Ivan Dorn

Ivan also received training in piano, winning several competitions including: In 2006, he sang in a Moscow a cappella duo, but soon decided to return to Ukraine to join the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University.[9] In the summer of 2014 Dorn took part in the New wave music festival in Jūrmala, where he performed the Ukrainian-language song of the Skryabin (band) - 'Penguin Dance' [10] dressed in a sweater with the image of the coat of arms of Ukraine.[11] He claimed he had donated not to the military, but specifically to civilians who had been affected by shelling, but that the volunteer who was in charge of spending the money used part of it to buy army supplies, and publicly thanked Dorn for that, putting the singer in “an uncomfortable position.”[11] Also in the online interview with Dud Dorn claimed that had worn the Ukrainian symbol at the 2014 New wave music festival “so that people wouldn’t make a stink,” apparently meaning that he wanted to avoid criticism from his compatriots, who, he recalls, criticized another Ukrainian performer for wearing a costume with the colors of the Russian flag at the same event.[12] In 2016, Dorn started Masterskaya,[1] an independent music label focused on bringing the exciting sound of Ukrainian underground to the main stage.In April 2017 Dorn, in the online interview with Yury Dud, labeled the War in Donbass (which had already claimed more than 10,000 lives) a “quarrel” and made several other remarks that were criticized in Ukraine.This grew into a charity project called AFRIKA, with a main goal to build a dancing school for Masaka Kids Africana in Uganda.According to the director, Kirill Serebrennikov, Dorn was a "wonderful dramatic artist" with "an interest in the paradoxical, energy, control of his tools, an ability to exactly recreate the image he wanted to impress on his audience, and a very deliberate approach to art.