KARPOV NOT KASPAROV (Romania) 20 April, 21.30h, Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red Hall a concert by Eduard Gabia and Valeriu Borcos A musical game of action and reaction between the drums and a vintage synthethizer. Karpov not Kasparov started as a project by an analog visual artist and two contemporary-dance performers. This...
Dani Brown (USA/ Germany) HOW DO YOU IMAGINE THE DEVIL? 21 April, 19h, Theatre “Sfumato” choreography /dance / performance: Dani Brown guest performer: Gael Cleinow sound composition, voice coach: Alessio Castellacci light design: Henning Eggers In her solo, one of the new interesting names on the international scene – the Hamburg-based American artist Dani Brown...
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...
April 1 (Friday) 2011, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre 7.00 p.m., Chamber hall “Look Look” Concept and performance: Anne Juren (France/Austria), Krõõt Juurak (Estonia/Austria); With the cooperation of Eva Blut (Austria), and co-production by Tanzquartier Wien and Unit F. Look Look is a choreographic transcription of the creative process at play in the world of fashion....
April 1 (Friday) 2011, The Red House 8.30 p.m., Red hall +/- Topology Concept and performance: Deufert+Plischke (Germany), Iva Sveshtarova (Bulgaria), Neli Mitewa (Bulgaria), Willy Prager (Bulgaria), Stephan A. Shtereff (Bulgaria), Mila Odazhieva (Bulgaria), Maya Stefanova (Bulgaria), Boyan Manchev (Bulgaria). Production of Б brain С store П project, Goethe Institut Bulgarien and Deufert+Plischke. Our investigation...
April 2 (Saturday) 2011, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre 7.00 p.m., Chamber hall Viva Mandic Concept: Marko Mandić (Slovenia) and Boyana Iablovec (Slovenia); Performance: Marko Mandić (Slovenia); Production of Via Negativa, 2009. In one hour, Marko literarally extracts his artistic life into one single glass of sweat. On two video screens we simultaneously witness his theatre...
April 2 (Saturday) 2011 , The Red House 9.00 p.m., Red hall Heidi Creation and performance: Alexandar Georgiev (Macedonia) This Project deals with stupidity as a term, a state of mind and as a sensation. The aim is far from saving the world. Heidi is a constructed figure – “something” which symbolizes naivety, purity, silliness...
Choreography and concept: Iskara Sukarova (Macedonia) and Dejan Surhoj (Slovenia); Dramaturgy: Ana Vujanovic (Serbia); Production manager: Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski (Macedonia); Performance: Iskara Sukarova (Macedonia) and Aleksandar Georgiev (Macedonia) Formula is a process: a project developed in different phases through diverse modes of collaboration between Sukarova, Srhoj and other dramaturgists, theoreticians, performers… First Formula was based on...
April 3 (Sunday) 2011 , Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridsky 7.00 p.m., @lma @lter Theatre Laboratory Dune Dance Company presents: Danza Idea and Choreography: Petya Stoykova (Bulgaria); Production: Dune Dance Company/Dance BG; Performance: Vladimir Grudev (Bulgaria), Petya Andreeva (Bulgaria), Petya Stoykova (Bulgaria); Music: I. Albéniz, P. I. Tchaikovsky, Ch. Gounod, J. Brahms, P. Mascagni, A....
April 3 (Sunday) 2011 , The Red House 8.30 p.m , Red hall Écorché Dance performance by Miroslav Yordanov (Bulgaria) and Valeri Milenkov (Bulgaria); Performance: Valeri Milenkov (Bulgaria); Artist: Ralitza Toneva (Bulgaria); Music: Jurii Bondzukov (Bulgaria) Écorché is an organic monologue of the fetish-body, which is concentrated in the cut and in the touch. Écorché...
April 4 (Monday) 2011 , The Red House 5.00 p.m , Red hall Dance Images and Artistic Preferences by Galina Borisova (Bulgaria) Book Premiere This book collects together different opinions, experiences and personal views from many dancers, choreographers and critics, including interviews and discussions of artists who have published their texts in magazines and specialized...
April 4 (Monday) 2011 , Rayko Alexiev Gallery 8.00 p.m. Ligna (Germany) presents: The New Man This performance from 2008 is actually an experiment in four parts, which shows visions of “new man” and aims to make the public experience them as well. Using headphones, all participants move on the stage, on which there are...
April 4 (Monday) 2011, The Red House 9.30 p.m, Red hall Untitled Stills Practise-Format by An Kaler (Austria) in cooperation with Alexander Baczynski and Rodrigo Sobarzo Untitled Stills explores the pictorial quality of movement. Based on notions of the still image (in video and photography) the still in motion is reviewed by testing moments prior...
April 5 (Tuesday) 2011 , The Red House 4.30 p.m , Pesha Nikolova hall Presentation of Academy DasArts-Amsterdam by Georg Weinand (The Netherlands) DasArts is presented by Georg Weinand, DasArts dramaturgist, who will introduce the Master Degree Programme in Theatre Studies. Questions answered will include: For whom is DasArts the right place to gain specific...
April 5 (Tuesday) 2011 , Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre 7.00 p.m ., Chamber hall I Will Try Author and performance: Alexander Andriyashkin (Russia); Assistants: Vadim Kartashev (Russia), Nina Kungurova (Russia); Music which can be (un) used during the performance: the hood, F. Sinatra, P. Comelade, L. Utesov, A. Aleksandrov, A. Newman, Madonna, Damien Rice. With...
