Sunday, July 20, 2025
9:00 – 11:45 PM
Shared evening featuring four dance works:
(and then the boars entered), ORATORIA, SANDPIT, and SOMEWHERE
Teatro Falcone e Borsellino, Zafferana Etnea (CT)
Free admission
By Anna Dankova
BULGARIA
Oratoria is a contemporary performance that traces the evolution of language. Using only intonation and gesture, it transforms voice into music and movement into dance, recreating a universal and instinctive proto-language. From a newborn’s cry to elderly voices, from tribal sounds to urban rhythms, the performance spans eras and ways of life, blending genres—from opera to trash culture. Oratoria reflects on language by stripping away superstructures and meaning. When you truly know what you’re saying, words become unnecessary.
Oratoria is a contemporary performance that traces the evolution of language. Using only intonation and gesture, it transforms voice into music and movement into dance, recreating a universal and instinctive proto-language. From a newborn’s cry to elderly voices, from tribal sounds to urban rhythms, the performance spans eras and ways of life, blending genres—from opera to trash culture. Oratoria reflects on language by stripping away superstructures and meaning. When you truly know what you’re saying, words become unnecessary.
Author and director: Anna Dankova
Performers: Galya Kostadinova, Vasilia Drebova, Aleksandar Gochev, Nikolay Barzakov
Sound interference: Yoana Robova
Costumes: Pola Popova
Production: anyway
Co-production: Toplocentrala – Centre for Contemporary Arts
With the support of the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture
Creation selected by the Bulgarian Dance Platform 2024.
Anna is an independent director who experiments at the crossroads of contemporary performing arts, blending theatre, visual art, music, dance, and digital media. Her works employ genres and mediums in a radical and deliberate way, always guided by a precise dramaturgy. A graduate in directing and a certified psychodrama therapist, she brings unexpected reflections of human perception to the stage. Among her creations are Taxira (2007), Cosmonaut (2013), Golem (2016), Ada Lovelace (2019), and Oratoria (2023).
Anna is an independent director who experiments at the crossroads of contemporary performing arts, blending theatre, visual art, music, dance, and digital media. Her works employ genres and mediums in a radical and deliberate way, always guided by a precise dramaturgy. A graduate in directing and a certified psychodrama therapist, she brings unexpected reflections of human perception to the stage. Among her creations are Taxira (2007), Cosmonaut (2013), Golem (2016), Ada Lovelace (2019), and Oratoria (2023).