HOT BODIES #5: Sharing Practice with Aleksandar Georgiev (Ace)

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Kinetic Poetics of Layering

This sharing focuses on a kinetic practice I have been developing over the past eight years, an evolving system of working with the body through hyper-layering. Through this practice, movement is not approached as fixed form or technique to be reproduced, but as a living, relational system that unfolds through accumulation, attention, and transformation.

By layering different kinetic logics, we gradually activate the body in ways that resonate with contemporary urgencies: political, social, and intimate. The practice proposes slowness as resistance, sensuality as knowledge, and tenderness as a radical mode of engagement. It opens space for pleasure and embodiment as emancipatory forces, insisting on the body not as a product, but as a site of ongoing negotiation and possibility.

This methodology has been central to my recent works such as SCREENSAVER and Fantastic Futures, while also informing my broader choreographic approach. In this session, I will share fragments of these kinetic practices alongside the underlying methodology and what I call a “technology of moving”- a system that invites each body to engage the practice through its own specificity rather than through imitation.

The sharing is both practical and reflective: a space to experience, question, and reimagine how we move, sense, and relate through layered kinetic attention.

What is Sharing Practice?

Sharing Practice is a format activated across many program activities of ICC. It invites artists to share their artistic interests, approaches, and curiosities with the local dance community, as well as with a wider audience interested in joining and practicing together.

This time is activated within the context of the HOT Bodies #5 program.

The format aims to create a space of mutual trust, where artistic exchange happens beyond hierarchical structures often present in educational settings. Instead of positioning one as a teacher and the other as a learner, Sharing Practice proposes a horizontal encounter—one in which participants explore, reflect, and find ways of practicing together.

These gatherings may take different forms: physical training, conceptual exploration, verbal exchange, or collective listening.

They can unfold through technique, free dancing, silence, conversation, partying, shared meals, or even gossip. Each situation opens a different mode of being together.

Sharing Practice is also a space to practice both giving and receiving—to share what one carries and to reflect on what is encountered. It values individual experience and curiosity as meaningful starting points.

The format is grounded in the belief that each of us has something to share, and each of us has something to receive. Learning happens within the process itself, without relying on predefined or institutionalized educational models.

Sharing Practice is also a space to practice both giving and receiving—to share what one carries and to reflect on what is encountered. It values individual experience and curiosity as meaningful starting points.

The format is grounded in the belief that each of us has something to share, and each of us has something to receive. Learning happens within the process itself, without relying on predefined or institutionalized educational models.
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HOT Bodies #5 is produced by ICC / Imaginative Choreographic Center, Garage Collective, and ZONA – Organization for Cultural Practices.

The project is realized with the financial support of the National Culture Fund of Bulgaria, Program Debuts, the Culture Fund of Burgas Municipality, the programs Mobility and Dance, Dance Theatre, and Performance of the Culture Fund of Sofia Municipality and the Austrian Culture Forum, Sofia.

HOT Bodies #5 is organized in partnership with Dance Frame Collective, Burgas, iIDance, Gothenburg, Adriana Budevska Drama Theatre and Youth Cultural Center, Burgas, Toplocentrala, BAZA – Space for Choreographic Research, Derida Dance, SITO Studio, Bobbina Cultural Space, Sofia and One Dance Festival, Plovdiv.