Upcoming Performances:

What is nothing at the ends and high in the middle?

Thursday, September 26th @8pm
Friday September 27th @6pm and @8pm

Duderstadt Video Studio
University of Michigan
North Campus

An evening of dance/theater short works directed by Tzveta Kassabova. What is nothing at the ends and high in the middle? is an attempt to make sense of the world we live in, relationships we experience and witness, and our attitudes to existential questions of all times. The evening consists of three short works: Little is left to tell, Ohio Impromptu, and Beginnings.

There is a limited audience capacity for this show - please make a reservation in advance by e-mailing tzveta@umich.edu
Free - no tickets required

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Past Performances:

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Department of Theatre & Drama, University of Michigan 
Studio Production:
April 25-27, 2019 @ 7:30pm Free

Murakami by the Sea

Devised Dance/Theatre piece inspired by short stories by Haruki Murakami and many more
 
Directed by: Tzveta Kassabova with the cast
 
“And then I realized that the deep darkness inside me had vanished. Suddenly. As suddenly as it has come. I raised myself from the sand and, without bothering either to take off my shoes or roll up my cuffs, walked into the surf to let the waves lap at my ankles.” What does it mean to tell a story? Who is the storyteller, who is listening? What real geography is surrounding us and what landscape do we imagine in our stories?

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​Andy Presents:

Friends of Andys' Performance Showcase


A program of Dance, Music, Theatre, and Spoken Word

curated bt Tzveta Kassabova
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Andy Presents:

Untitled

May 11-12, 2018

Untitled is a full evening length multimedia work created in collaboration between Shua Group, Tzveta Kassabova, Billy Mark, Stephane Garin and Thierry Escarmant. This interdisciplinary and collaborative performance tested the performers' ideas of themselves in an effort to transform each other and the space, as well as offer to the audience something, somehow meaningful. 
Untitled presented striking kinetic, vocal, and visual experiences, both intimate and broadly political.
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Andy Presents:

​What we have been doing and fantastical things to come

Sep 29-30, 2017

The work is developed in collaboration between Tzveta Kassabova, Shua Group and Billy Mark.
 
Through languages of dance, image and sound, What We've Been Doing and Fantastical Things To Come, explores a place in transition: a sewer hole, a pile of mildewed plywood, a collection of tire irons and car keys. The performance is a way of noticing a place, a former warehouse/auto garage, and welcoming its transformation into a place for imagination, creativity, and community through the performing arts.
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​Tzveta Kassabova and Friends 
presented as part of Middlebury Performing Atrs Series
Friday April 8 and Saturday April 9 at 8pm, 2016
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Mahany Center for the Arts, Middlebury College

press release
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Motorless Park developed by Dance Company of Middlebury in collaboration with Shua Group will be presented at Dance Place, Washington, DC
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January 23 and 24, 2016

S U P E R   W E

An evening of surreal and intimate dance theater 
by
Raja Feather Kelly and Tzveta Kassabova


Featuring live music by  Aleksei Stevens
 
Lighting design by Tuce Yasak


Guest choreography by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig

Danspace Project
at Church of St. Marks’s-in-the Bowery
 
January 29-31, 8pm
, 2015



The year of the AWARDS!!!

Tzveta won four Metro DC Dance Awards this year!

  •  Outstanding Overall Production - Small Venue (shared evening with Betty Skeen for their concert at Dance Place, February 2011)
  •  Excellence in Stage Design/ Multimedia (collaboration with Betty  Skeen and Paul Jackson for their concert at Dance Place, February 2011)
  •  Outstanding New Work (for The Opposite of Killing at Dance Place, February 2011)
  •  Excellence in Costume Design (for Sharon Mansur's cimmerian light at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, February 2011)

Tzveta has been selected among 'the top 25 to watch' for 2012 by Dance Magazine!


Tzveta Kassabovaby Emily Macel Theys


A tornado of ecstatic momentum sweeping across the stage; mile-long limbs both spastic and metered; a mess of dark curls the last to hit the ground as her body turns ragdoll-like. Tzveta Kassabova’s movement quality is surreal, as if Salvador Dali himself painted her into existence. The Bulgarian-born gymnast-turned-meteorologist-turned dancer/choreographer/designer is a prolific maker and mover. She spent several years in NYC performing with David Dorfman and others before settling back in DC, where she currently teaches, dances with Pearson Widrig Dance Theater, and creates her own work. She often builds non-conventional sets—like the circular stage where dancers and audience members can interact in her Where Colors Blend into Sound. Her scientific background shines through in her choreography—in The Opposite of Killing, her dancers test various velocities, momentums, and trajectories. This month, Kassabova will premiere a collaboration with theater director Naoko Maeshiba at Dance Place. And as a 2011–12 resident artist at American Dance Institute, she’ll premiere a new work in May. —Emily Macel Theys
You can see Dance Magazine issue here.

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