VII International Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance ANTISTATIC 7th – 13th April 2014, Sofia How Do You See It? Last year we said “Profile Matters” to reaffirm the platform the Antistatic International Festival has been building for seven years now: a platform of dialogue with new ideas in authors’ uncompromising forms of contemporary dance...
UNTITLED 4. 4 CHOREOGRAPHIC PORTRATIS The Son of a Priest | A woman with a diamond | Self-reliance 11 April, 8 pm, Red House Centre for Culture and Debate Concept and performance Christine De Smedt (Belgium) Artistic support and collaboration Kristien van den Brande, Bojana Cvejic, Vladimir Miller, Ana Vujanovic Production les ballets C de...
8 April, 7 pm, Theatre Laboratory “Sfumato” A performance by Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot (Germany) Artists talk after the show. Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot undertake in “What they are instead of” a radical physical experiment – through breath and movement they strive to shift the distance and borders between the bodies seeking a...
Debate: RECONSIDERING THE POLICIES REGARDING SPACES FOR CONTEMPORARY INDEPENDENT THEATRE AND DANCE IN SOFIA 9 April, 6:30 pm, Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Pesha Nikolova Hall An initiative of Antistatic Festival and ACT Association for Independent Theatre The debate is provoked by the situation of further deteriorated equality and real isolation in which...
a solo by Lee Meir (Germany/ Israel) Artistic assistance: André Lewski Special thanks: Kattrin Deufert, HZT-Berlin In English. “UPDOWNANDAROUND” playfully straddles the line between the gestural language and games of verbal and conscious language. It creates between them a ceaseless flux where each meaning that appears is immediately transformed into another. Lee Meir invites the...
12 April, 9 pm, Red House Centre for Culture and Debate Concept, Realization and Performance: Iva Sveshtarova (BG) and Rose Beermann (G) Sound design: Bernhard la Dous (G) In English. “Show Me How” tackles the phenomenon of the mania for imitation in contemporary culture. Why do I copy something? What lies in certain movements that...
A performance by Farid Fairuz (Romania/ Germany) 13 April (Sunday) 2014, 7.00 p.m. Sfumato Theatre Laboratory Artistic direction & performance: Farid Fairuz Text, costumes & set: Farid Fairuz Music: Dhafer Youssef, Brent Lewis, Karpov not Kasparov, P. I. Tchaikovsky, Margareta Pâslaru Technical support: Mircea Andrei Ghinea In English. `Realia (Bucharest/Beirut)` is a performance that combines...
7 April, 5.30 pm and 8 pm, Bulgaria Mall (69 Bulgaria Bul. ) Informbureau (BG) / Goethe-Institut in Sofia / LIGNA (G) SECRET RADIO Concept: Stephan А. Shtereff & LIGNA Script: LIGNA Soundscape: Emilian Gatsov Spitfire Company: Petr Boháč, Miřenka Čechová In Bulgarian. Secret Radio invites the audience to become secrets agents in one...
09 April, 9:00 p.m., Red House Center for Culture and Debate The Contemporary Performing Arts Guild with The Union of Bulgarian Artists / A25 Cultural Foundation “tri3avisim” is a long-term initiative of The Contemporary Performing Arts Guild withThe Union of Bulgarian Artists which unites professionals working in the field of contemporary dance, performance and installation....
10 April, 8 pm, Red House Centre for Culture and Debate a performance by Michael Turinsky (Austria) Choreography, Text: Michael Turinsky Music: Ben Frost Costume: Devi Saha Personal Assistance: Philomena Grassl Artist talk after the show. “Heteronomous male” is the third dance piece by Michael Turinsky, who is physically disabled since his birth. Here he...
