SOFIA DANCE WEEK 2009
24/9/2009 - 1/10/2009
SOFIA DANCE WEEK
24/9/2009 – 1/10/2009
Sofia Dance Week is the first (and only) international contemporary dance festival in Bulgaria. It is organized by 1 magazine and tries hard to fill in a blank in Sofia’s culture life (see also Sofia Design Week and Sofia Architecture Week).
The first edition in September 2008 presented seven of the best European dance companies and choreographers – five inspiring international performances, which were also in the selections of the biggest festival scenes in Vienna, Lyon, Istanbul, Berlin and Belgrade, plus two daring Bulgarian acts. It gathered an audience of 10 000 beautiful people, flooded the streets and parks of the city with exhilaration, and was unanimously proclaimed as the most uplifting, memorable, talked about week in the fall of 2008.
Apart from its obvious ambition to sync Bulgaria to whatever is happening in the world of contemporary dance theater, Sofia Dance Week strives to:
- Create a cultural environment where the restless, free and open-minded citizens of the world can (finally) identify themselves and participate.
- Pin Sofia on the European culture map.
- Break the block of post-Communist cultural mechanisms and let the positive new models find their way in.
Sofia Dance Week 2009 Programme
ASPHALTE PIERRE RIGAL (FRANCE)
24 sept (thu) 20:00, National Opera and Ballet
NUDO.NUDA ALESSANDRA CRISTIANI (Italy)
25 sept (tue) 20:00, Sofia Theater
ÉRECTION PIERRE RIGAL/ AURÉLIEN BORY (France)
26 sept (sun) 20:00, National Opera and Ballet
REVERB/DUCTUS KINESTHETIC PROJECT (Bulgaria)
27 sept (sun) 20:00, Sofia Theater
GAUTHIER DANCE gauthier dance (Germany)
28 sept (mon) 20:00, National Opera and Ballet
WAITING Mikołaj Mikołajczyk (Poland)
29 sept (tue) 20:00, Sofia Theater
SOLO#2 – FREQUENCES BRICE LEROUX (Belgium)
30 sept (wed) 22:00 & 1 oct (thu) 18:00, 20:00, 22:00, National Opera and Ballet
SOFIA DANCE WEEK ACADEMY
14 – 17/9/2009
14 September: MTV dance with Petia Popova from Studio Dance Zone
15 September: salsa with Poco Loco (salsa Cuban style) and Pa'Lante (show-performance L.A. style); live performance – IRE group – authentic Cuban music
16 September: Arabian dances with Milena Davidova from Studio Dance Zone
15 September: salsa with Poco Loco (salsa Cuban style) and Pa'Lante (show-performance L.A. style); live performance – IRE group – authentic Cuban music
16 September: Arabian dances with Milena Davidova from Studio Dance Zone
17 September: Argentine Tango with Ivaylo Alexandrov and Gabriela Pancheva – LAOKOONTANGO®
Detailed information: www.sofiadanceweek.com, www.edno.bg