Category: performance

Chronologue is a dance performance program consisting of the three solo works, made and performed by Svetlin Velchev. The program includes the pieces Limitation Sky; Masked Reflection: Form & Content and Impact Transformation created and performed in the past five years.

This visual installation was part of the Cloud Flash Exhibit at Paard Van Troje during the performance part of the State-X New Forms Festival for cutting-edge art.

Time has no delay as we move to the next day. I was thinking what do I want to be, I was wondering where do I want to go. My mind is overloaded with computer screens and MP3’s, suitcases and alarms, airplanes, cell phones and desire for speed. There must be something less prosaic about this reality.

Rush, arguments, unexpected changing circumstances, blurred boundaries between the public and the private, between media and reality…

Each chapter will be inspired by some of the most threatened natural habitats, which are link to the fundamental cycle of elements needed for existence and life in our world.

This solo dance performance is built on the various meanings of reflection: from the scenography where a TL rectangle placed in the shape of window, casts light on the surface of the floor, creating a space to dance and a place for contemplation.

With new technologies challenging our understanding of what is true, we can’t always recognize what is of real quality and value. Furthermore, the media often covers up important events and manipulate people by representing frivolous things in glamorous packaging.

The duet Monologue is an architectonic contemporary dance piece executed in a location set as an installation – a piece representing a paradoxical world and the eventual rebuilding of a new better place.

Monologue is a continuation in the ongoing research of choreographer Svetlin Velchev about the importance and power of movement to communicate the notion of contradiction as a basic feature of reality.

This work is a sequel to a series of multi-disciplinary projects that investigates the concepts of affection, closure, privacy and distance between us as individuals. Have dichotomous trends reshaped society and how has this emerged in a new era that is completely different than in past decades

The darkest light can illuminate. Being negative in a positive way, we take our time in the fast lane, telling lies very truthfully. We stand so far apart from each other, trying to hold on to something when there is actually nothing.

So the existential question is: do we have to contradict ourselves to get what we really need and do we remember to contradict to find what we actually like? Perhaps it is a common unconsciousness, hidden in a plain sight, to always take the opposite direction.

Symbolizing the urge to let go of old unconscious patterns and explore one’s self-awareness, this dance piece has an architectonic composition based on choreographed impro.

This male solo is an abstract dance piece on the borderline between performance and visual art. It is dedication to the phrase I used for a title, which relates to the metaphoric idiom ‘the sky is the limit’- an expression which stands for limitless potential and unlimited possibilities.