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dragON aka PONY

Realisation: 2020

Choreography and dance: STEAM ROOM  = Aleksandar Georgiev, Zhana Pencheva and Darío Barreto Damas
Music: Tsvetan Momchilov 
Scenography and costum design: Ralitza Toneva 
Graphic design: Gjorgji Despodov

Coproduction: Garage Collective, Brain Store Project in Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija

With financial support by: the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, the Bulgarian National Cultural Fund, the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, the City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture, Konstnärsnämnden (grants for international exchange), I-portunus (funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe program), the Zagreb Dance Center, the BAZAAR Festival, the Burgas Youth Cultural Center, Hamalogika, the Era of Aquarius Festival, Performance Room, the Moving Body Festival, DNK – Space for Contemporary Dance and Performance, JSKD – Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Cultural Activities, VIZ!, Jasmin.bg, Kafene.bg, and LoveTheater.bg.

Under the program line: Creative Crossroads as part of the Life Long Burning project, supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe program.

dragON aka PONY is a choreographic work that presents a stage saturated with numerous dance references from the past and present, drawing from both Western and Eastern Europe to create a space of constant transition, revealing intimacy, and highlighting humble coexistence. Within the framework of contemporary pop culture, the work revives geometric choreography through the prism of classicism and the use of folklore as a ritual form. dragON aka PONY has a touch of Isadora and many elements from MTV or VH1 television programs.

dragON aka PONY is the first part of the dragON project, a choreographic trilogy created jointly by Aleksandar Georgiev, Zhana Pencheva, and Darío Barreto Damas (also known as STEAM ROOM). The project explores the body as a medium of protest and celebration within the drag scene and examines their interrelationship within dance and choreography. 

DragON aka PONY received a nomination for the 2020 IKAR Award from the Union of Bulgarian Artists in the category “Contemporary Dance and Performance.”