Olga Krymova

I had no acting ambitions when I joined the course. But I had one of the most difficult periods in my life. The desire to pull myself out of that state made me search for answers and paths.
This course became a place that helped me regain myself (or rather, to find hidden potential and reassemble it in a new, expanded configuration) ... Through new experiences, creativity, the right to express myself, finding support, connecting with myself and others, in an atmosphere of creation, friendship, and acceptance ...
FCA is definitely one of the brightest and most magical things that happened to me in my life. It's definitely something worth going. Heavily recommend!

Volodymyr Padalko

Before FCA:- I was the one who felt helpless and lost any desire to move forward.- I was the one who had already worked in top companies in my field, reached the "ceiling" in my career growth, and did not understand where to go next.- I was the so-called happy father of two children and a happy husband to a beautiful wife, yet I didn't understand why I had some unrecognized inner restlessness.With all this baggage, I felt helpless more and more often, and the question kept coming up to myself: "What is wrong with you?" and "What are you missing?!"
This is where, perhaps, an ending point should be placed—a long, drawn-out period leading to some sort of nothingness or forgetfulness. But no!Because, in 2021-2022, Fortune brought me to Misha Kostrov Studio of Acting, with Olenka Vakhramieieva and Yevhen Amador, and everything started...
What now, after three courses of FCA? Should admit, everything is pretty much the same as it was: family, work, plans, life, only I'm new! It's like you were walking through a desert, walking for a long time, got tired, and lost hope, and decided to stray from the standard route, only to find an oasis behind the nearest dune. Everything around is still the same desert, only now you are filled with strength, inspiration, and love for any new path in the whirlpool of life.

Lika Dubrova

Acting courses like this one go beyond simply teaching professional skills. They serve as a platform for self-expression, personal growth, and unlocking inner potential. People come here not only to learn acting techniques but also to experience the magic of self-expression and to discover new facets of their personality. FCA creates a unique environment where not only are acting "life hacks" taught, but great emphasis is also placed on support, mutual understanding, and respect. Here, everyone can feel that they are not only being taught but also respected for their uniqueness and individual approach.

Serhii Kovalenko

FCA opened the door to new boundaries of my capabilities, helped me look beyond the horizon of my worldview.FCA is when every class feels like a show 🥰 One where you regularly participate, learn expressiveness, observe, and try something new.
I watched my classmates progress, and it inspired me to move forward, to reach new heights and depths. Thanks to FCU, our group went through so many different events together that we turned into a strong family, a team that takes on challenges and keeps going until they achieve the result.
It’s an incredible feeling when the joy of each of our discoveries and achievements spreads like a sweet magic, warmly touching everyone around, multiplying and flourishing 🤗🤗🤗
FCA teaches you to expand your boundaries, to increase your range—of sensations, feelings, movements, emotions, words, looks, speech, contact, and interaction with partners and the space and all its components.
To feel your body, to explore its mobility, flexibility, playfulness. Over these three semesters, I have been pleasantly surprised hundreds of times—there's no comparing to my past life ☺️
I am confident that thanks to this course, everyone will unlock their potential and get to know themselves better. They will acquire and refine their skills and abilities.
FCA makes each person more multidimensional. It adds a sense of humor, sensitivity, hones and builds attention, layering your perception into a pie of actions, events, and reactions.
Here, they create such colorful and fragrant atmospheres that would be simply unreachable without the thorough practice of exercises, drills, and performances, and the key ingredient is the partners—their temperament, character, uniqueness, experience, sincerity, honesty, and perseverance.
FCA is a regular search for new horizons in oneself and in partners, new intertwining of emotions, creating unique atmospheres.
You are both director and co-director and role performer, on stage you can become whoever you wish, a king, an angel, or a beggar, any animal, a tree or a flower, a river or a mountain, a morning steppe or the rising sun itself.
FCA is when you have a mentor with incredible personal experience who works with everyone individually, gives feedback, supports, and suggests directions.
FCA is new opportunities, new experiences, renewed life.
FCA is a community—a group of open-minded people, a big happy and cheerful family :)

Diana Khyzhniak

A meeting with your true self
One day, I found FCA. And I realized that it was exactly what I needed ❤️
Acting classes brought about changes in me as a person. I became more attentive to my feelings and the feelings of others. The techniques and exercises included in the course helped reduce anxiety levels, develop attention, self-awareness, and understanding of myself and the people around me. I began to notice things I hadn't seen before, understood what it meant to be “here and now,” in the moment. I felt what it meant to truly “live through” emotions and had the opportunity to meet my true self. What a joy...
This greatly changed my view of theater and acting: to live, not just to perform, to feel, not just to show. And this realization affected my reactions and attitudes in everyday life—at work, with my family, with friends. Because the experience I gained became a path to creating myself and my life. To create as I see, as I feel. To control when necessary. And to sound, express, observe... and see, live.
I am happy that I found VAK. And I am grateful to my mentors for their professional approach, support, and the desire to share their experience with the students, to teach and inspire us to our own realizations ✨ Thank you for what you do ⭐️ Thank you for the opportunity to learn to create myself ❤️‍��

Olenka

It happened in life that society layered rules of behavior so much that at some point, these layers became like a chainmail, preventing me from moving freely and even breathing. Until the moment when I stopped recognizing myself.
The universe responds to intentions. That’s how FCA appears.
And for me personally, it wasn’t a journey that has ended. Rather, it became the starting point. Because not all layers have been removed, not all permissions given to myself. But I certainly have a compass and a tool.
And there's also a peninsula of absolute acceptance, freedom, and Love. For me, it’s a peninsula. Because FCU is not separated from the mainland; it is a beautiful continuation of it, bathed in powerful energies.
Thanks to the lighthouses Olenka Vakhramieieva and Zhenya Amador for the Light.

O'leggio

I began my journey at FCA, being in a "spacesuit," that is, not seeing or hearing anyone, sometimes even our teachers, with only a desire to become better and become an actor.Gradually, over time, thanks to the patience and skills of our teachers (Zhenya, Lena, and others), and my fellow students, I got out of this "spacesuit" and saw the wonderful world of theater.I saw that I am surrounded by kind, sincere, joyful faces, who go along with me toward the set goal, helping me grow in the theatrical art.I observe the incredible progress of my colleagues, and it thrills me.Thank you all.We are the best.

Yuliia Leonova

The inner child, whose voice we stopped hearing in the daily hustle of adult life...An old youthful dream, shelved by the world of rational needs...A desire for expression that has always fascinated and inspired...A strive to meet amazing people in a safe and warm space...A belief that it’s never too late for anything while we are alive...An acute need for something bright and genuine in difficult times of war, when foundations are crumbling...
Each of us was led here by something conscious or unconscious. Something brightly expressed or timid. But it was definitely something important and real that guided us when we clicked "APPLY"
Personally, for me, FCA, and TOTEATR - is about the idea that "coincidences are not coincidental". Miracles happen, HERE and NOW, if we trust the world and OURSELVES in the possibilities of finding them...