Letter (to Ed)



‘Letter (to Ed)' is 11 min solo choreographed and performed by Tzveta Kassabova. The piece explores change, anger, understanding and sorrow, related to the absence of a close friend.

Letter (to Ed)

Choreography: Tzveta Kassabova
Performance: Tzveta Kassabova
​Music: Arvo Part


The piece premiered as part of my solo concert at Dance Place, DC June 2009 and has been performed over a hundred times since, nationally and internationally, turning in one of my signature works. In 2017 I was awarded the Maggie Allesee Choreography Award during the annual Michigan Dance Council Showcase Gala Concert for this work. I was invited as a featured soloist at the Women in Dance Leadership Conference 2018, New York and performed Letter(to Ed) at the Female Soloist Concert at the Danspace Project, NYC.
Letter (to Ed) was part of SOLA, an innovative performance project, curated by Andee Scott  and creating an alternative model of touring and featuring solos choreographed by women and for women.

You can watch the original performance of 'Letter (to Ed) at Dance Place, DC here and a 5 minutes excerpt from Judson Church performance here.
photography: Kirk Donaldson and Evgeni Pronin 


Some of the venues 'Letter (to Ed) was performed include:
  • 27th Annual Choreographers’ Showcase, MD
  • Dance Place, DC; 
  • New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • ATROMATIC, DC;
  • Bates Dance Festival, ME;
  • Judson Church, NYC;
  • Queens College, NYC;
  • Open Marley Night,
  • Baltimore, MD;
  • Gemini Show, Philadelphia, PA;
  • InHale, Philadelpiha, PA;
  • Joy of Motion, DC; 
  • The Dance Complex as part of SOLA, Boston, MA;
  • Texas Women's University as part of SOLA, Denton, TX
  • University of South Florida as part of SOLA, Tampa, FL
  • Faculty Showcase, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Moddlebury College, Middlebury, VT 
  • Meet the Choreographer, Salt Lake City, UT; 
  • Faculty Showcase Concert, Ann Arbor, MI;
  • Michigan Dance Council Showcase Gala Concert, Rochester, MI; 
  • Women in Dance Leadership Conference 2018, New York City, NY; 
  • The Outlet Dance Project, the Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ; 
  • University of Michigan as part of SOLA, Ann Arbor, MI;
  • Friends of Andy Showcase  at Andy, Detroit, MI;
  • Open Look Festival, St Petersburg, Russia;
  • Tish School of the Arts as part of SOLA, NYC, NY;
  • Movement Sanctuary, Detroit, MI
  • Danspace Project, NYC, NY;