CanniBallz

Artistic Trio, making Art out of Freestyle Football

https://www.instagram.com/canniballzz/

https://youtube.com/c/Canniballz

Canniballz - an international crew, based on the idea of representing Freestyle Football (FF) as Big Independent Culture and Art on its very good meaning.

Our main goal is to show that FF can be represented in any artform and should be recognised in the world of art as its very serious part.

We started from street culture, but growing up to the biggest and important Stages and Platforms:

Theaters

Circus

Dancing Festivals

Expositions

Media (Photo and Video)

Sport World Championships

We are:

• Making freestyle football shows (individual and group):
• Moscow, Russia: FIFA World Cup (group shows)
• Saint Petersburg, Russia: FIFA European Cup (as the main mascot Skillzy)
• Florida, USA: Universal Orlando Park (Academy of Villains crew)
• Barcelona, Spain: Barcelona Mac Festival (individual original show)
• Saint Petersburg, Russia: Leningrad Center (one of the best Modern Theaters of Russia) and more.

• Performing and Competing on biggest International Events:
• Paris, France: Cirque de Demain (International Circus)
• Eindhoven, the Netherlands: Open Your Mind (Experimental Dance)
• Ashdod, Israel: International Circus Festival
• Prague, Czech Republic: Superball (Freestyle Football World Cup)
• Warsaw, Poland: Red Bull Street Style (FF World Cup)
• Miami (FL), USA: Red Bull Street Style (FF World Cup)
  

• Making international Freestyle Football Events

• Making Freestyle Football masterclasses and doing tutorials (we have our own FF Academy in Saint Petersburg, Russia)
• Making Freestyle Football videos and photos
• *Now we are in process of making the first Freestyle Football Art-Exposition in Moscow People know FF as "just street subculture", "smth about football", "smth like circus", "smth like hip-hop or break dance with a ball".
  We want to share our vision and to show people, that moves with a ball is far deeper culture, that have very deep roots and forms all over the world and different societies. We want FF to be recognised as a real and independent art.

• Just Enjoying freestyle football:
• exploring the new dimensions of FF representation
• creating new styles and ways of doing moves, tricks, dance and improvisation with a ball
• making trends in freestyle football underground, as we are in the avant-garde of modern freestyle football and even experimental dance
• participating and judging freestyle football tournaments to share our explorations with other freestylers and people

The core of the crew:

Vladislav Kostuchenko

Maxim Chernyshev

Alexandr Melnikov

VLAD KOSTUCHENKO @BALLDADDY

https://www.instagram.com/balldaddy_istaet/

The path:

Was born in Gomel, Belarus.
Started doing FF in 2011. Won his first championship in Russia in 2013
First time became national Belarus FF Champion in 2014 (7 times since then and till now).

Big Scene started from one of the most important international circus festivals in the world: Cirque de Demain 2017, Paris, France:

Then I worked on contracts, participated and won international festivals, circus shows, experimental dance battles and football freestyle tournaments in USA, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Israel, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia.

Since 2017 until 2021 worked as an artist of Leningrad Center (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) - one of the most prestigious theaters in Russia, where he learned to represent himself on the scene not just with a ball, but as an artist, dancer and character.

During this time also was studying at the St. Petersburg State Institute of Performing Arts as an actor of dramatic theater

Became The World Champion in 2018 with "The Best Show" on the SUPERBALL World FF Cup - the most prestigious tournament in FF world. Prague, Checz Rep.

Since 2020 - the participant of an international art-group ТАЭТ VREMYA

https://www.instagram.com/taet_vremya/

This is a crew of open-minded dancers, painters, writers and performers from Russia, Japan, Kosovo, France, Ukraine, Belarus and Germany

MAXIM CHERNYSHEV @CHERNY

https://www.instagram.com/cutecherny/

- Doing Freestyle Football for 13 years (FF is 16 years old as a culture in general).
- Plays a huge role in Russian FF community.
- Judging Russian and international tournaments since 2009.
- Has his unique style in sitdown tricks (sitting and laying on the ground)

Maxim worked as the main Mascot "Skillzy" during the European Football Championship EURO 2020 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Performing tricks during football matches and special events.

Alexandr Melnikov @Ovcharkin

https://www.instagram.com/ovchark1n/

Russian champion and the best upperbody freestyler in the world (tricks using upper parts of the body).

- Doing freestyle for 10 years.
- The winner of the experimental FF championship "iBall" (Saint-Petersburg, Russia).
- Organized 4 local underground championships "UFO" in Udomlya, (Russia)
Though these championships didn't pretend to be something big or global, freestylers are still considering them as the best championships because of their atmosphere and a bunch of legends, connected with this tournament.

Football Freestyle is not just a hobby for us. This is a way of life we chose. We are exploring the new ways of doing moves with a ball and new senses of making these moves. We see FF very widely, that`s why we can integrate it in any sphere of art and entertainment we know.

Unofficial Showreel of our crew

CANNIBALLZ ACADEMY

Freestyle Football School based in Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Our goal is to form healthy community of good creative people. Our Academy is based on the individual work with each freestyler and finding his own way to blossom. We explore the core of each individuality to create his own unique style in FF. Everybody can do tricks, that were never done before.

IBALL2020

In March, 2020 we created a brand new format of FF Championships iBALL, and made it without any sponsorship, just using our personal budget.

• We spent over $5000 from our personal budget.
• There were over 80 freestylers from Russia and Belarus with invited guests from Japan, Poland and Finland.
• The tournament had its own unique rules
• The main aim was not just to see freestylers` technical skills, power and stamina, but also to make them present their creative sides, freestyling in the moment, their unique attitude and charisma.

Thank you very much for your time