BodyMeld performance workshop

BodyMeld performance workshop

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We focus on choreography, composition, making performance and digitizing dance.

Here you will find online and in-person international workshops and classes offered and organized by BodyMeld, a company working between Philadelphia, USA and Sofia, Bulgaria.

Photos from BodyMeld performance workshop's post 19/02/2023

Every conventional education system out there trains kids to sit down, shut up, and process information. From a young age we train to use our language centers while ignoring entirely our body and even bringing it to rest.

Emergent Poetics proposes the opposite. What happens when we tune into our body and use it as a place for creativity, making sense of the world, processing language or simply composing? https://mailchi.mp/040ab773d35a/gwyn-tastic-10339561

Photos from BodyMeld performance workshop's post 21/01/2023

A unique opportunity for professional development with international teachers in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Free tuition!

Link in BIO!

14/04/2022

Today April 14th we focus on morphing and shapeshifting out body.
What is recognizability? How do we as dancers communicate ideas?
How do we reflect and offer potential for meaning.

Join a small international group over Zoom.

PLEASE note the time of classes:
9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

Description of class series:
Composing While Dancing series is for improvisers and anyone interested in expanding their skills on different techniques in composition and improvisation. This 5 class Zoom series presents improvisation through a lens of digital theatricality, always conscious of “the presence” of the dancer. Focusing on modalities outside of the more conventional compositional improvisation class, Zornitsa hopes to open more possibilities for instant composition helping you understand both the physical and the digital space, as well as delve deeper into your own interests and practice.

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Each class will focus on:
April 13 – Working with space and better understanding the digital frame and how to use tricks to compose in that space. (Or composing/improvising for screendance)
April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning
April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation
April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation
April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

************Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale and the whole series is $35 – $100 sliding scale.************

#танцовикласове

11/04/2022

April 13th - wednesday starts Composing while Dancing with award-winning choreogtrapher and improviser Zornitsa Stoyanova

LINK IN BIO

First class is about improvising and composing for the digital frame... Join a small international group online.

Each class will focus on:

📅April 13 – Understanding the digital frame better and how to use tricks to compose in that space.

📅April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning

📅April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation

📅April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation

📅April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

💳Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale per class and $35 – $100 sliding scale for the whole series.

#танцовикласове #съвременентанц

11/04/2022

April 13th | April 14th | April 18th | April 19th | April 26th

9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 5:00PM London | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

Duration is 1h 30min

DROP-INS are welcome and attending through recording only is possible.

Description of class series:

Composing While Dancing series is for improvisers and anyone interested in expanding their skills on different techniques in composition and improvisation. This 5 class Zoom series presents improvisation through a lens of digital theatricality, always conscious of “the presence” of the dancer. Focusing on modalities outside of the more conventional compositional improvisation class, Zornitsa hopes to open more possibilities for instant composition helping you understand the digital space, as well as delve deeper into your own interests and practice.

Zornitsa Stoyanova's virtual classes are attended by people from all over the globe and focus on creating connections between us. Every class will end with a short one-on-one "performance" experiment between the participants in designated break rooms.

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Each class will focus on:

📅April 13 – Understanding the digital frame better and how to use tricks to compose in that space.

📅April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning

📅April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation

📅April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation

📅April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

💳Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale per class and $35 – $100 sliding scale for the whole series.

#съвременентанц #танцы #танцовикласове

11/04/2022

Zornitsa Stoyanova writes about dance improvisation:
She teaches Composing while Dancing online starting Aril 13th -
Link IN BIO

Over twenty plus years, I've studied contact, compositional and emergent improvisation with teachers from all over the world. My work and research focus on improvisation for performance and I always approach the compositional techniques with an eye toward to presence of the dancer - focusing on methodologies to make my performance alive and in the NOW.

In 2009, I was a fellow at the Headlong Performance Institute, where I studied Lecoq-style clowning and neutral mask. I’ve taken workshops in pantomime as well as contemporary Indian dance, which both inspired me to further research gesture and posture in improvisation.

I synthesize my knowledge and use it toward a practice of openness in Performance. I set up scores and choreographies of states that create a unique yet telling experiences using every theatrical and dance skill in my arsenal.

#танцовикласове #зорницастоянова #съвременентанц

11/04/2022

Zornitsa Stoyanova teachis Composing while Dancing staritng April 13th.
Link in Bio:

Zornitsa on improvisation:

One of my most influential teacher is Deborah Hay, from whom I have borrowed methodologies in presence, open possibilities, poetics and composing outside of my rigid compositional brain. In teaching and making work I adapt a lot of Meg Stuart’s scores of power dynamics on stage, morphing the body into recognizability and emotionality.

Other noteworthy teachers that influence my teachings are Ishamael Houston Jones, Janine Durning, Danny Lepkoff, Nancy Stark Smith, Susan Rethorst, and many others. From 2005 to 2008, I worked with The Emergent Improvisation Project, researching new forms of improvisation borrowed from biology and neuroscience. Dancing in this project, I was on the cover of the book Composing While Dancing by M. Buckwalter. With Graffito Works (2015 – 2017), again a improvisation company, I danced in various museum and artistic collections outside the theater. I have also danced for Eiko & Koma, Boris Charmatz, Cie. W***y Dorner, Lionel Popkin and many other less known names. For me, dance improvisation is an opportunity to reveal the true nature of: life, the dancer, their psyche, and the magic of the present moment.

Improvisation reveals and illuminates the fleeting present.

A learned choreography is a practice of documenting.

Join me in delving deeper into our compositional and improvisational minds to open and deepen our skills as dancers and moving humans.

#зорницастоянова #танцовикласове #съвременентанц

10/04/2022

Join critically - acclaimed choreographer and improviser Zornitsa Stoyanova (USA/BUL) for a 5 class series online of techniques in movement generation
✨LINK IN BIO

⏰Time of classes:

9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 5:00PM London | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

📅Dates:

April 13th | April 14th | April 18th | April 19th | April 26th

Duration is 1h 30min

DROP-INS are welcome and attending through recording only as well

Composing While Dancing series is for improvisers and anyone interested in expanding their skills on different techniques in composition and improvisation. This 5 class Zoom series presents improvisation through a lens of digital theatricality, always conscious of “the presence” of the dancer. Focusing on modalities outside of the more conventional compositional improvisation class, Zornitsa hopes to open more possibilities for instant composition helping you understand the digital space, as well as delve deeper into your own interests and practice.

Zornitsa Stoyanova's virtual classes are attended by people from all over the globe and focus on creating connections between us. Every class will end with a short one-on-one "performance" experiment between the participants in designated break rooms.

Each class will focus on:

📅April 13 – Understanding the digital frame better and how to use tricks to compose in that space.

📅April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning

📅April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation

📅April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation

📅April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

💳Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale per class

#съвременентанц #зорницастоянова #танцовикласове

10/04/2022

👉Starting April 13th Composing While Dancing - LINK IN BIO🔥

Composing While Dancing series is for improvisers and anyone interested in expanding their skills on different techniques in composition and improvisation.

This 5 class Zoom series presents improvisation through a lens of digital theatricality, always conscious of “the presence” of the dancer. Focusing on modalities outside of the more conventional compositional improvisation class, Zornitsa hopes to open more possibilities for instant composition helping you understand the digital space, as well as delve deeper into your own interests and practice.

Zornitsa Stoyanova's virtual classes are attended by people from all over the globe and focus on creating connections between us. Every class will end with a short one-on-one "performance" experiment between the participants in designated break rooms.

***************
⏰Time of classes:

9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 5:00PM London | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

Each class will focus on:

📅April 13 – Understanding the digital frame better and how to use tricks to compose in that space.

📅April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning

📅April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation

📅April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation

📅April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

💳Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale per class and $35 – $100 sliding scale for the whole series.

#съвременентанц #зорницастоянова #танцовикласове

10/04/2022

Zornitsa Stoyanova has been imrpovising, dancing and choreographing for over 20 years both in the US and Europe.

On April 13th she teaches Composing While Dancing ONLINE
-Link in BIO-

Yes... that Composing While Dancing - the same as the book by Melinda Buckwalter... she happens to be on the cover of... Because all of her schooling and experience come from the amazing dancers and choreographers mentioned in that wonderful book. Definitely a good read, if you are into dance imrpovisation and emergent forms.

Join Zornitsa for the last online class for this season. More details in LINK in BIO, or if on facebook in the EVETNS section.

For any questions, please message us.

⏰Time of classes:

9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 5:00PM London | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

📅Dates:

April 13th | April 14th | April 18th | April 19th | April 26th

Duration is 1h 30min

DROP-INS are welcome and attending through recording only is possible.
$7 to $20 sliding scale per class

#съвременентанц #танцовикласове #танцы

10/04/2022

Link in BIO - our last ONLINE class for the season with award-winning choreographer Zorntisa Stoyanova. Join us in a small super international group with lots of personal attention

9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 5:00PM London | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

Each class will focus on:

📅April 13 – Understanding the digital frame better and how to use tricks to compose in that space.

📅April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning

📅April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation

📅April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation

📅April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

💳Each class is $7-$20 sliding scale per class and $35 – $100 sliding scale for the whole series.

#съвременентанц #танцы #танцовикласове #зорницастоянова

10/04/2022

Composing While Dancing with award -winning and chritically acclaimed choreographer and improviser Zornitsa Stoyanova through ZOOM
👉LINK IN BIO

🔖Sliding scale payment available. $7 to $20.
9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠
Zornitsa writes about Improvisation:
Over twenty plus years, I've studied contact, compositional and emergent improvisation with teachers from all over the world. My work and research focus on improvisation for performance and I always approach the compositional techniques with an eye toward to presence of the dancer - focusing on methodologies to make my performance alive and in the NOW.

I synthesize my knowledge and use it toward a practice of openness in Performance. I set up scores and choreographies of states that create a unique yet telling experiences using every theatrical and dance skill in my arsenal.

Any questions just message us.

#съвременентанц #танцовикласове #зорницастоянова

09/04/2022

Coming up April 13th - Composing while Dancing worksop.
Link in BIO

Join award -winning and chritically acclaimed choreographer and improviser Zornitsa Stoyanova for this last online class until December '22.

Sliding scale payment available.
9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

April 13 – Working with space and better understanding the digital frame and how to use tricks to compose in that space. (Or composing/improvising for screendance)
April 14 – Morphing our bodies into recognizability, working with potential for meaning
April 18 – Using our face and body to evoke emotional states, using emotionality in improvisation
April 19 – Different ways of using language in improvisation
April 26 – Switching of states, qualities, emotions – noticing emergence in meaning

Any questions just message us.

08/04/2022

Getting ready for our last online class of the season. Composing while Dancing - dance improvisation and choreography techniques

Join award - winning choreographer and improviser Zornitsa Stoyanova (USA/BUL) for a 5 class series of techniques in movement generation through ZOOM.

PLEASE note the time of classes:
9:00AM CALIFORNIA | 12 NOON NYC | 6:00PM BERLIN | 7:00PM SOFIA⁠

Sliding Scale payment $7 to $20 per class and Drop-ins are welcome.

Description of class series:
Composing While Dancing series is for improvisers and anyone interested in expanding their skills on different techniques in composition and improvisation. This 5 class Zoom series presents improvisation through a lens of digital theatricality, always conscious of “the presence” of the dancer. Focusing on modalities outside of the more conventional compositional improvisation class, Zornitsa hopes to open more possibilities for instant composition helping you understand both the physical and the digital space, as well as delve deeper into your own interests and practice.

09/03/2022

Grounding through Movement is an improvisation practice designed to cope with the world at the moment.

STARTING TOMORROW
LINK IN BIO

Facilitated by critically acclaimed choreographer Zornitsa Stoyanova.

Open to all people interested in movement, this is a practice of tuning into our body and our senses as a way to cope with stress, feel our aliveness, and notice emergence.

Working through authentic movement, breathing and the senses is a practice of grounding and allowing emergence in our movement, in our thoughts and outlook.

Just an hour-long, everyone can attend through zoom link or recording.

DATES:
March 10th, 11th 14th and 15th

TIME:
9AM London / 10AM Berlin/ 11AM Sofia

COST:
7 to 25 Euro or Pay What You Wish.

01/03/2022

Screendance or Artfilm?
Can a film be made through the lens of dance without focusing on choreography and still be called a dance film?

Zornitsa Stoyanova makes work in between those genres using mobile technology, online broadcasting and live feed special effects.

No it is not hard to do. In fact it is quite simple and very very accessible to anyone interested in delving into Digital Dance.

So, she is teaching Digital Dance - next class is March 2nd.
All over Zoom and you can attend through recording as well.

LINK IN BIO.

Tomorrow we focus on cell phone vs. we**am recording and all the software and possibilities we have at our fingertips that are outside of the tictoc and instagram filters.

This is an excerpt from Zornitsa's film Dark Matter.


**amskills

28/02/2022

Digital Dance is happening on March 2nd. LINK IN BIO

Learn about many options for using your phone as a we**am, cheap and free software to make amazing effects and perhaps most importantly live feed special effects for broadcasting.

March 2 we focus on:
❇️ Capturing video devices- web cam vs. phone, syncing and working with footage through the computer or in phone.
❇️Free and cheap software for editing video creatively both on phone and computer. Tutorials on all programs.

Whole 5 class series or joing us for only one class.

Sliding scale payment available.

28/02/2022

Next Digital Dance class coming up on March 2nd.

Link in BIO

we will focus on:
❇️ Capturing video devices- web cam vs. phone, syncing and working with footage through the computer or in phone.
❇️Free and cheap software for editing video creatively both on phone and computer. Tutorials on all programs.

**amskills

23/02/2022

Digital Dance workshop continues on March 2nd on Zoom with our second session on:

❇️ Capturing video devices- web cam vs. phone, syncing and working with footage through the computer or in phone.
❇️Free and cheap software for editing video creatively both on phone and computer. Tutorials on all programs.

You can get the recording from our last session as well.
All info is in LINK IN BIO.
No one turned back for lack of funding.

The above excerpt is from the film Elsewhere by Zornitsa Stoyanova shot on two continents over the span of 3 years.

Join a group of people from all over the world working with movement and the digital.


21/02/2022

✨Digital Dance.
WHAT IS IT?
It is film, it is live feed, it is broadcasting, it is editing, it is art.

Join a small international group for a 5 class series showcasing all needed tools to start producing our own digital dance - be it films for festivals, online performances, experimental art practices, or just online teaching.

🔥Link in BIO🔥

👉Zornitsa Stoyanova (USA/BUL) is an award-winning performance artist, curator, writer, lighting, and video designer. Based between Sofia, Bulgaria and Philadelphia, US, she directs her company BodyMeld which along with presenting her work, focuses on creating programs in support of independent choreographers in both her locales. Her stage, video and photographic work uses the female body as an abstract object revealing ideas of strength in female sensuality and emotionality. On stage, she explores feminist ideals, the power dynamics between dancers and audiences, and personal stories revealing vulnerability and strength. Her performance, AndroMeda, was commissioned and presented by The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2020), and her solo performance Explicit Female (2016) was awarded a “Rocky” – the Philadelphia contemporary dance award. Her choreographic work has been shown in festivals around the U.S. as well as in Bulgaria and France. As a dancer, she has performed for Eiko & Koma, Boris Charmatz, Cie. W***y Dorner, Lionel Popkin, Group Motion and others. Her screendance films have been shown in festivals and galleries across the U.S. and in Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Bulgaria, Ireland, Germany, and Bangladesh.

P.S. Yea, we did tag The Joyce Theater... where in 2004/05 Zornitsa was an intern and watched many dance videos on VHS learning how people did it in the past... and how to move and develop the craft.

Photos from BodyMeld performance workshop's post 21/02/2022

✨Digital Dance.
WHAT IS IT?
It is film, it is live feed, it is broadcasting, it is editing, it is art.

Join a small international group for a 5 class series showcasing all needed tools to start producing our own digital dance - be it films for festivals, online performances, experimental art practices, or just online teaching.

🔥Link in BIO🔥

👉Zornitsa Stoyanova (USA/BUL) is an award-winning performance artist, curator, writer, lighting, and video designer. Based between Sofia, Bulgaria and Philadelphia, US, she directs her company BodyMeld which along with presenting her work, focuses on creating programs in support of independent choreographers in both her locales. Her stage, video and photographic work uses the female body as an abstract object revealing ideas of strength in female sensuality and emotionality. On stage, she explores feminist ideals, the power dynamics between dancers and audiences, and personal stories revealing vulnerability and strength. Her performance, AndroMeda, was commissioned and presented by The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2020), and her solo performance Explicit Female (2016) was awarded a “Rocky” – the Philadelphia contemporary dance award. Her choreographic work has been shown in festivals around the U.S. as well as in Bulgaria and France. As a dancer, she has performed for Eiko & Koma, Boris Charmatz, Cie. W***y Dorner, Lionel Popkin, Group Motion and others. Her screendance films have been shown in festivals and galleries across the U.S. and in Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Bulgaria, Ireland, Germany, and Bangladesh.

P.S. Yea, we did tag The Joyce Theater... where in 2004/05 Zornitsa was an intern and watched many dance videos on VHS learning how people did it in the past... and how to move and develop the craft.

21/02/2022

Digital Dance - 5 class series is coming up starting tomorrow Feb. 22nd.
👉 LINK IN BIO!!

9:00AM NYC | 15:00 BERLIN | 17:00 MOSCOW on ZOOM

or attend through recording.
No one turned back for lack of funding. Just message and we will find an apropriate payment for you.

Feb. 22, March 2, 4, 9 and 11 – drop-ins welcome

Digital Dance workshop series is for all dancers, choreographers and dance teachers who want to make screendance, teach online or perform virtually.

Link in BIO!!!

with award-winning choreographer and dance film maker Zornitsa Stoyanova with 20 years of experience screendance. Her films have been shown in festivals around Europe, North and South America.

**amskills #танцы

21/02/2022

Overlaying the same footage at different times is one of Zornitsa's favorite tools to use.
How though? Did you know that DaVinci the video editing is the only free comprehensive video editing software?
You will learn many more tricks and tips on how to make dance on camera for video of live broadcasting.

Join a small international group and take this 5 class workshop through recording.
Taughed by award winning choreographer and filmmaker Zornitsa Stoyanova with 20 years of experience filming with mobile and web cam. Her screendance has been shown in festivals arround Europe, North and South America.

Starting Feb. 22nd - on Zoom
9AM NYC
2PM London
3PM Berlin
5PM Moscow

LINK IN BIO

***No one turned back for lack of funds***Just message us and we will come up with appropriate payment for you***

#танцфильм #танцы #кинотанцы

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