Youth Training Centre "DiGrease's Buffoon Theatre"

Youth and Business training: Communication, Project management, Facilitation, Leadership, Training skills, Charisma, Public speaking, Storytelling, Theater directing and staging, Fundraising.

For youth, Youth leaders, Youth workers, Business, IT Project management, NGOs.

Training in spheres: theater, circus, dances.

Youth Non-forman Education Centre was based in 2003 and first consisted of “School of Traditional Dances of Belarus”. Than it was added the “Minsk Irish Dance School”. The amalgamation of two schools gave birth to “Minsk Folk Dance School”, that was developed in 2010 into Youth Non-forman Education Centre "DiGrease's Buffoon Theatre". The performance troupe "DiGrease's Buffoon Theatre" was based in july 15, 2005.
At the present there are 4 trainers work in Youth Non-forman Education Centre:
the Irish, Bretagne and Fire dance instructor, theatre and arts instructor (Aliaksej Burnosenka)
the Belarusian, Baltic and Medieval dance instructor (Hanna Nestserava-Burnosenka)
the Bellydance and Trible dance instructor (Marija Jurina)
the Argentinian Tango dance instructor (Anton Sarmont)
Average quantity of students are 100…120 persons per year. Students are youth 16…28 years old mostly.
Open-Air Medieval Theatre "DiGrease's Buffoon Theatre"- is a theatre of medieval Carnival Culture. It was founded in july, 15, 2005. First performance took place in Tver region, Russia. At the present the stuff of theatre are 12 persons.
Three basic directions of performances are:
1) Medieval carnival (jugglers, musicians, acrobats, dancers, stilt-walkers, etc.)
Open Air Medieval Theatre of XII - XVI cnt. -
Wandering Medieval Actors with high energy open-air performances, moral one-act plays, beautiful medieval tunes. Jugglers, acrobats, mimes, musicians and dancers, jesters and stilt-walkers, and their tonns of properties... "DiGrease's Buffoon Theatre" reconstructs and performs the culture of medieval wandering theatre, theatre of juggling and acrobatics, of music and laugh, of miracles and mysteries, of dance and fire-playing.

2) Viking and Slavs Theatre (and also Belarusian and Baltic traditional Culture): folk games, folk dances, traditionally performed folk music, Skhomorokhs, songs, etc. The first strict and authentic reconstruction of Skomorokhs: not only "stylization" of costume, but also repertoire of performances, archaic musical instruments and tunes, genres of art: storytelling, music, theatre, etc.
3) Fire-Performances, the best in Belarus and other countries. It is a juggling with flame, manipulation by ablaze tools, fire-spitting and fire-spinning. With real, open Fire.
Our fire-theatre - is the oldest and the best fire-dance in Belarus, one of the best Fire-theatres in the World.

Youth Non-forman Education Centre and performance troupe "DiGrease's Buffoon Theatre" have no sponsorship or financing. All funding are made by personal donations by leaders, participants or students of YNFEC. All the properties are made by participants and leaders themselves.