Mirror Phase
performance
“Bodies have their own light that accompanies them throughout their life. They burn up, or they will do so one day. Positive and negative electricity complement each other as a new whole.”
Egon Schiele
Idea: Iva Sveshtarova; Directing: Iva Sveshtarova
in co-operation with the performers
With the participation of: Ralitza Kashova,
Mila Odazhieva, Iva Sveshtarova; Visual surrounding: Màrio
Bessa – Portugal; Costumes: Neli Mitewa
Iva Sveshtarova is an independent artist, graduated from Theatre-Studio „4XC“. She has completed „Synthetic Stage Arts“ speciality at the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Certificate Program Formation for Tutors in Portugal. In 2006 Iva gained a scholarship for DanceWeb06 in Vienna’s ImpulsTanz Festival. From 2002 until 2006 she has worked as a performer in Acto - Instituto de Arte Dramatica, Estareja, Portugal. Iva has worked with directors and choreographers like Fillipe Pereira, Helena Botto, Andre Riot-Sarcey, Galina Borissova, Nikolai Georgiev and many others. As a performer Iva has participated in more than thirty theatre performances and over twenty festivals. Her experience as a director is: "Mirror Phase" in Sofiaq Bulgaria (2007) based on a research of Egon Schiele's paintings, " The Transformation"(2004) inspired by Kafka in Acto - Instituto de Arte Dramatica, Estareja , Portugal; "Transfe r" (2004) - site specific performance for "Paralelo 40", Fatela, Portugal. Iva has recently collaborated with “ Á brain Ñ store Ï project” - creative concepts' store- for the "Watch Your Back" performance and other projects.
Honours:
2006 - Third Prize for the piece "666" at the First National Concurs of Contemporary Choreography , Sofia, Bulgaria
2001 - Actor award for the performance ``The Wound`` - International festival of author?s projects - Sarajevo
Ralitsa Kashova is an independent artist, graduated from Theatre-Studio „4XC“. She has completed „ Synthetic Stage Arts“ at the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Ralitsa has worked with directors and choreographers such as Nikolai Georgiev, Erol Aleksandrov, Galina Borissova, Jan Pierre Dupui , Loran Fratel. She has participated in thirty theatre performances and some international projects such as “Jusemina” , France, “Weihnachtsrabatt ", Germany, "Intelligent ocean", Portugal .
Professional experience:
Theatre - Studio "4XC" , Sofia -Studio for Synthetic Stage Art , Die Rastlosen - Vienna,Austria , State Experimental Theater, Gabrovo , Experimental On- Table Theatre, Sofia. Ralitsa Kashova has recently collaborated with the band Velahavle, Sarajevo in the records of a song for their album "Reconnect".
Mila Odazhieva works as an independent artist and producer at Odavision. She graduated from Theatre-Studio „4XC“ and „ Synthetic Stage Arts“ of the University in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Grant-holder for Dance WEB Austria, Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University Holland. Mila Odazhieva has worked with choreographers like Galina Borissova, Ivo Dimtchev, Joseph Nadj, Masaki Ivana. She has participated in projects of Frankfurter K?che, Thomas Lehmen as well as of the Working Center of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards/ Pontedera.
Mila Odazhieva is a co-founder of “ Á brain Ñ store Ï project” - creative concepts’ store.
Mario Bessa, born in 1973, studies Art History in the University of Porto. At the moment he attends the course of Arts and Techniques of Performance of the Contemporary Academy of Performance and the course of Communication, Marketing, Public Relations and Publicity.
He has working experience in Corbeil Essones Municipal Theater in Paris and England, where he worked with Robert Ornbo and David Hersey among many others, he has worked also in theatres like The Royal National Theatre of London in performances like "Oklahoma" directed by Trevor Nunn. He is the author of more than fifty lighting designs for theater, dance, new circus and opera. His educational carrier includes a director position at the Course Artes e Tecnicas do Espectaculo da Academia Contemporanea do Espectaculo and lecturing of various lighting design and theatrical theory and practice classes.
In the recent years he uses video projections as a lightning technique and develops the concept of multimedia lighting design.
Neli Mitewa has graduated in Fashion Design at the Professional School of Applied Arts and Sciences in Trier, Germany. She works as a fashion designer of her own collections (brand names “nelmit” and “TAPA” -with Youlian Tabakov), she is also a freelance-designer for companies, as well as a lecturer, design consultant and fashion journalist. Among the prizes she has won at international fashion contests, there is The Design Innovation Award for outstanding design, awarded by the Ministry of Economy of North-Rhine/Westphalia-Germany, as well as her qualification for the Final of the GRAND PRIX INTERNATIONAL FASHION DESIGN BERLIN 2003.
As costume designer, she has created the costumes for a number of theatre and dance performances.
“Neli Mitewa turns the dress into art” (HNA Kassel)
“Philosophy fashion – clothing as a mental creation” (TM TextilMitteilungen)
Neli Mitewa is a co-founder of Á brain Ñ store Ï project - creative concept?s store.
The idea of the Mirror Phase performance was inspired by
Egon Schiele’s paintings: his auto-portraits and nude women’s
bodies’ paintings. A methodological work, based on the research
of Schiele’s paintings (especially his self-portraits and
his erotic drawings) that generate physical actions. The physical
actions are created by the interaction of Schiele’s bodies,
emanating delight as well as anguish, expressed very often
in a lascivious way; and their transformation in the body
of the performers.
Supported by Fund for Support of Debut Projects;
National Fund „Culture”, Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria,
Goethe-Institut - Sofia and Cult.bg Foundation
Partner: The Red House
February 29 (Friday) 2008, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
In Bulgarian.
Duration: 60 min
Tickets: 8/6 BGN
Back
to Calendar
|
