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April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureauAssociation and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
April 1 (Friday) 2011, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre, 7.00 p.m.
Look Look
Concept and performance: Anne Juren (Austria/France), Krõõt Juurak (Austria/Estonia)
With the cooperation of Eva Blut (Austria), co production Tanzquartier Wien, Unit F.
Look Look is a choreographic transcription of the creative process at play in the world of fashion. Devised in the manner of a fashion show, the starting point for the work was the desire to to show the techniques of the designer Eva Blut, as well as the catwalk attitude differences when the clothes are worn by two different people. Anne Juren and Krõõt Juurak perform a number of poses inspired by the clothing. The body and the image change, mutating from a stereotypical fashion figure to an everyday posture, from a clearly identifiable form to a hybrid, plastiform, more difficult to recognise.
Duration: 45 min.
Tickets: 12/10 BGN
Krut Juurak was born in 1981 in Tallinn. She studied choreography at the Arnhem Institute for the Arts and visual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam. Currently based in Vienna. She works internationally as independent choreographer, performer, lecturer. During the past 10 years she has created works such as "Look Look" (with Anne Juren), "Once Upon", "Burning Down the House" (with Laura Kalauz), "A Text is a List.." (with Ralo Mayer) etc which have been shown at various theatre, dance and performance platforms in Europe and beyond. Ongoing collaborator with Multiplex Fiction, International Festival and Chicks on Speed. Her recent works include "Autodomestication", "Ride the Wave Dude" and "Burn Your Boats" (with Mårten Spångberg).
Anne Juren (1978, Grenoble, France) is a choreographer and dancer based in Vienna. After her diploma of dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse de Lyon and her studies of french literature, she finished her apprenticeship at the Trisha Brown Company in New York. In 2001, She founds the association Wiener Tanz- und Kunstbewegung in Vienna and creates several choreographies like the solo A? (2003) , J’aime (2004) in collaboration with Alice Chauchat, the solo Code Series (2005), Look Look (2007) in collaboration with Kroot Juurak, and Komposition (2008) in collaboration with Marianne Baillot, Agata Maszkiewicz and Alix Eynaudi. In 2008 she was also artist in residence at Tanzquartier Wien and took part in the two European artistic programs IDEE and APAP in which she develops a series of works called Patterns of Sport and Dance. She worked as a choreographer for the Burgtheater and co-curate the festival Quick Change at the Tanzquartier in Vienna. After that she present with DD Dorvillier and Annie Dorsen Pièce Sans Paroles a staged Tenessee Williams’s piece The two charactere play performed without words and premiered her last piece „Magical“ at the Impulstanz Festival 2010. She is actually working on a new project for autumn 2011.
April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureau Association and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
April 1 (Friday), 2011, The Red House, Red hall, 8.30 p.m.
+/- 359 Topology
Concept and performance: Deufert+Plischke (Germany), Iva Sveshtarova (Bulgaria), Neli Miteva (Bulgaria), Willy Prager (Bulgaria), Stephan Shtereff (Bulgaria), Mila Odazhieva (Bulgaria), Maya Stefanova (Bulgaria), Boyan Manchev (Bulgaria)
Our investigation into the (self)representation of Bulgaria was not intended as a historical or political documentation. Rather we wanted to find out what is the texture, the complex and interwoven memories, facts and stereotypes that build the many voices of the narrative of Bulgaria. And in a step further we constructed an independent work, a maze, a work that leaves its narrative fundament in order to emancipate itself from it. The political is to be found in the presentation of the event itself and in the invitation it speaks out: a calling to deliberately participate in what we constructed, to build your own individual topology, be it a political-historical passage, an aesthetic topology or a queer archeology. So make your decision!
You are standing in front of +/- 359 Topology much like standing in front of the Labyrinth, but without the red thread of Ariadne.
. You have to participate! You have to move, you have to approach, you have to come closer: you will dance a dance of dis-orientation!
So +/- 359 Topology invites you to examine it as a collection of collections. Each element of the installation is in itself a collection of memories, facts and desires. They all connect to the other elements without exhibiting this connection, but rather by inviting you to be active. To construct the relation, to draw the connecting lines. And when you come back the collection will have changed by the traces of all the active passengers. The performance of the installation creates the installation. And what emerges is not pre-fixed. +/- 359 Topology is a room of EMERGENCE.
Duration: 150 min.
Tickets: 5 BGN
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April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureau Association and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
April 2 (Saturday) 2011 Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre, 7.00 p.m.
Viva Mandic
Concept: Marko Mandić (Slovenia) and Boyana Iablovec (Slovenia); Performance: Marko Mandić (Slovenia), Production Via Negativa, 2009
In one hour Marko literary extracts his artistic life into one single glass of sweat. On two video screens we simultaneously witness his theatre achievements from the beginning of his career up to the Slovene national award (2009) and his secret artistic experience from two nights spent in Slovene National Theatre repository. The essence of his performance summarizes the three following questions: 1. Why am I doing all this? 2. Who is all this meant for? 3. What is my purpose? With his answers Marko remains radical and uncompromising: 1. Because of me. 2. For Me. 3. Me. Viva Mandić! Exhibitionist, Narcissus, Jester, Intellectual, Animal, Egoist, Artist.
Duration: 60 min.
Tickets: 12/10 BGN
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Marko Mandić, an actor and a performer, an established presence in his native Slovenia and an emerging theatre star in the international arena. This was confirmed by the selection of his work by Shooting Stars at the 2007 Berlinale and by numerous awards he has received for his work. He graduated from Ljubljana Academy of Theatre and then supplemented his studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the HB Studio in New York for two years. “The only moment that has nothing to do with acting is ejaculation. I can’t act that.”
April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureau Association and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
April 2 (Saturday) 2011, The Red House, Red hall, 9.00 p.m
Heidi
Creation and performance: Aleksandar Georgiev (Macedonia)
The Project is dealing with stupidity as term, stead of mind and sensation. The aim is far away from saving the world but for sure it brings something instead of it. Heidi is a constructed figure – “something” that symbolizes and represents naivety, purity, silliness and joy by all meanings…. I am also provoked to find out if she might be charmingly stupid, though she is too cute to be called “stupid”.
Duration: 15 min.
Tickets: 12/10 BGN (the ticket is for Heidi and Formula)
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Aleksandar Georgiev is born in Skopje, Macedonia. He graduated dance theatre in Sofia at New Bulgarian University. After graduation attends different trainings and works. He attended the educational program of Nomad Dance Academy 2009 and there he started the process of creating. In the meantime he was one of the 50 people that were educated by David Zambrano and spent 3 months in Costa Rica. Amazed from the term „nomad”, he is trying putting it in practice.
Formula
Choreography and concept: Iskara Sukarova (Macedonia) and Dejan Srhoj (Slovenia); Dramaturgy: Ana Vujanovic (Serbia)); Production manager: Biljana Tanurovska - Kjulavkovski (Macedonia); Performance: Iskra 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 dramaturgs, theoreticians, performers...
First Formula was based on the deconstruction of some aspects of classical ballet (moving in diagonals, facing public and facing up-stage, partnering, gestures). These aspects were later re-shaped, inverted, exposed. The result was far from ballet but it kept aiming at precision of performance, quality of touch and being human.
In the newest phase of the research and process of development of Formula, Sukarova and Srhoj invited new performer, Aleksandar Georgiev, who together with the authors worked on the (re)shaping of the given structures, articulating new bodily communication into the concept.
Duration: 25 min.
Tickets: 8/10 BGN (the ticket is for Heidi and Formula)
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Dejan Srhoj, born in 1978 in Ljubljana, is a freelance performer and choreographer. He is currently involved in projects dealing with the questions of copying and originality: as a performer in Pupilija Papa Pupilo and Pupilceks and Fake It directed by Janez Jansa. As a dramaturg in Hommage a trois, a dance theatre piece directed by Dragana Alfirevic.
He is interested in dancing as non-product and on the other hand interested in creating dance pieces that would act as good products. He has great interest in the Balkan region and has co-founded regional project NDA-Nomad Dance Academy. In 2008 he has gained BA in Humanities at The Open University.
Iskara Sukarova is an established principal soloist and choreographer at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet. She was a student of contemporary dance at the National Conservatorium Superior in Lyon, France, and in 2002 obtained her Master’s Degree at the Laban Center in London, UK. In 2003 she was invited to perform her solo piece Off at a Tangentat the Tanztenzenden, Germany, the 2nd Balkan Dance Platform - Bucharest and in Fivizzano, Italy, where she was awarded the Golden Dolphin. In 2003, together with Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski and Nataša Dimitrievska, she founded Lokomotiva - Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture. She is one of the founders of the Balkan Dance Network and the NOMAD Dance Academy project.
April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureau Association and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
April 3 (Sunday) 2011, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, 7.00 p.m
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. Dvořák, J. Massenet, F. Chopin, J. Strauß
Danza is about dance and its ubiquity in everyday life. The project’s aim is to reinterpret the mundane as a piece of art.
Duration: 40 min.
Tickets: 8/10 BGN
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Dune dance companyis a contemporary dance company based in Burgas, Bulgaria. Its projects use the language of contemporary dance and dance theatre. Most of the members have received their formal education as dancers at the New Bulgarian University or the Plovdiv Academy of Music, and have participated in numerous workshops and projects in Bulgaria and abroad. Dune’s first performances took place in Burgas in 1992. The dancers have also collaborated with other dance companies, such as LINGA, Felix Ruckert, Robert Tannion /DV8/, etc. Dune’s choreographer is Petya Stoykova, who was the recipient of the 1999 Margarita Arnaudova Award for Best Choreography and was awarded a scholarship by UNESCO for Creative Residence in Senegal. She sat on the jury for the 2007 Margarita Arnaudova Awards.
April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureau Association and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
April 3 (Sunday) 2011, The Red House, Red hall, 8.30 p.m
Dance performance of Miroslav Yordanov (Bulgaria) and Valeri Milenkov (Bulgaria)
Écorché 
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 explores the dynamics of a body, which has driven the personality away; a body which has its own thoughts on its borders and whole; a body which is radical in its gestures, which is dissolved and sensitive. Écorché is part of a long-term project by Miroslav Yordanov which aims at the realization of a series of solo performances and chamber music performances in the area of contemporary dance. As a result, because of this project the following performances were created: Void, Ductus – A Manual on Riding Dead Horses, and Slit – Mishima and St. Sebastian, which is a performance created based on parts of the biography and works by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
Duration: 50 min.
Tickets: 8/10 BGN
April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureau Association and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
April 4 (Monday) 2011, The Red House, Red hall, 5.00 p.m
Presentation of the book “Dance images and artistic preferences” by Galina Borisova. Translation: Galina Borissova ,Angelina Georgieva and Mira Marianova
Author, compiler: Galina Borisova Photography: Viktor Vlaesku,Publishing house: New Bulgarian University With the support of Sofia Municipality program "Culture" and the Foundation «Etud»
The book «Dance images and artistic preferences» collected together different opinions, experiences and personal views from many dancers, choreographers and critics, including interviews and discussions of artists, published their texts in journals and specialized literature during the early 60'te to our days . The book contains original texts translated by Angelina Georgieva and Mira Marianova, covering the development of modern and contemporary dance in Europe and America. The texts are also included personal observations and critical texts by Galina Borisova for contemporary dance related the Bulgarian scene after 1989. The texts are aimed at all artists and dancers dealing with contemporary theatrical forms as well as a wider audience.
"My understanding of what dance is constantly changing. His variety of techniques and methods led me to deal with this book. Although in mine early years I have studying classical dance training, facing later in practice with modern dance techniques I began to respect diversity, individuality, especially the bandy and recently even "unprofessional". This book aims to acquaint the reader with the diversity of artistic preference, or even to changes some conservative notions of automatic dance understanding."
Galina Borisova
Free entrance
April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureau Association and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
April 4 (Monday) 2011, Gallery “Raiko Alexiev”, 8.00 p.m
Ligna present:
The new man
The New Man is a performance without actors and stage. There is nothing to see except for the activity of the visitors. They are listening to a radio play that not only deals with the four aesthetic positions mentioned above, but proposes gestures and movements according to the different blueprints of the new man. But the audience is not listening to the same things at the same time. It is split up into four groups. For fifteen minutes each group is listening to one of these positions, then their program is changing and their role is transferred to another group. In the end every group of listeners will have tested and quoted every attitude. They play the same play four times with different roles, being actors and viewers at the same time. The New Man calls for turning the production of gestures and movements into a public, collective affair.
Duration: 60 min.
Tickets: 15/10 BGN
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Ligna exists since 1997. The group consists of the media- and and performance artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hueners and Torsten Michaelsen, who since the early nineties work at the Freies Sender Kombinat (FSK), a public non-profit radio station in Hamburg. Bi-weekly they provide a program called Lignas Music Box, which asks the listeners to call in and play their favorite songs via the telephone. All works of LIGNA have in common, that they regard their audience as a collective of producers. In a temporary association it can produce unforseeable, uncontrollable effects, that challenge the regulation of a space.
One of Ligna’s models of media usage, the Radio Ballet (invented in 2002), provides radio listeners with a choreography of excluded and forbidden gestures in formerly public, now controlled spaces. Others are the Radio concert for 144 mobile phones, which lets the radio listeners participate in a process of collective composition, or The new Man, a theatre play without actors, which engages the audience in a complex gestural interaction.
April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureau Association and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
April 4 (Monday) 2011, The Red house, Red hall, 9.30 p.m
Untilted Stills
Practise-Format by An Kaler in cooperation with Alexander Baczynski-Jenkins 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 to a settling or arrival, and vibrating in-between fixed relatable positions.
The research approaches poses and posing as an activation in relation to movement and physical practises – negotiating intentions and presence in a ongoing action of framing. How can we indicate that moment of re_framing and displace projections in order to allow for shifts and gaps to operate transformatively? How do practises and investigations correlate in a moment of shared practise?
For each public presentation one music album is selected, marking the duration of the endeavour.
Duration: 50 min.
Tickets: 8/10 BGN
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An Kaler studied Transmedial Art at University for Applied Arts Vienna. Her artistic practise combines dance, performance and visual art. In 2010 An graduated from the BA Pilotprogramm “Contemporary Dance, Context, Choreography” University of the Arts Berlin.
An’s solo performance SAVE A HORSE RIDE A COWBOY premiered at Tanztage Berlin in January 2010 and was presented at Imagetanz in brut Vienna.In2010 An participated in the residence-program Accumulations at Tanzquartier Vienna. As a performer An Kaler worked with Philipp Gehmacher in the videocreation of At arms length, as well as for the performance In their name.Currently An is working in exchange with Alexander Baczynski-Jenkins and Rodrigo Sobarzo on Untitled Stills.
April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureau Association and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
DasArts-Amsterdam, from Georg Weinand
DasArts is an international Master of Theatre in the form of a training laboratory for professionals in the performing arts.
We regularly introduce ourselves by means of an informal Mobile Counter.
The next Mobile Counter is hosted by the Antistatic Festival (Sofia) on 6th of April 2011 at 4.30pm in the Red House.
DasArts will be presented by Georg Weinand, DasArts dramaturge, who will introduce the Master of Theatre program by questions like:
For whom is DasArts the right place to gain specific artistic competences? What’s the DasArts Dramaturgy of Learning like? Which specific position takes DasArts in the cultural and educational field? How can you apply?
April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureau Association and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
April 5 (Tuesday) 2011, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre, 7.00 p.m.
I will try
Author and performence: 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 the support of TSEKH Dance Agency
“Alexander Andriyashkin is educated as a mathematician, one of the founders of a legendary dance company Wampeter (Novosibirsk), known as a collaborator, actionist and very good performer. This season he opens with his first solo - an interactive performance “I will try”, which is build on a constant dialogue with the audience. It is a rare case when an artist and a spectacular don’t just look on each other from the darkness. It is that right chance to destroy the invisible but existing borderline across the edge of a stage. It is a risky experiment - because you never know – will we succeed to understand each other? And do we really need it?” Tatyana Safonova
Duration: 35 min.
Tickets: 12/10 BGN
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April 1-5 (Friday-Tuesday), The Red House, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre and Gallery „Raiko Alexiev”
Б brain С store П project, InformBureau Association and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Antistatic – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
April 5 (Tuesday) 2011, @lma @lter - Theater Laboratory, 21.00 p.m.
EIO
Performance: Maria Baroncha (Romania), Eduard Gabia (Romania), Dragana Bulut Serbia
EIO is displayed to you in this very moment. EIO invests into writing this text for practical purpose of you reading it. EIO is practical EIO gives you purposeEIO helps you theexperience EIO provides condition. EIO makes you active. EIO has no judgment. EIO projects no value. It is a utopian fiction of practical solutions. It mixes work and leisure to reach a futuristic adventure. It is the investigation of the practical performativity. It is a co-created experience where the ultimate aim is to be practical. EIO is one hour society One hour society allows the escape from learned helplessnes
Duration: 60 min.
Tickets: Negotiation with the performers
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