Written by Zornitsa Stoyanova and performed by automatic generated voice by Kindle. *Note that punctuation format is choreographed based on the way the automatic voice recognizes pauses and inflections. _____________________________________________________________________________ We are we are the same I live inside you. Or do you live inside me? Who are you? When are we? Your eyes in my skull A different you… Read more →
The Glitzy World We All Think We Want: An Interview with Zornitsa Stoyanova
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 →
LOVE Park Through New Eyes
Originally published on thinINKgDance.net on September 19th, 2019.
As I walk up to the newly rehabbed LOVE Park, I am greeted by nostalgia—the selfie sticks and posing tourists remind me of the time I first moved to Philadelphia. When did I forget to see my home city with the excitement of a tourist?
Un-seen – text from performance
written by Zornitsa Stoyanova and performed by automatic voice generator (which is also the reason for the formatting) Out there above us, a beacon of peace watches. The international space station circles the earth, an image of humanity’s achievement. Astronauts from around the world meeting, working, eating, sleeping, shitting, waking up and meeting again… watching down on us. Orbiting… Read more →
“…not a fucking swan…”
BY ZORNITSA STOYANOVA | Feb. 12, 2018 | Written and published for thINKingDANCE.net A pair of dancers (Margot Electra Steinberg and Mary-Carmen Webb), anonymous and unmoving with foreheads on the wall and one hip relaxed, are positioned in the far-left corner. Across from them a black clad body (Celine McBride) enters. Her legs bare, she moves forward in an illusion… Read more →
Bulgaria on the map of European Dance – a personal journey in cultural dissociation
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 country. My parents supported me when I applied and… Read more →
Explicit Female – Secret life of the female body (text from show)
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… and death… and…. and … we are still ….we are…… Read more →
Review of Explicit Female: The Madonna Resilient
“Stoyanova is great: massive and awe-inspiring and regal and heaving.”
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Interview with Philadephia Weekly’s Jacqueline Rupp about Explicit Female
“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 →
On Changing Bodies and Art Mediums
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 seems too bland) by her dance film dark matter, screened… Read more →
