How K-pop became a global phenomenon, why the Bulgarian dance community is one of the largest in Europe, and the fans for whom this is a way of life

After January and before his March visit to Sofia with A Horse Walks into a Bar, Samuel Finzi tells us why thinking and acting are more important than feeling when you’re on stage

Over 15 years, Metheor has built a different type of thinking about the art of theater

"For me, everything takes a great deal of effort, but in the end it is exactly as it should be," says Martina Apostolova

How a Japanese puppeteer decided to study in Bulgaria, and the definition of a "sleeping man"

For Ana Bateva, one of the leading young theater directors in Bulgaria, being Macedonian in our country today is like being between a rock and a hard place

A choreographer, teacher and performer. She is part of the STEAM ROOM creative team along with Alexander Georgiev and Dario Damas, and their work has been shown in Bulgaria, Northern Macedonia, Sweden and Spain.

She thinks of her biography as a series of totally unrelated short books. She has choreographed projects in England, Bulgaria, Egypt, Vietnam. In 2020 she was selected for the program of the Vienna International Dance Festival ImPulsTanz.

She would dance her autobiography with a giant smile at a techno party, and the soundtrack of her soul is the sound of nature – the sea, the sky, the river... She works as a freelance artist. Over the years she has participated in dance performances such as Medea and Leda and the Swan, as well as in plays such as TRAEVREMENE. In 2017, her show Madame Kiflà opened at the Etude Gallery.

Three print editions with different focus that complement and develop our understanding of contemporary dance

If contemporary dance was a sea, then its local festival currents only began to move in the years after Bulgaria's accession to the European Union, when the first editions of the oldest specialized forums in this field began to appear.

Over the years, a number of spaces (some more sustainable than others) have provided a space for contemporary dance, although the ones entirely dedicated to this form can be counted on the fingers of one hand – which creates the impression that modern dance is everywhere and almost nowhere all at once.

This year, the main activity of Sofia Queer Forum 2020 is the creation of an archive titled The History of Crossdressing, a project by Zgurovski and Boryana Rossa. It will be presented on December 28 as an exhibition, both in the gallery and online at dragbg.sofiaqueerforum.org, where the archive can be explored.

Series of exhibitions, actions and performances, over seventy artists from all over the world and working in all kinds of different genres took part in Sofia Art Week.

Coming from a family known for several musicians, a sculptor and one of our most prominent poets and translators, Boris Dalchev is a young artist and set designer, and we'll certainly be hearing a lot more about him.

If you look closely at the biography of set designer Marieta Golomehova, you will notice that ever since she began working in theater in 2002, she has done at least one performance per year with the director Veselka Kuncheva.

For the Japanese artist, who chose Bulgaria as her home about fifteen years ago, the clothes on the stage and the actors in the puppet theater are the domains where she stands out and for which she has received numerous nominations for the Icarus and Askeer prizes.

It is difficult to talk about Venelin Shurelov in one short paragraph. There is an impossible amount you want to say and list. Countless projects that go beyond standard formats, all collected in many solo and group exhibitions, festivals, installations, videos, animations, awards from around the world and in our country, and last but not least, theater in the form of performances, costumes and scenography.