Taking the stage are two choreographers, performers, and life partners: Stanislav Genadiev and Violeta Vitanova. Each brings their own logic of movement, inner rhythm, and imagined reality. Co-Surface explores the coexistence of these two worlds.
The work views choreography as a living system of decisions arising in real time. In this context, the stage becomes an ethical practice—a way in which bodies relate to one another, make decisions, and shape the conditions of their shared presence. Every gesture is an act of listening, responding, and negotiating.
Listening here is not passive reception, but an active, bodily act of attention. It implies openness toward the other, without seeking to assimilate them. The work raises the question of what it means to hear the other without reducing them to ourselves, and how to create a space in which difference can exist without being neutralized.
Co-Surface seeks out those fleeting moments in which movement transcends the physical and becomes an act of shared awareness. The piece traces how bodies meet, pass each other by, and negotiate the boundaries of their difference and freedom, shaping a choreography of coexistence.
Idea, choreography and performers: Stanislav Genadiev, Violeta Vitanova
Music: Stanislav Genadiev
Costumes and light design: Ralitza Toneva
Dramaturgy & research: Snejanka Mihaylova
PR manager: Mihaela Lyutzkanova
Production: Areality Association
The performance was produced with financial support from the Ministry of Culture, the National Culture Fund, and the European Union’s “Creative Europe” program, as part of the “Creative Crossroads” program within the “Life Long Burning – Future Lost and Found (LLB 3)” project. A co-production of the “Arealnost” Association, Brain Store Project, Nomad Dance Academy (Slovenia), and 4Culture Association (Bucharest), in partnership with the “Toplocentrala” Regional Center for Contemporary Arts and the “Etude” Gallery.
Where? Toplocentrala, Hall 2, 5 Emil Bersinski St.
When? October 22, 2026 // 7:00 PM
Tickets HERE
The ACT Independent Theatre Festival 2026 is made possible with financial support from the Ministry of Culture and the Sofia Municipality, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, the Italian Cultural Institute in Sofia, the Austrian Cultural Forum, EFFEA, EAIPA, Toplocentrala, DERIDA Stage, I AM Studio, Theater O3, VIDENIE, BOBBINA Cultural Space, Studio Equipaж, NBU University Theater, and many others. We are part of 3XPER1ENCE.