Originally published by ArtMargins.org BY MARGARITA DELCHEVA · PUBLISHED 10/21/2019 Zornitsa Stoyanova is a performance artist working between the United States and Bulgaria. Currently based in Philadelphia, Stoyanova performs under the name Here[begin] Dance, and her practice involves the creation of large-scale props in front of her audience. Her work explores an amalgamation of genres, blending choreography, performance, song, and shadow play. This… Read more →
“Stoyanova is great: massive and awe-inspiring and regal and heaving.”
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“From pregnancy to birth to motherhood, Stoyanova examines the female body without sentiment or the usual paternalistic “wonder” that reads like a script to an ‘80s Lamaze how-to. “There’s a lot of feminist art, but I haven’t seen anything that directly responds to motherhood. Part of it is being a mother brings you out of society, it can be a very lonely thing.” Read more →
By Julius Ferraro for thinkindance.net November 22, 2015 Day one of < fidget >’s 6th Annual Fall Experimental Music Festival is called Space, Pulse, Pat-tern, Presence, but it could easily be called Disorientation. Four short pieces, though they differ wildly in tone, form, humor, movement, and medium, use deliberately counterintuitive elements to evoke mystery, suspense, and even confusion. dark matter,… Read more →
A Dance of Attention May, 2015 for thinkindance.net by Megan Bridge In the first weekend of May at Headlong Studios, Move Dance Think Fest (the Significance of Everything: A Way Into Presence) spanned two full days of workshops, performances, lectures, and conversation. The two performances I attended on Saturday were bridged by a lecture on presence by Headlong Dance Theater’s… Read more →
June 3, 2013 at thinkingdance.net The small audience was abuzz in the lobby before the work even began. Excited banter, nervous giggles about “seeing all of my friends naked,” and assertions of being “totally fine with that” gave away the attendees’ underlying attitudes toward the upcoming nudity in the piece. With this fore-knowledge (and subsequent dis/comfort that arose) I realized… Read more →
May 21st, 2013 By Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Tomorrow night marks the opening of shatter:::dawn, the latest dance/installation venture from experimental movement artist Zornitsa Stoyanova. Taking “intimate” to the extreme, the performance will accommodate just ten audience members each night and features a cast of five dancers including Stoyanova, Christina Gesualdi, Adam Kerbel, Mason Rosenthal and Anne Wilson. Between rehearsals,… Read more →
A mention of my work on an article published in the Knights Art Foundation web site. Read the full article about the event here: http://www.knightarts.org/community/philadelphia/performance-exhibit-make-it-break-it-rebuild-it-was-a-philly-fringe-highlight Read more →
Thinkingdance.net By Megan Bridge Jan. 18, 2012 ………… She is Baroque. Her gestures are precise, formal…they are telling us something and it is amazing. I want to keep hearing it. I hear the sound of her fingertips crinkling on her paper skirt. She takes off the costume (too soon!), and it’s Zornitsa Stoyanova… ……… Read full review here. Read more →
Philadelphia Inquirer By Merilyn Jackson Mon, Nov. 21, 2011 a review of Zornitsa’s performace as the elephant in Lionel Popkin’s “There is an Elephant in this dance” ……. Popkin, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Carolyn Hall, and Zornitsa Stoyanova warmed up the audience by coming out and chatting up individuals, creating a lovely connection between us. As Stoyanova donned the elephant costume, she asked… Read more →
