BodyMeld performance workshop, Sofia (2026)

19/02/2023

Every conventional education system out there trains kids to sit down, shut up, and process information. From a young age we train to use our language centers while ignoring entirely our body and even bringing it to rest.

Emergent Poetics proposes the opposite. What happens when we tune into our body and use it as a place for creativity, making sense of the world, processing language or simply composing? https://mailchi.mp/040ab773d35a/gwyn-tastic-10339561

21/01/2023

A unique opportunity for professional development with international teachers in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Free tuition!

Link in BIO!

14/04/2022

Today April 14th we focus on morphing and shapeshifting out body.
What is recognizability? How do we as dancers communicate ideas?
How do we reflect and offer potential for meaning.

Join a small international group over Zoom.

PLEASE note the time of classes:
9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

Description of class series:
Composing While Dancing series is for improvisers and anyone interested in expanding their skills on different techniques in composition and improvisation. This 5 class Zoom series presents improvisation through a lens of digital theatricality, always conscious of “the presence” of the dancer. Focusing on modalities outside of the more conventional compositional improvisation class, Zornitsa hopes to open more possibilities for instant composition helping you understand both the physical and the digital space, as well as delve deeper into your own interests and practice.

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Each class will focus on:
April 13 – Working with space and better understanding the digital frame and how to use tricks to compose in that space. (Or composing/improvising for screendance)
April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning
April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation
April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation
April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

************Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale and the whole series is $35 – $100 sliding scale.************

#танцовикласове

11/04/2022

April 13th - wednesday starts Composing while Dancing with award-winning choreogtrapher and improviser Zornitsa Stoyanova

LINK IN BIO

First class is about improvising and composing for the digital frame... Join a small international group online.

Each class will focus on:

📅April 13 – Understanding the digital frame better and how to use tricks to compose in that space.

📅April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning

📅April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation

📅April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation

📅April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

💳Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale per class and $35 – $100 sliding scale for the whole series.

#танцовикласове #съвременентанц

11/04/2022

April 13th | April 14th | April 18th | April 19th | April 26th

9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 5:00PM London | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

Duration is 1h 30min

DROP-INS are welcome and attending through recording only is possible.

Description of class series:

Composing While Dancing series is for improvisers and anyone interested in expanding their skills on different techniques in composition and improvisation. This 5 class Zoom series presents improvisation through a lens of digital theatricality, always conscious of “the presence” of the dancer. Focusing on modalities outside of the more conventional compositional improvisation class, Zornitsa hopes to open more possibilities for instant composition helping you understand the digital space, as well as delve deeper into your own interests and practice.

Zornitsa Stoyanova's virtual classes are attended by people from all over the globe and focus on creating connections between us. Every class will end with a short one-on-one "performance" experiment between the participants in designated break rooms.

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Each class will focus on:

📅April 13 – Understanding the digital frame better and how to use tricks to compose in that space.

📅April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning

📅April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation

📅April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation

📅April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

💳Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale per class and $35 – $100 sliding scale for the whole series.

#съвременентанц #танцы #танцовикласове

11/04/2022

Zornitsa Stoyanova writes about dance improvisation:
She teaches Composing while Dancing online starting Aril 13th -
Link IN BIO

Over twenty plus years, I've studied contact, compositional and emergent improvisation with teachers from all over the world. My work and research focus on improvisation for performance and I always approach the compositional techniques with an eye toward to presence of the dancer - focusing on methodologies to make my performance alive and in the NOW.

In 2009, I was a fellow at the Headlong Performance Institute, where I studied Lecoq-style clowning and neutral mask. I’ve taken workshops in pantomime as well as contemporary Indian dance, which both inspired me to further research gesture and posture in improvisation.

I synthesize my knowledge and use it toward a practice of openness in Performance. I set up scores and choreographies of states that create a unique yet telling experiences using every theatrical and dance skill in my arsenal.

#танцовикласове #зорницастоянова #съвременентанц

11/04/2022

Zornitsa Stoyanova teachis Composing while Dancing staritng April 13th.
Link in Bio:

Zornitsa on improvisation:

One of my most influential teacher is Deborah Hay, from whom I have borrowed methodologies in presence, open possibilities, poetics and composing outside of my rigid compositional brain. In teaching and making work I adapt a lot of Meg Stuart’s scores of power dynamics on stage, morphing the body into recognizability and emotionality.

Other noteworthy teachers that influence my teachings are Ishamael Houston Jones, Janine Durning, Danny Lepkoff, Nancy Stark Smith, Susan Rethorst, and many others. From 2005 to 2008, I worked with The Emergent Improvisation Project, researching new forms of improvisation borrowed from biology and neuroscience. Dancing in this project, I was on the cover of the book Composing While Dancing by M. Buckwalter. With Graffito Works (2015 – 2017), again a improvisation company, I danced in various museum and artistic collections outside the theater. I have also danced for Eiko & Koma, Boris Charmatz, Cie. W***y Dorner, Lionel Popkin and many other less known names. For me, dance improvisation is an opportunity to reveal the true nature of: life, the dancer, their psyche, and the magic of the present moment.

Improvisation reveals and illuminates the fleeting present.

A learned choreography is a practice of documenting.

Join me in delving deeper into our compositional and improvisational minds to open and deepen our skills as dancers and moving humans.

#зорницастоянова #танцовикласове #съвременентанц

10/04/2022

Join critically - acclaimed choreographer and improviser Zornitsa Stoyanova (USA/BUL) for a 5 class series online of techniques in movement generation
✨LINK IN BIO

⏰Time of classes:

9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 5:00PM London | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

📅Dates:

April 13th | April 14th | April 18th | April 19th | April 26th

Duration is 1h 30min

DROP-INS are welcome and attending through recording only as well

Composing While Dancing series is for improvisers and anyone interested in expanding their skills on different techniques in composition and improvisation. This 5 class Zoom series presents improvisation through a lens of digital theatricality, always conscious of “the presence” of the dancer. Focusing on modalities outside of the more conventional compositional improvisation class, Zornitsa hopes to open more possibilities for instant composition helping you understand the digital space, as well as delve deeper into your own interests and practice.

Zornitsa Stoyanova's virtual classes are attended by people from all over the globe and focus on creating connections between us. Every class will end with a short one-on-one "performance" experiment between the participants in designated break rooms.

Each class will focus on:

📅April 13 – Understanding the digital frame better and how to use tricks to compose in that space.

📅April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning

📅April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation

📅April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation

📅April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

💳Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale per class

#съвременентанц #зорницастоянова #танцовикласове

10/04/2022

👉Starting April 13th Composing While Dancing - LINK IN BIO🔥

Composing While Dancing series is for improvisers and anyone interested in expanding their skills on different techniques in composition and improvisation.

This 5 class Zoom series presents improvisation through a lens of digital theatricality, always conscious of “the presence” of the dancer. Focusing on modalities outside of the more conventional compositional improvisation class, Zornitsa hopes to open more possibilities for instant composition helping you understand the digital space, as well as delve deeper into your own interests and practice.

Zornitsa Stoyanova's virtual classes are attended by people from all over the globe and focus on creating connections between us. Every class will end with a short one-on-one "performance" experiment between the participants in designated break rooms.

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⏰Time of classes:

9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 5:00PM London | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

Each class will focus on:

📅April 13 – Understanding the digital frame better and how to use tricks to compose in that space.

📅April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning

📅April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation

📅April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation

📅April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

💳Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale per class and $35 – $100 sliding scale for the whole series.

#съвременентанц #зорницастоянова #танцовикласове

10/04/2022

Zornitsa Stoyanova has been imrpovising, dancing and choreographing for over 20 years both in the US and Europe.

On April 13th she teaches Composing While Dancing ONLINE
-Link in BIO-

Yes... that Composing While Dancing - the same as the book by Melinda Buckwalter... she happens to be on the cover of... Because all of her schooling and experience come from the amazing dancers and choreographers mentioned in that wonderful book. Definitely a good read, if you are into dance imrpovisation and emergent forms.

Join Zornitsa for the last online class for this season. More details in LINK in BIO, or if on facebook in the EVETNS section.

For any questions, please message us.

⏰Time of classes:

9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 5:00PM London | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

📅Dates:

April 13th | April 14th | April 18th | April 19th | April 26th

Duration is 1h 30min

DROP-INS are welcome and attending through recording only is possible.
$7 to $20 sliding scale per class

#съвременентанц #танцовикласове #танцы

10/04/2022

Link in BIO - our last ONLINE class for the season with award-winning choreographer Zorntisa Stoyanova. Join us in a small super international group with lots of personal attention

9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 5:00PM London | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

Each class will focus on:

📅April 13 – Understanding the digital frame better and how to use tricks to compose in that space.

📅April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning

📅April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation

📅April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation

📅April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

💳Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale per class and $35 – $100 sliding scale for the whole series.

#съвременентанц #танцы #танцовикласове #зорницастоянова

10/04/2022

Composing While Dancing with award -winning and chritically acclaimed choreographer and improviser Zornitsa Stoyanova through ZOOM
👉LINK IN BIO

🔖Sliding scale payment available. $7 to $20.
9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠
Zornitsa writes about Improvisation:
Over twenty plus years, I've studied contact, compositional and emergent improvisation with teachers from all over the world. My work and research focus on improvisation for performance and I always approach the compositional techniques with an eye toward to presence of the dancer - focusing on methodologies to make my performance alive and in the NOW.

I synthesize my knowledge and use it toward a practice of openness in Performance. I set up scores and choreographies of states that create a unique yet telling experiences using every theatrical and dance skill in my arsenal.

Any questions just message us.

#съвременентанц #танцовикласове #зорницастоянова

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