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Articles by Yasen Vasilev
A bird’s-eye view at Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2023
Radouan Mriziga: Libya Libya is the name ancient Greeks and Romans used for the African continent, and its entire northern part is where the Amazigh are the indigenous population. Radouan Mriziga looks into their language, culture and traditions as inspiration for this piece. Eight performers with North African roots have developed its movement material by looking at rock drawings and carvings.
What makes a performance contemporary?
For some years now I have been interested in how artistic form responds to the complex realities we’re living in – how can it outwit them, and expose them with critical distance. Naturally, this was a lens through which I watched the dance programming of Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. I was following how artists intervene in the form, how they twist and turn it, how they challenge assumptions and stereotypes, how they continue traditions with both respect and subversion.
On and off the platform: dunaPart5, Hungary
Anna Biczók’s performance lecture Precedents to a potential future. Photo © Katarzina Chmura Lena Megyeri 23 January 2020 New voices at the Hungarian platform for performing arts – and new battles over state support and control Organised biennially by Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, dunaPart – Platform in Hungary is a showcase aiming to present the most interesting productions and initiatives from the independent theatre and dance field in Hungary.
Mårten Spångberg: 46
Mårten Spångberg in 46. Photo: Yasen Vasilev Yasen Vasilev 13 December 2019 The advocate of ‘post-dance’ performs a solo – hashtagged #lonelyformalism – that reassembles his own choreographies Fifteen years ago Swedish choreographer Mårten Spångberg created a solo based on reconstructed material from Steve Paxton’s improvisations on The Goldberg Variations. In his new solo 46, usually performed in open or public spaces, he reconstructs his own work.
Vote for dance: Antistatic Festival 2019, Bulgaria
Skip to content Ana Kreitmeyer / Sonja Pregrad (Croatia): Out There and In Here, at Antistatic Festival 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria Yasen Vasilev 13 Aug 2019 The 12th Antistatic Festival called a #VoteForDance – but how did the performances poll with our reviewer? Fittingly for a festival held in the month and year of the European elections, Antistatic’s motto was ‘Vote for dance’.
WRECK: survival of the fittest in the age of austerity?
The huge balloon slowly floats over the stage, revealing one by one a series of single naked human bodies in various positions, then groups of people fossilised in mid-action, as if interrupted by a major disaster.
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