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the "LEXIC-ON" performance

My personality is a conductor to structural units of language with their meanings. I feel free to use them, choosing to move with the music, to create music, to seek my own rhythm, a story which I can share with the purity and simplicity of my sense, deep, such as it is, without changing things with clarity and completeness of the decisions that come from my imagination. "Lexic-on" performance is created on the basis of nine musical miniatures of the movement and improvisations, in each of them stand a word and a personal decision for its meaning. They build three story parts, approaching the overall structure of the performance to the structure of the genre "haiku" – the shortest form of poetry in world literature, having the clarity, completeness, and even the emptiness of one music note. "Lexic-on" performance translates the happening of dance, sound and language into a personal interpretation. Not the expression of something but its existence. Au...

OSTALGIA - a performance project

by Ognian Golev Introduction to the script of "Ostalgie" performance, a project of the Bulgarian Non-governmental Organization for Contemporary Alternative Art and Culture - "Based on actual events"  "Ostalgie" is a term coined in the early 90-ies of XX century, derived from the German words "Ost" (East) and "Nostalgie" (nostalgia), used to denote specific nostalgia for the life under the socialist system in Eastern Europe, especially Germany, Poland and the former Soviet Union. "Ostalgie" in Bulgarian semantics acquires another meaning - "something that remains", "something that stays still". This is the starting point of the theater project - "the apparently changed things" in Bulgaria in the transition from socialism to democracy. The idea is that the adoption of the past, the conclusion of peace with its positive and negative aspects, makes a free life in the present, mainly in cho...