Stanislav Genadiev & Violeta Vitanova
Creative Crossroads Cycle Two 2025–2026
Stanislav Genadiev and Violeta Vitanova are dance artists in the area of independent performative arts. They graduated from the National School of Dance Art in Sofia, following which they participated in numerous dance projects and Bulgarian theatre performances and they also create their own original performances. Since 2007 they have participated as dancers and choreographers in Kinesthetic Project and their co-author creative work commenced in 2006, while Stanislav was dancing in the Swiss company Ligna. Their first successful project is called Imago (2006) for which they received the ICARUS award for debut for a dance performance, which was the first such award in the history of the awards of the Union of Bulgarian Artists. In 2013 they were awarded ICARUS for contemporary dance and performance for their choreography and performance of the Mouse Trap in Hamlet directed by Yavor Gardev. Since 2015 Genadiev and Vitanova have been working with the French choreographer Brice Leroux. In 2021 by their initiative the association Arealnost was founded where they are cooperating with Filip Milanov, Valeri Milenkov, Elena Kitova and Ralitsa Toncheva. The performances of Stanislav and Violeta were performed at many festivals in Bulgaria and Europe. Along with their work as dance artists Violeta teaches at the National School of Dance Art in Sofia and Stanslav is working on his original musical projects.
Co-Surface
Performance by Stanislav Genadiev & Violeta Vitanova
Two choreographers, performers and life partners, Stanislav Genadiev and Violeta Vitanova, take the stage. Each carries their own movement logic, inner rhythm and imagined reality. Co-Surface explores the coexistence of these two worlds.
The work examines choreography as a living system of decisions emerging 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. Each gesture is an act of listening, responding and negotiating.
Listening here is not passive reception, but an active, embodied act of attention. It implies openness to the other, without seeking to assimilate them. The work raises the question of what it means to hear the other without reducing them to oneself, and how to create a space in which difference can exist without being neutralised.
Co-Surface seeks the transitional moments in which movement transcends the physical and becomes an act of shared awareness. The piece traces how bodies meet, diverge and negotiate the boundaries of their difference and freedom, shaping a choreography of coexistences.
Concept, choreography and performance: Stanislav Genadiev and Violeta Vitanova
Music: Stanislav Genadiev
Costume and Light design: Ralitsa Toneva
Dramaturgy: Snezhanka Mihaylova
PR: Mihaela Lyutskanova
Production: Arealnost Association
The performance was realised with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, the National Culture Fund and the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, as part of the “Creative Crossroads” programme under the project “Life Long Burning – Future Lost and Found (LLB 3)”. A co-production by Arealnost Association, Brain Store Project, Nomad Dance Academy – Slovenia and 4Culture Association – Bucharest, in partnership with the Regional Centre for Contemporary Arts Toplocentrala and Etud Gallery.
28 April 2026, 19:00
Toplocentrala, Sofia
Find information in Bulgarian and tickets here.
Saline Nebula
Performance by Stanislav Genadiev & Violeta Vitanova
Saline Nebulais a striking anti-utopia project that transforms the abstract into the tangible, and the unseen into the visible. Through choreography, it brings chaos, loneliness, and beauty to the forefront, turning shadows into images and form. This exploration of the primal human condition reveals a universe both alien and deeply human, capturing an ethereal world on the edge of the unknown.
“... In all chaos there is a cosmos.” — C.G. Jung
Saline Nebula is shown in Ljubljana on 11 May 2025 in the frame of the Moving Balkans Showcase.
Performance: Saline Nebula
Saline Nebula, a performance by our Bulgarian Creative Crossroads artists Stanislav Genadiev and Violeta Vitanova, is shown in Ljubljana on 11 May 2025 in the frame of the Moving Balkans Showcase.