Hang in There
It is increasingly suggested that the topics concerning discrimination, violence, and gender stereotyping have been overexploited. That it is high time we talked and thought in new categories. “Hang in there” will insist on the need for careful looking into the daily routine of trauma that hasn’t faded at all. One can say a lot about violence, but talking seems to be the hardest thing. Typical for traumatic experiences is the loss of language, the difficulty in naming the pain. “Hang in there” is an attempt to “verbalize” bodily and through motion the constraints and powerlessness, to cross the line of paralysis and victimization.
Choreography: Tsveta Doycheva
Costumes: Teodora Vukdinova & Tsveta Doycheva
Music: Angel Simitchiev
Photographer: Yana Lozeva
Poster: Hasan Halilov
Performance: Adelina Zhelyazkova, Isabel Mitkova, Yanitsa Atanasova, Tsveta Doycheva
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Tsveta Doycheva
choreographer
Tsveta Doycheva is a freelance actress, mover, and choreographer. She is a graduate of NATFA “Krastyo Sarafov” and has completed the two-year training program in contemporary dance at Dance Port Derida. In recent years, her focus has been on experimental and contemporary dance, movement, and mixed-genre projects.
In 2020, she made her debut with “Hang in There,” a dance performance tackling discrimination, violence, and gender stereotyping, as well as “Phantasm,” an original performance in collaboration with the Sapromat Association (nominated for the Icarus Award in 2021).
Tsveta has served as a choreographer for numerous music videos and possesses extensive experience as a screenwriter and production organizer (Student TV “Alma Mater,” Atelier show; organizer of filming processes). She is the founder and manager of HOD Movement Laboratory, a space for movement research, and the Room Temperature Association.