Garden

In the garden birds teach us to sing their song and wild animals allow us to step in their silence 

I want to research about and create a dancing place where trust can emerge as a result of a common care. I like to think of this place as a garden.

I want to use the imagination of a garden seen as a green, humid, juicy, mystical secret place of daring, dancing, caring, falling, touching, loving, exchanging and healing. The etymology of the word gardening refers to enclosure. This is an area that one takes into their responsibility and takes care of it. I wonder how through collective care we can construct a shared intimacy and sensitivity that will allow us to frame a delicate and pleasurable experience, a garden where we could grow fruitful plants and where we could bloom as spring flowers.

“Trust is a crucial part of the intimacy that yields pleasure for ourselves and others. Most likely you don’t know me, so whatever trust can exist between us will come from how well I can share and how much you can open yourself to what I share”. From “Pleasure Activism. The politics of feeling good” by Adrienne Maree.

Special edition 2022/ Garden of flakes with:

Idea and choreographic practice: Zhana Pencheva

Dance and collaboration: Bruno Ramri, Costas Kekis, Georgi Naldziev, Iskra Ivanova, Katina Diskov, and Miloš Janjič.

Music selection: Tsvetan Momchilov aka Chillov

Collaborators in the project / past, present and future: Yasen Vasilev, Daniel Denev and Aleksandar Georgiev.

Produced by Zhana Pencheva and Garage Collective. Co-produced by ICC/ Imaginative Choreographic Center. This work is supported from National Fund “Culture” of Bulgaria and Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria.

This work was presented in several contexts with different amounts of people:

-The Center, Varna 2023, as part of Moving Body Festival

-Toplocentraal, Sofia 2022, as part of ICC Context

-Youth Cultural Center, Skopje 2023, as part of Poetic Bodies research program