5. Bulgarian Dance Platform // 19. ANTISTATIC: CO–SURFACE / СЪ–ПОВЪРХНОСТ

Two choreographers, performers and life partners, Stanislav Genadiev and Violeta Vitanova, stand on stage. Each brings their own logic of movement, inner rhythm and imagined reality. Co-Surface explores the coexistence of these two worlds.

The work considers choreography as a living system of decisions emerging in real time. In this context, the stage becomes an ethical practice, a way in which bodies relate to each other, make decisions and shape the conditions of their joint presence. Every gesture is an act of listening, reacting and negotiating.

Listening here is not passive perception, but an active, bodily act of attention. It implies openness to the other, without striving for their assimilation. The work poses the question of what it means to hear the other without reducing them to ourselves, and how to create a space in which difference can exist without being neutralized.

CO–SURFACE searches for the transient moments in which movement transcends the physical and becomes an act of shared awareness. The work traces how bodies meet, diverge and negotiate the boundaries of their difference and freedom, shaping a choreography of co-existences.

Idea, choreography and performance: Stanislav Genadiev and Violeta Vitanova
Music: Stanislav Genadiev
Costumes and lighting: Ralitsa Toneva
Dramaturgy: Snezhanka Mihaylova
PR: Mihaela Lyutskanova
Production: Areality Association
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The performance was realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, the National Culture Fund and the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, as part of the Creative Crossroads programme of the project "Life Long Burning – Future Lost and Found (LLB 3)". Co-production of Areality Association, Brain Store Project, Nomad Dance Academy - Slovenia and 4Culture Association - Bucharest in partnership with RCCA "Toplotsentrala" and Gallery "Etude".