We don’t know what fate is cooking for us, but we do know that in the show “Happy Together – Unhappy Together” three women have come together to cook. Literally. And whatever they cook – they will give to the audience. Literally.

But can these three women cook; who are they and how come that they will cook? They are classical and contemporary dance stars of dance. So why do they cook and not dance? Wait a minute – no one said they wouldn’t dance while they cook. We’re just saying that in the end there will be something cooked – we don’t know if you’ll like the show or not, we don’t know if you’ll be Happy or Unhappy, but you certainly won’t leave empty-handed.

But is this art? Look, precisely because it’s not quite certain what art is, we offer you try something sure – baked in the oven. And you’ll like it. As for the rest – who knows… In any case, Marta, Mila and Teodora will do their best.

Teodora Popova is a Bulgarian dancer and choreographer with spanning experience in contemporary dance performance, choreography for theatre, and dance education.

A graduate of the Bulgarian National Ballet School (1989), she began her performance career with Arabesque Contemporary Dance Company before co-founding the Amarant Dance Studio with Krassen Krastev in 1993, developing projects in co-production with Ricochet Dance Company (London) and Tanztheater Global (Berlin). In 1998 she joined the international contemporary dance company Déjà Donné, performing in over 200 shows across Europe, North America, and South Korea, and participating in the Avignon and Edinburgh Festivals. In 2003 she received the prestigious Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival for “There Where We Were”.

Alongside her performance work, Popova has taught contemporary dance in Bulgaria, the USA, Czech Republic, Russia, and Italy, and has been a lecturer at the New Bulgarian University. Her choreographic work spans a wide range of theatrical contexts — from classical ballet and musical theatre to drama — with credits at the National Youth Theatre, Bulgarian Army Theatre, Vazrajdane Theatre, Satire Theatre, Sofia Puppet Theatre, and Plovdiv Theatre, among others.

In 2024 she received both the IKAR Award of the Union of Bulgarian Artists in the category of Contemporary Dance and Performance, and the Sofia Municipality Award in Dance, for “Esmeralda and Raymonda”, a project by Galina Borisova at RCCA Toplocentrala, in which she also performed as a dancer and co-creator. Her most recent work as creator and performer, “Happy Together/Unhappy Together” (2025, Artitude & Toplocentrala), earned her an IKARUS Award nomination in 2026.