4. Bulgarian Dance Platform//17. ANTISTATIC: Critical Mass

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Three performers hang in mid-air, while holding a table and attempting to have dinner at it. They find themselves negotiating the critical nature of both the table - their shared fulcrum and burden, and of their own weight, or weigthlessness.

Among a postmodern crisis of individualism, where an obsession to follow one’s own needs often suspends us in the weightlessness of indecision, the performance (critically) examines the fallacy of self-sufficiency, and wonders whether in order to have our own individual freedom, we might need to hold the table for someone else to have theirs.

Silvia is especially interested in everyday life and mixes forms and genres in attempts to express this. She’s got a BA degree in architecture from Cambridge University and an MA in contemporary dance from London Contemporary Dance School. She lives between London and Sofia, Bulgaria, where she gets involved in creative and educational projects around dance, performance, screendance and documentary. She is a co-founder of Room Temperature Association, which has the ambition to help make contemporary art more accessible and better understood in Bulgaria.

The project is realized with the financial support of the National Culture Fund, Debuts Programme, and courtesy of Hod Movement Lab, Profixt Training Centre and Mr. Bricolage Bulgaria.

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The international program of Antistatic Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance is organized is organized by the "Brain Store Project" foundation and the "Nomad Dance Academy Bulgaria" association, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, Goethe-Institut Bulgarien,  Sofia Municipality - Calendar of Cultural Events, National Culture Fund, programme “Creative Europe”, SEEDS - South-East European Dance Stations project - co-funded by the “Creative Europe” Programme of the European Union, and in partnership with RCSI "Toplocentrala", "Derrida" Stage, National Gallery “Kvadrat 500” and Club “DOM”.

Bulgarian Dance Platform is realized with the financial support of Ministry of Culture.

The Educational programme “Without Distance” 2024 is part of the project „Life Long Burning – Future Lost and Found (LLB 3)   and is realized with the financial support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, National Culture Fund, programme “Creative Europe”, and in partnership with Goethe-Institut Bulgarien.