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DELIGHT

AND

COLLAPSE

OF LOVE

BALLET 

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CLOSING OF INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL "SOFIA MUSIC WEEKS" -44TH EDITION 

 

BALLET COPRODUCTION  OF "IVAN VAZOV" NATIONAL THEATRE, "ARABESQUE" BALLET COMPANY AND "ORPHYKA" IMPRESSARIO AGENCY

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

DELIGHT AND COLLAPSE OF LOVE ballet excerpts

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CAMERA ▶ TONI STOEV

EDITING ▶ TSVETA BOGDANOVA

MUSIC ▶ BOYKO BOGDANOV

MAIN CHARACTERS

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THE CHILD - BATBAYAN DRAGAN MILEV

▶  PHOTO > © STEFAN GALIBOV 

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THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN - YORDAN PETKOV

▶  PHOTO > © KOSTADIN CHERNEV 

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THE OLDMAN - DIMITAR  IVANOV

▶  PHOTO > © KOSTADIN CHERNEV 

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THE RUSHING  BOY  ▶ EXCERPT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

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VIDEO SNAPSHOT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

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

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VIDEO SNAPSHOT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

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THE ETERNAL BRIDE -MILA  IVOVA

VIDEO SNAPSHOT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

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VIDEO SNAPSHOT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

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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 MéLLIèSÉRIC SATIE AND RENé CLAIRSEGUNDO DE CHOMóNFERNAND LéGERJEAN COCTEAURALPH STEINER,   MAYA DEREN  

▶  THE PASSENGERS  / PHOTO > © KOSTADIN CHERNEV 

▶  CAMERA  > ©TONI STOEV

▶  PHOTO > © KOSTADIN CHERNEV 

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

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BACKGROUND PROJECTION EXCERPT > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

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▴MEDIA MAPPING  VISUALS 

▾DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS [REHEARSALS]

PHOTOS  > © KOSTADIN CHERNEV

▴MEDIA MAPPING  VISUALS 

▾DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS [REHEARSALS]

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

▴MEDIA MAPPING  VISUALS 

▾DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS [REHEARSALS]

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PROJECTION EXCERPTS >  © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

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▴MEDIA MAPPING  VISUALS 

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▴MEDIA MAPPING  VISUALS 

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▴  BACKGROUND PROJECTION GIF > © PERSONAL ARCHIVE

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

APPRECIATE PROJECT ▶

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