Marta's choreographed thoughts

In these posts I will tell you how I experienced Antistatic Festival 2022 and share some impressions and thoughts of the events I followed. To help myself with being concise and creative, I decided to choose for each performance three words that are representative of the work: a noun, an adjective and a verb.  On its second day, Antistatic Festival 2022 presented Strange foreign bodies , by Zufit Simon, in the new location for contemporary art in Sofia “Toplocentrala”, which is situated in Dogs Park, a few minutes from NDK, and has been hosting since a few months lots of exhibitions, performances and workshops. A plus of this space is the bar with terrace upstairs, which allows visitors to socialise while enjoying a drink and the nice view on the park. Here the two dj parties organised by Antistatic festival took place.  The choreography of Strange Foreign Bodies is inspired by the treaty 58 Indices on the Body ,  by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, resembling a philo...

In these posts I will tell you how I experienced Antistatic Festival 2022 and share some impressions and thoughts of the events I followed. To help myself with being concise and creative, I decided to choose for each performance three words that are representative of the work: a noun, an adjective and a verb.  “Dance to be danced, move to be followed” was the motto of 15th edition of Antistatic festival, whose website explains that ““Dance to be danced” is a symbolic two-tiered appeal – from artists from previous decades in dance to those who come after them, as well as from “Antistatic” to their audience”. Antistatic Festival mottos are always chosen very carefully, in regard to the current geopolitical and social situation, as I could see from the last editions I took part in: in 2018 it was “State of emergency: Keep calm and dance on”, with the idea of presenting an alternative and demilitirised state of emergency; “Vote for dance” was picked in May 2019, the period of the Europ...