7 Hours Difference
7 Hours Difference is an international collaboration project between Tatyana Sokolova at New Bulgarian University (NBU) in Sofia and Tzveta Kassabova at University of Michigan, Department of Theatre and Drama.
Faculty and students from the these two institutions worked together to develop two original, full-evening length, dance theatre group works that are in artistic conversation with each other. The first piece ‘The Humans’ was choreographed by Tzveta Kassabova in May 2024 in Sofia with nine students from NBU. The second piece ‘Simple Presen Tense’ was choreographed by Tatyana Sokolova in September/October 2024 in Ann Arbor with nine students from Department of Theatre and Drama, Umich. Other collaborators in the project are Jess Fialko - lighting design (UMich), Michael Wall – music, and Yana Dvoretska – costume/set design (NBU).
Both works bridge the gap between the genres of visual art, music, theater, and movement. They explore similar themes and subject matters, but viewed from two very different cultures that are more than an ocean apart. At the center of our project is the question ‘How much does one need to be happy?’ – how many things, how much money, how much work, how much interaction, how much loneliness, how much care, how much dreaming, how much playing, how much talking? But also, when is it too much, what happens when a line is crossed? A metaphor and a starting point for our exploration is logorrhea – a state of excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness. We extrapolate this notion into many physical, behavioral and social aspects and interactions. We also explore human senses – how and why do we prioritize the use of our senses, what happens when we try to explore each of them individually? What happens when we try to liming the predominant sense in various circumstances and how can that generate movement material and influence the overall structure of the work? Our overarching question is what is idiosyncratic, what is cultural and what is universal?
Faculty and students from the these two institutions worked together to develop two original, full-evening length, dance theatre group works that are in artistic conversation with each other. The first piece ‘The Humans’ was choreographed by Tzveta Kassabova in May 2024 in Sofia with nine students from NBU. The second piece ‘Simple Presen Tense’ was choreographed by Tatyana Sokolova in September/October 2024 in Ann Arbor with nine students from Department of Theatre and Drama, Umich. Other collaborators in the project are Jess Fialko - lighting design (UMich), Michael Wall – music, and Yana Dvoretska – costume/set design (NBU).
Both works bridge the gap between the genres of visual art, music, theater, and movement. They explore similar themes and subject matters, but viewed from two very different cultures that are more than an ocean apart. At the center of our project is the question ‘How much does one need to be happy?’ – how many things, how much money, how much work, how much interaction, how much loneliness, how much care, how much dreaming, how much playing, how much talking? But also, when is it too much, what happens when a line is crossed? A metaphor and a starting point for our exploration is logorrhea – a state of excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness. We extrapolate this notion into many physical, behavioral and social aspects and interactions. We also explore human senses – how and why do we prioritize the use of our senses, what happens when we try to explore each of them individually? What happens when we try to liming the predominant sense in various circumstances and how can that generate movement material and influence the overall structure of the work? Our overarching question is what is idiosyncratic, what is cultural and what is universal?
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