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Daria Gosteva

About

Daria Gosteva is a Russian scenographer and theatre maker based in Prague, where she studies at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre (KALD DAMU). She founded the international ensemble KHWOSHCH, which brings together DAMU students and German musicians. Her productions - Dinopera, Moskva-Dachnoye and The Nutcracker: Vegetable Ballet - treat puppetry, objects and scenography as core dramaturgical tools. Dinopera won second place at the One Flew Over the Puppeteer's Nest festival and an honorary award at Skupa's Pilsen.

#2
place at the Dinopera festival (Flight over the Puppet Nest)
3+
years of the European tour of the Dinopera production

What's new

  • 2025-11

    The KHWOSHCH ensemble presented the production Shakespearean Puppet Mass at the Flyover Above the Puppet Nest festival in Prague at the Alfred ve dvoře theater.

  • 2025-06

    The production Nutcracker: Vegetable Ballet was presented at the international festival FIMFA Lx 2025 in Lisbon.

  • 2025

    Daria Gosteva and Anastasia Dobrodinskaya received the Plzen City Prize for puppet work for the production Nutcracker: Vegetable Ballet.

  • 2025

    The KHWOSHCH ensemble is working on a new production of Shakespearean Puppet Mass, in which all four members of the ensemble participate.

  • 2023

    The documentary puppet performance Moskva-Dachnoye was included in the New Network for Ukraine project and was performed in regions of the Czech Republic.

Tracks

Dinoperafirst project of the KHWOSHCH ensemble, tragic opera about dinosaurs; 2nd place at the Přelet nad loutkářským hnízdem festival, honorary award at Skupově Plzni, European tour
Moskva-Dačnojedocumentary puppet performance about a mysterious house near Moscow; originally a home project, presented at festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad
The Nutcracker: Vegetable Balletvegetable puppet version of The Nutcracker; City of Plzen Prize, presented at FIMFA Lx 2025 in Lisbon
Shakespearean Puppet Massnew production of the KHWOSHCH ensemble, premiere at the Přelet nad loutkářským hnízdem festival in Prague, November 2025

😴 Nothing scheduled with this artist in the near future.

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