Criticism
Europe As a Beautiful Mess
Ina Doublekova talks to Heidi Wiley, executive director of the network of publicly funded theatres in Europe – European Theatre Convention, about the role of theatre in today’s divided…
In Between the Mirrors of the Choreographic World of Faye Driscoll
The renowned performance maker and director Faye Driscoll and her dramaturg Dages Keates visited Bulgaria for the very first time in October 2024 for an artistic residency. At the end of their…
Making Art Under the Collapsing Sky
How can we work and create at times of increasingly severe crisis? Angelina Georgieva tells us about the International Choreographic Convention in Timișoara, where the dominating themes were…
Theatre as a Site of Democratic Experience
Mira Todorova talks to Karla Mäder, Head Dramaturg of Deutsches Theater Berlin, about the new directions and challenges for this institution in today’s complex social environment.…
Traces of Moving in November
Angelina Georgieva helps us immerse ourselves in the atmosphere and events of the international Helsinki Dance Festival which took place in 2–12 November 2023. One of the most interesting events…
The Queer Accident
Tomi Paasonen had an upward career as a ballet dancer, interrupted by a serious accident. He began creating diverse and highly eclectic performances that challanged ballet tradition. Stanimir…
Dance that does not have connection with humanity is starting to go away
Interview by Mira Todorova with Barbara Bryan, Executive Director of Movement Research, New York, on the state of the performing arts in New York, the new challenges the artists are facing and the…
National Dance Platforms: Dance, Globalisation and National Narratives in a Nutshell
Throughout the 2010s and 2020s, we have lived in a world plagued by rising nationalisms that ironically seem to be very well interconnected on the global stage. However, not all things related to the…
Between core and context
Pia Brezavšček on the 3rd Bulgarian Dance Platform and the 15th Antistatic Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance in Sofia My first impression of the Bulgarian contemporary dance scene…
‘Backs boxes towels’: through the looking glass with Maria Kefirova
Bulgarian-Canadian performer and choreographer Maria Kefirova’s performance “Backs boxes towels”, co-produced by DNK contemporary dance and performance, Sofia and MAI | Montréal, arts…
