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SET DESIGNER / COSTUME DESIGNER / MEDIA ARTIST

DELIGHT
AND
COLLAPSE
OF LOVE
BALLET




CLOSING OF INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL "SOFIA MUSIC WEEKS" -44TH EDITION
BALLET COPRODUCTION OF "IVAN VAZOV" NATIONAL THEATRE, "ARABESQUE" BALLET COMPANY AND "ORPHYKA" IMPRESSARIO AGENCY
IVAN VAZOV NATIONAL THEATRE
/SOFIA/ 2013
PRODUCTION TEAM:
MUSIC/ LIBRETTO / STAGING > BOYKO BOGDANOV
CONDUCTOR > GEORGHI TODOROV
CHOREOGRAPHER > MILA ISKRENOVA
MULTIMEDIA / LIVE VJ-ING / COSTUME SELECTION > TSVETA BOGDANOVA
TENOR VOICE > BOYKO TZVETANOV
SOPRANO VOICE > TSVETELINA MALDZHANSKA
DANCE > ARABESQUE CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
CAST > ACTORS FROM NATIONAL THEATRE /
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE > BULGARIAN NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA
SOUND RECORDING > #1 STUDIO - BULGARIAN NATIONAL RADIO
ORIGINAL POSTER > STEFAN DESPODOV - DESPO
PHOTOS IN THE SITE >
KOSTADIN CHERNEV / ZAFER GALIBOV / STEFAN GALIBOV / PERSONAL ARCHIVE
CAMERA > TONY STOEV / EDITING > TSVETA BOGDANOVA
PHOTO DOCUMENTARY OF THE REHEARSALS IS COLLECTED BY ZAFER AND STEFAN GALIBOVI AND IS PRESENTED IN THEIR EXHIBITION @
CINEMA HOUSE - SOFIA - 13 - 31. 11. 2013.
CHRYSTAL LYRE NOMINATION TO ARABESQUE COMPANY FOR BEST DANCE COMPANY - UNION OF BULGARIAN MUSICIANS AND DANCERS NATIONAL AWARDS - 2013
"Love theme is only one of the layers in this remarcable production.
Here we talk about an epic work where music indicates the pathos and generalisation of XXth century in socio-historical plan. The ballet sounds quite revolutionary and large-scaled. Like a collage of echoes of many social concussions that have caused huge displacements in the past. Migrations, emigrations, evictions, escapes and other transpositions of man in time and space. A journey of the human spirit in search of happiness and love.
"DELIGHT AND COLLAPSE OF LOVE" is deep and serious in its dramaturgy.It concerns our parting with the past and our pursuit of harmony and beauty. The ballet shapes a profound existential and metaphysical portrait of all survivors of the revolutions and social jolts of the last century - generations who have experienced communism, fascism and horror of totalitarian systems in general..."
Zafer Galibov, culturologist and photographer - text for the opening of the photo exhibition, dedicated to the project, constituting documentary photos of its rehearsal process. Cinema House-Sofia, 10.2013.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

VISUAL MATERIAL
DELIGHT AND COLLAPSE OF LOVE ballet excerpts
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CAMERA ▶ TONI STOEV
EDITING ▶ TSVETA BOGDANOVA
MUSIC ▶ BOYKO BOGDANOV
MAIN CHARACTERS

THE CHILD - BATBAYAN DRAGAN MILEV
▶ PHOTO > © STEFAN GALIBOV


THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN - YORDAN PETKOV
▶ PHOTO > © KOSTADIN CHERNEV

THE OLDMAN - DIMITAR IVANOV
▶ PHOTO > © KOSTADIN CHERNEV


THE RUSHING BOY ▶ EXCERPT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE


VIDEO SNAPSHOT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE


SANITARIAN /OPENING AND CLOSING THE STORY/ > BORIANA ATANASOVA VIDEO SNAPSHOT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

VIDEO SNAPSHOT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

THE ETERNAL BRIDE -MILA IVOVA
VIDEO SNAPSHOT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

VIDEO SNAPSHOT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

VIDEO SNAPSHOT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE


SELECTED PHOTO AND VIDEO DOCUMENTATION / EXCERPTS FROM THE PROJECTED MEDIA ▾
PHOTOS > © KOSTADIN CHERNEV / STEFAN GALIBOV / ZAFER GALIBOV AND PERSONAL ARCHIVE
# USED VISUAL MATERIAL ON THE SCREEN > XXTH CENTURY DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGES / SHORT EXCERPTS FROM MOVIES BY THE PIONEERS OF AVANT-GARDE EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA: GEORGES MéLLIèS, ÉRIC SATIE AND RENé CLAIR, SEGUNDO DE CHOMóN, FERNAND LéGER, JEAN COCTEAU, RALPH STEINER, MAYA DEREN
▶ THE PASSENGERS / PHOTO > © KOSTADIN CHERNEV
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▶ CAMERA > ©TONI STOEV
▶ PHOTO > © KOSTADIN CHERNEV










▶ PHOTOS > © STEFAN GALIBOV - VIEW ORIGINALS IN BW AND OTHER PHOTOS OF THE PRODUCTIN HERE



BACKGROUND PROJECTION EXCERPT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

▴MEDIA MAPPING VISUALS
▾DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS [REHEARSALS]
PHOTOS > © KOSTADIN CHERNEV
▴MEDIA MAPPING VISUALS
▾DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS [REHEARSALS]

▴ ACT ONE / DEPARTURE ETUDE / REHEARSAL PHOTO > © SVETOSLAV NIKOLOV

▴MEDIA MAPPING VISUALS
▾DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS [REHEARSALS]


PROJECTION EXCERPTS > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE




▴MEDIA MAPPING VISUALS
▾DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS [REHEARSALS]



▴MEDIA MAPPING VISUALS
▾DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS [REHEARSALS]



▴MEDIA MAPPING VISUALS
▾DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS [REHEARSALS]





▴MEDIA MAPPING VISUALS
▾DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS [REHEARSALS]


▴ BACKGROUND PROJECTION GIF > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

▴ ACT ONE / DEPARTURE ETUDE / REHEARSAL PHOTO > © SVETOSLAV NIKOLOV
APPRECIATE PROJECT ▶
