BY ZORNITSA STOYANOVA | MAY 8, 2018 | Written and published for thINKingDANCE.net Personal history and context I was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2002, at age 20, I left everything I knew because of dance. Back then, there was no contemporary dance education or performance in my […]
Zornitsa Stoyanova and BodyMeld in the press
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Note: Text format and punctuation(or lack there of) is catered to the automatic software that reads the text during performance. It is the most sensual experience… It gives you perspective. It gives you understanding on the durability of the female body. How we have survived… violence… and rape… and birth… […]
"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."
BY ZORNITSA STOYANOVA | MARCH 14, 2016 | Written and published for Kat Sullivan’s week on CurateThis. I have known Zornitsa Stoyanova for just a few months now, but I’ve been seeing her work in dance performance and film/media for much longer. Most recently. I was enraptured (“I saw” just […]
by Zornitsa Stoyanova for thinkingdance.net 1fiftyone gallery + art space is raw. Situated on the fourth and fifth floor of an Old City building, it is a new home for the experimental—dance, theater, music and performance. Gus Gscheidle, a visual artist, graphic designer, and lover of dance and performance, runs […]
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 […]
by Zornitsa Stoyanova | for thinkingdance.net In 2005, while attending ADF, I was assigned to be Miguel Gutierrez’s wardrobe assistant for his solo Retrospective Exhibitionist. For those three nights I embodied his mom—washing his underwear. Since then I’ve followed his work and taken his workshops any time I could. When I moved […]
by Lynn Matluck Brooks and Zornitsa Stoyanova Written for thinkingdance.net Two thINKingDANCE authors intertwine their takes on performances at the NowHere Festival of Free Improvisation. “What is free improvisation?” asks a sign on the wall. Around it, festival participants and attendees offer their thoughts on Post-it notes, stuck to the […]
October 2015 | by Zornitsa Stoyanova for thinkingdance.net The Rocky Awards is an annual cabaret-style celebration from and for Philly’s dance community. “Rockies” (the awards) are informal—they signify love and appreciation for an artist’s work and they are passed from person to person year after year. The theme of this year’s […]
October 2015 | by Zornitsa Stoyanova for thinkingdance.net Fringearts is in full force in Philadelphia, and I am in Budapest, watching L1danceFest. The Last Step Before, by choreographer Jaro Viňarský & SKOK! and lighting designer Pavel Kotlik, is the third piece of the night, running almost an hour later than the […]
August 3rd, 2015 | CineWomen interview with Zornitsa Stoyanova – Zornitsa Stoyanova’s work convey a purely subjective, yet modernist, sensibility where the form conveys its meaning directly, heightening individuals’experiences of time and space. In Chrysalis figures appear and disappear in a gentle flow, sometimes moving the story forward, sometimes backward: […]