Two choreographers, performers and life partners, Stanislav Genadiev and Violeta Vitanova, take the stage. Each carries their own movement logic, inner rhythm and imagined reality. Co-Surface explores the coexistence of these two worlds. 

The performance examines choreography as a living system of decisions emerging in real time. In this context, the stage becomes an ethical practice — a way in which bodies relate to one another, make decisions and shape the conditions of their shared presence. Each gesture is an act of listening, responding and negotiating. Listening here is not passive reception, but an active, embodied act of attention. It implies openness to the other, without seeking to assimilate them. The work raises the question of what it means to hear the other without reducing them to oneself, and how to create a space in which difference can exist without being neutralised.

Co-Surface seeks the transitional moments in which movement transcends the physical and becomes an act of shared awareness. The piece traces how bodies meet, diverge and negotiate the boundaries of their difference and freedom, shaping a choreography of coexistences. 

Stanislav Genadiev and Violeta Vitanova are artists working in the field of independent performing arts. They both graduated from the National School of Dance Arts in Sofia and have since taken part in international dance projects, Bulgarian theatrical productions, and created their own original performances. Since 2007 they have been involved as dancers and choreographers in Kinesthetic Project, with their shared creative work beginning in 2006, while Stanislav was dancing with the Swiss company Ligna. Their first successful production was “Imago” (2006), for which they received the first-ever IKARUS Award for debut dance performance in the history of the Union of Bulgarian Artists. In 2013 they won the IKARUS Award for contemporary dance and performance for their choreography and performance in “The Mousetrap” in “Hamlet”, directed by Yavor Gardev. Since 2015, Genadiev and Vitanova have been working with French choreographer Brice Leroux. In 2021 the two initiated the founding of the association “Arealnost”, collaborating within with Filip Milanov, Valeri Milenkov, Elena Kitova, and Ralitsa Toncheva. The productions of Stanislav and Violeta have been presented at numerous festivals in Bulgaria and across Europe. Alongside their work as dance artists, Violeta teaches at the National School of Dance Arts in Sofia, while Stanislav pursues his own original music projects.

The performance was realised with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, the National Culture Fund and the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, as part of the “Creative Crossroads” programme under the project “Life Long Burning – Future Lost and Found (LLB 3)”. A co-production by Arealnost Association, Brain Store Project, Nomad Dance Academy – Slovenia and 4Culture Association – Bucharest, in partnership with the Regional Centre for Contemporary Arts Toplocentrala and Etud Gallery.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​