In every rehearsal room, there is a moment when the sacred reveals itself—not through grand gestures, but in the quiet space between breath and word, between what is remembered and what must be forgotten to survive.
Igor Golyak lives in this space.
 

An eleven-year-old refugee who discovered his Jewishness when his father mentioned it while shaving, Golyak built his artistic practice in the territory between worlds. His Zero Gravity Laboratory operates where Eastern European sensibilities crash into American stages, where virtual and physical merge into something unnameable.
 

From his Needham studio, he has reached fifty-five countries and earned recognition from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. But his real achievement runs deeper: transforming displacement into connection.
 

Working with artists like Baryshnikov and Chulpan Khamatova—souls who carry "the entire archaeology of a vanished world"—Golyak creates temporary sanctuaries where strangers witness stories that matter, where survival becomes collaborative art.
 

His "Our Class" confronts evil as present possibility. His virtual courtrooms make audiences into juries. His work reveals how identity isn't what you lose when you leave home, but what you create anywhere.

This is the territory he explores, one rehearsal room at a time, proving that the most profound art emerges not from having a place, but from the sacred work of making one.