5. Bulgarian Dance Platform // 19. ANTISTATIC: raw confessional poetry

The performance is based on fundamental challenges for us that we found in three books: “Manifesto of the New Realism” by Maurizio Ferraris, “Theatre and its Double” by Antonin Artaud and “Realism” by Kerstin Stremmel. Some of them we didn’t even manage to read to the end.

At a time when all contemporary discussions are related to politics and identity, to the phenomenon of post-truth and the rise of populism, our team distances itself from these obsessive trends. At a time when everything is changing at a dizzying pace, the team deals with its own centrifugal forces and their external imprints.

The performance aims to inspire or destroy the intentions and roughness between the individual segments: choreography, dance, dramaturgy, direction, musical scores, presence, clothing, objects, light, shadows, songs, manifestos and all kinds of components and techniques that our team activates because it needs quotes, references, models. We produce to create a world that can be easily destroyed. Do we want that?

A poetic punk brutalism tempts the musicians from KAKE - Andrew Anderson, Martian Tabakov and Martin Penev, together with the artists - Galina Borisova, Elena Ivanova, Nevena Kaludova, to probe together the dissatisfaction with the surrounding environment, as unnecessary negativity, launching harmless protest proposals, without established slogans and manifestos. The six artists on stage perform spontaneous structured actions, without constant thought, without narrative, without imitations. We do not play roles, we are ourselves! We are interested in the virtues of certainty, pre-theoretical trust, the syndrome of suspicion, the wounds of modernism, the nihilism of postmodernism, conceptual suggestions, etc.

We like:

To omit

To view details as disturbing evidence

To emphasize things, but to doubt our positions

To seek all kinds of knowledge

To have a constructive character

To be poetic brutalism

To not be naturally crippled

To affirm the elusive

To be realistically prepared

“We deal with realism because it is real, with naturalism because it is natural, and with brutalism because it is monumental.” - Galina Borisova
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With the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and in partnership with Etude Gallery.

Special thanks to Elena Tsvyatkova for materials for scenography - a free resource that has come out of production and use.