IMPROVISATION AND PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP

September 1 - 2, 10:00 h. || Choreography buildings of AMDFA, 94 Todor Aleksandrov Str.
Maximun number of participants: 14
The workshop is directed towards professionals and high-rank amateurs, and is absolutely free.

Registration:
Please, send your CV to [email protected].

About the choreographer:
Zornitsa Stoyanova holds B.A. in Dance and Sound Design from Bennington College, VT. After concluding her studies, she moved to Philadelphia, PA where she started creating, producing and presenting performing art and video under the name Here[begin] Dance.  She is devoted to helping young and emerging choreographers and has curated and produced Current: an evening of dance and art and Dance Cinema Projects geared specifically to Philadelphia communities. In 2008 Zornitsa was a fellow with Headlong Performance Institute, where she focused on abstract character building, clowning and interactive theatrical performance. Later that year she studied with Deborah Hay.  Her studies with Hay sparked a new interest in performance presence and deconstruction of communication.  In 2011 she was an artist in Meet the Next Generation program, part of eXplore Dance Festival in Romania, where she studied with Meg Stewart.  Since then, Zornitsa has sought out professional development opportunities researching art practices in improvisation, communication and abstracting the body.

Abоut the workshop:
Improvisation and Performance Workshop will be an investigation into the body as a container for multiplicity of movement and gestural narratives.  We will use improvisation structures working with presence as a psychological vs. movement initiated tool and explore the subtleties of the states created.  We will train ourselves into shape-shifting playing between presenting human, creature or cultural referenced images.
Zornitsa Stoyanova is particularly interested in a constant shift of extreme emotional states and distorted body images.  She plays with ideas of meaning and recognizability, often mixing dance moves appropriated from different movement genres.   She is deeply inspired by Deborah Hay’s “Ready, Fire, Aim” approach and uses it in her creations of embodied characters.