Educational platform “Without Distance” within Antistatic International Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Where: Sofia, Bulgaria
When: May 9-19
Visible Thinking Body (VTB) by Sergiu Matis
10 & 11 May 2023, from 11.00 АМ to 2.00 PM
In his workshop the choreographer Sergiu Matis will share some of the secret tools of his way of making dance, being developed since 2013 as the Visible Thinking Body practice (VTB). VTB are ways of navigating and thinking the body in motion. What kind of thinking can be made visible in action and how does it become a dance?
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Nothing Private by Anton Ovchinnikov
13, 14 & 15 May 2023, from 11.00 АМ to 2.00 PM
“Nothing Private” is led by the Ukrainian choreographer Anton Ovchinnikov and focused on the relationship between the public and the personal in the dance. These two spheres not only influence each other, but have become part of every contemporary artist’s message. Regardless of the frequency they are present in art, the question of how willing we are to share our personal experiences in public still remains relevant. Are we ready to take responsibility for our point of view in front of others? Are we ready to make the private public and where are the boundaries between the two?
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Being Moved by Simon Meyer
16 & 17 May 2023, from 11.00 АМ to 5.00 PM
Everyone knows those moments when the mind becomes our dictator and challenges us to rethink the spontaneity and trust in our own intuition. Thus, participants in Simon Meyer’s workshop will surrender to the intelligence and wisdom in this “body-mind” alignment. Due to its co-creation potential, they will look for ways to the full creative and emotional expression, self-empowerment, with clear boundaries, flow and consciousness.
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Dance Criticism Lab, Lecturer: Angelina Georgieva
Dance Criticism Lab is a space for critical reflection on the programme of the 16. “Antistatic” International Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance. Preparatory meetings at the beginning of May will be held in order to offer an introduction to the dance criticism and the basic concepts of contemporary dance theory, while regular meetings with a flexible schedule will take place during the festival when participants will reflect on the performances from the festival programme and practice on creating publications in different genres for various media.
The Lab is open to students within the humanities, with a focus on performing arts, theory of culture, and journalism. Use of English is an asset.
To apply, please send a short bio and cover letter to project.antistatic@gmail.com, no later than April 25, 2023. Selected participants will have free access to the festival programme.
Educational platform “Without Distance” 2023 is part of the project “Life Long Burning – Future Lost and Found (LLB 3), and implemented with the financial support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the “Culture” Programme of the Sofia Municipality, the National Culture Fund under the Programme “Recovery and Development of Private Cultural Organizations”, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria.
Costs for participants: 30 BGN, per workshop
Contact details:
https://antistaticfestival.org/en/
project.antistatic@gmail.com
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