royal at Jimdo website.
  3. Interviews The Armenian Weekly, THE REBIRTH OF THE GESTURE, BODY AND IDENTITY OF MIMING IN A CONTEMPORARY SETTING, Vahram Zaryan and the Artistry of Contemporary Mime
  4. "Vahram Zaryan Cie" Archived 13 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine ARTE Creative. Accessed 21 October 2013. (French)
  5. "НА СЦЕНЕ – ВАГРАМ ЗАРЯН, УЧЕНИК МАРСЕЛЯ МАРСО" ("On stage - Vahram, Marcel Marceau's new apprentice") Archived 16 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Голос Армении – Общественно-политическая газета – 20157 (84) 18 August 2011. Accessed 18 October 2013 (Russian)
  6. Gervot C. "Rencontre avec Vahram Zaryan, artiste de mimodrame" ("Meet Vahram Zaryan, mime artist") Archived 19 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Fragil 4 April 2011. Accessed 18 October 2013 (French)
  7. "Free performances by members of the Union of Theater Figures of Armenia to be followed by discussions" Hayernaysor Armenia website. 11 September 2013.
  8. "виртуальный город" Yerevan 3 August 2011. Accessed 18 October 2013 (Russian) "Vagram Zaryan" Archived 19 October 2013.
  9. "La tête en bas" Archived 30 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine Forum Européen de Bioéthique. Accessed 21 October 2013. (French)
  10. de Paris M. "Le Monfort avec le college François Villon 14e" Paris. Accessed 21 October 2013. (French).
  11. "Nina Childress and Vahram Zaryan at the Bernard Jordan gallery" Archived 20 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine Que Faire Paris website. (French)
  13. "Mater Replik" Contemporary Performance Network, New York. Accessed 21 October 2013.
  14. "Marcus Borja" Theatre Delacite website.
  15. "Le Collectif Vahram Zaryan" Ensemble Regards website. (French)
  16. Médiatiques website. (French)
  17. "ՄԱՐՍԵԼ ՄԱՐՍՈՅԻ ԱՐՎԵՍՏԻ ՀՍՏԱԿՈՒԹՅԱՆ ԱՌԵՂԾՎԱԾԸ" AZG Daily website. Accessed 26 November 2014 (Armenian).
  18. Zaryan V. et al "Mater Replik, Dossier du spectacle" 2012 p. 3. Accessed 26 November 2014. (French)
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