Tzveta Kassabova
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SUPER WE

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
, New York
January 29-31, 8pm


New York Premiere

Running time: ca. 60 min



Advance tickets available at danspaceproject.org

general $20, Danspace members $15



ABOUT THE WORK

Raja Feather Kelly and Tzveta Kassabova have both performed with David Dorfman Dance and Colleen Thomas Dance and first met and worked together under the artistic direction of Sara Pearson of Pearsonwidrig Dance Theater (Bowie, MD). They quickly became interested in one-on-one collaboration, exploring dance as a visual from  through highly virtuosic physicality. The evening’s program has been gradually developed over the last two years; all pieces have been presented before in Washington, Florida, Maine, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. (It was a National Selection for performance at the Kennedy Center.)
 


The title piece Super WE is a movement journey that parallels the relentlessness of contemporary life. Rapid and interminable, the performance relies on rhythm as movement, as sound, as pattern, and as metaphor. The collaborators highlight the complexity of human interaction, both through and with each other and through and with space.
 



25 Cats… solo is a part of a larger cycle of Raja Feather Kelly’s works inspired by the art and philosophy of the pop icon Andy Warhol. This particular work jumpstarted the artists’ interest in identity, pop-culture, surrealism and how they all relate to dance performance. Premiered in 2012 at Velocity Dance Center (Seattle, WA) and previously performed at the University Of Florida and The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, the piece uses bright colors and inventive costuming to produce surrealistic, cinematic effects. Its structure is layered by employing a number of choreographic “games,” based on numbers, alphabets, and the physical geography of a square stage space. These structures determine how specific movements and whole phrases appear and reappear over time. The physically demanding, dense choreography takes full advantage of Kelly’s trademark virtuosity, and strives to give the audience a sense of encountering the unexpected.

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)’ premiered as part of Tzveta’s solo concert at Dance Place, June 2009 and since then was performed at 27th Annual Choreographers’ Showcase, MD; Dance Place, DC; ATROMATIC, DC; Bates Dance Festival, ME; Judson Church, NYC; Queens College, NYC; Open Marley Night, Baltimore, MD; Gemini Show, Philadelphia, PA; InHale, Philadelphia, PA; Joy of Motion; DC and Kennedy Center, DC.

Be Still, My Heart is a duet of timeless connection at the edge of separation where both hurt and great love reside choreographer by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig. Tzveta Kassabova and  Raja Feather Kelly create an alchemy that at times is impossibly challenging, at others impossibly simple: intimate, brave, hungry, naked.